Helicopter Parenting

Parents have a unique role to play in children’s life. The capacity to show encouragement, guide how children respond to activities fosters behavior, which accumulates to interest in school and a positive attitude as a form of parental care. As such, parent’s engagement in children’s life proves effective in guiding better decisions and conscious children to the socio-economic issues. However, the effectiveness of parental care depends on ways in which the parents allow children to make their observations, learn from the environment, and find ways to deal with their issues for growth, development and emotional stability. Therefore, the paper provides an insight into the ramification of helicopter parenting through analysis of parent’s control to the children up to higher education levels. The intensity, frequency, and intervention of parents to children’s welfare affect their capacity to grow and make informed choices for adequate work-life balance and assumption of positive roles in society.

Helicopter Parenting

According to Vinson (428), helicopter parenting refers to a parent’s involvement in children through hovering since one is born up to graduation. For example, in the modern world, with the increased embrace of technology, the parent chooses to involve themselves with unborn babies through seeking extra attention and information regarding the baby’s optimal growth. Such an assertion continues throughout the growth of the child. In that, once a child is born, parents’ instinct of overprotective takes preeminence and becomes the only meaningful and constant topic. In a sense, a parent becomes the armour for the child, develops, and creates layers of overprotective notion to either monitor the child on a 24-hour basis or keep them away from the environment they are supposed to learn from. For most parents, it is about going to the extent of using GPS on their children while away, installing cameras, putting helmets on the children while playing, and even making a schedule of what time a child is likely to get involved in play games. All the activities, though of care, concern, love, and appreciation towards the child, serves as the numerous ways of gaining dominance in the life of the child and diminishing his/her options to the reality of the world.

Similarly, a look at the past way of life shows that parent’s role in children, reflected a work-life balance, commitment to the children, and a conscious space to facilitate learning from the environments and independency of children. Those are times, where kid’s growth mattered, in the sense that the role of parents included care to learn from mistakes, be their own man/woman, and grow into fine people that the society can depend upon (Vinson 428). But, today’s parenting skills ha