[HIGHLIGHTS] The battering rams among the "helicopter parents": "Snowplow parents" get everything and everyone out of the way

"Snowplow parents" mean well, but pamper their children. The consequences can range from uncertainties to dependency.

The biggest challenge for parents is not wanting to relieve their children of all the challenges of life, says one expert. "Children of helicopter parents often lack social competence and initiative," says Dr. Stephan Bender, Director of the Clinic for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy of Childhood and Adolescence at the University Hospital of Cologne, to the health magazine of the AOK.