Helicopter parenting

Parents are next to God for every child. Mother gives birth to a child and then both father and mother start taking caring from the moment of birth. No word can explain the love and caring of parents for their offspring. Parents always try their best to fulfill every needs of their child. They even neglect their happiness if it become a hurdle in the demand of their child. There is no scale which can measure the love and affection of parents. In the process of loving and caring, sometimes some parents start to hover overhead. They pay extremely close attention to the activities of their child. These types of parents are named as “helicopter parenting”.
Helicopter Parents are named so because helicopters also hover overhead and so these types of parents do. They oversee every aspects of their child.
The term “Helicopter Parenting” appeared for the first time in 1999 by Foster Cline and Jim Fay. Earlier the metaphor was used in 1969 in the bestselling book of Dr Haim Ginott which is “Between Parent & Teenager”. In this book he mentions a child complaining about mother that ‘Mother hovers over me like a helicopter’. The term “Helicopter Parenting” became popular and entered as a word in dictionary in 2011.
Parents whose affection are considered to be a helicopter parenting continues to advocate their child even when they become an adult or even after getting job. It means being involved in a child’s life in a way that their love turned out to be Over controlling and over protecting.Read More