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Social Skills And Privacy: Helicopter Parents
Santiago Vargas
Mrs. Forbes
English 7, Period 3
19 January 2016
Helicopter Parents
“Students now lacking in social skills and privacy by parents” Helicopter parenting is gone too far in the passed years. Parents have gone in places that they are not allowed. Parents are too involved in there child’s life. Children no longer have social skills needed in life because parents are a1ways with them, kids also don't have privacy due to an overwhelmed parent, last but not least children don't have
Children are lacking social skills. They are so used of there parents being around then doing everything for then so they don't “step” in a wrong path. Donald Pollock, chairman of the Department of anthropology at the state University of New York at Buffalo

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