Julie Lythcott-Haims spent a decade as Stanford University’s dean of freshmen where she was known for her fierce advocacy for students and equally fierce critique of the growing trend of parental involvement in the day-to-day lives of college students. Toward the end of her tenure she received Stanford’s Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for defining the undergraduate experience at Stanford and began speaking and writing widely on the phenomenon of helicopter parenting. ^[1]