American parents aren't the only ones who struggle with parenting issues. Helicopter parenting seems to have become a global problem. An article in The New York Times quotes a Norwegian father of three who complains, "[In Norway] we have brats, child kings, and many of us suffer from hyper-parenting." The article continues:

Middle-class Brazilians, Chileans, Germans, Poles, Israelis, Russians and others have adopted versions of it too. The guilt-ridden, sacrificial mother—fretting that she's overdoing it, or not doing enough—has become a global icon … Scandinavians complain of "curling parents," a reference to the sport in which you frantically scrub the ice to let a stone glide across it.

Possible Preaching Angles: (1) Children; Parenting; (2) God, discipline of—This also applies to our relationship with God—specifically, God is not a "helicopter parent."