Discussion»Questions»Holidays» Can you give away a PokemonGo Pokemon for Halloween so helicopter parents don't yell at you for giving their spawn unhealthy candy?
Helicopter parents? I thought those were the parents that do not HOVER over their kids but swoop in and out to make sure there is no trouble abrewing. I don't know this conflicting definition of helicopter parents. Just what does it mean NOW?
Anyway, no one does Pokémon Go any more. That was last month.
I think I misled you on the conventional understanding of "helicopter" as an adjective. I believe most people use the term "helicopter parent" to mean a parent who is always looking over his or her children's (literally or figuratively) and not giving the children sufficient space to learn to succeed (and deal with failure) on their own. When the child of a helicopter parent gets a bad grade, the parent is on the phone to the teacher, complaining the teacher is somehow at fault for the child's poor performance.
When we moved over to Answermug, I used "helicopter" as a verb in almost the opposite sense, intending it to mean I would drop in without out warning and flit away with little notice. As it turned out, I tended to "helicopter" in chat (in the conventional sense) far more than I thought I would....;-D...
I will never find this among all his videos because it was just a blurb/joke he mentioned.
He said he was a helicopter parent (I think he made that up just on the spot back then) and used it in a different (kind of opposite context) You know, OS, maybe he said he WAS NOT a helicopter parent and I misunderstood.
So, I always got your helicopter version. I was using Wayne's because I did not realize there was an actual accepted definition of this.
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