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  • Hockey Coach Resigns Amidst Investigation So He Can Attack ‘Helicopter Parents’

    yahoo.com 2 weeks, 5 days ago

    A beloved, longtime hockey coach and former star at the University of Minnesota resigned from his post with a high school program in suburban Minneapolis so he could speak out against "bullying" from "helicopter parents" that he claimed had him on the brink of losing his sanity. As reported in detail by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press and a variety of other Minnesota outlets, Roseville (Minn.) High boys hockey coach Jeff Pauletti resigned on Tuesday amidst renewed accusations of bullyin

  • Are You A "Helicopter Parent?"

    topix.com 3 weeks, 1 day ago

    Most parents consider themselves fairly easy going when it comes to their parenting style, but many others can't help but exert complete control over their children's lives.

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Helicopter parent is a colloquial, late 20th and early 21st-century term for a parent who pays extremely close attention to their child's or children's experiences and problems, particularly at educational institutions. The term was originally coined by Foster W. Cline, M.D. and Jim Fay in their 1990 book Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility, although Dr. Haim Ginott mentions a teen who complains, "Mother hovers over me like a helicopter..." on page 18 of the bestselling book Between Parent & Teenager published in 1969. Helicopter parents are so named because, like helicopters, they hover closely overhead, rarely out of reach, whether their children need them or not. In Scandinavia, this phenomenon is known as curling parenthood and describes parents who attempt to sweep all obstacles out of the paths of their children. It is also called "overparenting". Parents try to resolve their child's problems, and try to stop them coming to harm by keeping them out of dangerous situations.

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