Slow Food

completing the app. As the sole developer of Wonder Rush, I was in charge of everything from programming to marketing. Fortunately, through the stress of deadlines and bugs, YouTube was also there to help me relax with videos of water melons exploding in slow motion and goats singing along to…

Helicopter parents are widely known as overprotective parents because they are hovering around their child. They tend to control their life. The parents are tracking every moves, if child does not answer the phone they call the police to go out and look for the child. In high school they are labeled the soccer mom’s. The moms do not know they are a helicopter parents until their child begins college. They are the ones who call the professors at college to ask how their kid is doing. Next, the…

Parenting This kind of helicopter parenting is a relatively new phenomena. Roger Hart, a British geography student, decided in 1972 to write his dissertation about the movement of 86 elementary school kids in Vermont. Over the course of two years, he created a geographical map of children that showed where and how far they typically traveled from home (Rosin). By today’s standards this sounds slightly creepy, but this instinctual negative reaction actually illustrates a very important point…

Today, the world is the move over-protective society that humanity has ever known. Parents regulate every aspect of our children 's lives, strapping them into life. Parents are so cautious of their children and in often times, parents are too cautious. In often situations, when teenagers go out, parents always make sure that their child has his or her cell phone on them. For example, the family I babysit for whenever the mother is about to leave she reminds her son who is 10 to make sure he has…

Learning How To Drown, a musical written by Patricia Noonan and Amanda Jacobs in 2007, revolves around a the love story of a young couple, Emma and John, and their parallel to Emma’s grandparents, Aidan and Clare. The play illustrates the importance of fables and the balance between the themes of love and freedom. Emma, portrayed by Caroline Portu, is a young woman who is questioning the proposal of her long time boyfriend, John, while stranded in their house due to a hurricane. Paired with the…

No kid’s life is complete if they don’t have on thing in their life, a parent. Parents can be the best people to have in the world. They can help with a bad break up, they can help with financial issues, and they are there to help no matter what. In the midst of all of good parents however, there is a special group of parents that may not help the kid the way a parent should. The hot head, the helicopter, and the obsessive-compulsive parents are parents that will cause only more problems. Some…

Learning a Lesson the Hard Way With the turn of the twenty-first century came a new form of parenting called “helicopter parenting”, this is when a parent takes an overprotective or excessive interest in the life of their child. People call these children “millennials”. Many older Americans deem millennials as selfish and entitled. However, in Nick Gillespie’s essay, “Millennials Are Selfish and Entitled, and Helicopter Parents Are to Blame”, he argues that we cannot blame the millennials…

They are loud, anxious and annoying. People everywhere are trying to find ways to deal with them. They can be found in schools, ballparks, and at the first sign of trouble. No, not teenagers: Parents. "Helicopter parenting" is a term used to describe parents obsessed with their child 's success and safety. The parents cautiously hover over them, sheltering them from mistakes or disappointment, isolating them from the world around them (Vinson). They are over controlling, over protecting, and…

‘Helicopter parenting’, ‘overprotective’, ‘overparenting’: words being used more and more as time goes on. All mean the same. Parents are becoming so involved in their kids’ lives that they are unable to think or live for themselves as they get older. These ‘helicopter parents’ cause multitudinous problems, such as a lack of responsibility and independence, low self esteem, and the inability to accept failure. The most apparent influence on a child, parents often feel pressure to be sure that…

Helicopter parents are parents who are overprotective or pay extremely close attention to their child or children’s problems. Many parents don’t realize that they are drone parents until their 26 or 29-year-old child rely on himself/herself to solve a problem that they are facing because they lack the skill to solving it due to the parents hovering over them since they were kids. The idea of helicopter parents is supported in the article, “For Some, Helicopter Parenting Delivers Benefits,” by…