Overcaution means being extremely careful in doing something or planning ahead in life. Nowadays, you might have seen how parents are overcautious about sending their children to night-out parties or public events. It is because of the rising number of cases of abusive substances and incidents that makes parents become overcareful in managing their children. After all, it is not an easy job to be parents in the 21st century.
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A small business owner was extremely cautious while investing his money in the newly trained staff that he hired from an agency. He didn’t want them to take their work for granted and that’s why he installed CCTV cameras in each laptop that his staff was using so that he can monitor their online and even offline work. Although such caution was unavoidable for the staff, they eventually lost interest to do the work because of extreme monitoring by their boss.
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Overcaution or extreme caution is not good in the long term because it not just spoils the relationships but it also questions the values of trust and faith in life. For example, if your children are fond of speaking on the phone with their friends and you as an overcautious parent want to keep a tab on what they speak, who their friends and what sort of communication happens, then your children will not like that habit because, at the end of the day, you are taking away their freedom of expression and wishing to learn and live their life. Thus, overcaution when exercised on a regular basis can lead to damages in the relationships be it personal or official.
More than parents, schools, and colleges, it is the journey of LIFE that makes a person fall on the right path when he makes mistakes in the process. If a careful youth takes up a job after 5 years of break, it is not his nagging parents or girlfriend who has influenced him, but it is the hardships of life and want to get respect from a society that he takes the firm decision.
People have to draw a thin line between caution and overcaution. If a driver is careful or cautious while driving a car then it means he is a responsible driver. But if he is overcautious, then he will cause harm to not just himself but also to his passengers because of his odd behavior and slow driving skills. Thus, one needs to know how much one should exercise caution and to what extent.
For example, a mother-in-law kept nagging her daughter-in-law to learn cooking skills right from the first day of the marriage. Her overcautious behavior about the kitchen equipment and how to use them made her daughter-in-law feel insecure and even angered in many instances. The mother-in-law’s over-caution that the daughter-in-law doesn’t know cooking and how she will manage her kids’ eating abilities when they come to life, made her eccentric and difficult to manage to live together. However, with intervention from her son and other family members that the daughter-in-law will learn things eventually and she need not be rushed to, managed the extremely negative situations at the home.
