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Examples
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While some parents nowadays do intervene too quickly to solve their children's problems, their eagerness doesn't mean that, say, teens who rely on their parents for advice are necessarily overparented.
Moppets With Helmets 2008
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"I sort of despair of all these overparented kids today having a story."
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“I sort of despair of all these overparented kids today having a story.”
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“I sort of despair of all these overparented kids today having a story.”
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"I sort of despair of all these overparented kids today having a story."
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“I sort of despair of all these overparented kids today having a story.”
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"I sort of despair of all these overparented kids today having a story."
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For now, let's say that the teen readers are those who were overparented.
A Tea Cozy Liz B 2010
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It’s the bane of this most recent generation that they were overscheduled and overparented, and it’s led to a bit of overcompensation for the wild and wooley days of our own youth.
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