Kids Of Helicopter Parents Are Entering Out Analysis

In “Kids of Helicopter Parents Are Sputtering Out” By Julie Lythcott-Haims, she addresses the studies that suggest that kids with overinvolved parents in their structured childhoods suffer in college. My whole life my parents have been rather protective and controlling of all their kids, so much so that I was homeschooled for five years until finally convincing my mother to let me go back to regular school. I’ve always had to give my parents detailed information on where I was going, with whom, how long, etc. and they were never eager for me to do things all on my own. Sophomore year I received my first A- in a class and that was a big deal in my house, I was talked to for a while and began to really hate my decisions that led to that A-. “[For students] haunted their whole lives by a fear of failure—often, in the first instance, by their parents’ fear of failure…the cost of falling short, even temporarily, becomes not merely practical, but existential.” So, if an A- was bad, even the thought of failure makes me rather anxious which is why I relate to that quote so much. I’ve

When Lythcott-Haims talks about the story of the parents choosing the child’s major for her, I can relate to that. My parents don’t want to decide my major, but that are very heavily opinionated on where I go to college. This text certainly challenged my views on how I might raise my own kids. I’ve always imagined I would raise my kids similarly to how I was raised, because I’m a “good kid”. However, if being overbearing results in poor feelings and results in life, I will probably drastically change how my children are