10 Unexpected Benefits of Having Helicopter Parents

1. Your parents are helicopters, which is very interesting.
2. While your friends got to school by bus, car, or train, you traveled by helicopter, via your parents, who were those.
3. Parent-teacher conferences were always a trip, because your teacher was likely human, and your parents are helicopters, leading to wacky situations.
4. When your parents went to PTA meetings, your best interests were always represented. That is because they were very persuasive insofaras they were big, loud, obtrusive helicopters, and everyone wanted them to leave. The only way to get them to leave was to appease them.
5. You may not have gotten to do traditional family activities, but you did get to do cool nontraditional family activities, such as flying around inside your helicopter parents.
6. Also traveling.
7. When you had “the talk,” as in the sex talk, it wasn’t awkward, because the only noise they made was the same whirring sound they always made. Also you were certainly deaf by then anyway.
8. You easily got your pilot’s license because it is notoriously difficult to get enough training hours to do so, but you had unprecedented access to two helicopters unless your parents got divorced in which case you had unprecedented access to one helicopter during the week and another on weekends and alternating holidays.
9. If your divorced helicopter parents got remarried, you might have had half-human, half-helicopter siblings, which would have been interesting to look at.
10. And oh yeah, unless you’re adopted, you also probably get to be a helicopter, too, so that’s fun