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Helen is 86 years old and her 58-year-old son Michael lives in her basement. He's never held a job for more than a year, never lived independently for more than six months, never been in a serious relationship. Helen thought she was being a loving mother by protecting him from every difficulty, solving every problem, preventing every failure.
She was wrong.
This is the story of helicopter parenting before it had a name. It's about the difference between loving your children and enabling them. It's about how protecting kids from all struggle actually robs them of the strength they need to function as adults.
Helen never let Michael get lost, so he never learned to find his way. She never let him fail when failures were small and recoverable, so he never learned how to bounce back from setbacks. She solved all his problems, so he never learned he was capable of solving them himself.
Now Michael is nearly 60, completely dependent, and resentful of the very person who created his helplessness. This is what happens when you confuse loving your child with keeping them a child forever.
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