Sep
2018
Lawnmower Parents Teachers
Lawnmower Parents Are the New Helicopter Parents & We Are Not Here for It
Chances are, you’ve met this new breed of parent.
August 30, 2018
Lawnmower parents go to whatever lengths necessary to prevent their child from having to face adversity, struggle, or failure.
If we eliminate all struggle in children’s younger years, they will not arrive at adulthood magically equipped to deal with failure.
They will very likely respond in one or more of the following ways:
- Blame the professor
- Call home and beg their parents to intervene
- Have a mental breakdown or make themselves miserable
- Write nasty reviews online about the professor and their class
- Begin planning for the inevitable destruction of their college career/future
- Assume they failed because they’re stupid
- Collapse in on themselves and give up completely and stop trying
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https://pittsburgh.citymomsblog.com/mom/rise-lawnmower-parent/
The Rise of the Lawnmower Parent
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Forget Lawnmower Parents–I Was a Lawnmower Teacher
Get out of the way, I’m coming through!
What is a lawnmower teacher?
The definition of lawnmower parent is “one who goes to whatever lengths necessary to prevent their child from having to face adversity, struggle, or failure.” And it’s pretty much the same for a lawnmower teacher. The kids I teach are my children, and I did A LOT to help them along.
How to make a shift, in the interest of the students
- Notice the difficulties students have without judgement.
- Develop a strategy to help them resolve the difficulty.
- Explicitly teach the strategy.
- Create a system for monitoring use of the strategy.
- Congratulate the student when he or she uses the strategy effectively.
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more on helicopter parents in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=helicopter+parents