Article: How to spot a helicopter parent

Hands up: Qualified helicopter parent. Leaving kids the space to experience failure (and its consequences), is one of the most difficult parts of parenting, to me.

Wow... I just couldn't deal with it if my parents did that... thank god there's a mutual feeling of pleasure of me not being at home, and not being close to home!

Distance is not a barrier, to the highly qualified helicopter parent.

Hands up: Qualified helicopter parent. Leaving kids the space to experience failure (and its consequences), is one of the most difficult parts of parenting, to me.

You do realise that the correct meaning of a 'helicopter' parent, is one that does his or her child's work for them, in order to boost their grades??

The "correct" version? Doing a kid's homework (or checking it incessantly) is never something we did.

I always took it as referring to the compulsion to "swoop in from above" whenever there is a problem, not matter how banal. In the US, that goes so far as to telephone the president of a university because your child has a roommate who leaves her boxes of chinese takeout around too long. This has actually occurred.

Myself, I just worry, but I don't intervene. Still, the joke around the house is that I am a helicopter parent.

I take it you're a parent

Does your daughter have TSR, and do you know what account his hers!?

I am a parent, and my kid is at junior school, and no i don't think she is on tsr, and i will probably be six feet under when she is.

But be this as it may, I agree with the idea of parents helping kids with their homework, talking and reading it through with them for example.

but what i don't agree with is when they do it for them. so for example she did a powerpoint presentation, which i thought was very good for someone of her age, then she said a couple of other kids in her class had slides whcih were clearly professionally done.

I'm sorry but if this doesn't stick of 'parental assistance' what does???