Helicopter Parents

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What are helicopter parents ? Helicopter parents are parents who take an

overprotective or excessive interest in the life of their child or children. ( google search)

Because of helicopter parents, kids can’t do all the problem solving for themselves.

Helicopter parents are seen as a good thing because they are in their child’s life .

Helicopter parents are too involved in the lives of their children and don’t allow them to

make their own decisions.

Helicopter parents can tend to be overprotective , overbearing and too controlling

even in their child’s adult life. This can even happen in college. “Parents can make up

horror stories or ridiculous questions put to college administrator at freshman

orientation”. The university of south Carolinas say 88% of four-year include orientation

activities for family members. This is bad in young adult’s life because they wouldn’t be

able to live the college life and learn new things. (Michaud)

Parents can be too fragile with their kids that it can cause them fear in their

future and when doing things for themselves. “Yet modern child-rearing practices and

laws seem all but designed to cultivate this lack of preparedness. There’s the fear that

everything children see, do, eat, hear , and lick could hurt them. And there’s a new

belief that has been spreading through higher education that words and ideas

themselves can be traumatizing”. (Skenazy and Haidt). It fails children with the ability

and practices necessary for problem solving ( (Montenegro) .

Helicopter parents can cause their child or children to have mental health

problems like anxiety in the future. Some People did study looked at how helicopter

parenting affects children with anxiety. Parents and their children were invited to a
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laboratory setting, where the children were to complete as many puzzles as they could

in 10minutes. The puzzle tasks were designed to mimic the challenging and

occasionally frustrating nature of homework and other academic tasks. Parents were

permitted to help their children, but were not encouraged to do so. The parents of

children with social anxiety touched the puzzles more often than the parents. The

parents attempted to help even when their children did not need help. The parents of

socially anxious children understand challenges as more threatening than the child

understands them. Over time, this can wear away a child’s ability to succeed on their

own, and even increase anxiety (Young).

Some people say that helicopter parents can be good in a way. For example it

can help the child be responsible, and respectful. Helicopter parents only want the best

for their child or children, but in reality it can cause them to have fear if they do

something wrong they can get in trouble. It can cause them to have meant health

problems.

In conclusion Helicopter parents can be to strict that their child or children can

grow up being afraid to try anything new. It can also lead to them having problem in the

future. Helicopter parents are too involved in the lives of their children and don’t allow

them to make their own decisions.  To prevent helicopter parents, a child or children

should give trust to their parents, and show them they can be responsible.
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