Helicopter Parent Controversy

Every good parent want their children to succeed and be safe in this world, which is a good thing. However, how they get their children there, can be controversial. “The term ‘helicopter parent’ was first used in Dr. Haim Ginott's 1969 book Parents & Teenagers by teens who said their parents would hover over them like a helicopter; the term became popular enough to become a dictionary entry in 2011” (Bayless, 2013). Helicopter parents become overly involved with their children’s lives, making major decisions that their children’s’ should have made, monitoring their kids closely, and doing tasks, small or large, for their kids. These can hinder the development growth of their children. How did helicopter parents came to be can be from multiple

22). The parents become overly involved with their children’s education, sheltering their child, which can cause delays in their development of independence since the millennials are depending on their parents for financial and emotional support (Frey, Tatum, 2016). The thing is, every year tuition rises and it gets harder to get a job to pay for tuition, and do well in school. If tuition isn’t part of the monthly bills, to earn a living without an education is not much compare to when their parents were growing up. Because of this, helicopter parents would want to step in and take action to help their kids by being involved. But without letting them try and learn on their own, they won’t develop a sense of accomplishment and confidence to do other

All over the internet, people from adolescents to college students, to graduates, would say, “Adulting is hard”, “I don’t know how to adult”, “Tired of adulting”. The popularity of this term grows as the millennials continue to come of age where they become tax payers, home buyers, financially supporting themselves, working a 9 to 5 job, basically becoming an adult. More than half of the millennial population in the US do not feel they are ready to become one even though they are of age (Nelson, Barry, 2004, pp 244). Many studies have been conducted to ask if students or people considers themselves as an adult. Even though those studies have different criteria of adulthood, the results came out to be roughly the same. This relates to the outcome of helicopter parenting, which is depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem in adolescents which was reported but many surveys that has been conducted on student’s different universities (Biddle, 2016). It can also lead to lower self-efficacy and lower vocational exploration. It can relate back to Erikson’s theory of development, in stage 5, there the adolescents are conflicted between identity and role