Helicopter parenting is not effective. It doesnt show kids how to take care of themselves. They become relient on their parents and expect them to help them no matter what the situation is. To deal with this new phenomenon, about 70 percent of the nation's four-year colleges and universities now employ parent coordinators, whose duties typically include organizing campus events for annual parent weekends, producing regular newsletters, and staffing telephone hotlines ("Lum" 1). Children now days don't know how to deal with being on their own and how to move on passed their parents. They don't seem to know what to do in situations when school or jobs may become difficult and fall back and assume that their parents will be there to just deal with the situation for them. Kids now days need to learn to deal with these situations on their own.