Helicopter parents are ones who hover over their children throughout their formative years, rushing to the rescue every time the children’s bad behavior or poor choices result in negative consequences. When their children get at odds with authority figures, helicopter parents tend to respond with such comments as: “My son would never do such a thing!” or “Why are you being so hard on my daughter? She is just a child!” in years past, when parents received a telephone call from a principal or police officer, they asked: “What has my child done?” When helicopter parents receive such a call, they ask: “What have you done to my child?” While parents of previous generations tend-ed to side with authority figures—principals, teachers, coaches, and police officers—holding children responsible when they got into trouble, parents of the “entitled” tend to side with their children. They side with their children automatically, without even taking the time to learn the facts of the situation. Further, they often continue to side with them even when the facts reveal that their children were at fault. Some of the errors frequently made by helicopter parents include: 1) shielding their children from the consequences of their behavior, 2) giving their children too much latitude and too little responsibility, and 3) failing to hold their children accountable for their actions and behavior. Unfortunately, these types of errors reinforce the behaviors that got their children into trouble in the first place and undermine the concept of personal responsibility.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 04:37:46 +0000
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