Anyone here guilty of HELICOPTER PARENTING?????

[drosophila]

I read an article in the Evening Standard on this phenomenon. Couldn't find a link but found this:

here

So who is going to admit to being one or who knows one???

tamum

Definitely not! In fact, I am the subject of discussion by "Helicopter Parents" because I am usually oblivious to my DS' (adn sometimes DD's) latest perrilous escapade.

Tamum, I couldn't finish reading it for the same reason!

But those dates still don't make sense (I also thought baby boomers where born immediately post WW2). So therefore those children born between 1982 and 1995 are now aged 24 and 11. But they are adults, not children?

I'm obviously being extra thick today

The Standard Article was better but can't find it online. I don't believe the baby boom is an issue I think it is more about parents being very involved in their kids lives. Living vicariously through their kids. My parents were anything but Helicopter more like plane crash parents and I am certainly more involved than they were but I try to keep a balance.

I suppose the question is can kids get too much attention?

One of the things mentioned in the Standard article was the fact that kids from background with parents like this suffer more depression in their teens and they suspect it is largely to do with a sense of failure. A feeling of never being able to live up to their parents expectations.

No, you're not being remotely thick Mercy. I just tried reading it (just for you) and that is a weird range to pick- they could be parents at one end of the range (like our own dear NdP) but children at the other- what are they on about?

God I know a few. Run away, run away is my motto when confronted with one

There's another bit here ,about parents of university students.
"A new generation of over-involved parents hover over their offspring - flooding campus orientation sessions, interfering in registration, meddling with lecturers, administrators and potential room-mates."
I have to say that DS who is about to go to Uni has all along been very keen to do everything himself, we're just about allowed to sign the forms and I think he'd probably prefer to go there by train himself if it wasn't for getting all his stuff there.

the article was written in 2005 so it would make the children it is talking about 10-23

sorry ds hit enter before i had finished ...

... i think it is referring to the parents who try so hard to get their kids into the best school and get them to do the most activities to ensure they get a place at college, uni etc..

Reading an hilarious book at the moment - May contain nuts. Now that is helicopter parenting to the extreme! The mother takes the school entrance exam for her daughter!

We do get parents coming to our uni open days, even though it is for a Masters course . When they start coming for the PhDs I'll be really worried.

Mell2- I've read that too; I like the bit where they mothers in nursery are running the toddler race for their children dragging them along behind them on reins.

Not a helicopter parent. Although I do have to swoop in and prevent mayhem happening on occasion.

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More of an anti-helicopter parent here. I always felt pressure to succeed at everything I did as a child and felt rubbish if I was crap at anything. Don't want that for dd.