New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed
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Re: New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed
#2Maybe the earth/environment collapsing around them while nobody does anything to fix it is also depressing.
Re: New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed
#3Maybe the earth/environment collapsing around them while nobody does anything to fix it is also depressing.
Why not both? Adults are no less depressed/anxious about being powerless to fix the environment, but they do have power over their children...
Re: New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed
#4I got excited when I saw something about helicopters. There are hardly ever any articles about helicopters on HN. I have a commercial helicopter license and almost 900 hours of combined helicopter and airplane flight time. If any extra rich people in the bay area or Sacramento want to buy a heli I will be your personal pilot available 24/7. Helis can go almost anywhere. I love to fly but it is hard to fly them unless you have a lot of money. You can get a used Robinson R-44 4 seater for about $500k. Maintenance and insurance are expensive but no insurance is required if you pay cash. Let me know.
Re: New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed
#5This makes sense. You give kids confidence by letting them get through difficult situations on their own.
If the parent fixes every issue, kids never develop confidence. They feel incapable of solving their own problems. That’s a recipe for depression.
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#6I'm slightly confused because the chart shows a sharp decrease in suicides between 1994 and 2007 and then a gradual increase.
But neither theory (bad social media or helicopter parents) explains the curve. Did helicopter parenting get better between 1994 and 2007 and then get worse? Why did suicides increase between 1968 and 1994 and then start decreasing?
AITA for expecting a theory to explain the observed curve?
Re: New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed
#7I got excited when I saw something about helicopters. There are hardly ever any articles about helicopters on HN. I have a commercial helicopter license and almost 900 hours of combined helicopter and airplane flight time. If any extra rich people in the bay area or Sacramento want to buy a heli I will be your personal pilot available 24/7. Helis can go almost anywhere. I love to fly but it is hard to fly them unless…
I love your enthusiasm no matter how not directly on topic it may be ;-)
Re: New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed
#8Maybe the earth/environment collapsing around them while nobody does anything to fix it is also depressing.
Helicopter parenting forces kids to live in car-in-between nodes.
Re: New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed
#9Maybe the earth/environment collapsing around them while nobody does anything to fix it is also depressing.
Or at least all the constant doomsaying about it
Re: New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed
#10I'm slightly confused because the chart shows a sharp decrease in suicides between 1994 and 2007 and then a gradual increase. But neither theory (bad social media or helicopter parents) explains the curve. Did helicopter parenting get better between 1994 and 2007 and then get worse? Why did suicides increase between 1968 and 1994 and then start decreasing? AITA for expecting a theory to explain the observed curve?
That sudden drop in 2000 smells like redefinition so that the data before and after aren't measuring the same thing.