Five Signs You Were Possessed By Helicopter Parents Summary

“A survey of college students finds that thirty-eight percent of freshmen and twenty-nine percent of seniors said their parents intervened on their behaves to solve problems either “very often” or “sometimes”, was found in the article “Five Signs You Were Raised By Helicopter Parents”. I’m not saying protecting them is unacceptable, however, why not let them learn how to protect themselves just a little. There comes a point where too much protection will a child’s development in a bad way, not being in dependable, and not having a social life.
In “I Am a Helicopter Parent-And I Don't Apologize”, Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes writes how she cares and protects her children not only hers but all the children around her. She describes how she overprotected her children from dangerous things and humans. Stokes clarify “I don't let them stay up late and I don't let them watch television at night, because of the violence in the network ads from other shows”, which proves that this will be really harmful to a child’s development in learning. Most kids use television or networking to
Kathryn Tyler gives a good example of how parents were being super overprotective with their children and how that caused them not to be reliable for themselves. Tyler said something that really caught my eye, “Parental involvement in the lives of their offspring seems to be increasing every year. I’ve seen parents come to campus protesting a low-grade. When I caught one student cheating on a paper, his mom called and demanded I let him write a new paper”, in my opinion, I strongly agree with the writer's point of view. A lot of teenagers today are really in dependable because their parents have solved everything for them, but why? Because they never got the opportunity to be dependable and never gave them the chance to take risks in