We should allow our children to face challenges and solve problems on their own without jumping in to help them, says an expert.
As a parent, it can be hard to get the balance right between helping your children out and letting them develop the skills to manage things on their own. There are helicopter parents, who hover over their children all the time, permissive parents, who have minimal rules and let their children do almost anything they like, and of course all sorts of parents in between. Even teachers have said that it can be good to let children fail, and now an expert suggests we shouldn’t be helping our children too much.
