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Fireflyfairy2 · 18/01/2008 23:00

I can't get over these parents checking their kids' bank accounts

Or the lady who changed her son's university course just because she could

DaisyMoo · 18/01/2008 23:01

Is it the 'Botox jab that cured my very personal incontinence problem' woman?

anorak · 18/01/2008 23:09

No new thread atm CSWS. Not much new to tell.

CantSleepWontSleep · 18/01/2008 23:18

Well I guess that's a good thing then .

Misdee · 18/01/2008 23:20

i think i got it from the st albans piece. but her name escapes me right now

Christie · 19/01/2008 11:31

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alibubbles · 19/01/2008 19:11

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alibubbles · 19/01/2008 19:12

Bugger

Waswondering · 19/01/2008 19:22

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BroccoliSpears · 19/01/2008 19:36

My mother is like this with my younger brother.

It really saddens me to see how lacking in life skills he is. She does everything he can't do, so he never learns. It upsets me. He's a bright, confident, normal young lad who is held back by his mother's inability to let go of her baby. She is denying him the chance to be a fulfilled, functioning adult.

alibubbles · 19/01/2008 19:41

Don't believe all you read!

I do not text my son every day, I did a Monoprix shop once a term at the end of every term as a treat and DH was horrified at DD living in' digs' when she lived in a very posh flat in the 7th, paid for by herself from what she earned as a highly paid nounou!

alibubbles · 19/01/2008 19:45

This is my dear sister content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/e5/180px-Belvedere.arp.750pix.jpg She has twin rotors!

yurt1 · 19/01/2008 20:03

Sorry, they all sound dreadful (and are surely dooming their children's chance of happy marriages).

yurt1 · 19/01/2008 20:32

marina · 19/01/2008 20:35

I thought what you did was very thoughtful alibubbles, although I have got to be honest and say I loved to do my own food shopping when living in France - the only time in four years' degree studies I did eat really well

WideWebWitch · 19/01/2008 20:48

I am so pleased wtih myself I knew it was Alibubbles before she posted

alibubbles · 19/01/2008 21:08

Marina, my DD learned to shop in the markets and also ate extremely very well, many a time I'd phone DD and ask what she was having for dinner and it would be ' haricot verts' and
maigret de canard followed by fondant au chocolat! I was very proud of her as she couldn't cook when she went!

Were you at Sorbonne or BIP?

Yes, I was am a helicopter parent, but my children have turned out brilliantly, I am sooo proud of them!

DS might have left half way through A levels, but he phoned yesterday and wants to embark on a degree course in Canada, and yes I will pay for it, but he will support himself as he does now.

alibubbles · 19/01/2008 21:20

Marina, my DD learned to shop in the markets and also ate extremely very well, many a time I'd phone DD and ask what she was having for dinner and it would be ' haricot verts' and
maigret de canard followed by fondant au chocolat! I was very proud of her as she couldn't cook when she went!

Were you at Sorbonne or BIP?

Yes, I was am a helicopter parent, but my children have turned out brilliantly, I am sooo proud of them!

DS might have left half way through A levels, but he phoned yesterday and wants to embark on a degree course in Canada, and yes I will pay for it, but he will support himself as he does now.

BTW, I had a great sunday morning of hair and make up, lots of fantastic photos, made to feel like a star and my family all came for lunch and though I looked very cool and glamorous despite producing a Pavlova and a Roulade a la Delia

suedonim · 20/01/2008 00:46

My mum was a 'helicopter' parent to my brother before the term was invented. He's now in his 50's and you know what the effect has been? He hasn't even seen our mum for six years. All that attention can cause a nasty backlash.

hannahsaunt · 20/01/2008 14:50

I work at an ancient university and we have run parents evenings for several years in the run up to Ucas forms being submitted and then on what to expect once your dc has been accepted. Open Days etc have sessions for parents recognising that they will insist on being there and trying to accommodate their needs at the same time as trying to encourage some free thinking in their dc. I know of other universities in the UK which have parts of their websites dedicated to the parents.

suzywong · 20/01/2008 14:53

what on earth are you all talking about?
what is a helicopter mum?

belgo · 20/01/2008 15:10

alibubbles - that's great, that you allowed your son to give up his A-levels when you knew he was struggling, and paid for him to become a skiing instructor. Far better then pressurising him to complete his A-levels like many parents would do.

BreeVanDerCampLGJ · 20/01/2008 15:12

Helicopter parents are hovering parents; they run interference, they pave the way, they fight their kid?s battles for them, they protect them at all cost. Helicopter parents don?t allow their kids enough rein to fail, or succeed, on their own.

alibubbles · 20/01/2008 16:21

belgo, a lot of friends thought it was a waste of an expensive private education - but our son is happy, very, very happy and so are we, and that is the most important thing to me, my children's happiness.

( He was being bullied unmercifully by a teacher and I didn't believe him, I had sided with the teacher )

belgo · 20/01/2008 16:26

good for you for not pushing him into doing something he didn't want to do. Allowing him to train as a skiing instructor has given him a profession.

A good education is never wasted, you never know what ways he may use it in the future. It sad though that he was bullied by a teacher.