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Are You A Helicopter Parent?

Hélli kòpter páirent:  A parent who, in spite of best intentions, ‘hovers’, sometimes hindering the social and academic progress of a student.

Take this fun, short quiz to help you figure out when you’re being attentive and when you’re taking it too far……!

  1. How often do you communicate with your student via phone or e-mail?
    1. Once a week
    2. Two or three times a day
    3. Once a day
    4. Six times a day, maybe more.  You lose track.

 

  1. How many professors have your contacted on your student’s behalf?
    1. None
    2. One or two
    3. Not sure, maybe five
    4. All of them, plus the President
  1. Your student feels he isn’t getting enough playing time on an athletic team.  What do you do?
    1. Pat your student on the back for hanging in there, attend games when you can and cheer like crazy.
    2. Tell the student to talk to the coach
    3. You email the coach
    4. You call the College President and remind him who’s paying the bill

 

  1. Your student is having trouble writing a paper.  What do you do?
    1. You listen.  You sympathize.
    2. Suggest your student make appointments with the professor and the Learning Center.
    3. Read what’s been written so far and give suggestions
    4. Get a copy of his assignment and write the whole thing
  1. When visiting your student, how much do you help?
    1. You don’t clean his room.  It’s not your job.
    2. You help take out the trash.
    3. After taking out the trash, you do the laundry.
    4. You provide maid service and leave mints on the pillow.

 

  1. Your student hates her roommate.  What do you do?
    1. Remind your student of other times he has successfully solved problems.
    2. Have her talk to the RA (Resident Assistant)
    3. Storm the Office of Residence Life.  You want to know what on earth is being done about this.
    4. Call the roommate’s parents and let them have it.
  1. Your student is responsible for a minor conduct violation.  What do you do?
    1. You take an aspirin and discuss the consequences of inappropriate behavior.
    2. Show up on your student’s doorstep.
    3. Show up on the President’s doorstep.  You pay a lot of tuition and your kid should be let off the hook.
    4. Call Oprah and print up “My Kid Is Innocent” t-shirts.

 

 

 

 

 
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