Over-Connected Parents...Or Not?

While watching the Early Show one morning, I became fascinated by a new study they were presenting. Psychologist were analyzing the positive and negative effects technology has on the relationship between college students and their parents.

College is a chance for children to grow into adults and expand their knowledge of their environment and world around them. When students move away from home and enter college, this experience ahead of them stereotypically is thought to produce independent thinkers and citizens of society. However, many of these ideas pertaining to the college experience are true, many views have changed due to popularity of the internet and cell phones.

Although most college students are not living at home, their parents keep them on a tight rope. From emailing research papers home to their class syllabus, students are calling their parents multiple times a day to check in for advice, help,and approval. The supposed negative effects of this dependency children are having on their parents is that they are not becoming as independent as once thought. This kind of control is not teaching college students how to plan ahead to meet deadlines, seek resources around them for help, or utilize the facilities the college offers.

On the other hand, relationships between parents and their kids could be growing stronger and make families closer. Check out the video clip for yourself to form your opinions, good or bad?

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6759758n&tag=cbsnewsVideoArea.0