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Our Kids Learn to be Helpless - Thanks to Tech

Are we making a disservice to our children when they call us when they have a normal real world problem instead of trying to solve them by themselves? Everyday mishaps like missing the bus, getting to the school in time, informing what to eat from the fridge or getting lost from parents in a shop. I claim we do. Instead of getting our children to use their own brains what to do, we solve the problem for them. Kids should learn to handle such situation without parental control or guidance. We prevent a great learning and growing experiences. This phenomena is commonly known as a helicopter parenthood (also known as curling parenthood) Today I realised that there is more and more technology and applications available for helicopter parents. Helicopter parenting is made easy. I read an article on Norwegian inventor Sten Kirkbak who presented a new device in CES 2013. He had loist sight for his 3.5 year old son in a shopping centre in Oslo for 20 minutes. Instead of teaching [in advan...