Helicopter parenting (a parent’s over-involvement in their child’s life) can be driven by many factors, including societal pressure to ensure academic and extracurricular success, and the rapid evolution of technology that allows for non-stop monitoring and communication.
But it can backfire. In reality, the practice often limits the kid’s opportunities to build resilience, learn problem-solving skills, and become independent, placing additional burdens on their shoulders to carry into the future.
To show you how all of this manifests, we put together a collection of posts about parents who can’t stop micromanaging their children’s lives. Continue scrolling to check them out and don’t miss the chat we had with Bored Panda’s parenting expert and award-winning TV broadcaster and author, Vicki Broadbent.
#1 Man Elegantly Destroys Helicopter Parent
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#2 I Synced My Calendar With My Mum And Forgot I Have My Birth Control Implant Replacement Date Marked 3 Years From Now. She Saw It And Texted Me This While I Was At Work. I’m 20
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#3 There Is A Shooter Somewhere On Campus But My Mom Is More Concerned With Me Missing My Lab Practical
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#4 Ladies And Gentlemen, My Mother After I Disabled Tracking Location App On My Phone, I Am 21 Years Old
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#5 I’ve Been At College For One Day. He Dropped Me Off Yesterday. It’s Orientation Week
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#6 So Proud Of Myself
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#7 Idk If This Counts As Insane, But Still An Invasion Of Privacy (For Context I Hand My Phone In To My Mum At 8:30 And That Is Why She Had It)
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#8 My Mom Thinks If I Take My Dogs Outside To Pee When It’s Dark That I Will Die/Be Murdered/Abducted. 5 Mins Before Sunset I’m Perfectly Safe Though. Note To Add, I’m 25 And Have Lived 400 Miles From Home For 8 Years. Didn’t Take My Dogs Out Until 11:30 So Suck On That Mom
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#9 They Hid This To See What I Was Eating And Seeing If I Was Up Late. Im 19 Btw
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#10 My Sister’s Twitter Account…. She’s 23yo And My Mom Still Does This
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#11 Getting Tracked At 20 By My Antivaxx Conspiracy Theory Mom. Finally Convinced Her To Delete The Tracking App Though
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#12 I Need More Opinions. I’m 22 F Living On My Own And My Parents Still Want To Have Control On What I Buy. It Is Not Making Me Any More Frugal When She Yells At Me For Spending Too Much
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#13 Nothing Major. She Just Wanted To Know Why I Didn’t Return Her Text That Was Sent 5 Minutes Before The First Call
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#14 I’m 18nb And My Mom Sent Me Out To Get A Table And Chairs For Her. I Was Gone For 20 Mins And Didn’t Respond To Her Calls. This Is The Result. I Have To Laugh
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#15 I Pity Those With Helicopter Parents
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#16 My Lovely Mother
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#17 I’m 22
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#18 I’m Going To An Iron Maiden Concert. I’m Also Almost 30
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#19 Am I Crazy Or Is This Toxic !? I Am 18 In Highschool And My Mother Threatens Not Sending Me To College If I Don’t Spend Time With Her
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#20 There’s A Word For Not Allowing Your Kids To Socialize Outside The Family. Starts With Letter G
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#21 Someone Who I Know Received This From Her Dad. Context In The Comments
She doesn’t like being financially dependent on her parents at Uni and so wants to get a loan and a job and supply for herself. She is also about to visit her parents and wants to also see her boyfriend when she is down. They live 6 hours away and it costs £100 for the train and they are both so busy they’ve only seen eachother once since being at Uni. Her parents won’t let her and say that she has to spend the entirety of her reading week with them and is disgusting for wanting to be away from them. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened.
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#22 Girlfriend’s Mother
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#23 I’m A Turkey Because I Don’t Want To Download An App So My Mom Can Track Me
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#24 I Just Have No Words For How Bats**t This Lady Is
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#25 Yes Karen, You Are A Helicopter Mom
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#26 2nd Post From Karen Infiltration
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#27 Text That My Narcissistic Step-Dad Sent His 16 Year Old Daughter (My Sister) The Blanked Out Name Is Me. He Posted This Screenshot On Instagram Bragging About His Great “Parenting Skills”
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#28 Went To Visit My Boyfriend For The Weekend And My Mom Decided To Text Me This While I Was Sleeping, Im An Adult Btw
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#29 I Am 22 Years Old, Living On My Own With My Husband, And My Dad Still Trys To Control What I Do
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#30 This Is My Mother Who’s Gone Back To College
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