LOL this is my new topic on my newsletter I am sending out ...

Is your parents a helicopter??

(taken from the book is your momma a llamma?)

I have a helicopter parent in my group now ........ they drive me nuts ..the child is 4 and they hover over her like she cant do anything ........funny she can zip , buckle and put her coat, gloves and boots on all by herself ..but last night when dad came she couldn't even figure out if her gloves go on her foot or hands!

What a great term helicopter parents - I know several who's kids come to my classes.
I'll have to use it.
Thank you

i hover over my som sometimes, but i try to give him his space, partily because i want to make it easaier for him to detach form me, i have been home with him for the past year, and spent the first year at homw with him (its a lot of dramam to explain) so basically out of his little 2 and a half years of life i've spent 2 at home with him, so mommy is his world, but also he get a temper if he doesn't get his way, and he knows mommy will always love him so he hits, and tries to bite, so i stay in the other room and just check up on him because it hurts. he actually bruised my arm 5 times in like 6 months, and they look bad - someone actually thought my bf did it because of how it looked. so i worry about how hes gonna be around other kids, but i think tat me telling him mommy doesn't want to play with you when u hurt her is helping, hes started just biting my shirt, not going thru to the skin.

I love this description, 'helicopter partents'.... it is SO appropriate!
Today most parents would fit into this category.

Parenting advice would necessitate getting them to hover around less as helicopters and more as butterflies..... the latter delight in the nectar of flowers (children) without disturbing them in any way!

I am a helicopter grandma. Not as bad as doing everything for the grandkids. They cook for theirselves,etc etc. But I will not let them go out in the apartment complex and just to play unless I am out there watching them. Not because I don't trust them. Its because I don't trust the wierdos out there. Too many times children are snatched and today snatched from there bedrooms. I have seen other kids out there too. The parents aren't around and they uproot the bushes, hang on the branches until they rip down etc etc. When I was little, I would get up, eat breakfast and out to play. I didn't see my parents till dinner time. It was safe back then.