Tag: helicopter parenting

James Breakwell, Twitter celebrity, Indiana father of four daughters, and author of Bare Minimum Parenting – The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child, discusses raising children in today’s world. He and Bridget cover “drone parenting”, screen time and social media, keeping your perspective on parenting and ignoring the shamers, and why wanting your kid to go to Harvard is basically a euphemism for wanting them to make the most money. They also discuss treating Twitter like a job, how “overnight success” is really the result of at least ten years of slogging, and why saying “let’s cut parents some slack,” is a radical message in this day and age, but it shouldn’t be. You can find James on Twitter @XplodingUnicorn.

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The podcast’s back with something new. There’s a horror movie atop the American box office; it’s made more than $100 million. What’s rarer still is that it’s for adults. Rarest of all, it dramatizes American middle class parents’ terror of the uncertainty surrounding their kids’ lives and futures. John Krasinski stars and also directed this remarkable success; Scott Beck and Bryan Woods wrote the screenplay (with him) and produced; and Emily Blunt gives the kind of performance that wins Oscars, if the Academy had any judgment. So my friend Pete and I are here to show how the movie reflects on American society and the good that art can do, if but people pay attention to it!

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Much has been written in the past week or so about the shrieking, militant Special Snowflakes at Yale and Mizzou. Many have placed the blame for their obnoxious behavior on today’s “helicopter parenting” – and that’s certainly a big part of it. Still, this stuff is taking place at universities, which at least market themselves […]

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Assuming this isn’t a hoax (and one must be careful about such things on the internet, right, feminists?), some overprotective mother is demanding the rest of the neighborhood change Halloween in order to accommodate her special snowflake. Preview Open

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