Why Do Helicopter Parents Do More Harm Than Good

“Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing your child a favor by trying to shield them from reality.” This is a quote by Walt Disney, who, in my opinion, should know a thing or two about kids, considering he started an amusement park for them, and had kids of his own. Helicopter parents should take a note from Walt and learn you are not doing your child any favors by not letting them experiencing things on their own. Helicopter parents are way too over protective, they are one of the biggest causes for childhood anxiety, and makes up lies about themselves. For these reasons, I speculate that helicopter parents do more harm than good.

First off, Helicopter parents are way too over-protective due to the smallest and most minor details. There have been many cases of these parents needing certain tasks to be done, even though they make no sense once so ever. One grandmother in Connecticut needed the mayor to cut down three hickory trees due to the fact that she was worried a stray nut would fall into her pool where her

The other article with information provided was by Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes and she states “I just insist on competency and civility from the world my children are in for now in the face of what seems like utter madness in the world at large.” Even though she claims the world is in utter madness, crime rates have actually gone done in the past 30 years. The spike in the crime rate peaked around the 1980’s when our parents were allowed to walk around by themselves (unless they lived in a violent neighborhood.) If her main point is her children should be protected because the world is in utter chaos, it is proven this is not true and it is not okay to over protect your kids when you were raised in a time more dangerous than