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re: Helicopter Parenting
Posted on 8/19/24 at 7:55 am to GreenRockTiger
Posted on 8/19/24 at 7:55 am to GreenRockTiger
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how do you know kids aren’t doing this? And to be honest - there are a lot of drugs at the high schools
I know several kids that are my oldest child’s age that were kicked out of various high schools for drugs maybe their parents are trying to keep them safe.
Teens are going to have access to drugs and are going to be tempted. The vast majority manage to navigate the hazards on their own without any input from their parents and are better people for it. I have told both of our kids that they are going to have the opportunity and may even try drugs and alcohol....and it is not an issue as long as they do not let it become one....and that it is all on them to keep it from becoming one. Neither has had an issue. Our son is 25 and our daughter is 14. We weren't there 24-7 because its not possible nor is it healthy....our son is a productive member of society and our daughter is an honor student who is completely consumed with band and becoming a nurse. She may well become a junkie, its doubtful she will because she has parents and an older brother who are there for her and she knows they trust her to make good decisions most of the time. Life is risky, you can not keep a kid under survillance at all times...trying to do so is unhealthy
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Posted on 8/19/24 at 8:25 am to GreenRockTiger
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I know several kids that are my oldest child’s age that were kicked out of various high schools for drugs
jesus, what the hell kind of community do you live in where you know several children who have been expelled?
Posted on 8/19/24 at 9:01 am to Psych23
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You're raising pussies
yall are stupid AF with this shite
nobody wants to go to HS drenched in sweat trying to impress girls.
yall live in a different universe if you think you wanted to do that growing up. fine for elementary, even middle school but showing up to HS sweating and drenched and smelling all day sucks for the kid and he will be made fun of
and why do yall worry so much about how others parent?
yall complain about Karens but are completely Karens. Yall may not helicopter parent but yall sit on here and worry about how others parent, how they spend their money and just overall act like gossiping fricking females all day and are negative AF about everything
Posted on 8/19/24 at 9:03 am to Hobie101
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My daughter is 10 and I let her ride her bike 3/4 mile to school.
Context is key for a situation like this.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 10:11 am to andouille
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What also strikes me as crazy is that the reason many parents give is not about crime, it's about street safety. They don't think their high schoolers have to ability to look both ways and cross a street. It seems that if you are in HS and you don't know how to cross a street safely, what happens when they go to college in a real city?
This is absolutely true. Parents are losing their shite in Cy Fair because their high school or middle school student could potentially walk near a big road.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 10:15 am to xBirdx
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It’s hot asf outside- not a good look to have your clothes and hair drenched in sweat going to school. Not comfortable either.
In high school we had to go in before school started to for gym/workouts. Then practice after school. There were no showers.
Those kids are sweating at some point throughout the day whether they try and avoid it or not.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 10:19 am to andouille
I have no problem with car lines that don't impede traffic. My son's current school has a great setup. There's a shoulder and if the line gets too long, there's also a shoulder on the perpendicular street that takes a right onto his schools street. You are only allowed to line up from that directoin Does not impede flow through traffic.
The middle school near my house has no rules and has a bridge with no shoulder on one side and a relatively major intersection on the other. Cars just park in the middle of the road. The road is shut down for 45 minutes every day. And the other parents who can't fit anymore pull into my neighborhood and block our exit. Can these kids not just ride the bus?
The middle school near my house has no rules and has a bridge with no shoulder on one side and a relatively major intersection on the other. Cars just park in the middle of the road. The road is shut down for 45 minutes every day. And the other parents who can't fit anymore pull into my neighborhood and block our exit. Can these kids not just ride the bus?
Posted on 8/19/24 at 10:20 am to X123F45
quote:well they are 18 before mom quits cutting their sandwiches in little shapes.
Have you met the average high schooler? I thought we were retarded....
Posted on 8/19/24 at 10:24 am to andouille
my generation of millenials is hilarious to watch parent. They can’t leave these kids be for much free time, everything is highly structured. I can see why dumb shite like “uncrustables” are wildly popular. Mom is too busy supervising to make a PBJ.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 10:32 am to The Third Leg
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my generation of millenials is hilarious to watch parent. They can’t leave these kids be for much free time, everything is highly structured.
Good friend of mine who basically smothered her daughter is now paying the price. The girl went to Southeastern last year and was on her own for the first time and managed to party her way to a 1.6 GPA and loss of TOPS. It shocked none of us in the friend group that this happened.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 10:41 am to lsu777
quote:how sweaty are you gonna get walking to school for five minutes at 7:00 AM.
yall live in a different universe if you think you wanted to do that growing up. fine for elementary, even middle school but showing up to HS sweating and drenched and smelling all day sucks for the kid and he will be made fun of
Hell my kid goes in at 6:30 for first hour lifting and running. Most days all he has time for is deodorant and some of those disposable washcloth wipe downs. He is in peak stink season, but I notice nothing
Posted on 8/19/24 at 12:05 pm to tigerfoot
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how sweaty are you gonna get walking to school for five minutes at 7:00 AM.
Hell my kid goes in at 6:30 for first hour lifting and running. Most days all he has time for is deodorant and some of those disposable washcloth wipe downs. He is in peak stink season, but I notice nothing
enough but for most its a lot more than 5 min.
and your kid doesnt shower after lifting before school? you might not notice anything but your kid is the stinky kid they make fun of
Posted on 8/19/24 at 12:09 pm to lsu777
You must have been fun of a lot in high school for your stinkiness.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 12:09 pm to Evil Little Thing
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Some schools don’t allow walkers, period. I know Prairieville Middle doesn’t allow walkers even if your house borders the school. So dumb.
???? What would they do if a kid walked to school (god forbid)
Posted on 8/19/24 at 12:10 pm to chalmetteowl
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???? What would they do if a kid walked to school (god forbid)
send them to Chalmette High for thunderdome
This post was edited on 8/19/24 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 8/19/24 at 12:21 pm to gaetti15
I have a cousin in BR whose daughter is an incoming freshman at another SEC school. They drove eight hours to her sorority bid day after driving eight hours the week before to move her into her dorm.
Posted on 8/19/24 at 12:23 pm to lsu777
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lsu777
If I couldn't find a buddy to ride with me and my brother walked to high school until our senior year when I bought vehicle. You are making it sounds a lot worse than it is broseph
Posted on 8/19/24 at 12:28 pm to andouille
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But you got acclimated to it, the same as the kids at football practice. Made you tougher and more fit.
Kids handle that stuff better than us older folks. We need to realize that. We project a lot of stuff as parents. If I'm burning up outside (Im 51 and get hot super easy anyway), I think my 21 year old son is burning up too. I could be drenched in sweat, and he hasn't even broken sweat yet. He is younger and handles it much better than I do.
When I was 14-18, I played tennis a bit competitively as well as other sports. I bring up tennis because I played in Alabama on 120F tennis courts in mid summer. I could handle it back when I was a teenager, but never again..
We parents project. It happens. It's what we do.
This post was edited on 8/19/24 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 8/19/24 at 12:40 pm to LSUGrad9295
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Good friend of mine who basically smothered her daughter is now paying the price. The girl went to Southeastern last year and was on her own for the first time and managed to party her way to a 1.6 GPA and loss of TOPS. It shocked none of us in the friend group that this happened.
new phenomena for sure
Posted on 8/19/24 at 12:45 pm to lsu777
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You're raising pussies
yall are stupid AF with this shite
nobody wants to go to HS drenched in sweat trying to impress girls.
yall live in a different universe if you think you wanted to do that growing up. fine for elementary, even middle school but showing up to HS sweating and drenched and smelling all day sucks for the kid and he will be made fun of
and why do yall worry so much about how others parent?
It's pretty easy to come up with real examples of "helicopter parenting."
Simply driving a kid to school is not really one.
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