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How to Cripple Your Kids

Guest post by: Dan Miller

Article Overview: We've been hearing more about “helicopter parents” in the last few years. Is this just a healthy concern for the well-being of our children? Can we help them be excellent by giving them all our time, advice and resources? Well, unfortunately it’s pretty easy to show that students with helicopter parents tended to be “less open to new ideas and actions, as well as more vulnerable, anxious and self-consciousness, among other factors, compared with their counterparts with more distant parents.

How to Cripple Your Kids

A Chinese university has set up a dormitory for overprotective parents. The University in Wuhan, in Hubei province, now has so many anxious parents hanging around that university authorities have been forced to convert their sports hall to allow them to sleep on the floor. A university spokesman said: “They often can't accept that their children have now left home and come to university. Sometimes they move to the local area for months offering to cook and clean for their children - and keep an eye on them. We decided to act after finding some of the parents arranged to sleep in their children's dormitory with them, which of course is unacceptable. We now give them a blanket and a place to wash and eat free of charge.”

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