Helicopter parenting – well-intentioned but deeply detrimental parenting – is leaving our young people incapable of functioning. Helicopter Parenting Could Be To Blame For Our Kids’ Mental-Health Crisis There has been a glut of alarming articles coming out lately about the mental-health crisis facing young people today. The stats the authors are quoting show that these young people have little resilience and few abilities to cope with the ordinary stresses of life. A Sept. 8, 2016, article by Simonia Chiose in the Globe and Mail lays out some of the shocking details.  The 44,000 students who completed a questionnaire called the National College Health Assessment in 2016, “eight percent fewer students than in 2013 felt their health was very good or excellent,” and “the number of students saying they seriously considered suicide in the prior year was 13 percent, up 3.5 percent from 2013.” An Oct.18, 2016 article by Paul Attfield in the Globe and Mail quotes Tayyab Rashid, a psychologist at the University of Toronto Scarborough, who says that “trends I’ve seen is more severe cases, more chronic cases, and more crises.” In an article for CBC News dated Sept. 26, 2017, author Amanda Pfeffer writes that a 2016 study by the Ontario University and College Health Association (OUCHA) shows terrifying results. Pfeffer quotes Meg Houghton, the president of this association, who says, “I don’t want to be too hyperbolic, but the truth is, lives are at stake.” This recent study demonstrates that “rates of anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts, as well as suicide attempts,  are up from [the] first survey in 2013.” Houghton says, “we’ve got a major crisis on our hands,” and “many of us who oversee counseling services describe our day as using a finger to stop a flood and the demand for our services far outstrips our capacity to support students.” In a May 2017 article for thestar.com, entitled “Demand for...

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