If only my mom knew accounting...

Question

This is really hilarious ! https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/co ... index+page

Mark4124 · Answer

Damn is that weird. There were no parents at the Kelley experience weekend as far as I could tell.

aaudetat · Answer

Ugh, I am horrified.

It's one thing to have a healthy, supportive, and communicative relationship with your parents. It's another when you can't function in the adult world without them doing half of your stuff for you. 

My parents have always griped if I asked them for small favors - as in, "Gee mom, I am living in another country and would really like it if you would pay the application fees for these two colleges I am applying to. I called the school, and they won't take an envelope stuffed with franks." Their philosophy is less helicopter and more https://gmatclub.com/chat....not very reliable, comes from afar, and not so terribly helpful either.

MoonShine · Answer

Very weird indeed

eazyb81 · Answer

That is an odd article. Certain items, such as living with your parents before school or talking to them about your school choices, don't seem that weird to me. However, envisioning a parent sitting in on an admissions interview (would a school even allow this?) is mind-boggling.

riverripper · Answer

I read that story today and it made me laugh since I seem to have had plenty of interesting personal experiences with helicopter moms. Its surprising how common they are becoming...undergrad admissions dealing with it is one thing but when you are in your late 20s and applying to grad school its just overboard.

My undergrad was a military college and as an upperclassman I would routinely get calls on my personal phone from "concerned" mothers that I was being mean to their sons. Typically it was that I failed their rooms for being too dirty or for having a horrible personal appearance. You would think a mother would applaud their sons being forced to dust every square inch of their room. I know personally if at 18 I called home crying about some mean 22 year old telling me my pants werenâ€™t ironed right and I needed a hair cut, my parents would have laughed at me and told me to get a haircut and iron my pants. Most kids weren't phased when I informed them I had a talk with their mothers (never a father) and that wasn't surprising since I knew who gave them my number. 

The kid I am mentoring at work right now, who is about a year out of college now, his mom is overbearing like this. Due to what we work on (government and classified) I have had to warn him not to give her details about what we do at work since I picture her asking him questions about it all the time. We occasionally go out after work and I would say about 50% of the time she shows up. I guess she has a key to his apartment and will actually go over and clean it when he's at work, goes over and cooks him dinner, takes his laundry to her house and does itâ€¦its amazing what she does. None of it seems to phase him though. Oh the kid makes about 50K a year and still gets spending money from his folks which really boggles my mind.

rhyme · Answer

wow.

GMATT73 · Answer

Pathetic.

pelihu · Answer

They should send each of these parents a copy of Dead Poets Society.

batchgmat · Answer

Hmm, my parents will probably help me move in. Of course, I didn't ask them, they just went ahead and planned their wknd off. I'd prob hurt their feelings a bit if I told them not to come. :-D

Oh well, if anyone @ Ross cares to judge me b/c of this I'd probably not want to be their friend anyways.

Lorenzino · Answer

i thought in bschools they were supposed to admit only leaders and outstanding individuals, not spoiled children who cant even look after themselves...

helg · Answer

That was my thought exactly!

 Q. What's the difference between a terrorist and a helicopter mom?
A. You can negotiate with the terrorist 

I do not envy the AdComs job nowadays, no-no-no.

sm176811 · Answer

Hilarious! It wud be funnie to see these helicopters re-enter the workforce with their kids!

riverripper · Answer

I think there is a difference between having your parents help carry furniture and calling a school cause you got wait listed. When my wife and I bought our house both our parents helped us...its not like my 110 lb wife would be much use helping me carry large heavy furniture up a staircase. Free parental labor is a lot better than paying a mover too.

Lorenzino · Answer

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eazyb81 · Answer

This sounds exactly like a friend/acquaintance of mine. His mom still does his laundry even though he has his own apartment, and his parents pay for his cell phone and car insurance. He also has two credit cards that they pay the bill on each month. When he feels like having a mid-day snack, he will go down to this expensive steakhouse and order a porterhouse. It's really odd because I wouldn't consider his parents wealthy, it's just that they give him everything he wants.

Ozmba · Answer

So all set for Ross...I thght u will choose duke, just bcos u love basketball!! Kidding 

All indian parents help their sons/daughters to a certain extent and it's a nice opportunity to show them the place/school where one will be spending the next 2 years 


Good Luck with the move...

cheers

johnnyx9 · Answer

I think you guys are being totally unfair. There is no way I would be able to take care of all the paperwork and logistical planning of business school without help from my mom. Sure it's easy to sit back and criticize people and use derogatory terms like "helicopter moms", but have any of you looked into what it takes to get insurance while you're at school? I know I haven't, but my mom says that it's very complicated and so she's taking care of it for me. And what about shopping for school supplies for this fall? Do any of you really think you can succesfully purchase all the number 2 pencils, the wide-ruled paper, and the trapper keepers that you'll need without your mom? I certainly won't be able to. So let's not be so quick to judge, mom's are great.

pelihu · Answer

Wide ruled paper. :lol:

johnnyx9 · Answer

And of course those plastic safety-scissors and paste!

If only my mom knew accounting...

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