Modern Parenting Is Killing Us

None of us want to helicopter our kids

Meredith Ethington
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6 min readAug 23, 2021

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I remember the first time I dropped my daughter off at the mall with her friends. It wasn’t that long ago. They all had phones with them. They were old enough. They knew to use the buddy system. It was time.

Yet, the pit in my stomach made me realize just how much of a helicopter parent I had been until that point.

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Meredith Ethington
Forge
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Meredith Ethington, Author - Mom Life: Perfection Pending, Blogger at Perfectionpending.net and Editor in Chief of Filterfreeparents.com