How to Use helicopter parent in a Sentence

helicopter parent

noun

• 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
• June also has to deal with Aunt Lydia, who is a helicopter parent.
  — refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
• Today, parents are very involved in what their kids read—the whole helicopter parent thing.
  — Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
• Children ride bikes with no helicopter parents in sight.
  — Carol Pogash, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• Move over, helicopter parents and tiger moms — a whole new breed of terrifying moms and dads has arrived, just in time for the new school year: the lawn mower parent.
  — Janine Puhak, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• For example, when kids are young, being a helicopter parent might lead to fewer bumps and bruises.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 8 Apr. 2019
• Well, two-time Masters champ Bubba Watson has some good advice for all those helicopter parents: Back off.
  — Luke Kerr-Dineen, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2017
• 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
• Nothing the Carters said approached LaVar Ball-level outrageousness, but helicopter parents are best to avoid landing in the headlines.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
• 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
• Welcome to 2018, when people are living so long that baby boomers, the original helicopter parents, have helicopters of their own.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
• 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
• Amy is a mother who really wants the best for her son, and there’s that new term of parenting: The snowplow parent is the new helicopter parent, talking about parents who want to clear the path for their kids instead of preparing them for the path.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 31 July 2019
• Sorry, helicopter parents, but your fledgling college student could be cutting you loose.
  — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2018
• And while schools — college campuses, even — are rife with horror stories of helicopter parents, the damage from this overwrought behavior is particularly jaw-dropping on the courts and playing fields.
  — Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 2 Apr. 2018
• Sophie, the older and bolder of the two sisters, has recently recovered from a mysterious illness and lengthy hospital stay, leaving Claire to both hero-worship her older sibling and fret about her like a helicopter parent.
  — Christopher Healy, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• These were working architects and midcentury parents who were not helicopter parents.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
• His book gives us parents a bit of hope and more importantly, encouragement to play an active role in our children’s educations without becoming helicopter parents.
  — Teresa M. Pelham, courant.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Big Little Lies trafficked in its own cliches — helicopter parents playing schoolyard politics, the messy private lives of the obscenely rich — but its most satisfying moments involved women who saw, and supported, one another.
  — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
• Last week, a study published in the journal Developmental Psychology found that helicopter parents — those who hover over their children — can diminish their children’s ability to regulate emotions and behavior.
  — Elizabeth Chuck /, NBC News, 26 June 2018

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024