<p>or they're really meek and embarassed.</p>
<p>Where you live it be the minority, but here is happens as much as it dosen't..... But then again I go to a really competitive school and everybody here is convinced we are a feeder school to the ivies.</p>
<p>I don't have pushy parents or helicopter parents.. they are just 'perfect'.
but from my point of view, it looks like these 'helicopter parents' just love their kids soooooo much and they want to make thier kid's life better and more wonderful than theirs.</p>
<p>However, they feel as if they know EVERYTHING because they are the 'adult' and has lived through so much more than the kid (which is partialy true) but these adults need to also realise that society is (slowly) changing... some still think that acadamics is EVERYTHING.</p>
<p>These parents need to learn from my parents (and all your cool parents) :P</p>
<p>There are only two reasons why a child "has to" go to college:</p>
<p>because his parents did or because his parents didn't !</p>
<p>now that's got me thinking....I do know that some parents can be a little too pushy at times, but almost each time a kid decides to go to college, it's because he wants to.Like they say"you can push a horse to a well but you can't force it to drink water".I've always seen parents getting overbearing only because their kid doesn't want to study what they want him too, they don't seem to want their children to decide for themselves, and that's what has got to change, I mean if you're too overprotective of your kid to let him decide his life and learn from his failures, you might as well tie him to your bed and keep him home!</p>
<p>I’ve told my boys point blank that if they don’t want to go to college they don’t have to!!! Although actually it was along the lines of, “You’re going to have to decide how you are going to spend your time over the next year. If what you want to do is play Magic and post on message boards you can do that for free. If you’re going to commit yourself to thousands of dollars in student loans you need to make up your mind that you’re going to do your best at college, because otherwise it’s going to be YOUR loss because you’ll have to repay student loans for time you wasted.”</p>
<p>I want my boys to do well at college, but I also want them to take some time to have fun. No one performs well if it’s all work. Besides which, both have chosen what will be fairly sedentary pursuits (video game design and illustration) so I’m actually AS concerned about them developing some ‘active’ hobbies over the next year as I am about how much time they spend doing homework.</p>
<p>Of all the parents I have seen on here, the only students I feel sorry for are the children of this poster:</p>
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<p>I bet there’s an awful lot going on that that mom doesn’t know about.</p>
<p>Cripes…my jaw is dropping over that one, but I suppose it shouldn’t. I KNOW there have to be parents out there like that. Of course around my house I usually end the evening by going to my boys and saying, “Go to bed sometime, okay?”</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m concerned about them learning to properly budget their time…but that’s a lesson they MUST learn for themselves pretty much from this point on. I’ve done my best to teach them proper techniques, etc…now they need to put them to use FOR THEMSELVES. I’m NOT standing over them…I have better things to do than to try to make them conform to MY idea of the ideal day!</p>
<p>Holy ****, applicanot, that’s awful. That’s how kids crack.</p>
<p>I think it’s very healthy to stay in touch with your kids - I plan on emailing/calling my parents a fair bit and asking them for advice when I need - but I think that living through your kid like that is the SAME as living completely in Second Life or WoW or something. It’s not your life, you’re not actually going through college. I feel sorry for that parent, think about how miserable her life must be?</p>
<p>When you get to work the front desk at your school’s admissions office, you get a really neat perspective of all these helicopter parents 
I’ve seen them all.</p>
<p>Clearly, CC parents are just as…“helpful” as they were four years ago.</p>
<p>These parents are in the minority. The majority of parents in the USA are unaware of the particulars of their children’s lives.</p>
<p>I…I…I - am just speechless (thankfully, because it would NOT be pretty).</p>