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A parent who hovers over their child at every step, especially on the playground, to prevent any possible bad event from occurring, specifically broken bone, interaction with less important child, fall from any height, etc. My toddler wanted to play with the other kids at the playground but the hover-parents stood in the way.
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| 2. | helicopter parent | ||
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An individual parent who hovers over their child well into adulthood. Very seldom are there two helicopter parents in one family. One is enough to hover and annoy their thirty or forty year old "child" to the point of extreme exasperation. He's forty two years old, but his "helicopter parent" mother comes over every day to make certain that absolutely everything in his life is right. (This includes selecting the right food, clothes, furnishings, girlfriends, friends, and job that her darling son has.)
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| 3. | helicopter mom | ||
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A hovering & controlling, but well-meaning, parent who gets way too involved in her child's life to the point of doing things that are completely inappropriate, such as personally attending all of little Sweetiepie's extracurricular activities, writing medium-sized Sweetiepie's school application essays, and submitting full-grown Sweetiepie's job applications. Suzy's job interview was rendered very awkward by the fact that her helicopter mom insisted on accompanying her.
Joey moved across the country to escape his helicopter mom, but she still calls him six times a day. |
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| 4. | helicopter mom | ||
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the mom who hovers over her child, especially at school. This mom is too involved. She annoys the other parents as well as the teacher(s). I have this helicopter mom in my class. Some mornings she stays more than an hour watching over her daughter and providing unneeded supervision and advice.
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