"Helicopter Parents"

The only two people I know who sent their kids off to college this Fall are definitely not "Helicopter Parents", but the phenomena doesn't surprise me.

The Lavallees are part of a new group dubbed "helicopter parents" by college and university administrators. They say the baby boom generation of parents are so involved in their children's college lives they risk preventing their children from growing up.

Today's college students are e-mailing their papers home for their parents' inspection before turning them in. Their parents in turn are stepping in to solve roommate problems, helping students pick out courses and demanding improvements to their rooms.

Hope I don't turn into one - - but when they are only 5 and 8 it's hard to imagine not being a hovering parent.