Advantages Of Helicopter Parenting

Helicopter Parenting does not start when a student begins college. It often starts from birth, to infancy, toddler age well into college age students. The goal of the parent is to protect, teach, and to prevent any harm from coming to the child. They try to avoid any sort of mistreatment towards their child, they teach them life skills and generally try to make sure life is good for their kids. Unfortunately, this often leads to the parent being overbearing; causing stress, anxiety, and often low self-esteem in the student. The learner read an interesting article on titled, “Hovering Too Close: The Ramifications of Helicopter Parenting in Higher Education’, written by Professor Kathleen E. Vinson. (Vinson, K. E., 2011) The research

Donna Turner, a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor, discussed the results of helicopter parenting regarding her clients. Turner, 2017 discussed negative effects on self-esteem, depression, lack of self-efficacy and poor decision making which resulted in drug abuse, mental health issues in the clients. Turner also discussed the ways her own helicopter parenting affected the learner’s uncle. The learner’s grandmother attended every game, band practice, and band competitions regardless of where they were held. Turner states she talked constantly to the coaches, the band director and even went to sit in on classes even in high school. When Turner’s son got into college, the son didn’t know how to enroll, apply, create his schedule, or anything without Turner’s help. Turner stated that after some time in college his grades started to fall, depression settled in and there was clear evidence of his self-esteem failing. Turner discussed how she realized that her son needed to learn valuable life lessons and she began to pull back for her son to grow and navigate through life as a young adult and she had to learn how to just be a supportive parent. (Turner,