It is not so easy with these parenting trends: you have just understood what exactly a helicopter mother is, there is already the next term that you have to explain. "Lawnmower parents" is one of them. However, it is relatively easy to understand, because this type of parent simply mows down all the obstacles that arise for your own child before it even realizes that there was an obstacle. If little Luisa-Charlotte, for example, sits in the sandpit with little Mia-Johanna and argues about a form, the lawnmower mother or the lawnmower father arrives directly and solves the problem. For example, by snatching the object of desire from your own child. Or a second mold is enough.
The children do not learn to solve problems
The term arose when, after the end of August, a teacher anonymously wrote a text about the "Lawnmower parents" on weareteachers.com, in which he explains that this type of parent means well and only wants to help – but not exactly helps raise a generation that is happy. After all, they do everything they can to protect their child from confrontation or failure. Unfortunately, they do not prepare the youngsters for challenges, but mow down obstacles so that their children do not even feel them. After all, these children never learned to solve a real problem and therefore cannot do it when they have to.
A sub-category of helicopter parents
Even if all of this is meant very well, the result is that the lawnmower children are more difficult to make decisions and are less self-confident, after all, it makes it much more confident if you know how to overcome an obstacle or solve a conflict yourself. And if mom always does the homework, you don't learn anything yourself. The 1+ that you collect for it doesn't help either. In fact, the lawnmower parents are only a sub-category of the helicopter parents. Of course, it can't be wrong to protect your child, but it should still learn to find its own way, to assert yourself.
The next time Mia and Charlotte knock, just do nothing
The teacher at weareteachers.com at least believes that this could create a generation of unhappy children who panic at the mere thought of failure. A generation for whom failure is so painful that it cannot cope with it and takes refuge in addiction or blame. Parents probably don't want that. Simplest exercise: The next time Mia knocks on Charlotte, it is best not to intervene. After all, the children should learn to deal with each other.