What defines a helicopter parent?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by awkward1

So she sent me a text..big deal. This does not make her a co-dependent latent adolescent.

I didn't mean the article was pertinent to YOUR SITUATION PERSONALLY....I meant it was pertinent to the thread in general. Sorry you misinterpreted.

I knew darned well my parents weren't indifferent. I just continue to be amazed at the degree of involvement parents today have in their kids' social lives - things like drinking and sex, that is - with the kids themselves initiating much of it. There were always parents like this, but nowadays it seems the rule rather than the exception. I'm not saying it's good or bad - it just is very, very odd to me, the same way television was very, very odd to 80 year olds in 1950.