Examples of helicopter parent in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The beginning of the film shows Mei, voiced by Rosalie Chiang, living much of her life in Toronto, aligned with the path that helicopter parent Ming, voiced by Sandra Oh, had laid out for her. — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2022 Today, parents are very involved in what their kids read—the whole helicopter parent thing. — Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021 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 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 See More

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“Helicopter parent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/helicopter%20parent. Accessed 12 Aug. 2022.

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