Helicopter parent — Haim Ginott

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The origin of the term 'helicopter parent' is with Haim Ginott's book Between Parent & Teenager (1969), in which Dr. Ginott describes an overbearing mom and her frustrated teenage son:

Says Leonard's mother: "I worry about my son. He does not take care of himself. He has always been a sickly child."

Says Leonard, age sixteen: "My mother likes to play doctor, and she makes me sick. Tired as she may be, if she hears me cough or clean my nose, she turns into a long-distance runner. If I sneeze in the basement, she comes running from the attic:

"'God bless you son.'

"'What's the matter, have you caught a cold?'

"'You don't take care of yourself.'

"'You shouldn't stay out so late.'

"Mother hovers over me like a helicopter and I'm fed up with her noise and hot air. I think I'm entitled to sneeze without an explanation."