Are you a 'lawnmower parent?' Yeah, you probably are.
"I think everybody has been a lawnmower parent at one time," Hudson said. "Even teachers because they're parents, too. It's a natural tendency to want to help kids."The parent of a high-school student who asked a teacher to walk a student to class to assure that the student would not be late.
A parent who called to schedule a make-up test when the student was clearly old enough to request a time.The problem is not a parent's willingness to help a child succeed, that's admirable and understandable. The problem comes from a parent's repeated efforts to eliminate any and all struggle so that children are ill-equipped when they grow up and life inevitably goes sideways, Hudson said.
Fancher writes that as adults or just on the precipice of adulthood, these students have communication difficulties, lack a sense of personal motivation and believe they're not good enough to accomplish things on their own because lawnmower parents have cleared and charted paths and removed obstacles.
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