Helicopter Parents Now Show Up At Childrens' Job Interviews
spork:
Not a CHE article, but . . .
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/06/146464665/helicopter-parents-hover-in-the-workplace
If I was an employer, and encountered this stuff, Johnny and Kaitlyn would never be hired. And I'd tell them and their parents why. There are plenty of people coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan I could hire instead.
geonerd:
This doesn't surprise me in the least, unfortunately. I've had heliparents show up to graduate admissions interviews and heliparents who inserted themselves into graduate student's grade appeal. One of them made a comment to the effect of "Professors probably don't have many opportunities to discuss these things with parents." Ummm...no. That's because we're supposed to be teaching adults, and FERPA agrees.
chaosbydesign:
Some of the things in that article make me want to run away screaming in search of the real world, because I'm clearly not in it any more.
"Take Your Parent to Work" day? "You don't want to block the energy of the parent"?
Seriously?
Parents need to learn to let their adult children be, you know, adults.
aandsdean:
I am catching some hints of this kind of thing from a few candidates here. It's going to be a long 20 years.
collegekidsmom:
I wonder how it must feel to be a parent and feel that you cannot let your adult child go to a job interview alone. I wonder what's wrong with any young person that they wouldn't feel ridiculous having their mother at the job interview. I wonder what a parent is feeling as they head to the job or grad school interview. I wonder if there is any boundary there-or if everyone is just so enmeshed with each other-that it becomes "our" experience. I guess as long as the behavior is tolerated or encouraged by employers or schools that it will just become more common.
I heard a mother on a TV interview show the other day tell her daughter that she just wanted her to be happy every single minute of every single day. That's the goal of at least one parent.
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