Holy Helicopter Parents, Batman

[Minnie]

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A musical theatre student has won a court order to stop her helicopter parents from stalking her. Aubrey Ireland told an Ohio court she was treated “like I was a dog with a collar on,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reported Thursday.



Common Pleas Court Judge Jody Luebbers agreed, ordering David and Julie Ireland to have no contact with their 21 year old honors student daughter until at least Sept. 23, 2013.


The young woman had filed a Sept. 24 stalking order against her parents as a last resort, she said. “They basically thought that they were paying for my college tuition and living expenses that they could tell me what to do who to hang out with ... basically control all of my daily life,” Ireland told ABC News.



“My mom has always been very overly involved,” Ireland said. “I would have to get on Skype all the time to show them that I was in my dorm room, or there were nights I had to leave my Skype on all night and my mom would watch me basically sleep.”


Her parents would drive the 1,000 kilometres from their home in Leawood, Kansas, an affluent suburb of Kansas City, to visit their daughter unannounced at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, she told the court at an Oct. 9 hearing. They admitted they attached spyware to Aubrey’s laptop and cellphone to keep tabs on her, the Enquirer reported from a court hearing.



The school hired security guards to bar them from her many performances, the Enquirer said. When they cut off her tuition, the prestigious school gave her a scholarship.

David Ireland told the court her risky behaviour worried them particularly “because of my family history of mental health,” the newspaper reported.

Not sure you've got 'mental health', buddy.

[Ironhorse]

Good on her. What a bunch of nut jobs. Since they live in an "affluent" suburb, I'm curious what kind of job they had where they could still function with their "family history of mental health".

[GoinAllTheWay]

When they cut off her tuition, the prestigious school gave her a scholarship.

Schools don't do that for bad students. Good on them for doing that, clearly she was doing just fine and didn't need her parents watching her every move. Terrible parenting.

[para transit fellow]

One of the many articles mentioned that Ms Ireland was now in a civil union. I would venture that the parents weren't too comfortable with there daughter in a same sex relationship --- and possibly of the view that homosexuality is a mental illness.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by para transit fellow

One of the many articles mentioned that Ms Ireland was now in a civil union. I would venture that the parents weren't too comfortable with there daughter in a same sex relationship --- and possibly of the view that homosexuality is a mental illness.

Definate loss if that's the case, a good looking lass

[TorqueDog]

Reading the comments on TheStar, some of those people are seriously messed in the head.

"When your young, you think parents are a nuisance and you only want to party and pick up guys. When you reach your 40s or 50s, divorced/single with kids, you then will realize that your parents were trying to protect you from the whole fiasco. Then when you loose your parents, and are single with kids that don't respect you, you'll know how your parents felt. Good luck experiencing the fiasco."

Wtf.

[Minnie]

Right, TD?

'Wait until you're a parent" - um, what the blue hell does that even mean? If you're not a parent you won't understand? Well, I AM a parent (of grown-ish children) and I think these parents are fecking crazypants.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by para transit fellow

One of the many articles mentioned that Ms Ireland was now in a civil union. I would venture that the parents weren't too comfortable with there daughter in a same sex relationship --- and possibly of the view that homosexuality is a mental illness.

On her Facebook page that's linked in the Star story, her "Civil Union" is with one of her male classmates.

If that means they're living together, it could still be something her parents are opposed to.

[CaptainCrunch]

Maybe they're bitter that they were paying their daughters tuition and she was majoring in musical theater.

[Super Nintendo Chalmers]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

she was majoring in musical theater.

They started her in singing and dancing at age 2 so that can't be it.

The only thing missing that I can see is that they didn't put her in one of those kiddie beauty pageants.

[CaptainCrunch]

I was kinda joking about that, How many old school dads would send their kids to college and then grown about tuition because their kids were majoring in Drama?