What is a helicopter parent? Helicopter parents tend to be overly focused on their children. So it’s that sense of responsibility that parents feel over their child, when any success or failure the child experiences automatically ties back to the parents. Parents become overprotective, overcontrolling, and perfecting their children. They become the child’s shadow, in a way, forcing everything to meet the needs of the child.
What might make parents become helicopter parents?
The main culprit is to avoid unhappiness.
In my opinion, no, don’t become a helicopter parent.
You are not allowing your child to experience a healthy life.
Life must have ups and downs, esspecially the downs.
Downs are what help us learn, grow, and proof we are strong.
We may not know it, these moments of downs are what we remember most.
We say stuff like, I was able to surpass this and that and it made me who I am today.
Having hardship means we have something to work on and provides purpose in our life.
Someone once told me “love what you do, and don’t do what you love”
I had no clue what that meant.
Now I understand this simply means look for joy in hardship and don’t wait for happiness until you reach the end of that hardship.
Helicopter parents don’t understand the happiness behind difficulty and hardship.
They don’t see the opportunity to push through from the challange or the struggle is actually more important than reaching the desired result, happiness.
Sometimes the reward is not the reward itself.
