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I'll second this, in North America everything that is possible to make a child absolutely dependant is done. Parents who try to raise functioning adults are shu
by fleitz 14y ago
I'll second this, in North America everything that is possible to make a child absolutely dependant is done. Parents who try to raise functioning adults are shunned.
There was a national outcry because someone let their 12 year old ride a subway.
You can find most of the roots of helicopter parenting in attachment parenting, the idea that a child should always be touched by their parent until they're about 5.
- fr0sty 14y agoThe child was 9, not 12. http://www.creators.com/opinion/lenore-skenazy/why-i-let-my-9-year-old-ride-the-subway-alone.html http://www.creators.com/opinion/lenore-skenazy/why-i-let-my-... Futhermore "attachment parenting" is not the antecedent to "helicopter parenting" and certainly does not require constant contact past 1 year of age much less fife.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoI grew up in Moscow, before I turned ten I would regularly take the subway all the way to school and back. I find it ludicrous and offensive that some of my peers weren't allowed to walk or bike ten blocks to school in a suburban neighborhood.
- fleitz 14y agoYeah, there's a strange sense of danger in north america, my father used to play in bomb craters out front of his families' apartment. Sucks to grow up in a town that makes ball bearings.