What is the problem of the 'lawn mower Parenz' trying to solve all the hardships standing in front of children?

In the United States and Canada, parents are said to be increasingly called "Helicopter Parent (helicopter parents)" who interfere excessively with children even if they grow up as social workers and intervene in all children's speech. In recent years, it has been reported that the concept of 'Lawnmower Parent' (Lawn mower Parents), which developed further from here, is born.

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"Helicopter parents" are "parents who want to put their children under their control", and they ridiculed for overprotection that they "fly around on their children and watch their actions" It is a name. Even when a child thinks and can choose it by herself, the parents who can not be separated can restrict the behavior of children, so that children develop spiritual and social growth delay, and even in the United States and Canada, social problems Has become.

by Greg Williams

And the word "lawn mower Parenzu" which advanced one step further from this "helicopter parents" appeared. The "lawn mower" contains a meaning to deride (or yuki) the behavior of an overprotective parent that "everything will be harvested before the child enters his troubles (grass)."

by Jeff Wandasiewicz

As an example of such a "lawn mower Parenz", anonymous posting to the educational information site " WeAreTeachers.com " in the United States became a hot topic.

A poster who works as a teacher said that there was a call by phone when there was something I wanted to pass from the guardian of the student in charge. While thinking that "Is there an inhaler for asthma or unpaid meals?", The contributor headed to the office. Then the parents who wore themselves in business suits gave out a pretty exquisite water bottle for children to have, "I sent a mail saying" I want a bottle of water "for my child. I reply that there is no drinking place at school, "but I thought that it may have been that the child could not get back to it."

To a guardian who wants to give a bottle of water to a child until calling the school, the author posted "I'm a teenager, is not she? Really serious? I also love the same things "and said that they showed adult correspondence. Still, the author seems to have appealed to the guardian, "Are you saying it seriously?"

The contributor said, "It is not necessarily happier for children to have experience with minimal hardships," children of generations that they are educating face when suffering He points out that he will become an adult who can not think what to do, panic or shut down with a little mistake.

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Also, Karen Funcher, associate professor at Duquesne University School of Pharmacology, talks about "Lawn mower Parents" who came to university with her daughter and complained about the schedule of classes on her own blog . Associate Professor FunChar has a permanent negative impact on the growth of children because children can not accomplish things themselves in the "mower type" child rearing style where parents solve all the problems of their children I warn you.

Mr. Hannah Hudson, editor-in-chief of WeAreTeachers.com, also said, "Parents requesting teachers to pick up and take me to school so that children who become high school students will not be late for class, Parents requesting by e-mail "I want someone to blow and breathe in with the breath, because the lunch at the cafeteria is too hot to eat the children" Although "Although the child is already old enough to process by the child, Parents requesting by telephone so that we can schedule a re-test in order to do "as a part of the episode of the" lawn mower Parenz "posted.

Mr. Hudson said that it is very difficult to determine the difference between "legitimate help for children" and "overprotection like a lawn mower", "Parents' willingness to help children succeed is praised The problem is that parents' efforts to eliminate all hardships standing in front of children result in lack of experience in children and inevitably ruin their children's lives. " It is.