Helicopter parents beware the illusion of control
Saturday, October 17th, 2009Helicopter parents monitor and advocate in all details of their children’s lives well into young adulthood. So when Lenore Skenazy wrote in her column (for the New York Sun) that she let her 9-year-old son travel home by himself on the subway in New York, she sparked a controversy that led to her creation of the website “Free Range Kids” and a book by the same title released last Spring. (Note this blog …