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Such a celebration of feelings we experience watching our children graduate from 12 years of schooling, ready to leave home, to go to college, to tackle life on their own. The diploma and their age declare our sweet babies have grown-up prepared to handle life. And they will do just that – unless they have ‘helicopter parents’, so named because they hover over their children, refusing to cut the electronic umbilical cord.

Helicopter parents insist contact must be maintained – daily, constantly – with text messages, e-mails, phone calls and frequent visits. If the least bit of some...