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In this week’s podcast, The Late Boomer takes on “helicopter parents”. Since many baby boomers have refused to become adults, we are now seeing the disastrous unintended consequence of a new generation making the same mistake, but on a much greater scale. You see, if we can’t trust ourselves to grow up, how can we trust our children to? We see this cleaerly in the trend of “helicopter parenting” – moms and dads who hover over their kids to eithe rshield them from harm or to ensure their success. But, if ou rkids don’t see us as respectible adults, what model of security or success do they have?
For example, going off to college was once the first great step for a young adult to face life on their own. Now, it’s just an extension of your dependant life with “helicopter mommy and daddy”. All this actually results in is the young adult’s anxiety, narcisism and unpreparedness for adult life instead of the security and success that the helicopters had hoped for.
The bottom line is that our children’s security, self-realization and self esteem have taken priority over their preparation for a mature and independent adulthood. Now, too many of hte next generation are simply not equipped to face life’s obstacles and trials.
Joel then wraps up his podcast with another nomination for the Great Cloud of Witnesses. Appropriately, he spotlights an Indonesian mother / son combination who faced adulthood and their eternal perspective properly.