Helicopter Parenting

"Helicopter Parent"...is'nt it strange word?

Just came to know the meaning. If the meaning is what it is then every parent (ok..more or less with some exceptions) in India is a Helicopter parent.

I definitely don't think pushing kids in education, doing home works will really help them much. I am not as great as Gandhi but I always want to experiment from my childhood experiences (or read failures).

The major reason why I did not like Math is the rigid rules and serious faces around me when I start studying. When a question is asked I am not sure whether to think for the answer or worry about the hand which is about to hit me.

Until then we are all jovial then why it comes to learning time we tent to be more stricter and serious.

It is difficult to retain kids concentration. But doesn't mean you shd not try.We should explore different ways to make them get that "zing thing". Remember the best subjects we studied, remember the best results we got were when we are given space to study and we have to figure out things ourselves. We should encourage them to figure it themselves. We should create a environment where they can think. We should encourage them to ask questions. The day the kid stops asking questions then his intellectual curiosity is dead. He is just following your orders.

If pushing helps then every kid would have been a Ivy League graduate. But is it happening.Sometime later down the line, they rebel. They are confused and lose whole interest of lot of possible things they are good and can pursue great careers.

Surprised to see even western families are blindly embracing the 'Asian' approach, which I think is not correct.

The other day, I heard Hillary Clinton saying in India that in developing countries parents try to protect kids from making mistakes and try to give all inputs to their kids so that they shd never err.

But in Western countries parents give kids right environment and allow kids to learn from their own mistakes.

Sound interesting? I am not sure which one is better? If it is proved that it is latter then do we, parents, allow kids to learn from their own mistakes.
Forget "learning from mistakes"we won't even make them "think what is mistake"!!