Ryan found an article online about a school in Saratoga Springs, NY, that won’t allow kids to bike or walk to school, even if a parent accompanies them. Ryan thinks this is absolutely ridiculous for a number of reasons.
- Everyone’s complaining that kids are getting overweight and not getting enough exercise. Now that some kids are actually being healthy by biking or walking, their school is telling them not too.
- In what way does the school even have the right to tell parents how to get their kids to and from school.
For once Stan, Rich, Nicole and Ryan are in agreement. What’s wrong with kids walking or taking their bikes? Ryan thinks that it’s because of a small group of helicopter parents who complained that the kids would be in to much danger if they walked or biked. He believes that these kind of helicopter parents are way too over protective and that them being so over protective is doing more harm than good to their kids.
Do you know a helicopter parent? Are you one? How far have you gone to keep an eye, or be overly protective, of your kids? How far have your parents gone to be all up in your business? Do they have a chip installed in your body like a dog (we wouldn’t be surprised)? Share your stories with us here!
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I’m a 36 year old guy. I have been living by myself in the US since I was 17. My parents live overseas. They have always been helicopter parents and it has never changed. Not even the distance can keep them away.
They email me every single day, if I don’t write back within 2 days, they call to make sure everything is OK. I sent them pictures of my new house and not only did they complain that my furniture was, and I quote, “not tropical enough”, but they also told me how to decorate it. I guess they think that because I live in Florida, my house needs to look like right out of an episode of the Golden Girls.
I love them very much, but it gets tiring. I have tried to make them understand that they are helicopter parents and that I need breathing room. This only hurts their feelings and it doesn’t change things. So I have learned to take it in stride because some day they will not be around any longer, and if feeling that they have my best interest in mind makes them happy, then so be it. I still do whatever I want.
My wife tries to baby my son, I am the one that tells him to go play in traffic, climb trees, play with snakes & lizards, and she is the one that is telling him not to do that in case he gets hurt.
I was probably a helicopter parent (girls now 24 and 26) but when asked NOT to be at an event – I respected their wishes. They had rules when driving somewhere(IE: calling upon arrival and when leaving) – Yes, they probably lied to me more than once…..But while in college (away) they grew into very mature sesable young women. One just bought her first house on her own and is engaged they other (my free spirit) with her college degree works at a ski resort in the inter, white water river raft guides in the summer and still calls 3-5 times a week just to say HEY!….she is headed to Thailand to bike, hike and camp for two months starting in Nov….because she can! I am not thrilled – but it is what SHE wants to do – NOT ME! Give the kids some breathing room – making mistakes is part of the growing up process!