Helicopter parenting is when a parent is overly focused on their child. The parents typically take too much time or effort into their child's lives or experiences.The reason parents can become this way is a natural feeling of wanting to protect your child. I think that this is understandable but if the parent is too protective or involved this can cause the kids to suffer. This is a problem for the child because it could cause Anxiety or stress and can hinder their self-confidence.
A 2014 study published by the Journal of Child and Family Studies found that over-parenting can be associated with higher levels of child anxiety and depression. This is also true for college students whose parents were also overly involved in their lives. An over controlling parent can cause Self- confidence and self-esteem problems in children or young adults. This is because if the parent does everything for the child the child will feel like they aren't good enough or the parent doesn't trust them enough to do it by themselves. If this happens then it can make the child dependent upon the parent and wont learn how to do things themselves.
The positives of helicopter parenting is you can always rely on the kid to be done with their homework or show up on time and are prepared for their activities. This can help the child be caught up in school so the child doesn't have to worry about dropping grades. Helicopter parents tend to be more involved in their child's extracurricular or in school activities. Such as, volunteering for school functions or joining the PTA at school.
I think that helicopter parents are hindering their child by doing everything for them. I think that they are not letting their child go through the failures and positives in life. I think that once they get out of college they won't be able to do anything for themselves and will most likely end up relying on parent approval.
https://www.verywellfamily.com/helicopter-parents-do-they-help-or-hurt-kids-1095041
https://www.parents.com/parenting/better-parenting/what-is-helicopter-parenting/
What do you think about helicopter parenting?
Does helicopter parenting benefit or hinder the child?
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I agree that it does more bad than good.
I do not think helicopter parenting is right. I think that they should raise their kids to be good people then they would not have to go all crazy on them. I think that helicopter parenting is not benefitcal because then when they get in the real world they won't know what to do because their parents controled their life.
I agree that the parents wont be able to control them their entire life.
I think that even if parents are scared about the way the kids will turn out, they still need to let their kid expirence failure for themselves. The kid will never learn how to handle their own problems if their parent is constantly helping their way through every problem they have.
I agree that they might be too scared of how their kids will turn out.
I think helicopter parenting is not ok because it doesn't set a child up for the rest of their life. This type of parenting can really hurt a child in their later life since they will not understand how to sustain themselve, since they have had almost no respondilities in their childhood.
I agree that helicopter parenting can really harm the child later in life.
I think that it can benifit the kids that get helicopter parented because they can do much bad stuff without getting caught. But I also think that people just need to be free sometimes from there parents and they can't do that if theie parents are helicoptering them.
I agree that it might be benificial but overall kids need to be free to do things on their own.
I think that Helicopter Parenting is the worst parenting a parent could do, yeah sure the parents can be involved with their child but watching them like a hawk is not ok, kids need space. Maybe 10 and under you can watch them, but they need to find themselves. Reprimanding them everytime they make a mistake. They need to make mistakes.
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