Lisa Belkin In Defense Of Helicopter Parents

”Kids are more successful when their parents are heavily involved in their lives,” a mother concerned about the school rules for parent involvement wrote in a letter to Superintendent Greg Cuttemloose of Hardy Knox Union School District. Parent involvement in schools is positive to the extent that the child is encouraged and they can get help with their homework when they need it. If the child is neglected without any influence that they need from their parents, they would think that there is no use to studying and getting good grades. The letter from a ”Concerned Mother” and the article, ”In Defense of Helicopter Parents” by Lisa Belkin from the New York Times, show evidence of the support of parents being beneficial to a child. The influence

For instance, in the letter from a ”Concerned Mother,” she states, ”Having a parent continue to be a frequent presence in their school lives is one of the best ways to ensure young adolescents don't make too many big mistakes before they're prepared to handle the consequences.” This means that although children should face some consequences for their actions, they are not prepared to face bigger consequences. Parents should be there to be involved in their child's life so they can help their children through mistakes that they cannot handle. In the article, ”In Defense of Helicopter Parents” by Lisa Belkin, paragraph 6, the text states, ”Moreover, they say, with the economy in a deep swoon, helicopter parents may have a vital role to play as career counselors or even as providers of financial aid to their offspring.” This also supports the fact that parent involvement will protect kids because sometimes in a young adult's life, they will need some money to pay their bills, food, or clothes. If a parent is not involved in their child's life, their children will most likely not be able to pay for necessities, including college. Student debt is a common problem for young adults who recently graduated from college. To conclude, engaging in a child's studies will help protect them from a future that they are not ready

In the article, “In Defense of Helicopter Parents,” paragraph 8, social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead said, “Over-parenting is not letting our kids take the consequences of their actions, swooping down to rescue them, and the result would be a spoiled brat. But helicopter parenting is entirely different, and I think it is a positive style of child-rearing.” This proves that helicopter parenting is not entirely negative. Whitehead explains that the difference between over-parenting is that they won’t let their kids take the consequences of any of their own child’s problems, but helicopter parenting would let their children take some of the consequences, but not ones that are too big to handle for their age, like said in the letter from a “Concerned Mother” where the text stated, “...middle school students are still kids.” The results of over-parenting is a “spoiled brat,” while the results of helicopter parenting were entirely different. In the article, “In Defense of Helicopter Parents,” paragraph 9, the article said that Jillian Kinzie, an expert in researching the education of children, said, “They tended to have more interactions with the faculty, they tended to be involved in active learning, collaborative learning, more often than their peers.” This also