Why helicopter parenting can be a sign of privilege
Parenting is a delicate dance, and finding your footing is a matter of trial and error. You?ve got to learn how to move with your tiny partner, while doing the pas de bourrée through life?s responsibilities and the grand jeté over your own childhood baggage. Eventually, the music shifts, telling you it?s time to stretch out your hand and let your partner go. Parents who don?t have the luxury of watching their child?s every step must hope for the best at these moments.
Not so, for so-called ?helicopter parents.? In many cases, they refuse to let go, and some go so far as to suggest that theirs is the only common-sense option. “What is derogatorily called ‘helicopter parenting’ is just good old parenting,” declares Ann Brenoff, an L.A.-based writer for HuffPost in a 2015 op-ed. Lauren George, a mommy-blogger from South Carolina, writes that raising children ?honestly doesn?t take a village. It just takes me and their dad.?
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Helicopter parenting linked to depression in young adults Actually, this is an attitude that ignores common sense?at least, the kind that tells you different socio-economic circumstances lead to different parenting approaches. Fully 3.4 million Canadian families?including 1.7 million children?live in lo...
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