I think it's probably a universal experience that all parents think they're not hovering, but perhaps we all are.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I guess when we're young, we all have that fascination with flying.
We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.
I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'
When people say, 'You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,' I think it's the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.
Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.
Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.
As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.
Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.
I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.