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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a young Xer and I find these observations inaccurate. I know helicopter-y parents who are Gen X. In particular thinking of some very crunchy parents I know who obsess over stuff like sugar content in fruit (for their middle schoolers) or some very type-A, competitive parents who are very intense about their kids' academic and athletic performance. Also know millennial parents like this. It's a mix.

Agree that the first versus second kid thing is a bigger predictor, as well as number of kids. I have an only and know lots of people with onlies and we skew helicopter-y when compared to families with more kids because their attention is by necessity more divided. I probably bably spend less time parenting and worrying about my kid than my friend with 3 kids, but also probably seem less laid back about parenting than she is. It's a perspective issue.

Your kid dictates a lot too. I was more laid back when my kid was younger, but my kid started having some behavioral issues in school last year that really took us by surprise, so now I read a lot of parenting books and have become more hands on, because we need to figure this out. You can be laid back when your kids are doing great. If you stay laid back when they struggle, you're just a bad parent, it can't be explained by generation [/quote]

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