LAWN MOWER PARENTS

Forget Helicopter Parents. Now we’ve got “Lawn Mower Parents.” It started after an anonymous middle school teacher shared the story of how she was summoned to the school’s office to pick up something a parent dropped off for a student. She found a father who was delivering an insulated water bottle for his daughter. He said his daughter kept texting him that she needed it. He texted back, ‘Don’t they have water fountains at your school?’ but, the dad told the teacher, “I guess she just had to have it out of the bottle.” The teacher then defined “lawn mower parents” as those willing to go to “whatever lengths necessary to prevent their child from having to face adversity, struggle, or failure. Instead of preparing children for challenges, they mow obstacles down so kids won’t experience them in the first place.”
* Ironically, you’d never catch a lawn mower parent asking their kid to mow the lawn.
* Maybe this guy just lets women boss him around?
* Later, the daughter texted the dad that the water wasn’t cold enough, and he had to drive back to the school with some ice.
* I’m not a lawn mower parent, although my kid’s name is actually Huskvarna.
* PHONE TOPIC: When was the last time you made you kid suffer the consequences of their actions?