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Helicopter Parenting : do you hover over your kids?

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Not to long ago, I was asked to be a guest writer for The Awakened Parent blog and the topic was about hovering parents. Below is the full article I wrote –

Helicopter Parenting. It is when we as parents ‘hover’ over our children, no matter what age, constantly checking on how they are doing; a habit we as parents develop from when they were born. And mothers are more guilty, I think that the dads.

As parents we fuss about our children from birth until forever at least for some. It is this nurturing instinct that we parents find difficult to shed. But is it good or bad? It depends, in my opinion. Read the rest of this entry