Hoverboards and “hovermoms”: helicopter parents and their influence on millennial students’ rapport with instructors.

Anne Luca

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Frey, T. K., & Tatum, N. T. (2016). Hoverboards and “hovermoms”: helicopter parents and their influence on millennial students’ rapport with instructors. Communication Education, 65(3), 359-361.

Summary

This article deals mostly with how teachers should interact with mom's of the millennial generation. Millennial children are considered to be quite different. They have a very different environment in which they grew up and were raised in. For this reason, they require teachers to changing their strategies in how they are intending to go on with teaching. However, this article also deals with how the parents effect that teaching, and what that does to the students. Hovermoms, or over bearing parents, tend to change relationships with teachers, making students expect a specific type of relationship with their instructor.

Evaluation

This article is particularly useful because is shows the change in both student needs and culture. Culture and changing lifestyles have impacted what students needs are, and how they behave in class. It changes how teachers need to relate to students as well as how they need to relate to the student's parents. While relating to parents might not seem like the most important thing, but I think that it could prove to be very helpful. A good way to start understanding students it start by looking at their parents.