Finding the Balance Between “Helicopter Mom” and “Free Range Parenting”
Bella Breakdown We have all seen the parents who hover around their children, doing everything for them and jumping in before their child even gets to try something on his own. I even used to have a student whose mom would come to school and organize her daughter’s messy desk once a week before I politely asked her to stop. I reminded her that she would never learn how to do it by herself otherwise. On the other end of the spectrum are the parents who are more “free range”, allowing children to be unsupervised and unmonitored, often left...
