In recent years, highly-involved parents have been negatively portrayed in social and popular media. Given the name “helicopter parents,” a phenomenon in which the mother and/or father has become over-involved in the life of their child, this form of parenting has been said to interfere with the success in students at the post-secondary age. Despite a parent’s best intentions to care for and love their child, helicopter parenting can be detrimental to a student’s ability to be self sufficient when left to their own devices, especially at the post-secondary level of schooling. This is because their ability to cope with life has been compromised by the over-protective and intrusiveness of their parents throughout their lives. The reason for
