Helicopter parent transformed into a free range diciple

[JEDI]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/08/living/free-range-parenting-helicopter-feat/index.html

" I am the guy who made a 3-year-old wear a bicycle helmet to go on the swings, who hid outside the preschool yard to keep an eye on his kid, the dad who refused to let his son play catcher on the Little League team because oh my God, right, like I'm going to let you stand next to people swinging baseball bats."

"My anxiety about Max, and about his anxiety disorder, certainly wasn't doing me any good -- but I could live with that.
However, I had to face the fact that my anxiety was making Max's worse. Had possibly been one of its causes, in fact.

And that's something no father can live with.

So I set about letting it go."


Every parent should read this article!

 

[GasX]

This guy was surprised that smothering his kid had ill effects on his psyche?

What a self-indulgent pat himself on his own back asshole this guy is...

 

[nakedfrog]

Every parent should read this article!

Why? I read it, and it basically told me I'm already doing a kick-ass job.

 

[CPA]

It takes my full effort to get my kids to go do something and take risk. Problem is they get the opposite message in school.

 

[CZroe]

I'd disappear all day as a kid and come back late at night covered in mud and scabs. Somehow, I think I'd be put in jail if I allowed my future offspring the freedoms I had.

 

[Dirigible]

I'd disappear all day as a kid and come back late at night covered in mud and scabs. Somehow, I think I'd be put in jail if I allowed my future offspring the freedoms I had.

Yeah. I got some negative feedback after letting my 5yo walk to school by himself.

 

[Jeff7]

The kid can get hurt/damaged by playing, and the kid can get hurt/damaged by constant supervision.


Later on, follow him to work too and make sure no one yells at him or tells him he screwed up and cost the company $5,000 on some stupid mistake.
Early in my employment at my current job, I screwed up something and cost about $1700. "Model everything," I was told. I did. I just happened to make a nice CAD model of the wrong part, which then drove a dimension in another new part. Dammit. What a good start. I think it was still my first year on the job. Since then, I've made more than a dozen new designs like that one, and they've been pretty darn good if I do say so.

The idea here is that people are going to make mistakes. Just don't make the same one twice.
Moral of the story: If you do need to screw up, get innovative about how you do it.