This has to be a joke article.
***It’s a different generation going through the process now. My brother was the soccer coach at a state college and he got out partly because there were too many parents hovering over their kids’ soccer prospects & performance. That’s in COLLEGE.
Sadly it’s not, helicopter parents are real. My wife works in college and has to put up with them all the time. A friend works in HR and there’s starting to be literature running through the HR circles on how to deal with them.