blog 5

"My Parents Are Helicopters"

I chose this article because it has to do with the other side of what my topic is about.  In my paper I wrote about how parents are too worried about being their child’s friend.  The two articles go from one extreme to the next.  This article is about parents who are “helicoptering” (hovering) over their children and, though they want the best for them (as any parent does), they tend to push them in the wrong direction.  I do agree with the writer’s claims made through-out the article.  Children that are pushed too hard WILL push back at some point and the only people that will be hurt are the parents.

                Right off the bat, the first thing that caught my attention was the title.  The writer claims that children need to be prepared for the hard times life throws at them as they get older and that it is our job, as parents, to make sure that they are.  By making an appeal to ethos he questions why parents really want their kids to be successful at sports, in certain clubs, or other things that parents sign their kids up for that the kids really don’t want to be a part of.  Aside from misspelled words and some grammatical errors, it flowed fairly well.