The front page of the UT website features a shocking article about "helicopter parents." It seems that a noticeable number of micromanaging, hovering parents not only do crazy shit like drive two hours to their child's college to do his laundry and clean his dorm room, but also log into their kids e-mail, call professors who don't give their perfect babies the grade they know they deserve, and even arrange and show up to their kid's job interviews!
WTF? Doesn't that say, "my child is incapable of making their own calls and doing their own business, therefore they would be a liability to your company?"
Some employers, however, are accepting this new phenomenon of FREAK-ASS OVERPROTECTIVE PARENTS WHO NEED TO QUIT WIPING THEIR ADULT CHILDREN'S ASSES AND LET THEM TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES, EVEN IF IT MEANS FAILING and starting programs designed to ACCOMODATE THESE DAMAGING FUCKTARDS THAT ARE TURNING AN ENTIRE GENERATION INTO A PACK OF ENTITLED-ASS RETARDS WHO CAN'T EVEN GO TO WORK WITHOUT MOMMY TRAILING BEHIND THEM WITH A WET RAG.
I went to college 3000 miles away from my mommy, who was all too happy to let me do my own laundry, make my own doctors appointments, and even get Bs and Cs in my classes! (My stepdad is especially fond of my Cs) The only time my mother ever spoke to one of my professors was at my graduation. I don't even think she ever asked to see my college report card. She also hasn't done my laundry since the early 1990s.
I can't help but feel contempt for these parents, because it seems as if they don't realize that their child is going to have to cope with and get along with a large, diverse population of people in and around the workplace. If they think that they can get away with whatever they want and call up mommy whenever things don't go there way, those of us with adult life skills are going to have to put up with their shit. And woe be to these overparented kids future spouses. Fucking A.
I guess childhood is going to end somewhere around 40 soon. Whee!
Posted by Zerd at March 26, 2007 09:04 PMI suspect this may be one of those "trends" which exists only because some fanciful reporter was bored, like the "opt-out revolution." at least I am hoping so.
Posted by: cm at March 26, 2007 10:17 PM