A College Guide for Helicopter Parents

Jessica Wildfire
4 min readOct 14, 2017

Congratulations on sending your kids off to college in mint condition. There’s not a scratch on them. They look like nobody’s ever taken them out of their original packages and played with them, not even once. Maybe you haven’t heard the term “helicopter parent” before. Allow me to explain. For 18 years, you’ve hovered around your kid constantly to keep them from making mistakes. But now the time has come to land.

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