College Admissions and Helicopter Parents
Caught an interesting article in the Charlotte Observer about some of the top mistakes made by the "helicopter parents" of students applying to colleges. While the article makes some valid points about the dangers of overparenting (don't call the school pretending to be your kid, don't facebook stalk the freshman class and make itemized lists of acceptable boyfriends/girlfriends, etc.), I was a little confused by the terminology. For instance, the term "helicopter parents" was new to me. So I did an image search and got this:
This reminded me way more of that time Jeff Van Gundy grabbed onto Alonzo Mourning's leg during a Heat v. Knicks brawl some years ago than your standard military issue Chinook. I think this picture of a Betty Draper-esque Mom sporting a GI Joe backback copter looks more appropriate:
Either way, the message is clear. No matter how much they think they're helping by acting like a crazed basketball coach, or an elite level commando with not-quite-existant technology, parents are better off letting their kids go through the process on their own. Except when it comes to needing spending money of course. Then, fire up the gyro copter because, even though compensensation from 3 weeks worth of psych experiments is going to keep the Ramen shelf stocked for a whole semester, the doctor told me to stop eating it when my pee turned highlighter yellow.
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