From Foster Cline and Jim Fay's book,
Parenting With Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility (1990, Pinon Press), emphases added:
...Both of these types of parents send messages to their children—all in the name of love—about what they think their kids are capable of. The message
the helicopter parent sends to the child is, "You are fragile and can't make it without me."
The drill sergeant's message is, "You can't think for yourself, so I'll do it for you."
While both of these parental types may successfully control the children in the early years, they have thrown major obstacles in the kids' path once they hit the "Puberty Trail."
Helicopter children become adolescents unable to cope with outside forces, unable to think for themselves or handle their own problems. Drill sergeant kids, who did a lot of saluting when they were young, will do a lot of saluting when teenagers. But the salute is different—a raised fist or a crude gesture involving the middle finger...[/list][/size]
From the Struggling Teens article in the OP, "
Malcolm Gauld on Parenting as Manager" (2008; apparently missing from Lon's site as of this post), emphases added:
...In the humorous and down-to-earth style for which they are known, the Gauld's explain that there are three parent models:
- The Helicopter: the parent who hovers over their child largely out of fear
[li]The Drill Sergeant: "well, that's self-explanatory" - The Consultant.
"When you parent your pre-teen, you must parent as a manager", says Laura. "At this time you will undoubtedly lean toward Parent Model 1 and 2. But you're heading for trouble if you're not at Model 3 by the teens.
At that point, Model 1 will get you a hostile, dependent young adult. Model 2 will get you a resentful rebel".[/li][/list][/size]
Hopefully the Gaulds' reverence for (not surprisingly unattributed) Foster Cline-isms ... do not extend to Cline's pioneering work in
Rage Reduction Therapy, not to mention his opinions and former practice (before he received legal sanctions barring such) of
Attachment Therapy.