Suzhou No. 1 High School --- Jianfen Qian

1. Suzhou No. 1 High School --- Jianfen Qian

2. a helicopter circling or hovering

3. circling over to protect…

4. a helicopter parent overprotecting her kid

5. interfering in almost every aspect in kid’s life, including job decisions

6. helicopter parents are holding the kids down instead of developing them

7. Learning goals: • By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to: • know about the phenomenon of overparenting ( Para 1) • learn about a new revolution in overparenting (Para 2) • know what helicopter parents are doing and how to reduce overparenting (Para 3-8) • write a letter to your parents on how to parent properly

8. Goal 1 know about the phenomenon of overparenting (para 1)

9. Individual workthe phenomenon of overparenting (para 1) • Questions: • 1. What phenomenon has widely spread? • 2. What is the typical behavior of helicopter parents? • 3. Why are there so many helicopter parents? • 4. What is the function of Para 1?

10. Individual workthe phenomenon of overparentiing (para 1) • Question and answer: • 1.What phenomenon has widely spread? • The phenomenon of over-parenting or helicopter parents has widely spread.

11. Individual workthe phenomenon of ovefrparenting (para 1) • Question and answer: • 2.What is the typical behavior of helicopter parents? • Circling over every school, playground, and practice field.

12. Individual workthe phenomenon of overparenting(para 1) • Question and answer: • 3.Why are there so many helicopter parents? • Because parents just want what is best for their kids.

13. Individual workthe phenomenon of overparenting(para 1) • Question and answer: • 4.What is the function of Para 1? • It serves as an introduction to the topic of overparenting.

14. But is what all helicopter parents do best for their kids?

15. Goal 2 learn about a new revolution in overparenting (para 2)

16. Class work rolling back • A new revolution aimed at _____ _____ the over-protectiveness and ____________ of parents is under way. There are various names for the revolution, but the same ________ is conveyed: Less is more; ________ is dangerous; failure is _______. To help children succeed, parents should learn when to _______ them alone. over-investment message hovering fruitful leave

17. Goal 3 know what helicopter parents are doing & how to reduce over-parenting (para 3-8)

18. competitionwhat helicopter parents are doing & how to reduce over-parenting (para 3-8) • Rule: Anyone who knows the information can stand up and say it. Time limits: 1.5 minutes 2 minutes

19. What helicopter parents are doing engaged • 1. Parents are _________ in a child’s education to improve the kids’ better grades, higher test scores, less alcohol or drug abuse and better college outcomes. • 2. Parents are ____________ student’ homework, helping make ____________ to their lab reports and trying every means so their kids can be assigned to certain _______. • 3. Parents are trying not to get their kids to experience _________. ghostwriting improvements classes failures

20. How to reduce over-parenting Parents should back • know when to _______ off • know ________ are good for their kids • use _________to voice their sense that expecting less is not the same as letting them down • ________ with others or follow different roads • ________ out or ignore the sound and fury from the media • find the _______ best suitable for their family • offer ________ to one another • follow the _____: Leave kids alone failures websites disagree block method modesty rule

21. Think critically • How do you understand the sentence: • Given a choice, teachers say, over-involved parents are preferable to invisible ones? • Conclusion: We need responsible parents instead of helicopter parents.

22. Goal 4 Write a letter to helicopter parents

23. A survey on how your parents are involved in your life • 1. Do your parents still wake you up every morning? • 2. Have your parents ever helped with your academic studies? • 3. Have your parents made important life decisions for you such as which school or class to attend? • 4. Do your parents help clean your room, wash your clothes or cook food for you? • 5. Do your parents interfere in what kind of friends you should make in your life?

24. Parents’ involvement in their children’s life in mainly three aspects • life skills • academic studies • important life decisions • Consequences of their overparenting: • Kids will… • be lacking in life skills • be dependent on others in academic studies • let others decide the most important thing in life • not develop in a proper and healthy way • …

25. More suggestions on how to avoid overparenting? • Have a better understanding of me. • Let me do many basic things to improve my life skills. • Let me make important decisions on my own. • Don’t cross the line so that I can develop more healthily. • Take it easy when I make mistakes. • Be responsible parents instead of helicopter parents. • Respect me and please leave me alone.

26. Writing • Thanksgiving Day is coming. Please write a letter to your parents, expressing your gratitude to them for bringing you up and giving advice on how to parent properly.

27. The structure of a letter • Dear Mom and Dad, • Thanksgiving is coming. I’d like to say thanks to you. Thanks for your effort, energy you have devoted to raising me. • However, I would like to point out that sometimes you are doing things instead of me like helicopter parents. • In helping me gain life skills, please …, because…. • In my academic studies, please….. , because…. • In making important life decisions, please … , because… • Finally, I would like to say that I want you to be… . Don’t be helicopter parents. Just …. Thanks again for loving me and bringing me up. Happy Thanksgiving Day! • Yours,

28. Thanks for cooperation!