Helicopter Parenting Makes Kids Depressed

[flyboy56]

A new study shows overinvolved parents make college students less satisfied with their lives.

Add another to the list of strikes against overinvolved, "helicopter" parenting: researchers have found that it can make college students feel incompetent, which in turn can make them depressed.

"There's been a lot of talk about how these helicopter parents are bad," psychologist Holly Schiffrin of the University of Mary Washington told BuzzFeed Shift, "but there's been very little research." And while some researchers have started to find that parents who hover too much may be harming their kids, no one has looked at why this behavior might be harmful.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/he...kids-depressed

[demopublican]

I am sure some parants are over involved but apathetic and uninvolved parants are the larger problem.

[flyboy56]

I am sure some parants are over involved but apathetic and uninvolved parants are the larger problem.

I believe both parenting styles can have a negative affect of children. But the thread is about over-involved parents.

[sigmalady]

I am sure some parants are over involved but apathetic and uninvolved parants are the larger problem.

This is about college students, not young children and adolescents. I agree with the folowing:

"Most of the time when parents are doing these things, they think they are being helpful to their child," she added. "But college students are adults and they need to be learning how to be adults, which means solving their own problems. If we don't give them the opportunity to do that, we really are taking something away from them."