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A helicopter parent who, to promote their child, will proactively neutralize a person perceived to hinder their own child's advancement.
The effective target of a helicopter gunship parent is a child with more talent and better performance than their own, in a activity with limited opportunities or resources. By a range of overt and covert aggressive methods, the helicopter gunship parent will remove the other child's competition, or the third party who has control over allocation of opportunities and resources, from the activity.
Characteristic outcomes of helicopter gunship parent activity are unwarranted advancement of their own child, other more talented children and their parents/teachers/organisers declining to participate or contribute to the activity, and degraded performance of the activity due to loss of talent. The benefitting child may also suffer reputational damage due to their helicopter gunship parent's activity, even if the child is unaware of the activity or an unwilling beneficiary in the activity.
Common situations of helicopter gunship parent action are sport team selection and role allocation, school drama involvement, academic or sport prizes and scholarships, and school leadership roles.
How can Adam's kids be in such high-level teams but be so doggedly mediocre and continually hold back the team performance? He is a helicopter gunship parent; over the years, he made all the better players walk away from the sport.
Tony's second-rate son got that top academic prize only because Tony is a helicopter gunship parent. I don't know how he did it but he got the award panel to quit then he got himself and his friends on it. The prize and the school is a bad joke.
During a phonecall, or even a face to face conversation, a parent will randomly blurt out remonstrations to children in the background without warning or explanation.
It's easier to think of these as a disability affecting the group of people known as parents.
It afflicts men and women equally.
"...and I was telling Cindy that there was no way she would find a dress in that size but would she PUT YOUR BROTHER DOWN RIGHT NOW!! He's not a toy.
I'm so sorry about my parental tourette's there. Where was I? Right, so Cindy is a size 8 and..."
A religious but gender-neutral way of expressing "Mother/Father of God". It is used to express something serious or to intensify the dramatics of something shocking, upsetting, etc.
Parent of God! What the fuck did you just say to me?
Parent of God, what happened to you?
Parent of God, do not speak to me in that way!
This is a noun used for indicating where your parents are at. This could be used for instances like:
“Hey, where are your parents? Did they go to get the milk again?
A term for a class of privileged people whose parents are rich or famous enough to have their own Wikipedia pages. Thus, when the parent's name shows up on a Wiki page, it would be a blue inline link.
You get good at musical theatre by practicing your singing and acting. You get on Broadway by having blue parents.
Parent who is woefully inadequate and ill-prepared for the duty of parenting for viable efficacy, and who, instead, liberally engages in the reproductive process for the sole purpose of ensuring that their progeny are made available for predatory activities, after the manner of domesticated hens and roosters...and human populations, who have historically experienced the collapse of their own societies, and now belong to another social organization, to which they have been forcibly associated, with hostile purpose.
The plate-feather parent viewed the son's emerging talent with a barely supressed anger, and so, used parental persuastion to induce the son to engage in a number of activities with the hope that the son would be brought to mortal ruin.