over-parenting

• “They are so busy tending to their careers, over-parenting, letting nannies do it all, you name it, that they are simply not there for their kids when they need it most!”

  The Huffington Post: David Serchuk: Parenting: Everybody Has A Plan

• “I'm happy, but it's a fine line between parenting and over-parenting," Ms. Bartsch said.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Susanne Bartsch Parties On

• “But I think that there is a little bit of a gulf between, okay, let's overcome this over-parenting and let's send our child out on to the middle of the Indian Ocean with essentially no help.”

  NPR: Sailor Abby Sunderland's Parents: Brave Or Bad?

• “Helicopter parenting, over-parenting, hyper-parenting -- whatever you want to call it -- has risen dramatically over the last two decades.”

  The Huffington Post: Darell Hammond: Leave Your Children at the Park and Your Paranoia at Bay

• “Another example of “over-parenting” was related to me today by my wife.”

  The Challenge For Today’s Parent Is Trying To Do Less « Unambiguously Ambidextrous

• “We bought the line that good parenting is the same as over-parenting.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Whatever Happened to Walking to School?

• “I remember reading a column by the Times' Lisa Belkin last year, in which she wrote about the decline of over-parenting and the rise of the hip new nonchalant parenting.”

  The Huffington Post: Philip N. Cohen: Parenting through the (very recent) ages

• “This could make sense if our circumstances farmers with twelve children left us with so little time and energy per child that over-parenting was impossible.”

  Can Billions of Parents Be Wrong?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “And there are some, you know, social historians or people who discussed family issues that say over-parenting is different than helicopter parenting.”

  CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2009

• “Just Sayin '," does this mean over-parenting is over?”

  CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2009

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