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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s an important read for many on DCUM — don’t be like the moms he references.  Let your college kids figure stuff out on their own!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/06/mothers-day-helicopter-parenting/[/quote]

OP, are you a woman? You shoud be ashamed of yourself if you are. We have got to take the country and our lives back from these sexist, mysoginist pigs. What a hateful, horrible

man. If my kid were at Purdue (he's not, he's at a top 10 university, t thankfully), I would not pay another dime of tuition until this man releases a apology. Shameful.[/quote]

OP here.  Yes, I am a woman.  Do you think the actual requests and commands that he mentions are appropriate?  I hear this type of thing over and over from people who work in colleges and even at workplaces.  The infantalizing of our adult children has to stop.[/quote]

If he had a (D) by his name, they'd be cheering him on.  This site says "park the helicopter" every time a parent asks a reasonable question on here about how to help their kids. [/quote]

+1,000
The outrage is right on cue and totally predictable.  Can't have a Republican man stating truths!  But a Democrat?  Bring it on.[/quote]
Oh, well, if we ever see a Republican man "stating truths" we can have this discussion. Right now, you know, you're just dealing entirely in hypotheticals.[/quote]

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