Exploring the phenomenon of helicopter parenting in college, this chapter discusses an article that highlights parent groups on social media platforms, where parents micromanage their children's college experiences. The chapter provides insights into the different types of people in these groups and the growing trend of helicopter parenting extending into the college years.
On this edition of Weekend Conversations, host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan have a wide-ranging conversation on how parenting approaches have continued to evolve in the past decade, as parents stay heavily involved in their kids lives well into their college lives--and beyond. Robert shares a parallel between this parenting approach and the widely critiqued leadership approach of micromanagement, and how to help the people you lead grow by letting them fail from time to time.
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