Parents think that helping their children with school throughout their entire lives will help their kids in the long run, but the kid’s will learn and enjoy it more without parents hovering and interfering in their school lives. Most helicopter parents are very worried about their children’s schooling, and they often do whatever they can to get their kids ahead of the game. But in reality the best rules to follow when educating a child are, “first rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning” (Gibbs). Helicopter parents do the exact opposite of this, seeing as they hover by their child never leaving him alone. When the parents are overinvolved with the kid’s learning they leave
