The Dangers Of Helicopter Parenting

Mckenzie Hanner spent the first eighteen years of her life living in an upper-class, predominantly white, privileged neighborhood where her mother and father ensured that she remained perfectly pleased in their complete control. They cleaned her room every week, did her hair and makeup every morning, checked her grades every day and gossipped with her every night. Now, Mckenzie finds herself helpless as an adult, with little life skill and high anxiety and fear of failure. Contrastingly, Jonah Gibson was raised in a family with 6 siblings. His parents both worked full time jobs and allowed their children freedom to learn about the world through experience. Gibson now feels confident in his skills and is able to find opportunities that will help him succeed in his adulthood.

Helicopter parenting can be described as an intrusive and overbearing style of raising a child, that includes constantly checking in on the child and knowing every aspect of their personal lives. They take an overprotective and excessive interest in their kids lives that they believe may keep them out of the way of danger. Although some parents believe that this is the right way to raise kids because of the perceived danger that no-rescue parenting imposes on their children, no-rescue, or free range parenting should be popularized because negative and anxiety inducing stress in students lives will be decreased, unhealthy and limiting dependency of students on parents will be diminished and encouraging confidence of students in themselves will be