helicopter parent

Helicopter parents - so named because they hover over their children - have reached the workplace.

Helicopter parents are so named because, like helicopters, they hover overhead.

Risk aversion in helicopter parents is said to leaves children unable to handle risks.

The only people who haven't gotten the memo are anxious helicopter parents, mass marketing colleges and traditional employers.

August 2005 Wall Street Journal article on helicopter parents at colleges.

The term "helicopter parents" is a pejorative expression for parents that has been widely used in the media.

Some college officials see all this as the behavior of an overindulged generation, raised by helicopter parents and lacking in resiliency.

No one wants to be known as a helicoptering parent, a mother or father who hovers and swoops in at the first sign of trouble.

Homer decides to become a "helicopter parent", fearing that his children's only ambition in life will be to serve children like Noah.

Attention, all helicopter parents and pressure-cooker children.

Imagine the difficulty of creating an active crime-fighting protagonist in an age of helicopter parents.

This was not a helicoptering parent.

Also among the new entries: "boomerang child," "helicopter parents," and "bromance."

The media is rife with articles about obnoxious "helicoptering parents" who belligerently disrupt collegiate life.

These parents may already be helicopter parents, victims of a culture of fear or may be unwilling to let their children explore such a wilderness.

Helicopter parent (opposite)

The term helicopter parent was originally coined by Foster Cline and Jim Fay.

Meanwhile, pessimists focus on possible life-course derailments, and so-called helicopter parents try to micromanage for longer and longer.

Overbearing Helicopter Parents Keep Tabs.

She was one of the first college presidents to identify and discuss the advent of so-called "helicopter parents," who are heavily involved in their children's college experience.

Susan Gray, the superintendent, attributed the criticism of the math program to "helicopter parents" who are accustomed to being deeply involved in all aspects of their children's lives.

Like Wanda Holloway, Lori Drew may not have represented a helicopter parent so much as a more ancient archetype: the resentful neighbor.

How to Stay Involved with Your Tween Without Hovering They're called "helicopter parents," and their hovering behavior does more harm than good for a child.

Helicopter parents are so named because, like helicopters, they hover closely overhead, especially during the late adolescence to early adulthood years, when a level of independence and self-sufficiency is normal.

Artie and Diane agree to come take care of the grandchildren while their parents (type-A helicopter parents) are in Hilton Head, South Carolina for a few days.