Damn Stupid Overprotective Parents
The whole idea of helicopter parents, those annoying asshats that won’t ever let their children interact with the world because it’s just too dangerous, is ridiculous. This is a 2008 commercial from Chuck E. Cheese that illustrates exactly the problem.
It’s one thing to make your children safe, it’s another to smother them in a never-ending envelope of concern. When these kids grow up, they’re not going to be able to handle the real world because they’ve never had to live in it. That’s why so many college professors and administrators are really hating this faulty parenting style. You have parents who are leading the charge against perceived slights because their children, now adults, are entirely unable to handle it on their own. If the student gets bad grades, it’s the parents bursting into the professor’s office, not the student. This also occurs in the workplace where helicopter parents try to handle their offspring’s job-related problems. Let me tell you, if the parents of one of my employees came to me and tried to talk me into a promotion for their kid, that employee would probably not last long.
Parents need to be reasonably concerned for their kids and keep them safe to the best of their ability, but when doing so becomes a full-time job, something needs to be done. These parents are trying to live vicariously through their kids, guaranteeing that they’ll never be able to handle mistakes because they’ve never encountered them before. Ultimately, it’s setting these poor kids up for failure. There will come a time, like it or not, that the parents won’t be able to smooth over all of life’s speed bumps and these kids will be totally unequipped to handle it.
People, if you have kids, let them try things and let them fail. Let them get hurt once in a while. Let them learn that life is what you make of it, not what the parents can force on the rest of society. That’s how people learn to work hard and succeed, by learning what the alternative brings.
Get out of your damn helicopter and go get a life of your own.
2 Comments to “Damn Stupid Overprotective Parents”
god yeaa… asian parent are reli prortective. bein an asian i shud no. they dont let yhoo out and they are with you 24/7. its reli hard to get a social life and its reli gettin on my nerves. yhoo are soo right 
Well put! I agree strongly with this. Try telling that to (the current generation of) Asian parents though.
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