You’ve heard of helicopter parents and tiger moms- we’re talking about a more balanced alternative, lighthouse parenting. Dr.

Helicopter parenting rarely starts with a single overprotective decision. It usually grows out of specific fears, histories, and personality traits that quietly nudge you toward hovering over every ...

Throughout recent decades, society has seen all kinds of parenting styles—from free-range parenting to the Dr. Phil-led commando parenting of the early 2000s. Nowadays, millennials are leaning into a ...

Helicopter parenting is another term for over-parenting, which has become the norm for so many of us. Over-parenting is a problem because it means that parents interfere with normal child development ...

Julie Lythcott-Haims, a former Stanford University Dean, explains her theory. — -- Being a parent can be tricky. Some parents are too relaxed, and some too overbearing. But some are helicopters, ...

They’ve packed the car and moved their kids into their dorm. But some college parents aren’t ready to let go, and Facebook is where it all plays out. One parent wanted to email their child’s ...

We're told that parents who hover too much, who monitor and get overinvolved with their children's lives are setting them up for failure. A recent study from McGill University found that children of ...

MINOT — I've been a dad for going on 25 years, and not once during that time have I been afraid to leave my children alone with a medical professional. Admittedly, the need for this hasn't come up ...

For a while there, Gen X parents were barely part of the parenting conversation. We weren’t hosting parenting podcasts. We weren’t going viral on TikTok for Bento box ideas. We were just… quietly ...