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Parenting is a very crucial and important part of human development. There are different approaches to parenting, and one of the approaches is called helicopter parenting (Cline & Fay, 1990). This approach is when the parent hovers over their children watching their every move. Kelly G. Odenweller, Melanie Booth-Butterfield, and Keith Weber (2015) wrote an article on helicopter parenting and the effects it has on the children titled, “Investigating helicopter parenting, family environments, and…

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…

Both articles “for some, Helicopter Parenting Delivers Benefit” by Don Aucoin and “Bubble-Wrapping our children” by Michael Ungar. Some helicopter parenting knows how to involve their children’s lives by “Aucoin” and some helicopter parenting don’t know how to involve their children’s lives by “Ungar”. Helicopter parenting is a necessary and justified response to a changing world because helicopter parenting is can be benefitted the life of their child and Helicopter parenting is can be harmful…

Parenting is defined as “the process of taking care of children until they are old enough to take care of themselves” (“Parenting” 1). The world today is full of helicopter parents, overprotective parents who hover over their child’s every move. Helicopter parents make sure their child can get to dance class, violin lessons, the art show, and make it home in time to study for the math exam, which they will get a perfect score on, in one night. These parents strive to create the child who has it…

The Overparenting Epidemic Most adults remember being a kid and wanting to have the freedom to live life, but not being able to have that freedom due to their own parents’ fears of the world. It is a parent’s job to use their past to reflect on their own child's’ future, which involves knowing their boundaries and not becoming what is known as a “helicopter parent.” The idea of helicopter parents is a topic discussed and debated for years. It is believed by some that parents should linger over…

The Harms of Helicopter Parenting There comes a point in many people’s lives where they have the joy of becoming a parent. A parent has a chance to create new life. However, creating new life has its advantages and disadvantages. Parents are in charge of directing and controlling a human being. But, what if there is such a thing of too much direction. A parent can endlessly hover over their child. That would be a helicopter parent. Nonetheless, there is a difference in healthy parenting and…

Through the ages, society has evolved. Technology advances, jobs evolve even parenting styles adapt and evolve over the years. Change is hard to see in small measures, however, over time one can see big differences. In the Depression era, parenting styles were more authoritative. In the Baby Boomer generation, parents had more of a distant relationship with their children. Generation X was a different story; these kids had to grow up fast and fend for themselves. As the Millennial generation…

The style of parenting that parents choose has an effect on their children’s happiness and relationship with their guardians . The style of parenting also has an effect on the emotional development and the social development of their children. When the wrong parenting style is chosen, the behavior of their children will change. Providing enough support and encouragement is very important when raising children, however, it is also important that children have boundaries set for them. My parents…

The chosen article in option 5 “ Helicopter parents: An examination of the correlates of over-parenting of college students” researches and discusses the role of over-parenting and parental involvement concerning college students, especially in regards to the implications this has on their experience or potential experience in the workplace and college itself. This research was done by designing an online survey with an interval measurement, which was completed by 482 undergraduate college…

Have you ever seen a parent guiding their child 's every move? The other day, while walking downtown, I saw this family of four, two little boys and their mom and dad. I couldn 't help but overhear the kid saying “Mom I think I want to ski this year” and then the mom replied “Honey that 's dangerous, so many kids get hurt each year from that.” The dad just seldomly agreed. Now I know that parents don 't want their kids to get hurt, but to what extent is enough? Thats where the idea of helicopter…