Berto has been chronicling the Globe's recent obsession with helicopter parents - you know, parents who get too involved in their kids' lives at college (yes, because that NEVER happened when I was in college).
The Globe hovers over the issue again today, with a column by Barbara Meltz on why helicopter parents need to back off.
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I'm pretty sure they recycle
By karriew
Mon, 09/04/2006 - 4:05pm
I'm pretty sure they recycle this every year. I swear I've read the same article many times in the past.
I'm interested in another
By georgia
Mon, 09/04/2006 - 7:33pm
I'm interested in another story about college students moving into the city in the fall. Who would've thought that there would be a stampede of students into the boston area...
Don't tempt me
By adamg
Mon, 09/04/2006 - 8:55pm
I *almost* linked to some guy's extensive Flickr collection of photos of his daughter's new dorm room at BU.
Ugh
By eeka
Tue, 09/05/2006 - 10:02am
What do you call the kids who actively use the helicopter parenting for their benefit? Are they, like, uh, signal mirrors? Landing pads?
The most obnoxious kids in college were the ones who had the same name as a building on campus. You just KNEW that if you didn't cast them in your play or let them decide how student body money was going to be spent, they'd have their parents calling a dean and reminding the dean of the millions of dollars their family had given the college. There were even kids who'd have their parents call about crap like (harmless) rowdiness in the residences that was keeping their precious child from studying on Saturday night. The college usually had a pretty strict policy of regarding parents of over-18 students as being basically strangers who had no business calling the college, but dude, if it was a family who gave millions to the college, they'd, uh, sneak around the policy a little. Ew.
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