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Helicopter Parents Review

1. The article argues that modern parents have become "helicopter parents" by over-monitoring their children and valuing communication over setting limits and ensuring safety. Parents now try to be friends with their children rather than authority figures. 2. The author establishes credibility through her experience writing for The New York Times and researching this topic. She backs up her arguments with specific cases and quotes experts in the field. 3. The intended audience is parents who have become too close to their children, while the real audience is people unaware of this issue. The author aims to show parents that they need to maintain boundaries with their kids.

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Helicopter Parents Review

1. The article argues that modern parents have become "helicopter parents" by over-monitoring their children and valuing communication over setting limits and ensuring safety. Parents now try to be friends with their children rather than authority figures. 2. The author establishes credibility through her experience writing for The New York Times and researching this topic. She backs up her arguments with specific cases and quotes experts in the field. 3. The intended audience is parents who have become too close to their children, while the real audience is people unaware of this issue. The author aims to show parents that they need to maintain boundaries with their kids.

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Helicopter Parents Turns Deadly Review

1. The fundamental argument in Helicopter Parents Turns Deadly advances that parents dont
know when to monitor how parental they are. Rather than insuring setting limits and safety,
parents are valuing communication over them. But, this didnt always happen. There used to be
a line between a parent and a child where a parent would behave at a different level than a child.
Nowadays, some parents are willing to do anything to get their kids to like them and that
includes sacrificing the parental level which parents are suppose to act upon. The author mainly
relies on quotes, experiences, and events in her article. She uses quotes from a specific case in
an event, authors that know a lot about the topic and input from others about the issue. The
evidence is concentrated on a particular time period-the 21st century. It concentrates on how
parents are different now than they were before, the causes and the effects. The writer sticks to
using inartistic evidence throughout the text.

2. The author is an authority on the topic because she is a writer of The New York Times, and
also having heavily researched this subject. She has multiple cases that happened to prove her
point, and also has contacts that have expertise in the field to back up her argument.

3. The author establishes credibility with the audience when she starts the paper out with a
shocking event that happened. She sustains her credibility when she digs down deep into the
problem to find out that mothers frequently lose themselves when they get caught up in trying
to smooth out.the social challenges faced by their children. The intended audience is parents

who have fallen into the same pattern of valuing communication over rules and safety. The
invoked audience would parents and teens who havent seen this kind of event happen before,
and the real audience is people who have never heard of such a thing. The context for this
argument is that parents are crossing the boundaries of what they could do, and what they
should do.

4. The author establishes common ground with the audience by also reacting in a similar to way
to the event as shocking and disturbing. Also by using examples that arent as intense as the
Meier case such as parents doing things to try and get their kinds more popular.

5. The work is structured by event or quote, explanation, her argument and then elaborating
through out the piece. Sometimes the role is switched, in which the argument is started and back
up by an event or quote.

6. The author uses appeal to shock after citing the Meier event (in which a 13 year old girl who
killed herself after having an internet boy named Josh (actually, an ex-friends mom) was mean
to her). She also uses appeal to outrage when there are stories of parents trying to bribe the other
kids to accept their children to popularity, and appeal to common sense when a normal student
posted a response in which, she said the meanness of Josh (if he was an actual person) wouldnt
be any different if he was just mean to her. How, kids are mean to each other a lot in real life
anyway.

7. She blames the self-esteem movement, decades of parenting advice that prized
communication over limit-setting and safety. She blames the narcissistic need of parents who
want their children to like them at all costs. (2)
There used to be this kind of parent-child gradient, where the parent was expected to-and didfunction at a different level than the child, says clinical psychologist Madeline Levine.Now,
she says, that whole notion of parents being in an entirely different space than their children is
disappearing. (2)
There is a disturbing degree to which todays parents-and mothers in particular- frequently lose
themselves when they get caught up in trying to smooththe social challenges faced by their
children. (1)

8. The article was easy to understand.

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