Poll: Most Americans Want to Criminalize Pre-Teens Playing Unsupervised

[jen63]

36. You have no idea

how twisted some helicopter parents can be. My son is at the US Naval Academy and we have what is called "listserv". We get emails of questions that other parents have concerning academy life etc. There are some parents who are asking questions about how their Midshipman should invest for fricking retirement ffs. Gawd help those young adults. I trust my son enough to make those decisions on his own.

My son did it all himself, except for a few "what would you do" questions and is handling his time and academics very well. He spent a year at college when he was turned down for a USNA appointment the first time and did all of his apps and scholarship work on his own. Our job as parents is to raise contributing members of society. I hope I have, but I miss him terribly. We have a very close relationship and he knows he can tell me anything and not be judged. After all I was where he is at one point.