High_Gravity
Belligerent Drunk
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Oh gawd. And, how did his peers react to that? And, he, how did he react?A great example!
Here's a TIME article on them: Helicopter Parents: The Backlash Against Overparenting - TIME
There is also a Wiki entry: Helicopter parent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From NPR, specifically about these 'kids' in the workplace: Helicopter Parents Hover In The Workplace : NPR
The two best I saw were one in Forbes and one in The Chronicle of Higher Education, but I can't find those.
Imagine you're the professional boss of an entry level 'professional' and his/her parent calls you to tell you not to be so mean to your kid?
I've seen that before, when I was in the Military there was an Airman who just came to the base and was going to be given a nice hefty bonus for his careerfield, his mother called the reenlistments section to find out when her boy was getting his money.
Yikes.
I would be mortified. And, that is exactly why my 'rents would never have done that.
I worked in the office next door and the people who worked in reenlistments were clowning him, but I never found out if he told his mother to call or if she just did it on her own.