How to Use helicopter parent in a Sentence

helicopter parent

noun
  • Wade is aware of the critics who deem him a helicopter parent and contend the players should fight their own battle.
    Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • June also has to deal with Aunt Lydia, who is a helicopter parent.
    refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
  • Today, parents are very involved in what their kids read—the whole helicopter parent thing.
    Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Children ride bikes with no helicopter parents in sight.
    Carol Pogash, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Move over, helicopter parents and tiger moms — a whole new breed of terrifying moms and dads has arrived, just in time for the new school year: the lawn mower parent.
    Janine Puhak, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
  • For example, when kids are young, being a helicopter parent might lead to fewer bumps and bruises.
    Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 8 Apr. 2019
  • Well, two-time Masters champ Bubba Watson has some good advice for all those helicopter parents: Back off.
    Luke Kerr-Dineen, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The same goes for the millions of other helicopter parents and tiger moms who pay private-school tuition in hopes of getting their child into First Choice University.
    Andrew G. Biggs, National Review, 2 Dec. 2019
  • My mother, Nurse Vivian, had been a helicopter parent since Leonardo da Vinci designed the aerial screw.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Nothing the Carters said approached LaVar Ball-level outrageousness, but helicopter parents are best to avoid landing in the headlines.
    David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
  • And the proud human mamas and papas monitoring the 6-inch-long venomous snakes hover over the youngsters — though at a safe distance — like helicopter parents.
    Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Welcome to 2018, when people are living so long that baby boomers, the original helicopter parents, have helicopters of their own.
    Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
  • The mom of this local family is a helicopter parent extraordinaire who wants our kids to be friends and travel together.
    oregonlive, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Amy is a mother who really wants the best for her son, and there’s that new term of parenting: The snowplow parent is the new helicopter parent, talking about parents who want to clear the path for their kids instead of preparing them for the path.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 31 July 2019
  • Sorry, helicopter parents, but your fledgling college student could be cutting you loose.
    Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2018
  • And while schools — college campuses, even — are rife with horror stories of helicopter parents, the damage from this overwrought behavior is particularly jaw-dropping on the courts and playing fields.
    Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Sophie, the older and bolder of the two sisters, has recently recovered from a mysterious illness and lengthy hospital stay, leaving Claire to both hero-worship her older sibling and fret about her like a helicopter parent.
    Christopher Healy, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • These were working architects and midcentury parents who were not helicopter parents.
    Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
  • His book gives us parents a bit of hope and more importantly, encouragement to play an active role in our children’s educations without becoming helicopter parents.
    Teresa M. Pelham, courant.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Big Little Lies trafficked in its own cliches — helicopter parents playing schoolyard politics, the messy private lives of the obscenely rich — but its most satisfying moments involved women who saw, and supported, one another.
    Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
  • Last week, a study published in the journal Developmental Psychology found that helicopter parents — those who hover over their children — can diminish their children’s ability to regulate emotions and behavior.
    Elizabeth Chuck /, NBC News, 26 June 2018

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