Real Estate Value Security for UP, PC: the End of Helicopter Parenting
I am STILL a helicopter mom, though my children are grown. Which shows you how out of style I am. Mommies du jour now apparently embrace “free range-parenting”, raising kids like the hormone-free turkeys we buy at Thanksgiving and Christmas. That is, unstructured time rather than six activities per week to stimulate their brains. (I flashed educational flash-cards at my infant son after taking a course from the Better Baby Institute before he was born — and supplied him with non-violent toys. My daughter was getting brain stimulation from classical music the second the rabbit died even though the first test was a false alarm. That is all now so eightes.) Whether or not just letting a kid ride a bike all summer long and build tree houses is psychologically healthier or not, who knows. But I smell rising real estates values. This trend will clearly point parents to buy homes in communities like Highland Park, University Park, and gated neighborhoods (Vaquero) where the kiddos can run free safely — ditto safety capsule vacation communities like Watercolor, Seaside, Sea Island, Park City, Snowbird, Deer Valley, Jackson Hole, and Cornerstone, CO near Telluride. I think it was our quest for a Harvard degree in the family that drove us all to driving them to perfection. But we were scared, too — a young girl on roller skates was approached by a child molester the week we moved into our home on Ricks Circle in 2000.
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