Helicopter Parents' Retro Recruitment Thread

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Originally Posted by icelandelf

I want to read about retro tales that also include pantyhose with sequins up the back.

I'm still bummed about that. It was so much better than TV.

I'm for giving disappointed parents a designated section, but being as devoid of common sense as some of them appear, I doubt they will use it.

I also want to go ahead and say I think it's an issue that goes way beyond GC and we need to step up individually so the nut jobs don't succeed in creating a completely useless generation dependent on their parents for everything.

I want to emphasize that I don't think that even half (or even a quarter?) of the parents on GC are really helicopter types, but the ones who are should get no satisfaction here.

I don't think rudeness is the answer, but don't validate the ones who are overstepping.

(This is an issue I unfortunately have had ample opportunity to observe. What seems to happen is that the nutty ones, rather than being condemned for being the nut-job-offspring-cripplers they are, get what they want for their kids in the short term. Other parents then begin to wonder if their normal parenting is actually neglectful and begin to copy the helicopter style. Then the helicopters have to kick it up a notch even further to demonstrate their devoted parenting (because it is really about their fear of being inadequate rather than anything to do with the kid), and we're just in a terrible race to ruining a generation or two. We need to quit enabling the helicopters to mistake their over-involved yet dysfunctional parenting for good parenting. It can be as harmful or worse in result for the individual kids as neglectful parenting, and it's sure as heck worse for the rest of us.)