The return of helicopter parents

[Victor Steinbok]

Yes, and I've pointed out this usage in TV show Royal Pains.

Hence "the return"

     VS-)

On 3/26/2012 6:27 PM, George Thompson wrote:
> I had only encountered this term fleetingly, and it seems that my notion of
> the meaning has been mistaken.  I had supposed that "helicopter parents"
> were so absorbed in their careers, their fitness classes and so forth that
> they left the raising of their children to nannies and others and only
> dropped in to the child's life for special events, zooming out again
> afterwards.
>
> GAT
>

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