overprotect

• “They should protect benefits against inflation but not overprotect them.”

  The Washington Post: At CPAC, Indiana Gov. Daniels looks at 2012 and decries a 'new red menace'

• “Aggressive marketing these days has most of us, even kids, wearing shoes that in many cases overprotect the foot.”

  The Huffington Post: Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life

• “I don't want to overprotect him, to keep asking him how he's doing.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Baseball Helps Japanese Town Heal

• “I still worry though and tend to overprotect him, but he's a sweet kid and I think his dad & I have done a pretty good job raising him.”

  Dear God... (the stick turned blue)

• “College educators know this, and parents who overprotect their kids frustrate them as well as the college personnel who are there to help guide them.”

  Simon & Schuster: The iConnected Parent

• “Idiots who overprotect their copyrights really bother me.”

  Ryan J. Davis: Idiot Copyright Holders

• “These writers point out how parents 'tendencies to hover and overprotect their kids are destroying children's initiative and making them feel incompetent and inadequate.”

  Lisa Firestone: What Is Really Behind the Current "Over-Parenting" Syndrome?

• “In our work at the Glendon Association, a nonprofit psychological organization that provides parent education programs, we have come to recognize that many well-meaning parents overprotect their children, see them as less competent than they really are, and overstep their boundaries because they (the parents) feel connected to them through a process Dr. Robert Firestone calls the fantasy bond.”

  Lisa Firestone: What Is Really Behind the Current "Over-Parenting" Syndrome?

• “These writers point out how parents\ 'tendencies to hover and overprotect their kids are destroying children\'s initiative and making them feel incompetent and inadequate.”

  Lisa Firestone: What Is Really Behind the Current "Over-Parenting" Syndrome?

• “Last month Alfredo Jam, an analyst at the economy ministry, told the Financial Times that the system, which "overprotect [s]" Cubans with subsidized food while limiting earnings, was causing labor shortages in some sectors of the economy.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Castro Looks for a U.S. Lifeline

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