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Helicopters, Lawn Mowers or Down-to-Earth Parents? What Works Best for Higher Education
by Karen Gross
August 25, 2011
Many faculty and staff working in higher education lament the increasing—some would say unending—involvement of the parents of our college-aged students. We denigrate such individuals as “helicopter” parents, and when the contact occurs in person as opposed to through the phone or email, we call them “lawn mower” parents. There’s even a Wikipedia reference to ...
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