Bumping to report that heli-parenting apparently isn't confined to the US. From The Telegraph (London):
Students' pushy parents must cut the umbilical cord, say Oxford dons, as demands for exam remarks soar.
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They believe their sharp elbows and pushy nature have helped to smooth the path for their children into one of the country's oldest and finest universities.
But parents of a new generation of Oxford students are causing consternation among dons, who claim they are responsible for the number of appeals doubling in the past year. . . .
“Compared with my day, when you had to go out of your way to get to a phone box to ring mum and dad once a week, with the mobile phone mum can track you down any time but equally you can ring mum because you don’t know how to open a tin of beans.
“It is more difficult to sever that over-dependency if you can contact them so easily. If you are not careful, the child will march into their interview with their mother. It is infantilisation.”
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