Self-proclaimed helicopter parents, is this you?

[poetgrl]

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I guess my main point is, that while of course texting a kid answers to a test is ridiculous, there’s this unpleasant trend of parents criticizing other parents for being too involved with their kids. It’s almost like a pop-culture sport these days. I think it’s sad. Truthfully, it’s not about the degree of involvement, to me, it’s about the quality of the involvement. And even then, who the heck am I to judge another family in whose shoes I don’t walk? Maybe it’s fun to take potshots, but I just wish people were less defensive about their own degree of involvement so they didn’t feel the need to tout that everyone who is more involved then they are is a “helicopter parent” (I’m so sick of that term!) and everyone who is less involved is a negligent parent. It all feels very judgmental and at the same time defensive

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<p>qft…</p>

<p>Nobody really “needs” to be called a helicopter parent and nobody really “needs” to be told they aren’t invovled “enough”…</p>

<p>Most parents are reacting to what their kid needs at the time. What looks like backing off can be just as conscious and involved as what looks like over-involvement. What looks like over-involvement, depending on where the kid is at at the time, could really be backing off and letting them handle a few new things.</p>

<p>We really never know what is going on in someone else’s house, no matter what we think.</p>