Helicopter Parenting May Negatively Affect Children’s Emotional Well-Being, Behavior
Children with overcontrolling parents may later struggle to adjust in school and social environments, study says.
Children with overcontrolling parents may later struggle to adjust in school and social environments, study says.
Emotional learning can create strong memories and powerful emotional responses, but flexible behavior demands that these responses be inhibited when they are no longer appropriate. Scientists at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have discovered that emotional and flexible learning rely on an important division of labor in the brain.