One of the things that I see is that parents are too freaked out about their kids being unhappy. They're freaked out about it. A lot of helicopter parenting is because they're thinking about their kid's feelings all the time, and they're trying to wipe out the bad feelings, and that's a mistake.
Few of us set out to become helicopter parents, but it's never easy to step back as a parent and let kids struggle. But studies have shown that when parents do step in unnecessarily, everyone feels better in the short term but experiences more stress in the long term. It's an uncomfortable dance - but an important one. Well-rounded kids feel all the emotions. And often they are, to steal a phrase from Brooks, the happier-est.
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