Persuasive Speech On Helicopter Parenting

When the going gets tough, the tough whip out their cell-phones and dial up their mothers to fix their problems for them. That is how the saying goes, is it not?
If the purpose of parenting is to equip your children to engage in society as a strong and grounded individual, then helicopter parenting represents its direct antithesis. While this current pandemic stemmed from the purest of motives - the desire to protect children from failure or challenges to their self-worth - it represents a fundamentally misguided redistribution of energies. We encourage parents to focus their time on guiding their children through life, protecting them from the outside world instead of building principles in our kids to equip them with the tools to find their

Allow us to consider the ramifications of the so-called participation trophy culture, which is a direct response to never wanting kids to feel like anything less than a success. When children are protected from failure, two things occur. They never learn to win on their own, but, more importantly, they also never learn to cope with defeat. The natural consequence of this is that young adults are unaccustomed to failure and feel entitled in life, be it to money, food, or a high-paying job. Wants become needs, and needs become the responsibility of the state. Not every endeavor is a success. That is a fact of life, but we are not preparing young adults to face that truth. And when failure inevitably does occur due to underdeveloped skills, these young adults fall into depression or

25The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, But the stomach of the wicked is in need.” This was the prevailing wisdom of the world. It was established through experience, and it was proven over time. Then arose a minute array of psychologists who fundamentally misinterpreted the way the world works, or perhaps took isolated one-off examples as a rule for the majority. They preached accommodation, insulation, and protection, and we accepted their words as a blind herd. But rather than improvement in the way we raise children in this country, we face increasing youth depression levels, increasing uncertainty, and increasingly dissatisfied young