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My 20-year-old daughter, Allison, living in Philadelphia, sent me a text the other day: "I need socks and shampoo." She was actually asking me to ___21___ those items for her, but I ___22___ she was playing a cell phone game. I decide not to be a helicopter(直升机)___23___ because experience as a mother and professor has taught me how ___24___ that can result. ___25___, I prefer a more hands-off approach. From the time Allison turned 18, I no longer had any ___26___ to know her work and life schedule. But that's not what I ___27___ at Drexel University where I teach. Most of my students talk to their ___28___ three times a day or more. One student's mother called because she didn't ___29___ from him for a few days. He was in the library so he ___30___ "hello". She doubted that he was drinking, and insisted on asking him to ___31___ a picture of himself. Holding a newspaper with that day's ___32___, he took a picture and sent it to his mother in order to ___33___ that he wasn't telling a lie. I've always treated my students as independent beings. I tell them on the first day that I will not follow up with them on missing ___34___ or assignments. I am getting them to become independent thinkers, and take responsibility for their ___35___. But their parents don't ___36___ them like me. I know a mother. She supervises(监督)her son too much. She hopes he will walk by the ___37___, so that she can know what he is doing. Another mother checks her son's credit card daily. However, I never do that. My daughters only come to me with ___38___ things that need my decision, and I think that's because I give them space. Many parents try to find if their kids are ___39___ from them. But we have to learn to respect boundaries(界限), even when technology is so ___40___. So I am going to do my best not to be a helicopter parent.
Madison Williams was studying in her bedroom in August 2016 when the door burst open. It was her mother, Leigh Williams, with a horrific and ___46___ story: "A little boy fell into a septic tank (化粪池), and no one can reach him." Then she made a ___47___ : "Can you help?" Madison and Leigh ran to a neighbor's yard, ___48___ they found the boy's worried mother and other adults ___49___ a septic tank opening that was a few inches above the neatly trimmed lawn. The boy, who was only two years old, had ___50___ the eight feet deep tank. Hearing the mother's ___51___, the adults nearby rushed to help the frightened mum. Madison quickly ___52___ the situation. It was clear that she was the only one who could ___53___ through the small hole. Without ___54___, she told the adults, "Lower me in." Leigh and others held her ___55___. "I managed to get through the opening," Madison says. Inside, the dark tank was ___56___. In the process, she ___57___ his left arm so severely that the hand was almost useless. ___58___ tend to her injury, Madison scanned the ___59___ of the water closely. Suddenly she saw the faint ___60___ of his foot again and shot her good hand out and grasped the foot ___61___. "Pull me up!" Both were lifted out of the tank, but because he had been ___62___ of oxygen long enough he couldn't ___63___. He was placed on his side, and an adult gave him several hard taps on the back, until the boy coughed up fluids. It took Madison longer than the boy to ___64___ in hospital. "Madison's a hero," her neighbor Holley said. "I wonder if there is any other girl who will ___65___ to go into a septic tank."