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  • 'Helicopter parents' crash-land on careers

    11/10/2006 7:13:49 AM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 65 replies · 2,078+ views
    Washington Times ^ | November 10, 2006 | Martha Irvine (Associated Press)
    CHICAGO -- Some parents are writing their college-age children's resumes. Others are acting as their children's "representatives," hounding college career counselors, showing up at job fairs and sometimes going as far as calling employers to ask why their son or daughter didn't get a job. It's the next phase in helicopter parenting, a term coined for those who have hovered over their children's lives from kindergarten to college. Now they are inserting themselves into their children's job searches -- and school officials and employers say it's a problem that may be hampering some young people's careers. "It has now reached...