“So first it was helicopter parents, then snow plow parents, and now potted plant parents?”Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement“Apparently.”He rolled his eyes and went back to Wordle. My children are now 18, 20, and 22, technically past the teenage years the potted plant method targets. The potted plant method gives them permission to keep delaying that reckoning. I actually was a potted plant for the first seven years of my parenting, present in body, not fully there in any other way. I’m not a potted plant.

Source: Huffington Post April 04, 2026 12:34 UTC