helicopter parenting

English

Noun

helicopter parenting (uncountable)

1. A parenting style characterized by overinvolvement in one's children's lives.
   • 2011, Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, Jane E. Sloan, Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 681:

     While many experts and educators perceive helicopter parenting as problematic because children are too dependent on their parents, some believe that helicopter parenting may benefit children because children report that they feel closer and more connected to their parents than previous generations.

   • 2014, Mary Yu Danico, Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN:

     Helicopter parenting is perceived as a recent phenomenon, though it encompasses many behaviors associated with classic parenting styles.

   • 2017, Anne West, Jane Lewis, Helicopter Parenting and Boomerang Children: How Parents Support and Relate to Their Student and Co-Resident Graduate Children, →ISBN:

     But does contact with and support from parents hinder the move towards autonomy and independence, as many of the press articles and some of the psychological studies of "helicopter parenting" have suggested?