Over-cautious parents may hinder kids

OVERLY protective parents may be stifling the risk taking and decision making abilities of their children - the business people of the future, a leading educationalist warned at the weekend.

Professor Roger Downer, President of the University of Limerick, said young people today with their video games and highly protective parents may not be exposed to risk and decision making as his generation was.

“If they are not, then we all have cause for concern about the future,” he said.