Monday, July 26, 2010

Give helicopter parents a break

Adriana Barton, Globe and Mail

It’s tough to go online these days without seeing a diatribe against helicopter parents.

After all, they’re the germaphobic, nanny-cam-using, teacher-stalking mothers (and fathers) everyone loves to hate.

News reports have been scathing. Time magazine called the overparenting trend “insanity;” CNN warned of chopper parents who “fly into school in attack mode,” and USA Today profiled summer camps that give overprotected kids a “parentectomy.”

Read the full article here.

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