The Seven Myths of Helicopter Parenting

7. This conversation is boring. In the little echo chamber of media, we have heard enough about bourgeois parents overparenting their kids to last 13 lifetimes. You may feel this way, and I honestly sympathize, but the problem persists. Judging from all the books desperately reaching for other ways to parent (Chinese? French?) along with the recent anguished works of elaborate critique, we may be reaching a tipping point, one of those interesting moments of self-reflection in which people actually look at what they are doing and try to change it, or more cynically, in which fashions change. Madeline Levine?s pleasingly sensible and practical book occasionally dips into the melodramatic, apocalyptic tone of popular cultural critiques?like the The Lonely Crowd, The Feminine Mystique, and The Culture of Narcissism?with its discussion, for instance, of a ?culturally normalized form of child abuse,? but she is not in this particular case overplaying her hand. The image Warner cites from Levine?s first book, The Price of Privilege, of a girl from a wealthy family, successful in all the right ways, personable, high-achieving, but with the word ?empty? carved into her forearm, continues to haunt. Or put another way: ?Our kids need more than four years between crossing a street and putting on a condom.?

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