What is a Helicopter Parent? | Psych in 60
Channel: Psych Bytes
Date: 23/04/2018

Dr. Haim Ginott first referenced this term in 1969 in his book Between Parent and Teenager. He was referring to a statement made by a teen that his mother was hovering like a helicopter.

In the 1990s, the authors of Parenting with Love and Logic, Foster Cline, and Jim Fay, coined the term helicopter parenting.

They used this term to explain a parenting style in which parents hover over and then rescue their children whenever trouble arises.

The term helicopter parent has become so widely used and accepted that it is even in the Oxford Dictionary. 

The dictionary defines the term as "a parent who takes an overprotective or excessive interest in the life of their child or children."

Wait a minute, you may be saying, isn't that what parents are supposed to do? How can protecting your child or being interested in your child be associated with such a negative term?

The keywords in helicopter parenting are OVER protective and EXCESSIVE interest. It's an example of good intentions gone awry.

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