The Ivy rat race
New York City’s “most ambitious, wealthiest parents” start the college-admissions process by hiring a consultant to get their toddler into an elite nursery school, writes Lacy Crawford. Then come...
View Article‘I will not check my son’s grades 5 times a day’
I Will Not Check My Son’s Grades Online Five Times a Day vows Jessica Lahey in The Atlantic. Her son’s high school lets parents access information on their children’s academic progress, attendance and...
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The overprotected child
The author’s 5-year-old son, Gideon, playing at the Land playground in North Wales. (Hanna Rosin) Overprotective, safety-obsessed parents have “stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and...
View ArticleFree-range mom aids anxious parents
On a new reality show called “World’s Worst Mom,” Lenore Skenazy, an advocate of “free-range parenting,” encourages anxious parents to let their children try new things. That includes a mother who...
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To raise an adult, stop hovering
Helicopter parents are raising fragile children, writes Julie Lythcott-Haims, a former Stanford dean. Colleges are seeing a wave of depressed, apathetic students who can’t make their own decisions. In...
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Why the copters? It’s harder to pass on privilege
Why so many helicopter parents? asks Megan McArdle on Bloomberg View. The world isn’t more dangerous than it used to be), she writes. “I grew up in a New York City where kids had a lot more freedom —...
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Adventure playgrounds pop up in cities
New York City children play at a “pop-up” adventure playground on Governor’s Island. Urban adventure playgrounds — with adult monitors, but no hovering parents — are giving city children a chance to...
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In Mike’s playborhood, kids take risks
Children jump from the playhouse roof to the trampoline in Mike Lanza’s backyard in Menlo Park, CA. Photo: Holly Andres/New York Times. As the “anti-helicopter parent,” Mike Lanza has turned his...
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Colleges adapt to helicopter parents
As parents are more involved with their children’s college lives — some send a wake-up call to ensure they get to early classes — colleges are adapting, writes Laura McKenna in The Atlantic. Some...
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Spoiled children
A college education isn’t intended to make people think any more, write Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendent specialist, and Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, in The Coddling of the American Mind. “It...
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