the.com/helicopter parent

means A parent who hovers over a child's every move, swooping in to manage problems the kid could have handled alone.

from Coined by analogy to the helicopter's hovering flight — the term traces to a 1969 book on parent-teen relations where a teenager described a mother who 'hovers like a helicopter' over his life. It stayed a fringe term until the 1990s, when it took off as a label for anxious, overinvolved parenting styles.