Reply #75: No "helicopter" parents [View All]

You'd graduate from high school and you would go to work, or you would go to college, an in my experience with your parents' assistance (usually student loans with mom & dad filling in the gaps). However, either way, you were pretty much on your own as far as making decisions and choices.

By the time I was 15, I would've never considered spending Spring Break with my parents...and they would've been just as miserable, as well.

Now, we have friends who have kids in college, and they're even busier with their kids' lives than they were when the rugrats were in high school. They travel nearly every other weekend to football games, parent weekends, and picking their kids up for a big spring break vacation in Jamaica.

I was glad to be out of the house when I was 17, and my parents were just as glad, hanging off the chandeliers glad, to have me out.