Helicopter Parents: Good or Bad?
The most important milestone of being an adult is independence from your parents, including finding a job, a place to live and, for most, a spouse or partner, and starting your own family. “Helicopter Parents” a term used to describe parents who are over clingy or overly influenced in their child’s life. Scientists and teachers are afraid that since it is so easy to keep in touch with people nowadays it is almost impossible for a young adult to develop their own decision-making skills and autonomy. This paper will examine viewpoint, one, two, and my viewpoint on helicopter parents.
For starters, helicopter parents are uncontrollable and do not give their child enough space to develop their own independence.
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Firstly, not most people know what a helicopter parent is, and cannot even distinguish one from a regular parent. For example, Sharon Jayson, author of USA Today, shares “The line between a caring and involved parent and a hovering “Helicopter parent” is getting even murkier. New research says it is a distinct form of parenting that can have positive effects towards young adults” (Jayson). Thus, there is a distinct difference between a caring parent and a helicopter parent. Secondly, parents are supposed to be loving and in-contact with their child. For instance, Jayson reports helicopter parents might be privacy invaders and sometimes controlling, but done out of strong parental concern for their kids success. Therefore, helicopter parents only want the absolute best for their kid. Thirdly, it is found that millennial kids need more support and more strict parents to be successful. To illustrate, Jayson shows a study published in August, Journal of Marriage and Family that shows young adults have better psychological tuning than those who do not have intense backing—monetary, help and emotional. Hence, more involved and over caring parents are helpful both emotional and physical. For all these reasons, helicopter parents are just like any over caring, emotionally helpful, and guiding parent that stands
Helicopter parents often send the unintentional message to their child saying that they are incompetent of doing things on their own - like the things they attempt to accomplish independently are wrong. Instead of letting their children experience a sense of autonomy by allowing them to accomplish things on their own, an overprotective parent would step in and take control; again promoting dependency. A lot of times, such dependency carries on into adulthood (Sade 1). Instead of being a mature, responsible adult and taking things into their own hands; they call on their parents whenever things get strenuous in their lives. Likewise, adults who still depend on their parents for everything do not mature mentally and sometimes do not have the skills needed to become successful on their own.
From what I could tell, the purpose of your article “Kids of Helicopter Parents Are Sputtering Out” was to inform parents of the dangers helicopter parenting has on college student’s mental health as well as how it affects them in the long run. To summarize, College students who have helicopter parents lack life skills which include effective decision making and problem solving. These students lack the ability to interact properly with others also they lack emotional and intellectual freedom along with executive functions. Additionally, they are unable to cope with any negative feelings and new experiences and haven’t been able to build resilience in these areas. Without these abilities they aren’t able to be a self-sufficient adult or make any decision without involving their parent. The reference material you use indicates helicopter parenting causes depression and anxiety and makes them unable to have confidence in their own abilities which can also make them have
From infancy to adult, people are making decisions all day long. How long to study for the upcoming test? What sport to play? What college to attend? As choices are made, often goals are set to ensure maximum potential is achieved. This process of decision-making and goal setting is overbearing shadowed by the authoritarian style of parenting.
Being too strict to a child can result in distant relationship between a parent and a child, and being uninvolved can also have the same effect or worse. Having a healthy relationship with the child asks parents to develop an amiable nature and an open mind when it comes to parenting. Get involved with children’s lives enough to help and guide when needed. Helicopter parenting would benefit in ample ways, in a child’s upbringing, perspective, outlook, social behavior, and it will help developing a healthy and friendly relationship between the parents and the child. It is better for children to run to their parents every time they need a piece of advice rather than going to a stranger looking for help, because no matter what, parents will always want the best for their children and would guide them appropriately. Even though some believe that helicopter parenting is detrimental, it has proven to be
Most of the middle-class families have gone through the decision of how much protection they should give their children. In the articles, “Bubble-Wrapping Our Children” by Michael Ungar and “For Some, Helicopter Parenting Delivers Benefits,” the authors explain what are the negative outcomes of over-parenting and the benefits of being a helicopter parent. In addition, over-parenting had made the children have emotional and psychological issues in the future, while helicopter parenting makes some kind of better relations between the parents and their offspring.
Currently, family around the world have different way to take care their own children. Some of parents are very care too much about their children and some maybe not even care. However, some of parents are very care to much about their children. they don’t think that can extremely harmful to their children and adolescents because of their to much overly involved in children's life and overprotective .In fact, Helicopter parenting family who is overly involved in their own children and Some Helicopter parenting family had Bubble-wrapping our children that overprotective parenting .they don’t think , when they do like this can be bored the children life,make their kid stress, feel alone and hopeless because of them too much overprotective. For example, on these articles I had read before BUBBLE-WRAPPING OUR CHILDREN by Michael Ungar, “Helicopter parenting Deliver Benefit” By Don Aucoin and there two article are different.
This is hard to imagine because most parents more than likely fit into the definition of a helicopter parent, though not for Jeannette Walls, who actually experienced this and documents it in her memoir The Glass Castle. In her story, she talks about her experiences with her family, and she shows us that *children can grow up to be successful, despite bad parental role
Most parents take an interest in their child’s life from birth until they become an adult by picking and choosing what is best for them as much as they possibly can. Parents want to help their children to be as perfect as they can make them. Typically hovering parents spend a lot of money, time, and effort filling schedules things like with dance classes, baseball, and tutoring in order to have a ‘perfect’ child. As well as coming to their aid when they are in need, or their defense when they are in trouble. Help in making important, life changing decisions, like where to go to college at, or which career to pursue. When does helping become hovering? The generation of “Helicopter Parents” is becoming more and more prevalent in families. A
Is there such thing as being too protective of your child? There comes a point where parents have to let their children grow up on their own and make mistakes, but it seems parents now are raising a generation full of helpless children. Helicopter parenting is being a way of parenting that everyone seems in on, but what the parents are understanding is that keeping children sheltered from the real world and mistakes can damage them in the future. In the article “Are We Raising a Generation of Helpless Kids?” by Mickey Goodman discusses how helicopter parenting is holding children back from their full potential. In another article “No, Helicopter parents aren’t ruining kids after all” by Valerie Strauss, goes on the other side of helicopter parenting by discussing how this form of parenting is not
Helicopter parents hyper-involved in their children's life negatively affect them. A concerned mother’s letter explains why she disagreed with the new parent involvement policy of her son’s middle school. However, I oppose her position because, constant supervision results in hindered independence of children . Most importantly, preventing children from learning to manage their conflicts or learn from mistakes means they lack the skill to deal with them. Hovering parents disrupts the classroom, despite the appreciation of parent volunteers on the campus.
When regarding helicopter parenting, most of the time there is a misconception of what this type of parenting is really about. In which, I was included in this misconception, as before reading an excerpt from Alfie Kohn’s book, The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting, I thought every aspect of helicopter parenting was bad for children. However, Kohn’s excerpt from his book has changed my point of view on excessive parenting. As before reading this excerpt I thought helicopter parents were overbearing with their children, but now I see them just as parents trying to carry out what is best for their children. Except I agree with Kohn to a certain extent, since not all helicopter parenting
The sources used within this paper were research studies conducted outside of the United States. With that being said the topic of helicopter parenting is a relatively new topic of research and the ability to use current information was limited. The fact that there was any scholarly information on the topic of Helicopter Parenting is amazing. Because the topic of helicopter parenting is such a new concept maybe searching terms such as "extreme attachment parenting" would have been another good resource for information. Using numbers and statistics from the research would have been a great way to support the information in your paper. However, due to the fact that the information was limited
Imagine if someone did all your laundry, payed all your bills, called your professors and bosses, and basically solved all your problems for you. You may feel grateful at first until you realize that they are denying you the right to be self-sufficient. This is exactly how adult children feel when their parents are overinvolved. Overparenting has been a popular media topic recently. Whereas parents used to stop supporting their children as soon as they turned eighteen (Etterson 5), more and more parents are continuing to hover, which is commonly referred to as helicopter parenting (“Helicopter” 1). This type of parenting involves “... inappropriate levels of parental directiveness, tangible assistance, problem-solving, monitoring, and involvement into the lives of children” (Segrin, et al. 1). Even though helping a child learn to navigate through adulthood can have a positive impact on their life, parents should be wary of believing that what they consider to be best for their child is also want their child wants. Parents should only provide their adult children with advice and allow them to make their own
What may be the most noticeable characteristic of these parents is their over involvement in their child’s academics. They see their child’s school work and academic activities as something that is for the child and parent together instead of for the child alone (How Not to Be a Helicopter Parent). Therefore, when the child does not do well on any given thing, the parent feels guilty as if it were their fault that the child failed (How Not to Be a Helicopter Parent).
The family system and parents are generally regarded as one of the most powerful forces in shaping adolescents. Parents have a great influence in the development of adolescents. The relationship of the parents largely effect the development of adolescents and is an important factor when looking at development. Well-adjusted adolescents tend to have intact families that are supportive and create a warm and loving environment with constant monitoring of behavior. The review examines the current research on adolescent development and how it is effected by parenting styles. Taking into account the changes that occur over time to parents this review shows the fluidity of parenting styles and the stressors that cause those changes.