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   somebodyshort said, 3 months ago

   kerfluffle
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   somebodyshort said, 3 months ago

   Pick your battles. As a parent there are some battles you must not lose, but there are also some you must not win, and then there are all those you shouldn’t fight.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   Notice how the mothers hold their children over this idea.
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   bawana said, 3 months ago

   I have never had children but from afar,it is very evident how parenting has changed over the years. Talk about “helicoptor parenting”, What ever happened to letting kids fail on their own?
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   rmacprivate said, 3 months ago

   @bawana

   Nothing, only now they get a trophy for it…… so their poor yiddle self esteem isn’t diminished.
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   Mai Griffin said, 3 months ago

   @rmacprivate

   Agreed – that’s when the rot set in!
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   Notsoastute said, 3 months ago

   As Jerimiah Johnson said to Bearclaw:
   “Eh, what trouble?”
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   Monkeyhead said, 3 months ago

   I beleive that all this helecoptering is hurting how we learn to interact with others. Sharing is a thing of the past. Putting another’s feelings/needs before our own is gone. It’s all about me me me.
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   lightenup said, 3 months ago

   I agree with the helicoptering parenting, but I hope things are changing in the right direction now that we’ve seen how harmful protecting our children too much can be.
   I have elementary school kids, and while I see some helicoptering, I also see more and more parents who deliberately step back and let their kids make mistakes.
   
   The only concern that I have is that too many don’t teach their kids responsibility and respect. Helicoptering has nothing to do with respect for others. I know many kids whose parents let them do whatever, yet they don’t teach them to think about anyone except for themselves.
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    specinss said, 3 months ago

    So, Evie, what are your scars???
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    david_42 said, 3 months ago

    @lightenup

    Unfortunately, we now have a generation in the ‘pipeline’ that expect rewards without any effort and can’t make decisions for themselves or their employers. They will be shocked when the next cohort gets promoted over them.
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    whmIII said, 3 months ago

    I think Evie just washed her hands of the whole thing…
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    mrsdonaldson said, 3 months ago

    Evie speaks with the wisdom of someone who has “been there, done that.” She was probably just as nervous when she was a young mom. Now she’s a grandmother. She’s seen the world. Life is all about learning, and we learn from our mistakes.
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    sjsczurek said, 3 months ago

    Please excuse my ignorance. What the deuce is “helicopter parenting?”
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    eieio2 said, 3 months ago

    This is a classic strip- It’s good to see it again- one of my favorites.
    Scars teach us how to adapt. Parents (and grandparents, and “created” family) give us the guidance we need to continue to grow the right way. Most of us wouldn’t survive well, though, if we were, in landscaping parlance, “brutally pruned”. True trauma is what parents hope they can protect their child against, but- it happens.
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