Helicopter mom tries to con college RA into opening up her kid's door while they are in class, kid tells her off: ‘[It] was mortifying’

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• If you've ever experienced helicopter parenting firsthand, you know just how difficult it is to escape it. Clingy parents seem to have the ability to justify everything they do, no matter how irrational and insane it might seem.

  Though the world is a crazy place, and parents who are concerned for their children are doing it right, there's a certain level of freedom a child should be allowed to have. Without freedom, children are unable to learn what they should and shouldn't do in a given situation. So, instead of knowing how to lift the spoon from their bowl of cereal to their mouths, children are hoping Mommy does it for them.

  This story is not a case of the child wanting a helicopter parent—these stories rarely are. Instead, a helicopter mom decides to try to trick a resident assistant into letting her into her child's dorm room while they aren't there. Nightmare fuel. Scroll below to read the full story.

• "My mom showed up to my dorm unannounced and tried to get my RA to let her into my room while I was in class"

  
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• This mom is using classic manipulation tactics to guilt her child into caving and apologizing. In all honesty, you and I both know that there's nothing the child should apologize for. Children need privacy, too, and this mother is choosing to invade their safe space. I remember my first dorm room; It was perfect. I felt like it was a safe haven that no one could penetrate. Why? It was mine, and nobody else could get in if I could help it. Well, my roommate could, but you get the point…

  What would you do in this situation? Cave and apologize to your mother, or stand your ground and admit just how strange this behavior truly is?

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