Judith Warner explains in her article “Helicopter Parenting Turns Deadly” how sometimes parents can be too involved in their kids’ lives. In some cases parents have gotten so consumed in their child’s social life that if someone hurt their child the parent would feel hurt as well. Many of these kind of parents would find ways to get revenge on the child who might have bullied or hurt their own kid. In some cases that revenge may be humiliation, fighting, or a few cases have gone as far as death. Warner explains how it might just be best for parents to step back and let kids be kids.
Warner is trying to educate parents that there is a point where one can be too involved in your child’s life. “Today’s parents” Warner explains “frequently lose themselves when they get caught up in trying to smooth out, or steamroll over, the social challenges faced by their children.” She has achieved her goal by telling the story of a few parents who went too far. One example is when Lori Drew created a fake user on social media to lure Megan Meier, an ex-friend of her daughter, into a trap where she and her daughter harassed her until Meier took her own life. Not all cases end as badly as Meier’s but this can happen even if it was not intended to go that far.
Warner uses logos in her essay, “one in three children in the…show more content… The parents had to be wound up about something and that would be that their kids might not have been treated fairly. Things like this will always happen and there is nothing that parents can do about it, it is simply a part of growing up. She tells her readers that “They (the kids) desperately need us (parents) to grow up”(508). Sometimes parents need to not only let their kids grow up and learn from their problems, but also learn themselves that they too need to grow up and let go of being a
