Helicopter Parenting Quotes

#1. We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.

Liane Moriarty

#2. I'm hardly the first to point out that middle-class America has a parenting problem. In hundreds of books and articles this problem has been painstakingly diagnosed, critiqued, and named: overparenting, hyperparenting, helicopter parenting, and, my personal favorite, the kindergarchy.

Pamela Druckerman

#3. Apparently-according to these posters, at least-only certain hairstyles are allowed to attend board meetings.

Nicola Yoon

#4. The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.

Heather Choate Davis

#5. When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.

Donald Glover

#6. I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

David Bowie

#7. Australia is all that and more, and Argentina, after yet another implosion of the civil order, is once again none of it and less.

Clive James

#8. The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.

Frank Lowy

#9. You're in my light and this is my special spot so go away.

Sarra Manning

#10. It feels like I've been lost in the desert for many years, and ... I've finally come home.

Rachel Morgan

#11. I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

Noel Gallagher

#12. If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

Edward R. Murrow

#13. I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

David Duchovny

#14. Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

Walter Savage Landor

#15. Both kinds of parenting, finally, are forms of overidentification. The helicopter parent turns the child into an instrument of her will. The overindulgent parent projects his own need for limitless freedom and security. In either case, the child is made to function as an extension of somebody else.

William Deresiewicz

#16. An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

Gavin Newsom

#17. The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6

Seneca.

#18. If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything in it ...

Rudyard Kipling