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When students lack independence and experience difficult emotions, they miss chances to problem-solve and develop coping skills, which can foster helplessness and low self-confidence. 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When parents overprotect children and control their lives, children do not gain the skills needed to face the world; this lack of preparedness leads to anxiety and depression. As teachers, we can help by giving students opportunities for choices about their work, and by teaching social-emotional skills and cognitive behaviour techniques. Making these changes can arm the students with the skills, confidence, and resilience they need to feel prepared for the world, which would lower levels of anxiety and depression.  \nFor a variety of reasons, adolescents around the world are showing increasing rates of depression and anxiety (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020) . Poor/fair perceived mental health and professionally diagnosed mood and anxiety disorders have become more prevalent in Canadian youth over the last decade, such that from 2011 to 2018, poor/fair perceived mental health increased from 4.2% to 9.9%, diagnosed mood disorders went from 4.3% to 7.8%, and diagnosed anxiety disorder rose from 6.0% to 12.9%(Wiens et al. , 2020, p.3) . At the same time, young people have become more emotionally fragile, and demonstrate a lack of coping abilities, which coincides with the shift toward a “helicopter parenting” society (Gray, 2015b, para. 1) . Helicopter parenting is when parents protect children in a way that is not appropriate for their child’s age and abilities (Hall, 2017) . Making all decisions and resolving all conflicts for children and giving them everything they need/want are inappropriate because children should be performing and managing some tasks on their own in order to develop. While helicopter parents are well-meaning, their children are likely to struggle as youth with some form of “psychological distress, low self-efficacy, narcissism, extrinsic academic motivation, poor academic adjustment or engagement, delayed or inhibited leadership emergence, and alcohol and drug use”(Segrin et al. , 2020, p. 181) . When children do not experience independence and difficult emotions, they do not learn to problem solve, their social and emotional development may be stunted, and they do not learn lessons from exploring their world (Gray, 2020b) . This results in helplessness, a lack of self-confidence, and uncertainty, which lead to anxiety and depression. Children who are feeling anxious or depressed will not be in the mindset to learn. Adding student choice, practising cognitive behaviour techniques, and teaching social-emotional learning in our classrooms can help students to become more independent, resilient, and prepared, which can help to decrease the levels of depression and anxiety that are exacerbated by helicopter parenting.  \nIn a helicopter parenting society, parents subscribe to the idea that the world is dangerous and their children need to be protected from any difficulties at all costs (Gray, 2019) . Even if parents do not wish to parent this way, they do not have an easy alternative. For example, parents who give their children the independence to play outside alone or to come home to an empty house after school are likely to face social backlash and, depending on where they live, they may be breaking the law (Skenazy, 2019) . The belief in a helicopter parenting society is that all difficulties – whether physical, emotional, academic, or social – may be traumatic and/or permanently damaging to children, and that parents should always be supervising, guiding, and intervening in order to do their job correctly (Skenazy, 2020) .  \nA Lack of Freedom of Choice and Independence for Students in a Helicopter Society  \nChildren who have no freedom of choice and independence develop issues with selfconfidence and readiness, which lead","cbCaicAt2KGWOtL2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicAt2KGWOtL2","pdf",222560,"English","# Abstract\n# Background: rising anxiety and depression\n## Helicopter parenting definition and impacts\n# Classroom and educator interventions\n## Student choice, social-emotional skills, and cognitive-behaviour techniques\n# Lack of student independence in a helicopter society\n## Policy and school pressures","[{\"question\":\"What is helicopter parenting, according to the document?\",\"answer\":\"Helicopter parenting is when parents protect children in ways that are not appropriate for their child’s age and abilities.\"},{\"question\":\"How does helicopter parenting affect students’ mental health?\",\"answer\":\"Overprotection limits independence and coping practice, which can lead to helplessness, low self-confidence, and uncertainty—factors linked to anxiety and depression.\"},{\"question\":\"What role do teachers play in mitigating these effects?\",\"answer\":\"Teachers can help by giving students more opportunities for choice, teaching social-emotional skills, and using cognitive behaviour techniques in the classroom.\"}]","Mitigating the Effects of Helicopter Parenting on Student Mental Health | PDF",1792080356,13]