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Helicopter parenting was not (a very widespread?) thing til the age of smartphones (not meaning any causation), which started 2006, realistically for the masses
by throwbadubadu 3y ago
Helicopter parenting was not (a very widespread?) thing til the age of smartphones (not meaning any causation), which started 2006, realistically for the masses 2010, or was it? Only learned or heard this term 2015-2020ish..
- vasco 3y agoYou did not hear about it till 10-15 years after it got mainstream then: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Helicopter+parent&year_start=1975&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Helicopter+par...
- throwbadubadu 3y agoThanks for the reference - indeed no. But it is also totally not my focus/interest, so how I meant it actually there was that when that term reached me, it must have already been much spread and likely something 5-10 years after its creation ;)