Oct
31
2017
Are school teachers forcing parents to helicopter?
Overbearing school expectations demand helicopter parenting, writes Jessica Borelli, assistant professor psychology and social behavior.
To grow up, sometimes children need to fail.
But overprotective, do-everything parenting heads off those failures before they ever happen, and children never learn to pick themselves up after they've fallen. It's a common lament among psychologists, commentators, school teachers and college professors.
Sometimes, though, parents can't help but helicopter because of the demands placed on them, writes Jessica Borelli, assistant professor of psychology and social behavior, in the Huffington Post.