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• Helicopter Parents: Leave Your Kids Alone.

  
  PrincipalsPage The Blog — Authority: 117
  Too many of us overparent.  We all want our kids to crawl first, walk first, speak first, read first, be the best athlete, finish first in everything, play a musical instrument, have the lead in the school play, win a pageant, be named the best-looking and funniest, finish in the top 1 in their class, and ...
  3 days ago

• Help For The Helicopter Parent

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 434
  Colleges and universities are using creative ways to deal with a wave of protective parents who "helicopter" over their children, and regularly contact administrators about grades and roommate woes. College administrators are finding they need to teach parents constructive ways to be a part of their childrens ...
  6 days ago

• The parent trap

  
  The Leading Source — Authority: 125
  I had to chuckle at a newspaper article detailing how local colleges are handling an ever growing wave of so-called helicopter parents, which has become an ubiquitous descriptor of moms and dads, who just can’t seem to let go, hovering over their offspring long after they’ve reached adulthood. Though, it’s ...
  6 days ago

• Backlash Against Helicopter Parents

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 771
  Like the proverb says, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and parenting is no excuse. Nancy Gibbs of TIME Magazine wrote a very interesting article about the growing backlash against "helicopter parents": The insanity crept up on us slowly; we just wanted what was best for our kids. We bought ...
  1 week ago

• On the Links

  
  Thinking Out Loud — Authority: 129
  Here’s some places a mouse click or two took me this week: I really hesitate to post another link to Pete Wilson because every time I do, he writes a personal note of thanks, and he’s a busy guy.  But I couldn’t ignore this one.   Pete had the thrill of baptizing his son Jett last week, and wrote him a ...
  1 week ago

• Free-Range Parenting?

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 629
  KJ , I too was thrilled to read that Time had declared an end to overparenting , because if Time just noticed, then the trend must be already well underway. But the story proved the opposite, with many earnest and unintentionally hilarious examples of supposedly mellow parents. If you truly wanted to stop ...
  1 week ago

• Free-Range Parenting Movement

  
  The XX Factor — Authority: 140
  KJ , I too was thrilled to read that Time had declared an end to overparenting . But the story proved the opposite, with many earnest and unintentionally hilarious examples of supposedly mellow parents. If you truly wanted to stop overparenting you would just cancel the Suzuki lessons, call off the therapist, stop ...
  1 week ago

• “Infantilizing Our Kids Into Incompetence”

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 132
  A new revolution is under way, according to the cover story of the latest Time Magazine.  It’s aimed at rolling back “the almost comical overprotectiveness and overinvestment of moms and dads.”    Call it slow parenting, simplicity parenting, free-range parenting, the magazine notes, but the message is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Our "Courageous Parenting" team of experts, ready to help you move beyond "helicopter parenting"

  
  MojoMom — Authority: 408
  I had already been planning to announce our final roster of Courageous Parenting anthology contributors, and today turns out to be the perfect day to do so, as this weeks new Time Magazine cover story by Nancy Gibbs puts an exclamation point on the idea that its time to end the age of over-parenting. Authors ...
  2 weeks ago

• De-Overparenting Is The New Overparenting [Kids Today]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 810
  In a rather disturbing bit of irony, parents can now take classes that teach them how to parent less . The backlash against overinvolved "helicopter" parents has been going on long time, and Nancy Gibbss description of such people in Time will surprise no one who reads trend pieces. They buy Baby Kneepads! ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grad Admissions: Helicopter Parents

  
  Accepted Admissions Almanac — Authority: 125
  The New York Times published an article this week "Letting Your Grad Student Go " on the phenomenon of helicopter parents in graduate schools admissions. Yes, I mean graduate, not undergraduate, admissions. I have a dual perspective on helicopter parenting. I have been working in graduate admissions as a private ...
  2 weeks ago

• A New Look at Overparenting

  
  Motherlode — Authority: 608
  Less is more; hovering is dangerous. Do you worry that you are overparenting, or is all this hand-wringing merely a new outlet for the same obsessiveness?
  2 weeks ago

• Free-Range Children

  
  Forest Street Kitchen — Authority: 129
  My 12-year-old son has just walked out the door to the bus stop with a Nos Energy Drink in one hand and a pocket full of Halloween candy for  breakfast. He also falls asleep with the TV on, a TV which is IN HIS BEDROOM , does not willingly read books, and sometimes gets to steer the car on a quiet, suburban drive. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Helicopter Parents Are Ruining Halloween and as goes Halloween, so goes childhood

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 485
  Forget all the guys in Bernie Madoff masks and tutus. If you want to see something really scary on Halloween, come to my apartment around 9 p.m.Im letting my kids eat unwrapped candy.
  5 weeks ago

• Helicopter Parents Overseas

  
  Motherlode — Authority: 608
  Parental coddling is more pronounced in some cultures than in others.
  6 weeks ago

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