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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, the bottom line is that colleges have had to adjust over the years for helicopter parents and have had to come up with ways to remove them from their children as early and as much as they can from the move in process without alienating and enraging them.  That's what the parent "panels" are all about.  You can be assured that the schools are rolling their collective eyes at all of it.

It's not just an American problem, btw.  I once helped one of my kids find an apartment in the UK for grad school, and in the process found myself on campus about to enter a building where a "no parents allowed" orientation was going on.  The kid at the door gently refused my entrance.  After I assured him that it was an innocent mistake and I was not hovering we had a good laugh about the helicopter parent problem.  [/quote]

Why were you helping them find an apt? I did that myself; my mommy stayed home. 
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Lol.  Who said I’m the “mommy?”  I never did.

It was GRADUATE school in the UK, as I said.  And I was actually helping with something practical and necessary — not getting in the way, not attending contrived events, etc.  Totally different situation.  Plus it was the UK which is cool![/quote]

Practical and necessary for the parent to do or because it was cool? But your child - a graduate student - couldn’t do it themselves? And you are calling other parents helicopters?[/quote]

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