Recently, NPR did a story about helicopter parents--once the bane of the elementary school teacher's existence--entering the workplace with their children. However, it's not just children's workplace that they've entered, it's their apartment communities too!
www.npr.org/2012/02/06/146464665/helicop...ver-in-the-workplace
We have parents of residents who call in work orders for their children because "you know, he works during the day" (but no one else does?), parents who come in to help their child rent an apartment and ask all the questions while their 25-year-old child sits quietly by, parents who call in angry about something that their child agreed to six months ago in the lease but the parent is only finding out about it now, etc. We've made the decision in our community to work with parents, since we don't want to alienate their children and we are in the customer service business after all, but we find that parents are far tougher to handle than their children, who are our real customers.
I do think that there are some legitimate reasons why parents hover, though. Anyone have good helicopter parent stories to share?