Tag: heli-parent

As mothers, we receive plenty of input about what we should be doing, should have done or should do now. Frankly, we should have known better, thought of that before and been one step ahead.

No wonder some of us fall into the dreaded trap of heli-parenting—sticking our nose into our child’s business when it would be best to let them make their own choices and fail if need be.

It has gotten to the point where colleges and universities have found it necessary to bar parents from inserting themselves into the college application process. (We are invited to the financial process, of course.)