What’s Your Parenting Style: Sherpa, Snowplow or Drone?

A sherpa is the guide for the mountain-climbing journey and their goal is to see that the climber reaches the top, or their peak.

Are you a sherpa, snowplow or drone parent? I recently read an article, spurred by the recent college admission scandals, that examined these parenting styles. If you haven’t heard about them, catch up here. The helicopter parent describes “a parent who hovers over a child in a way that runs counter to the parent’s responsibility to raise a child to independence,” Lythcott-Haims, a former Stanford University dean and author of “How to Raise an Adult,” wrote.

The drone parent takes it a step further:

In his 2017 book “Entitlemania,” California attorney Richard Watts said the helicopter parent has been elbowed aside by the drone parent — a parent who believes that a child’s chance of success is improved when obstacles are removed from his path.

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