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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 Yon Kutzebel, 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 Chaneski'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, Yon and his wife, Sharca, decided that they're 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-for-stone, gliding slowly down the ice,

the parents in front frantically brushing 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

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