Hey, Helicopter Moms (and Dads)!

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Unreal story. https://www.newsweek.com/woman-shows-university-students-pictures-her-son-and-asks-if-they-want-date-1326039

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This makes us all look better!

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No it doesn’t. Most parents are helicopters these days. This is just one version. Other moms troll grading websites, their kids phones, GPS track them, etc...

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OP are you taking threads from College Confidential or posting them in both places? This is the second time I've seen an identical thread name in both places.

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Anonymous wrote:No it doesn’t. Most parents are helicopters these days. This is just one version. Other moms troll grading websites, their kids phones, GPS track them, etc...

Yeesh, lighten up. It's a joke

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Anonymous wrote:No it doesn’t. Most parents are helicopters these days. This is just one version. Other moms troll grading websites, their kids phones, GPS track them, etc...

What's wrong with GPS tracking? I use it all the time on my high school student. I check to see if he's on his way home (long commute from school), so I can plan dinner. Eliminates need to call or text him asking when he will be home. Our who family tracks each other for various purposes.

Grading websites...I also can see my son's grades. I am paying $40K to send him to a high school, so I think I have every right to see his grades.

You hands off parents are just lazy.

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you taking threads from College Confidential or posting them in both places? This is the second time I've seen an identical thread name in both places.

Who cares? Are you the posting police? Get a life.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP are you taking threads from College Confidential or posting them in both places? This is the second time I've seen an identical thread name in both places.

Who cares? Are you the posting police? Get a life.

Where is it on CC? I can't find it.

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Anonymous wrote:No it doesn’t. Most parents are helicopters these days. This is just one version. Other moms troll grading websites, their kids phones, GPS track them, etc...

Those are not examples of helicoptering. That's modern day parenting 101.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No it doesn’t. Most parents are helicopters these days. This is just one version. Other moms troll grading websites, their kids phones, GPS track them, etc...

What's wrong with GPS tracking? I use it all the time on my high school student. I check to see if he's on his way home (long commute from school), so I can plan dinner. Eliminates need to call or text him asking when he will be home. Our who family tracks each other for various purposes.

Grading websites...I also can see my son's grades. I am paying $40K to send him to a high school, so I think I have every right to see his grades.

You hands off parents are just lazy.

+1, we all have tracking on our phones. Kids know where we are, if we are on our way, etc. and we know where they are. Its very helpful.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP are you taking threads from College Confidential or posting them in both places? This is the second time I've seen an identical thread name in both places.

Who cares? Are you the posting police? Get a life.

Defensive much? I was just wondering.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP are you taking threads from College Confidential or posting them in both places? This is the second time I've seen an identical thread name in both places.

Who cares? Are you the posting police? Get a life.

Where is it on CC? I can't find it.

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/2126093-hey-helicopter-moms-and-dads.html#latest

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No it doesn’t. Most parents are helicopters these days. This is just one version. Other moms troll grading websites, their kids phones, GPS track them, etc...

What's wrong with GPS tracking? I use it all the time on my high school student. I check to see if he's on his way home (long commute from school), so I can plan dinner. Eliminates need to call or text him asking when he will be home. Our who family tracks each other for various purposes.

Grading websites...I also can see my son's grades. I am paying $40K to send him to a high school, so I think I have every right to see his grades.

You hands off parents are just lazy.

+1, we all have tracking on our phones. Kids know where we are, if we are on our way, etc. and we know where they are. Its very helpful.

My two way into adulthood kids and I track each other too, none of us minds it, probably because we aren't going places we don't want the others to know about and also because we just plain care about each other's safety.

[Anonymous]

My first thought was that this woman may be mentally ill, and the story is more sad than funny. I'd bet that possibly she doesn't have a kid at that college or maybe any kid at all. I hope that if campus or local police find her, they get her some help if it turns out she's got mental issues.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No it doesn’t. Most parents are helicopters these days. This is just one version. Other moms troll grading websites, their kids phones, GPS track them, etc...

What's wrong with GPS tracking? I use it all the time on my high school student. I check to see if he's on his way home (long commute from school), so I can plan dinner. Eliminates need to call or text him asking when he will be home. Our who family tracks each other for various purposes.

Grading websites...I also can see my son's grades. I am paying $40K to send him to a high school, so I think I have every right to see his grades.

You hands off parents are just lazy.

+1, we all have tracking on our phones. Kids know where we are, if we are on our way, etc. and we know where they are. Its very helpful.

I do not track my high school kids, and I will not track them in college either. I look at my children's high school grades online no more than 2x a month (even though I'm tempted to check more often). I do not have access to my HS senior's application portals for the colleges he applied to.

I will not ask for access to the college grading/assignment website, but my child knows that I will want to see end of semester grades. I will expect my child to sign whatever forms are required to allow a college to release any medical records, and to designate me / his father as having medical power of attorney.

They have to become independent of parents. This is the most important -- and sometimes the hardest -- part of parenting teens.