Comments on: Helicopters-R-Us http://beardediris.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/helicopters-r-us/ A Recalcitrant Wife and Mother Tells All Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:01:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: KC http://beardediris.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/helicopters-r-us/#comment-463 KC Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:19:04 +0000 http://beardediris.wordpress.com/?p=1419#comment-463 Bearded one, I'm really sad to hear your daughter is having a hard time at school. School should be a place of safety and every child should be made to feel they have their own unique contribution to make. I was taught in my primary years living in Canberra, Australia, by American nuns - yep - American nuns if that's not an oxymoron. Oh - hang on a minute, I forgot about Sally Field and the flying nun... Anyway I digress. My mother told me years later that the nuns fixed it so that every child....EVERY CHILD....went home with a ribbon on sports days. Those nuns were set on ensuring every child in their school had high self-esteem and self-worth. And that is how it should be. So you helicopter away and keep in mind that organic fresh baked goods can harden quite nicely if left out overnight. They then become perfect missiles for sorting out recalcitrant bureaucrats. Yeah baked goods or shoes...but maybe not the leopard print heels...they look too much like real weaponry... Bearded one, I’m really sad to hear your daughter is having a hard time at school. School should be a place of safety and every child should be made to feel they have their own unique contribution to make. I was taught in my primary years living in Canberra, Australia, by American nuns – yep – American nuns if that’s not an oxymoron. Oh – hang on a minute, I forgot about Sally Field and the flying nun… Anyway I digress.

My mother told me years later that the nuns fixed it so that every child….EVERY CHILD….went home with a ribbon on sports days. Those nuns were set on ensuring every child in their school had high self-esteem and self-worth. And that is how it should be.

So you helicopter away and keep in mind that organic fresh baked goods can harden quite nicely if left out overnight. They then become perfect missiles for sorting out recalcitrant bureaucrats. Yeah baked goods or shoes…but maybe not the leopard print heels…they look too much like real weaponry…

]]> By: Not Drowning Mother http://beardediris.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/helicopters-r-us/#comment-461 Not Drowning Mother Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:51:26 +0000 http://beardediris.wordpress.com/?p=1419#comment-461 Can I call on you to come in to bat for me from time to time? I think you would be a good person to have on my team... Can I call on you to come in to bat for me from time to time? I think you would be a good person to have on my team…

]]> By: Carol aka cray http://beardediris.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/helicopters-r-us/#comment-460 Carol aka cray Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:31:07 +0000 http://beardediris.wordpress.com/?p=1419#comment-460 Properly done helicopter parenting should be at its strongest in the primary years and gradually decrease to zero by the time college rolls around. BUT I have seen it with my own eyes at the college level, and it is NOT pretty. For now, have at it. Ain't nobody responsible for your child cept YOU! Properly done helicopter parenting should be at its strongest in the primary years and gradually decrease to zero by the time college rolls around. BUT I have seen it with my own eyes at the college level, and it is NOT pretty. For now, have at it. Ain’t nobody responsible for your child cept YOU!

]]> By: Mother Loaded http://beardediris.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/helicopters-r-us/#comment-459 Mother Loaded Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:43:20 +0000 http://beardediris.wordpress.com/?p=1419#comment-459 love it!!!!! More power to ya sistah!!! I am mama hear me roar!!!!!!!!! love it!!!!! More power to ya sistah!!! I am mama hear me roar!!!!!!!!!

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