Persuasive Essay: Can These Parents Be Saved?

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Nancy Gibbs et al. wrote, “Can These Parents Be Saved?” for Time 2009. Helicopter parents are parents who care maybe too much about their children and want to protect their kids more than they should. Parents want their children as safe as possible from everything, so they are pretty much wanting their children in a bubble away from danger and play. There type of parenting looks at the world as a scary place for children and do not want their children getting hurt, messing up or ending up with bad intentions. In this way, they are holding children’s hands through life and not letting children be children, who are meant to get hurt and fall down and mess up that is how children learn and grow up. Parents cannot stand with their children every second …show more content…

“by worrying about the wrong things, we do actual damage to our children, raising them to be anxious and unadventurous” (3). Gibbs is arguing that parents are worrying to much about safety and protection and what is right or wrong for their children and ‘by worrying about the wrong things’ parents can make their children worried about those things as well and be scared of simple things like playing outside, walking to their friend’s house alone or swinging on a swing set. Parents are worrying about those things that children normally enjoy doing as children. Gibbs says that parents are ‘raising them to be anxious and unadventurous’ because of how they view their parents worrying about it. Children look up to their parents and if they see them worried, then they are most likely going to worry about those same things. Because parents know best for their children and if children do not think playing outside on their own or walking to school is safe for them, then they will rely on parents to be around them at all times and not have any freedom or independence that children should

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