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Helicopter parents - that's a neat term. I'd never heard that before.
Honestly my parents let me go off and do my own thing. I knew they cared and that they were there if I needed them, but they were never oppressive or overbearing. Part of that may have been that I only went home for holidays; I made it pretty obvious I was happy at school and had made a place for myself there.
Another ingredient was that I was working and paying for most of my expenses. I was self-sufficient in a lot of ways, so there wasn't much room for them to "butt in."
I've seen the opposite though; I don't understand how parents can expect their children to grow up if they won't let them.
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