Helicopter parents swooping to the rescue
This created a vacuum of parental authority. Nature abhors a vacuum. Without realizing it, parents have become chauffeurs and concierges for a generation of children that bounces from Game Boys to soccer practice to Nintendo and in the process came to assume that life owes them a good time.
With things so far out of whack, is it any wonder so many children struggle to trust and are looking for community – a place to belong and recover a sense of safety they never had growing up? The irony is that they test the fences around them so much in part to validate that they can be trusted. When parents give into their kids, the kids actually feel less, not more, secure.
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Hi! I am starting to read the book Red Letters from the promotion on Tom’s blog. I posted my first reflection on http://www.tracirowe.blogspot.com.
Thanks!
ps. I wasn’t sure where I was supposed to comment, so if you would like to redirect me, please do!
AMEN!
I so agree, Seth – thanks!
you nailed it my brother, brilliant, this is the subject of my third book… already have the outline,
love you,
L
Your entry is merely an overview. I’m wondering what specific advice you have for fathers? Can you give us any “tools for the toolbox”?
Thanks.
ok, i’ll get on it for you, Mark. gimme some time – i’m in a busy season now.