You're listening to away with words, the show about language, and how we use it,

I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. We got an email from young Kutsabao,

who is a school principal in the Czech Republic. And he writes,

I listen to your show quite often, usually when walking to the school.

I even have a place I call Chinesky's place. This is the place where his quiz always begins since

it comes more or less at the same time from the start of the show. Anyway, he was talking about our

conversation that we had about helicopter parents. You know, those parents who tend to

hover in their children's lives, and about the fact that in Denmark, they're called curling

parents, alluding to the sport of curling, and you know, those frantic efforts to sweep away

all the obstacles that are in your children's path. Well, young and his wife, Sharkha,

decided that their golf parents, and the way he put it was, we tend to strike our children

approximately in the right direction toward the hole and let them fly. Oh, those are both so

perfect curling parents, like this well-cared forest stone gliding slowly down the ice.

The parents in front frantically brush away all obstacles. And then golf,

golf, you're just using your best know-how, everything you can to push them in the direction of

the hole and the flag, and just putting your hand to your eyes to block out the sun just to see

if they're going to make it, you know, knowing it's out of your control. Yeah, make your hand

over your eyes. Yeah, putting your hand over your eyes and just slowly walking behind trying to

catch up to wherever they've gone. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Some point you just have to let them go.

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