helicopter mother

helicopter mom/mother

“直升机母亲”?单从字面理解，相信大多数人一定会理解为“直升机母亲/妈妈”，但依然会感到困惑，什么是“直升机母亲/妈妈”?到底要表达的是什么意思或其含义到底是什么意思?

我们来看看原文对helicopter mom/mother的解释

1，A hovering & controlling, but well-meaning, parent who gets way too involved in her child’s life to the point of doing things that are completely inappropriate, such as personally attending all of little Sweetiepie’s extracurricular activities, writing medium-sized Sweetiepie’s school application essays, and submitting full-grown Sweetiepie’s job applications.

2，The term helicopter mother comes from mothers of (usually) college students who ‘hover’ over their children at all times of the day. Here are some sign of you having a helicopter mother.

1. Your mother calls you once a day, or more than once a day.

2. Your mother calls you and reminds you about tests, homework, obligations, meetings, etc., because you cannot handle it yourself, you little child you.

3. Your mother registers your classes for you.

4. Your mother attempts to do your homework…and by doing your homework, I don’t mean revising a paper, but more like wrestling your chemistry homework from your willing hands and hiring somebody at home to do it for her then sending it back to you before it’s due…because she knows when it’s due.

5. Your mother sneaks into your school, does your laundry, then sneaks out.

6. You have a GPS chip somewhere underneith your skin, so she knows where you are at all times, and even if you don’t, she still knows where you are at all times because of all the phone calls.

7. You don’t know how to clean your room, because your mother does it for you.

7. You PROBABLY don’t have a (private) social life, although this one is optional.

“oh, mommy-wommy is calling again!”

“That’s the third time this hour”

“Well, my mommy loves me and yours doesn’t.”

“Because my mom doesn’t spoil me and do my laundry and call me twelve times a day? touche, touche…goddamn helicopter mother”

相信朋友们看了以上的解释，就不难弄懂helicopter mom/mother的意思了，但又苦于到底应该怎么翻译呢?其实，我们中文里好像没有直接对应的词汇来表示，因此似乎也只能意译为：“太溺爱自己孩子的妈妈”了。

当然，我孤陋寡闻，不知道各地对这样的妈妈是否有相应的说法，敬请提供。