A mom made a long and somewhat absurd Facebook post of the things her 26-year-old son presumably wanted in a partner.
Unless you are dead set on an arranged marriage, having your mom help your dating life is basically a worst-case scenario. However, ever-present, helicopter moms generally do not really understand that hovering around their kids at all times is unhealthy, counterproductive, and pretty embarrassing, particularly when the kids are already adults.
So imagine opening your Facebook feed one day to see that your mom made a rather unhinged post attempting to solicit a date for you. This is what netizens saw one day whenA mom tried her hand at finding her son a date through FacebookThe origin of the phrase “helicopter parent” is not even that far from the first usage of helicopters. The 1969 book “,” by Dr. Haim Ginott, contains the phrase “Mother hovers over me like a helicopter…” which is said by a long-suffering teen.
Helicoptering, if we were to convert this adjective-from-a-noun into a verb, normally represents an overprotective behavior from a parent. Now, being protective is by no means bad, children can and should not be expected to protect themselves at all times, we do not live in a “state of nature,” but the emphasis here is on the prefix “over.” Similar to our immune systems, children need some room to fight their own battles and learn from them.
, self-confidence, and basic decision-making. After all, why even try when your parents will criticize, control, and coral you into doing exactly what they want? As previously stated, the two main reactions are just compliance and rebellion. Counterproductive to this mom’s wishes, most people do not actually find man-children attractive, so it does not help that she explicitly calls her son a kid.
Commenters had a field day mocking the requirements and speculating about some of the more vague phrases
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