Why My Son Needs Me to Be a Helicopter Parent

When I first embarked on this bizarre trip called motherhood, I swore up and down that I’d never turn into a helicopter parent.

Helicopter parents hover and buzz around their children, fussing and mothering them to smithereens. They do things like check and double-check to make sure Johnny studied for his spelling test, quiz him over a perfectly-balanced and obsessively-prepared breakfast, and then send…

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