CHANGING PARENTING AND HELICOPTER PARENTING: EXAMPLE OF FINDING NEMO MOVIE

Abstract

The society that has developed and changed from the past to the present has also affected the parent-child relationship. As a result of this effect, parenting attitudes have changed and different parenting models have emerged. Each parent’s attitude towards their child is different, and the reason for this difference is that the parent is affected by their own personality structure and the values of the society in which they live. The attitude of the parent towards their child or children is of great importance at the point of raising a good child. Because the personality development of each individual begins to take shape in childhood. For this reason, the “parenting style” that parents will display becomes even more important. The concept of helicopter parenting, which is defined as the attitudes of parents who exhibit inconsistent authoritarianism in raising their children, who are overly focused on their children, and who are perfectionists, take place in the literature together with many parenting concepts such as authoritarian, permissive and democratic. Starting with the question “What if my kids don’t like me?”, the feature-length cartoon “Finding Nemo”, which was the top box office hit in 2003 and won the “Best Animated Film Oscar” in 2004, tells the traumatic story of Marlin, the clownfish father, who is overprotective of his son and the son Nemo, the disabled little clown fish who is away from home. Nemo’s physical characteristics and personality, his father Marlin’s parental attitudes, cognitive and behavioral reactions to the events they encounter will be examined by qualitative content analysis method within the framework of helicopter parenting concept.