The term “helicopter parent” was coined in 1969 by teenagers quoted in “Parents & Teenagers, a book by teacher and psychotherapist Haim Ginott. It describes an overbearing parent who would “hover over kids like a helicopter.”
JDenham@yourjournal.com (Janice Denham), St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Living
Tue, 09/19/2017 - 6:00am
The term “helicopter parent” was coined in 1969 by teenagers quoted in “Parents & Teenagers, a book by teacher and psychotherapist Haim Ginott. It describes an overbearing parent who would “hover over kids like a helicopter.”