{"id":280059,"date":"2026-02-04T10:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280059\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:28:09","slug":"six-signs-you-could-be-a-helicopter-grandparent-and-four-tips-to-help-you-change-the-dynamic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280059\/","title":{"rendered":"Six signs you could be a helicopter grandparent \u2013 and four tips to help you change the dynamic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Helicopter grandparents, much like helicopter parents, struggle to step back when their children are making their own choices \u2013 but there are healthier ways to navigate this relationship\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Criticism is a common feature of \u2018helicopter\u2019 grandparenting. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tyImages_1201703625.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Criticism is a common feature of \u2018helicopter\u2019 grandparenting. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You\u2019ve probably heard of the term helicopter parenting \u2013 but what about a helicopter grandparent?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cA helicopter grandparent is someone who\u2019s really involved and might struggle to step back in terms of parenting duties,\u201d says psychotherapist Amy Bojanowski-Bubb, BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) member. \u201cThey might offer frequent advice and override their children\u2019s parenting decisions.\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helicopter grandparents, much like helicopter parents, struggle to step back when their children are making their own choices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77748,93,61,60,898,29782],"class_list":{"0":"post-280059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-daily-features","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker","13":"tag-service-journalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}