Persuasive Essay On Helicopter Parents

Protecting you from things that you believe to not be a threat, reading your texts, tracking your location, not allowing you to do something purely because you got a low grade on an assignment, and taking your phone to look through everything. I’m sure your parents have done at least one of these things in recent years. You probably see them as annoyances— as did I— but there is a bigger picture behind this. All of the things I just listed are what can classify your parent as a helicopter parent. A helicopter parent hovers over their child through their day to day activities and can become increasingly strict or protective through the years. Parents can track their children’s movements using new devices that have been created. Some of these parents even continue this into the child’s professional life. Trust and respect is key in parental relationships and diving into a child’s life without their knowing can harm the relationship. Helicopter parents are harmful to their children through the restrictions they place on their …show more content…
“But look at the world it’s so difficult and dangerous!” And letting children develop the proper skills to survive in the world will help them. Restricting their actions— especially as they get older— only inhibits them, rather than protecting them. Meddling in children’s development mostly just harms them. Our society tries to make parents worried by putting violence at the front of the news and focusing on it. In reality violence as whole in the US has dropped quite a bit and it isn 't as much of a main concern of many people. My goal in giving this speech isn 't for you to confront your parents, but rather for you to realize how detrimental helicopter parenting is to children and try to change your perspective if you believed that helicopter parenting would assist children in