Abstract:

The research was carried out to determine the experiences of elementary school teachers about overprotective-helicopter parents. This research is a descriptive phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research designs, which was conducted with 12 volunteer teachers working in public elementary schools in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, in the 2020-2021 academic year. In the research, the data was collected with a semi-structured interview form created by the researchers and analyzed with the content analysis technique. In the research, the concept of helicopter parent was tried to be described in line with the experiences of teachers. As a result of the research, according to the opinions of the teachers, helicopter parents who are overly prejudiced, controlling, do not accept their children's mistakes, are defensive, live child-oriented, take the responsibilities of their children on themselves and even do their children's homework. According to the majority of the teachers who participated in the research, the academic achievement of the children of overprotective families is low and they perform below their capacity. Parents with such characteristics can be supported by various local, regional, and national projects. Parents can be shown the negative effects on children by watching the theater and movies about the harms of helicopter parenting.

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