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munication, cell phones often have
been called "the world's longest
umbilical cord."
Brown explains that when some
students don't know how to deal
with their conflicts, they simply
take out their phones and dial their
parents. With constant intervention,
is it any wonder that students are
struggling with their ability to solve
their own problems?
This "hovering" process begins
long before there is any distance
separating parents from their kids.
Bloomfield Hills Andover High
School counselor Lisa Acton
explains that there are some parents
who are very concerned about their
children and are very involved.
Acton says this involvement isn't a
negative thing; in fact, most of the
time, it is the students with involved
parents who succeed in school.
"Involvement is important,"
Acton explains, "but there is a line
you can cross where you become
over-involved."
Andover counselors Laura
Hollyer-Madis and Alicja Jahnke
agree that involvement can be posi-
tive, but that often parents cross the
over-involved line. These parents
are the ones who complete the col-
lege applications for their kids. They
select everything, including their
roommate, dorm rooms, meal plans
and classes.
"Students should be filling out
their own applications; parents
should not be filling them out for
them," Acton says.
According to Brown, helicopter
parents are not a recent phenom-
enon. However, they have become
more prevalent in the last five
to eight years. According to the
College Parents of America survey,
81 percent of parents say they are
more involved in the lives of their
college student than their parents
were with theirs.
"I think it's really annoying,"
explains Andover High School
sophomore Jessica Kepes. "After a
while, we only need our parents to
a certain extene
Acton says, "I have encountered
helicopter parents; they don't do
their kids any favors. Those kids
don't do well with someone rescu-
ing them all the time. You need to
experience setbacks early on; it's
going to happen in life."
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