Comments on: The Helicopter-Parenting Debate Continues http://pleasestoptherollercoaster.com/blog/2009/03/04/the-helicopter-parenting-debate-continues/ Tips and Tools for Successfully Parenting your Teen Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:39:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jane Goldstein http://pleasestoptherollercoaster.com/blog/2009/03/04/the-helicopter-parenting-debate-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-1388 Jane Goldstein Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:26:40 +0000 http://pleasestoptherollercoaster.com/blog/2009/03/04/the-helicopter-parenting-debate-continues/#comment-1388 So glad you wrote this Sue! I read the article in the Globe and wondered what your take on it would be. As with everything else, I would say it's a matter of finding the balance between lack of input, guidance, support, and hovering. Take care, Jane So glad you wrote this Sue! I read the article in the Globe and wondered what your take on it would be. As with everything else, I would say it’s a matter of finding the balance between lack of input, guidance, support, and hovering.

Take care,
Jane

]]> By: Susan Prescott http://pleasestoptherollercoaster.com/blog/2009/03/04/the-helicopter-parenting-debate-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-1387 Susan Prescott Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:22:51 +0000 http://pleasestoptherollercoaster.com/blog/2009/03/04/the-helicopter-parenting-debate-continues/#comment-1387 Good intentions do not sanitize bad impact. Honestly we have parents in our community that push and pull and do whatever they can to get their kids on the varsity team and then the kid just sits (while he displaced someone who really belonged there and could have benefited the team). How is that good for anyone except for the parent who can go to work and say "My kid made varsity."? Besides helicopter parenting is more likely to alientate you from your kid or you kid from other kids. Who said we have to be their friends while they are still developing. That should come later when they are adults. We need to guide them. Our jobs are to make them healthy, productive, self sufficent coomunicators and citizens. If we do everything for them we have not helped them or society. Good intentions do not sanitize bad impact. Honestly we have parents in our community that push and pull and do whatever they can to get their kids on the varsity team and then the kid just sits (while he displaced someone who really belonged there and could have benefited the team). How is that good for anyone except for the parent who can go to work and say “My kid made varsity.”? Besides helicopter parenting is more likely to alientate you from your kid or you kid from other kids. Who said we have to be their friends while they are still developing. That should come later when they are adults. We need to guide them. Our jobs are to make them healthy, productive, self sufficent coomunicators and citizens. If we do everything for them we have not helped them or society.

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