Every parent fears their teenage children immediately going off the rails if they’re not kept under constant lock and key.

But, does a helicopter strategy make life harder for everyone involved, and do kids do better when left to their own devices?

Gwen Loughman wrote in the Journal about being as hands-off as possible with your own children over the summer, she joins Andrea, along with Katie Makk from the Opinions Matter Podcast, Clinical Psychologist Tara Logan Buckley and listeners to discuss.