HELICOPTER PARENTING: VALUES OVER GIFTS
HELICOPTER PARENTING: VALUES OVER GIFTS © 2018 CHIBU NDUBUISI 29/9/2018 WEEK 39 “Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy”. Robert A Heinlein Peace be upon you. Discussing with Commander M. M Okoye, he brought to the fore some principle of positive parenting to include but not limited to these list: he averred that parents must be Protectors, Priest, Providers, Role models Teachers, Companion and Playmate. After listening to him, I remembered the term "helicopter parent" which was first used by Dr. Haim Ginott in his 1969 book Parents & Teenagers. The teens explained that their parents would hover over them like a helicopter, giving them no space to take initiative. Another source explains helicopter parenting as about doing for children what they can do for themselves and making parental decisions based on our own ego and what we failed to achieved. We drive them to compensate for ...