Are you sick of parent tags?

I am.

Helicopter, parents in freedom, tigers, elephants – the world of parents is full of labels.

One thing about the last label:

You do not want to be a mower parent. But you are probably.

Parent guardianship grew quickly with a viral post from a member of Weareteachers.com, an online community for teachers.

What kind of parent are you? Lawn mower? Helicopter? Attachment? Tiger? Free-range? Parental Tags Explained

An anonymous member of the organization wrote in the test that parents of lawn mowers eliminate all the challenges, discomforts and difficulties of children.

The author of the teacher said that he had been called to the office, waiting to recover the meal money or the inhaler forgot of a high. Instead, a sheepish parent in a suit was depositing an expensive water bottle after repeated texts from a child. Water fountains exist everywhere in the school. The implicit answer of the poster: WHAT ON THIS REAL LAND.

Hannah Hudson, editorial director of WeAreTeachers.com, told All the Moms that the Facebook message was shared more than 12,000 times by parents and teachers.

"I think everyone has already been a lawnmower relative," Hudson said. "Even teachers because they're parents too.This is a natural tendency to want to help children."

Hudson shared parents' stories on lawnmowers, from the test and posted:

• The parent of a high school student who asked a teacher to drive a student to class to make sure the student would not be late.
• A story emailed to a parent who asked someone in the cafeteria to blow on his child's too hot meal to cool him down.
• A parent who called to schedule a makeup test when the student was clearly of age to request an hour.

Block the path to adulthood

The problem is not a parent's willingness to help a child succeed, it's admirable and understandable. The problem comes from the repeated efforts of a parent to eliminate any struggle so that children are ill equipped when they grow up and life inevitably moves to the side.

The test ends by referencing the 2016 post by assistant Karen Fancher, a professor at Duquesne University College, says the mower of younger children leads to students who can not make decisions.

Fancher writes that as adults or just in the brink of adulthood, these students have communication difficulties, are not motivated and believe that they are not good enough to to accomplish things alone. .

Help or hinder the mower?

When do parents help and when do they keep their children? (Photo: Getty Images)

But how to tell the difference between a legitimate help or even a parents rescue needed compared to parenting lawnmowers?

It's hard, says Hudson.

When your child worked for weeks on a report and even installed it where he would not forget it, but that he is forgotten on the kitchen counter, do you you rush to school? It is the call of a parent.

At least when it comes to rushing things to school, Hudson appreciates a suggestion she has heard since August. If there were no smartphones, did the child think his request was urgent enough to use the school office phone to call the parent? This could then be a legitimate rescue scenario.

"We do not want to see our children fail, we want to prepare them for success," she said, adding that this could mean that parents are considering their child's future. "Sometimes we have to think about what [success] means."

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