The Negative Impacts Of Helicopter Parenting

Helicopter Parenting Parenting isn’t easy. It’s a fact of life. Society offers many different types of approaches to childbearing. Some specific ways include an authoritative style, a neglectful style, a permissive style, the list goes on and on. However, as a parent, it’s often hard to tell hard to which method is the most effective and beneficial to a child. Nowadays and more than ever, people are finding that some parents may perhaps be getting too involved. The overprotective and controlling parenting style that many today are turning to, though it may seem harmless, has many negative impacts that affect a child’s life.

Background Helicopter parenting is a new scenario that has only just recently started grabbing the attention of the

One of the main things that parents want for their children is confidence. On one side of this controversy, there are the Helicopter Parents who believe that confidence comes when their child is protected from failure. On the other side are the Free Rangers or parents with a more relaxed approach (Rutherford 407). Free Rangers believe that the best way to foster confidence is through learning how to deal with failure. There is no doubt that most parents want their kids to be safe. It is apparent that the earth isn’t always a safe place to be. However, helicopter parents feel that they need to protect their children more than Free Rangers do. Even if that means doing whatever it takes to makes sure that nothing bad will happen to their kids. It's good to be involved in a child’s life, but where do you draw the line between involved and micromanaging? In most situations, helicoptering means being involved, but not conveniently. However, there are certain cases where these actions may be justified. For instance, a child could be attending a school that is a bad environment with bad influences (Howard). If this were the case hovering would probably be the smartest thing to because a child is being saved from actual potential dangers. To helicopter as a parent can be extremely disruptive but it is done out of

Helicopter parenting can take a huge blow to a child’s self-esteem. Self-esteem is greatly influenced by success (Rutherford 407). Success comes with the ability to handle and respond to failure. Failing is good because it teaches a lesson and improves a person. If you’re not failing, you’re not improving. Another negative effect is the lack of proper communication skills. According to Anne Michaud, they don’t know how to confront others because their parents have always done that for them (Michaud). When is comes to the real world, communication is huge. If you know how to properly communicate with others, you are more likely to be better off in life. The next obvious consequence is extreme dependence. They have an inadequate sense of responsibility (Michaud). For hovered kids, it's expected that their parents do all the work for them. This is why many do not know how to be on their own. Their parents have always been around and have sheltered them so much that they don’t know how to make it on their own. In other words, they aren’t taught to be independent. Finally, it's dangerous to be protected from dangers. If the time were to come when a hovered child was actually put in danger, they would not know what to do (Howard 8). If something bad were to happen, it is far more worse to not know how to handle a hazard as opposed to