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Shelly Li(李雪莉), one of CommonWealth(天下雜誌)’ s editor, once published an essay titled Don’ t be Helicopter Parents in 2007. This article’s main point is obvious. Shelly probed into the circumstance of nowadays about parents’ teaching and discipline.

In the article, Shelly give two examples. One is that a mother was angry at the teacher because the teacher didn’t answer her daughter’s question first. Another example is that a mother being a volunteer who should keep order beside the swimming pool. She ran to her daughter and used hair dryer to blow her daughter’s hair as her daughter walked out from the dressing room.

From the examples above, we can notice that there are more and more parents tend to over intervene and be over nervous. According to the author, these helicopter parents are born in the period of 1961 to 1976. The children of this period saw the change of society, and try to create more democratic and freer educational way. However, these parents have some problems under the expectation to their “perfect” children. For example, anxiety, uneasy, comparison etc.

Because of helicopter parents, there are many children’s ability of living become poor. They become easier to get anxious as well as parents. Besides, there are more and more problems between parents and children. For example, in order to let children can win other children, parents will want their children to learn some extra-curricular activities such as instrument or foreign language. However, if children don’t like these activities that their parents choose for them, they will get expressive and unpassionate. As a result, it is easy to have conflict between parents and children.

In this article, Shelly wrote about the reason and result of helicopter parents. In this part, Shelly gives clear explanation. However, in connection with this situation, Shelly didn’t say how to solve the problems. It’s weakness of this essay. As for my opinion, these parents who overprotect and spoil children should try to train their children to take care of themselves. After all, parents can’t keep company with children and make decision for them forever. The more trains and difficulties they encounter, the easier they live for themselves.

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