Overinvolved. Overprotective. Acting like a friend or peer instead of a parent. (The only child psychologist to whom I will listen: "If your child likes you all the time, you're parenting very badly.") Blaming other adults for the failures of their kids. I could go on. When I ask kids if the "helicopter parent" accusation is accurate, they overwhelmingly say yes and they also overwhelmingly say they wish it wasn't this way. Something went very wrong with my generation and I can't explain exactly how it happened.