Blood was pouring all over the fresh cut grass as John’s cut kept getting worse. Finally his mother heard him and ran over with a wet dripping cloth. John knew it was going to make him scream but he had no choice. He was going to have to suck it up and deal.
“Things happen best to move on and play through” like his father once said when he broke his wrist in a football game
Helicopter parenting is becoming a “religion” amongst many parents who are nervous about letting their kids experience the outside world.
“I immediately started feeling the pain but I am quite tough and just held it in as I called for help and tried to stay calm” says John a young man from a generation ago. What is revealed by John’s experience is that parents of his generation were very lenient toward big injuries and experiences like John’s.
John is a 14 year old boy who lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia whose parents believe in the simple beliefs and values. Like letting their kids run free unattended and only giving their kids what they deserve or making them work for what they want so that in the future they will know how to survive on their own making a living. He also thanks to not being protected from everything is quite popular at school and has managed to maintain an A average in all of his classes as he always works hard and if he does not worry if he has to work alone as he was trained to work alone.
Anne Kynigos parent of 2 teenage boys says that “helicopter parenting is detrimental to children's emotional and intellectual growth as they do not learn to think on their own”. Psychiatrist Steven Lloyd says that “parents should only be worried about serious injuries and concussions but no less as it affects kids futures. ABout 78% of kids born after 2004 have said they have helicopter parents. And 40% of the helicopter kids have become neurotic and completely dependant on their parents for almost everything.
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