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Helicopter Parents Research Paper

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One of the great joys of being a parent is sharing in your children’s achievements. Your excitement for their successes and your disappointment for their failures are a normal and healthy part of parenting. But sharing your children’s sports participation doesn’t mean living through them. Sharing their experiences places the focus on them. The emphasis is on what the experience means to your children, the emotions they are feeling, the lessons they learn, and the benefits they gain from their sport. When your children perform well, you are thrilled for them. When they perform poorly, you feel their sadness. With sharing, it is all about your children. When you are living vicariously through your children, the focus is on you: your emotions, …show more content…

You may know what helicopter parents are, but for those of you who don’t helicopter parents are parents who hover over their children when they do whatever it is they do. This is most commonly found around children who play or do something that could end up making them famous or money, after all it’s the parents who see that Frank can shoot a basketball or Agnes can dribble a soccer ball better than any other child. From this so called potential these parents decide they’re going to “help them” make the most out of their skill. It is evident that these parents are living vicariously through their children, probably as they were never talented enough to make the high school basketball team, but by the looks of Frank’s shooting skills he …show more content…

I danced on the lawn and I dreamt of having a life like Chloe does,” said dance mom Christi Lukasiak of her daughter in the first season of Dance Moms. Often it seems the reason these petty mothers place such value on their daughters dancing is the need to swipe the spotlight and lie in their girls reflected glory. They attempt to act as important coaches in matters they are clearly less knowledgeable about, and constantly refer to their daughters achievements in ways that group themselves in. They argue with Abby, the head dance teacher, over the right approach when they want more glory, but when they think they might lose that particular argument, they’ll bow their heads and wait for the lecture to end, even if Abby insults their daughter. The girls, by far the most physically capable and impressive people on the show, are given the most discouraging treatment. I think these mothers are so intense because they failed at what they did. Shoulda, woulda, coulda, but didn’t. They want to make sure their child fulfils their

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