The millennial generation is so high-tech they even come equipped with personal helicopters:
Parents of University of Florida students log on to their children's personal Gator-Link accounts to check grades, then call deans when they don't like what they see.University of Central Florida parents call administrators to complain when their kids can't get into classes they want.
At Florida State University, parents of graduating seniors haggle with job recruiters. They want to make sure Junior gets a good salary and work schedule.
University administrators have a name for these baby boomer moms and dads who hover over their offspring's college lives.
"Helicopter parents," says Patrick Heaton, FSU's assistant dean of student affairs.
Though experts say that being your children's pal instead of being your children's parent cripples them, who among us hasn't felt disgust at the cruelty of so-called "mother" birds who push their offspring out of the nest to fly or die on their own? Despite Jeanna Mastrodicasa, associate dean of the UF honors college's, saying that "Our students are graduating, but they are not ready to go into the real world," we know that's not true. They have really good self-esteem and best-buddies to move right back in with after graduation.
Posted by floridacracker at June 19, 2006 03:45 PM