Why helicopter parents need to be cool when their university kids come home

Charlie, who has a master's degree in city planning said he once had a class taught by his father but 'my dad never interfered'. — HEATHER KHALIFA/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

YOUR university kid is returning home for the holidays; they want to see you, you want to see them. It’ll be a joyous reunion.

“And it’ll last 24 hours,” said St. Joseph’s University sociologist Maria Kefalas, “before many parents start micromanaging their children’s lives again.”