Working and living with children can seem to consume all your time and energies.Yes, for many years, at least the first five to six, our children need our almost constant attention and we are sleep deprived, etc. It is important, though, that we learn to let them grow in their own time and way, without our constant hovering. Helicopter parenting doesn’t send the message to our children that we have faith in them to do the right thing.What our children need from us is for us to get a life.