Reply to "Helicopter Parents - from a college dean"

jp245,000+ posts

Originally Posted by 2020dad:

Originally Posted by jp24:

This observation from the article jumped out at me:

Check your language. “If you say ‘we’ when you mean your son or your daughter — as in, ‘We’re on the travel soccer team’ — it’s a hint to yourself that you are intertwined in a way that is unhealthy.”

A whole lot of parents here do this. And while I'd edit the statement to say it's a hint that you may be intertwined in a way that is unhealthy -- it's still interesting.

It's also an expression HSBBW parents whose sons are in college or higher seldom use.

And??? This is significant because?

Now THAT's elitist.

10/30/152:07 PM

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