Argumentative Essay On Helicopter Parenting

Children need their parents because they need someone that 's there behind them all the time so they can do there work. By children not having their parents it also affects them by going to

Helicopter parenting 1. Outline Parenting is a very controversial subject. Everybody has an opinion as to what is the ideal way of raising your child, and many prefer for people not to interfere in this decision, but what if you’re doing it the wrong way and in reality causing more harm than good? The term “helicopter parents” is known for it’s negative reputation as it typically describes a parenting style that is focused around patterns of being “overcontrolling, overprotecting and overperfecting.”

I think parenting should have risks and this over-protective parenting style is affecting the children. Children now don 't know how to think for themselves and do things on their own because their parents are always there to baby them. The author of "The Revolution Will Not Be Supervised" absolutely has the right idea when it comes to parenting. If parents took a step back and let their children handle their own problems, the children in today 's world would function totally differently. This article has definitely changed my point of view on parenting, and I hope parents get the opportunity to read this article and actually follow through with changing their

The helicopter mom (and/or dad) is a popular example of poor parenting in respect to encouraging independence. From Dr. Haim Ginott's 1969 book Parents & Teenagers, helicopter parenting refers to “shadowing a child” or always watching over a child which consequently restricts independence. A helicopter parent might, “call(ing) a professor about poor grades, arrange(ing) a class schedule, manage exercising habits.” As Wendy Mogel, author of Blessings of a Skinned Knee and Blessings of a B minus, says in a short sentence, “Teenagers need to make dumb mistakes to get smart.” This is a pivot point of human psychology - one learns from experience, and if a child is not exposed to the world outside before they are off to college, they are deprived of proper parenting.

In “The Favorite Child” by Ellen Weber Libby, the author shows how favoritism can have a negative effect on the favored child as well as the unfavored child. Throughout the essay, Libby explains how parents favoring one child over another can result in both the favored and unfavored child experiencing depression in their life. There are many ways that favoritism can impact the unfavored child in a negative way. First off, the unfavored children have never received affirmation from their parents so they often live their lives looking for validation. They grow up insecure and don't feel that they are lovable.

The single mother will need to obtain the responsibility of providing for the family, do maintenance on the house and be a caring parent, while only being one person. This can be highly stressful and it can have a negative impact on the mother and the children. This can cause a conflict in the house if the only parent in the house has been overwhelmed and has no time to relax. “Medina says she recognized right away that she didn’t have time to be the father and mother both”(Forestner 2). Telemachus’s mother was so busy trying to rule the kingdom and keep away the suitors, she did not always have the time to be with Telemachus.

New parents are hard to accept, especially when the child has been passed home to home. These attachment issues may restrict the child from moving forward in their lives and excelling in the new environment provided (Robin). The lack of stability in the system is only setting up the children up for failure, according to Stone, “we treated foster children as if they were our own, yet many of them never felt as if they were.” It is difficult for young children and adolescents to comprehend the separation of their parents let alone the process of moving to multiple foster homes while under the guardianship of the state. Other children mask their hesitation at being attached to a family by letting others see only what they want to see.

Chris Crutcher , wrote this book for teens to open up more to their parents to speak out when they’re feeling a certain way. Not bottle up their emotions and become stressed and depressed over the situations they’re put in. He also wrote this for parents who ride they kids to the point where they’d rather die than play sports. Sports are supposed to be fun and entertaining. But if you as a parent put your child down and make them feel bad for doing something wrong is where you mess up.

It explains the troubles adults go through since they are no longer younger and full of ignorance. “We see in them a longing to go back toward the safety of the past and a longing to go forward to the new challenges of the future”(p9). This quote from the article explains how growing adults miss the way everything used to be as kids when they were stress free. “Parents protect their children from knowledge which is too much for them to bear, too confusing for their little minds to process”(p6). This citation sums up why being an adult with burdensome knowledge is stressful and it is also why adults protect kids this way so they can enjoy their blissful, ignorant

Is there a lack of freedom in stability or a lack of stability in freedom? In the novel Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, Antonio’s coming of age is challenged domestically by the father/mother tension of freedom versus stability through their parental expectations. Generally in life, children seek to please their parents in everything they do. It is often conflicting parental expectations that send a child into an overwhelming state of distress wondering why they try so hard to attain the standards of both but inevitably end up disappointing one or the other. Maria and Gabriel are prime examples of parents that are completely disconnected from their family as a whole but most importantly detached from their son due to their unwillingness to compromise.

A helicopter parent is a parent who is hyper-involved in their child’s life. A Concerned Mother composed a complaint letter about the benefits of parent involvement. I oppose her notion because it distracts classrooms. Moreover, parent involvement prevents students from learning to handle their mistakes.

This theme is shown in many instances throughout the story. For example, the parents and children experience many side effects from having everything done for them including depression and worthlessness. Also, the children become spoiled by all of the technology and the technology replaces their human relationships. Some people may introduce other themes for “The Veldt”, but the most noticeable theme is technology. What people can learn from “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury is to not let technology overtake

“If we never give our children permission to get things wrong... they’re unlikely to ever learn how to get things right” (Glass and Tabatsky xxi). Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses in The Overparenting Epidemic that when parents try to drive their child to be perfect and do not allow them to make mistakes, it usually results in children who fear taking risks or failing. Helicopter parents become too invested in the lives of their children by doing their best to prevent their child from experiencing failure or danger in any way. Although they believe that they are preventing their child from feeling sad or disappointed, they are actually causing destruction, damaging the child’s self esteem and creating trust issues.

In a confrontation with Juliet, Capulet releases his fury at her disobedience and reluctance by saying, “Wife, we scarce thought us blest./ That God had lent us but this only child./ But now I see one is one too much./ And that we have a curse in having her./ Out on her, hilding/” (3.5. 181). Parents influence their children profoundly through both actions and words, so at times the responsibilities and their expectations of their children deny them of seeing the reality that kids should not be controlled to fulfill the parents’ wishes. Capulet should control his anger, instead of lashing out on Juliet, just because she refuses to do something he wants.

Concerning Bridge to Terabithia, the controversial parts of the book can easily be explained. For example, the challenger is unhappy with the tragic ending of the book and claims that it is detrimental to the child; however, it is quite the opposite. According to Clarissa A. Wills’s article, “The Grieving Process in Children: Strategies for Understanding, Educating, and Reconciling Children 's Perceptions of Death,” it states, “Today, American children grow up in a society that avoids grief and the inevitability of death” (1). In reality, a parent cannot shield their children from death. In reality, people die and their loved ones will have to grieve, cope and move on without them.