Examples of helicopter parent in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Children ride bikes with no helicopter parents in sight. — Carol Pogash, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020 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 Work as family and the original helicopter parents. — S. Mitra Kalita For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 2 Feb. 2020 For this group, there is only one way to do it: Imitate us, the people who are the helicopter parents, whose parents were professionals, whose presidential candidates are Rhodes scholars or presidents of the Harvard Law Review. — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2020 According to Amaker, Mo Lewis is no helicopter parent. — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2019 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

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“Helicopter parent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/helicopter%20parent. Accessed 13 Jun. 2021.

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