ROTTEN Parenting!

The middle class parents making their little darlings’ lives a misery – by never telling them... no! Overindulged children struggle in the classroom, says psychologist

• Unruly children are increasingly likely to be progeny of ‘helicopter’ parents
• These parents pander to their every whim and are ruthlessly ambitious for them
• Child psychologist says their children tend to play up at school to get attention

By Dr Amanda Gummer For The Daily Mail

 10 August 2017

Working with a group of primary school teachers recently, letting off steam during the first weeks of the summer holidays, I listened, appalled, as they reeled off their latest nightmare classroom dealings.

But it wasn’t horror stories of pupils jumping on desks or hurling things around that shocked me most. Far worse was the attitude — and behaviour — of the parents. And not those at the less privileged end of the spectrum, either.

No, the wild, unruly children are increasingly likely to be the progeny of so-called ‘helicopter’ parents — those who give intensive, one-on-one attention to their child and pander to their every whim, fuelling a ‘little emperor’ syndrome.

They are ruthlessly ambitious for their child’s future — failing to realise how badly their mollycoddling is preparing them for the compromises of real life.

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