Helicopter Moms: analyse og diskussion af forældrekontrol

Write a summary of Do ‘Helicopter Moms’ Do More Harm Than Good?In the Internet article “Do ‘Helicopter Moms’ Do More Harm Than Good” from 2005, Robyn Lewis tell us about how she’s involved in her sons, Ethan and Brendan´s lives. She organizes everything, from doing their laundry, to check their mails, even though they don’t live at home anymore. Ethan and Brendan are grateful that their mother is helping them and they call her a secretary-mom. Helen Johnson says that the parents who take over their children’s lives, they send the message to their children, that they don’t think they can handle their own life. Annie Stevens tells that they have parents calling the University, about everything. They can call to ask if they can come and take notes for their child, if the child is going to miss a few weeks. Lewis knows that the day will come when they will get wives, who will be more important than her. Lewis wants to have a great relationship to their wives, so they can tell what her boys are doing.Give an outline of the attitudes to over-parenting expressed in texts 1m 2 and 3.In the three articles they focus on over-parenting. In article one “Do ‘Helicopter Moms’ Do More Harm Than Good?” There are three women, with different opinions. Lewis does everything for her boys and all three of them thinks it’s a good thing, that she helps them as much as she does. When Johnson and Stevens on the other hand disagree and thinks it’s unhealthy and not good for children to have helicopter moms. Article three “Over-parenting is the curse of our time” disagrees with Lewis from article one. Johann Hari from article three thinks it’s too much that parents won’t let their children live their own life. He says “You need to grow up – or your child never will.” In article two “A mother steps back from pull of over-parenting” Bethany Young Hardy says that she was a helicopter mom, but she realize that it wasn’t good for her son and that he should experience the playground by himself. She starts her son’s life out with being a helicopter mom, just like Lewis from article one, but unlike Lewis Hardy finds out that it’s not good for him and stops it early so he can be his own-being. The conclusion must be that it’s not good for our children, if we are helicopter moms, because children have to experience the playground and take risks by them self and learn from their own mistakes.Comment on the following statement from text 3: “It’s an essential part of growing up to learn to take risks, get in trouble, and sort it out on your own.”Can it be right that a part of growing up is to take risks, get in trouble, and sort it out on your own? If you ask Hari from the article “Over-parenting is the curse of our time”, his answer would be yes. If you just hold on to your children and don’t let them experience things by them self, they will never learn to be independent adults. When children knows that mommy and daddy thinks everything is scary and dangerous, the children will also think that and so they will never dare to try anything by them self and that’s a shame. Actually you can say that dirt is good for you, because if you never get in contact with dirt, you won’t have developed resistance against germs. Even though I think it’s hard for parents, you should let go and let the children try for them self. They will never learn about life, if you don’t let them.