Helicopter Parents Harm Their Kids… or Do They? Helicopter Parenting Hurts Kids regardless of love Helicopter parents are seen to be overinvolved in their kid's lives to the point the kid cannot settle on choices for themselves. Helicopter parenting also defined as making important decisions for them, solving their problems and intervening in their conflicts. There are several good reasons for why parents hover over their children. Parents want what’s best for their children and want to keep them safe. It is a parent’s natural instinct to protect his or her children from harm. Julie Lythcott-Haims published an article entitled "Kids of Helicopter Parents are Sputtering Out". The author…show more content… The tone of the author seems to be more aggressive of overparenting but it would be more hopeful for parents to stop treating their kids by this way and to know the best way for building them up with the strong personality to let them face all the circumstances in their life and career. I totally agree with the author for his point of view that we must protect our children of course but with certain limits in order for the kid or teens to adapt with society which will go to help him/her to gain experiences. The author purpose of the tone convincing a society that we should treat our children with different ways to grow up by stopping to be more over parenting to our kids while the purpose of the language to be more simple to help audience understand and receive the author point of view and not to be more complicated to them for understanding the meaning or the purpose of the article by difficult…show more content… In many situations, adoption of a flexible and warm authoritative parenting style is most beneficial for a child’s social, intellectual, moral and emotional growth. However, Over-parenting puts kids at risk for psychological problems in college. Attention must be paid to this, as we are in the midst of what many have labeled a “mental health crisis” for our college students. Because of the wide-spread nature of rising rates of psychological problems in college, Lythcott-Haims suggests the problems appear to stem “from some facet of American childhood itself” namely, over-parenting. One recent study found that students with hovering or helicopter parents were more likely to be medicated for anxiety or depression. The message is that kids need to sally forth independently without constant supervision. They need to try and even fail. And when they fail and look around for a parent to bail them out, they need to hear the words "You must figure this out for yourself". The reaction and feelings in the article tend to be that when parents laugh and enjoy the moment but also teach the satisfaction of hard work, when they listen closely but also give their children space to become who they are, they wind up with kids who know how to work hard, solve problems and savor the moment, too. Parents always think by
