the school of ‘helicopter parenting’
April 9, 2013
“How to begin to educate a child? First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.“
– D. H. Lawrence (in Times Educational Supplement, circa 1918 in an essay titled ‘Education of the People’)
I used to think that the hovering, overbearing parents that are the bane (to put it mildly, I would actually say pests) of only some children and that this kind of degenerate concept is perhaps only applicable to the Occident and not to us in India. How naïve I was! Just because my parents weren’t helicopters, how dare can I think that all other children are / were blessed the same way! Read the rest of this entry »
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