As the name implies, helicopter parenting refers to parents who hover over their children constantly, making their offspring the planet around which they orbit. Helicopter parents are entrenched in their children’s lives, so much so that even once they reach young adulthood, ages 18-20, some parents go along with their kids to job interviews and even interact with their college professors.

Here’s the Wikipedia definition:

Helicopter parent is a colloquial, early 21st-century term for a parent who pays extremely close attention to his or her child’s or children’s experiences and problems, particularly at educational institutions. These parents rush to prevent any harm or failure from befalling them and will not let them learn from their own mistakes, sometimes even contrary to the children’s wishes. They are so named because, like helicopters, they hover closely overhead, rarely out of reach, whether their children need them or not.

Extreme? Not to some.

To be continued…