-at least I provided a source. You basically went, “nah” and acted like that was gospel. I might take your word for it if it weren’t for all the other batshit takes you have here
........ I already had to deal with one obnoxious troll in the Black Panther 2 thread, you’re not at troll level yet but kind of pushing it, and the holiday season is not a good time of year to test my patience with clown shenanigans.
Sigh.
Go back and watch a lot of older kids films. Not films that could sorta be shown to kids, but actual KIDS films.
See how they skirt, dance, and weave around actually showing or committing to a single controversial/distressing thing. Go watch "Fox and the Hound" and see how many modern spins you could put on it or just see it as a tale of a fox and a hound learning to like each other. There used to be some basic ground rules for how a KIDS show worked.
Question for you, do you have kids that you are actively raising? 'Cause you sound like someone speaking without actual daily practice. Guarding what they see, particularly when young, is an almost constant chore if they have access to the internet or streaming TV.
As for the wiki statement about helicopter parenting relating to educational institutions, here is what the source for that sentence ACTUALLY says:
Helicopter parenting and other overprotective intrusive methods of parenting are doing more harm than good for the childs future.
healthylivingmagazine.us
Over-parenting translates into parents acting as the frontal lobe for the child—examples include maneuvering to get the ‘right’ teacher, hovering over social interactions, directing play, deciding when their children should pull the plug on a social relationship or initiate a new one, overly checking assignments and grades, controlling extracurricular activities.
As you can read, the source itself is just from a layman magazine by a clinical psychologist blogger, not even an academic. AND it specifies the over-reach of a parent in schools, a far cry from "knowing what is being taught to your kids". THIS is why wiki is a dangerous source to "quote".
Or you could look at wiktionary, where it is summarized as:
Etymology[edit]
From the tendency to
hover over their children's lives, like a
helicopter.
helicopter parent (
plural helicopter parents)
- A parent who pays an inordinate amount of attention to their children and often makes decisions, particularly educational ones, normally the province of the student.
Again, INORDINATE amount, not ANY amount of attention. And if you follow THAT source, the Boston Globe, you get this:
Some parents are writing their college-age kids' resumes. Others are acting as their children's "representatives," hounding college career counselors, showing up at job fairs and sometimes going as far as calling employers to ask why their son or daughter didn't get a job.
It's the next phase in helicopter parenting, a term coined for those who have hovered over their children's lives from kindergarten to college. Now they are inserting themselves into their kids' job search -- and school officials and employers say it's a problem that may be hampering some young people's careers.
You can see where the over-reach comes from. Its removing decision making from a kid, not gating what they actually learn AT ALL, particularly when young.
Shall we continue to thrown references at each other?
