Danish psychologist Bent Hougaard coined the term "Curling Parents" to refer to those parents who try to sweep away all obstacles in their offspring's path so that their child can go through life without the slightest bump. They continually make sure that nothing is interfering with or negatively affecting their child.
Neuropsychologist Britt Frank agrees that helicopter parenting can do serious damage to young adults. As she told Deseret News, “Adult children who have overprotective parents can develop depression, anxiety disorders, struggle in relationships and experience difficulty with self-esteem and self-confidence.”
Snowplow parent
If you've offered incentives to a coach to help your child make a team or get more playing time. If you help your child with every homework assignment and project. If you try to have your child's grade changed—especially in college. While "helicopter parents" hover, snowplow parents eliminate obstacles.
“Hovering” over children rather than encouraging autonomy and healthy separation. Excessive anxiety about children failing or getting hurt. Being overly involved in all areas of a child's life (academics, recreational activities, and friendships)
For children to develop, it is often necessary for them to fail and learn from their mistakes through trial and error. Unfortunately, helicopter parenting limits children's ability to engage in this opportunity, and research suggests that it can stunt a child's cognitive and emotional development.
Lighthouse parenting is a style of parenting which, as its name suggests, considers the parent to be a lighthouse, guiding and supporting their child.
Saba Harouni Lurie, a licensed marriage and family therapist defines lawnmower parenting (also referred to as “bulldozing parenting” and “snowplow parenting”) simply as: “when parents remove obstacles for their kids in hopes of setting them up to be successful.”
Studies show that children of helicopter parents can experience long-lasting psychological repercussions that can follow them into adolescence and adulthood. In particular, when a parent is overly controlling, children have a harder time learning to manage their emotions and behavior.
The four main parenting styles — permissive, authoritative, neglectful and authoritarian — used in child psychology today are based on the work of Diana Baumrind, a developmental psychologist, and Stanford researchers Eleanor Maccoby and John Martin.
Snowplow parenting, also called lawnmower parenting or bulldozer parenting, is a parenting style that seeks to remove all obstacles from a child's path so they don't experience pain, failure, or discomfort.
Koala parenting. Also known as attachment parenting, this style describes the way in which a parent may look to form a close bond with a child from day one. This could mean breastfeeding for as long as possible, sleeping with the baby close by or co-sleeping when safe to do so, and babywearing.
"Parents who are relentless, loud and destructive in their desire to make changes in their child's classroom." Frequent emails to teachers, calls to administrators, demands to board members --- all without hearing responses or making any progress to enrich their child's education.
Sometimes you have to retract the umbrella to find out what your kids are capable of. Last post, I defined “umbrella parents” as parents who have to do what it takes to get their child's needs served, even if it means looking like a 'smother mother' to other parents.
We defined tiger parents as those who practice positive and negative parenting strategies simultaneously. Tiger parents are engaging in some positive parenting behaviors; however, unlike supportive parents, tiger parents also scored high on negative parenting dimensions.
Snowplow Parenting
They do everything they can to remove the things that stand in their kids' way. Think of snowplow parents as micro-managers. They want the best for their kids. Therefore, they're different than helicopter parents. Helicopter parents may try to impede a child's freedom out of fear.
While the intention behind helicopter parenting is usually good — to keep children safe and help them succeed — the reality is that it can often do more harm than good. Studies have shown that helicopter parents are more likely to have children who suffer from anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.
Neglectful parenting is a style of parenting defined by a lack of parental interest or responsiveness to a child. These parents are similar to permissive indulgent parents in that they lack control of their children.
While helicopter parenting involves “hovering,” or keeping a close eye on a child's every move, lawnmower parenting typically involves more intervention. A lawnmower parent might: Complete homework or projects for their child. Email teachers to argue about grades.
For most of the cygnets' rearing, it was the mother that spent most time with them; taking them to places where they could find food and a keep a watch over them when they were resting. Dad's main role was to patrol their territory and protect his family.
Originally, the term “helicopter parenting” signals that the parent is among the Baby Boomers (i.e. born between 1940s to 1960s), and the children are members of the Millennial generation (born between 1980s to 2000s).
Helicopter parenting means being involved in a child's life in a way that is overcontrolling, overprotecting, and overperfecting.
Fosters Low Self-Esteem
Having a parent constantly watching over everything you do can make children feel like they can never do anything right. This could lead to self-esteem issues as they grow up if the helicopter parenting and micromanaging continue into the teenage years and early adulthood.
Butterfly parenting is also allowing your child to spread their own wings, even if it's in a different direction than you would have hoped for them.
A New York Times blog describes velcro parents as parents who cannot let go of their children. They are super-involved in their children's lives. The problem with this approach to parenting is that their children will take forever to learn how to cope with the tough decisions and situations which life puts in our path.
We define “parental-care parasitism” as an interaction in which an individual (the parasite) obtains reproductive benefits while reducing or completely eliminating the costs of parenting by exploiting any type of offspring care provided by other individuals (the hosts).