Get Over The Stranger Danger Analysis

In the article, “Get Over the Stranger Danger and Join the Free-Rangers,” Elizabeth Renzetti has a very strong opinion on the fact that helicopter parenting is not good for your child and that you should let them be more independant. She grew in a society where herself and her brothers could have been in the arcade while their dad was record shopping across the street, and nobody would say a thing. Today, she is seeing that parents are clearly being a little too overprotective and are limiting what their kids can and can't do, and she thinks this needs to change. Parents who support helicopter parenting have strong reasoning behind them. These parents tend to have better relationships with their children in the future, the risk of child abduction and overall safety of your child is in the parents hands, and kids who have a watchful eye over them tend to be more rule …show more content…
While there are positives of helicopter parenting, there are many negatives that in my opinion, outweigh them in the long rung. Such as most children grow up not being independent or able to make their own decision, affects self-confidence in children, to the point where they are scared of having to face situations alone, and the children aren’t given the opportunity to learn from their own mistakes, and worst of all, most children end up living the dreams of their parents instead of their own and don’t get much of a fun childhood. Personally, I agree with Elizabeth Renzetti because it is how my brothers and I were raised as well as my parents. My parents grew up in St. John's and Mount Pearl, Newfoundland which are both equally small towns.There was never really any danger or a lot of people for that matter, so their parents just allowed them to go to the store, park, hang out with friends and more for pretty