Analytical Summary How Helicopter Parents Are Ruining...

Analytical Summary: â€Å"How helicopter parents are ruining college students† In Amy Joyce’s On Parenting article, â€Å"How helicopter parents are ruining college students† posted on September 2, 2014, Joyce addresses the issue with parents who controls their college student’s life to the public. Amy’s exigence is from an article recently published in the journal Education + Training found that there is an important line to draw between parental involvement and over-parenting. Joyce got information from the President of Frostburg State University, Jonathan Gibralter, who has had parents call him at his office to talk about a squabble their child is having with a roommate, â€Å"Don’t you trust your child to deal with this on his own?† he asks. â€Å"Rather than telling a son or daughter to talk to a [resident assistant] or [resident director], parents will immediately call my office. And that I consider to be a little over the top.† (Joyce) Kids who raised by parents who choose everything they have wanted and even dictated their every move. Recognizing the idea of â€Å"overbearing parents,† Gibralter relived the idea stated above, â€Å"when I was going to college in 1975†¦. My mother helped me unload into the dorm room put a note on the door saying this is the way we wash our clothes,† Gibralter said. â€Å"I didn’t find out until years later that she cried all the way home because she realized I was going to be independent.† (Joyce) Some may believe â€Å"helicoptering† is a good thing, but in all reality, itShow MoreRelatedMarketing Mistakes and Successes175322 Words   |  702 Pageswould be so enduring? Many of you are past users, a few even for decades. I hope you will find this new edition a worthy successor to earlier editions. I think this may even be my best book. The new Google and Starbucks cases should arouse keen student interest, and may even inspire another generation of entrepreneurs. A fair number of the older cases have faced significant changes in the last few years, for better or for worse, and these we have captured to add to learning insights. After so