Overprotective Parents

by renee on December 17, 2009

Time Magazine just published an excellent article “The End of Helicopter Parenting.” How the phenomenon developed, examples of overprotective parents, such as Douglas MacArthur’s mother who moved close to West Point when he attended to make sure he was studying, and more.

I had way more freedom than my children allow their children. Walking to the neighbors at night alone, taking the bus to activities when I was in elementary school, walking to my grandparents house after school by myself, going to the library by bus alone to take out books when I was not so old. Of course life was different back then, and there was not constant media coverage of missing children, child abductions, and child abuse.

“If you embrace this rather humbling reality, it will be easier to follow the advice D.H. Lawrence offered back in 1918: ‘How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.’ ”

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