overparenting
English
Etymology
over- + parenting
Noun
overparenting (uncountable)
- Excessive parenting, as by being overprotective towards one's child.
- 2009 May 10, Susan Dominus, “I Love You More”, in New York Times:
- (You might think this was in an essay on the perils of overparenting; it’s actually one in which she realizes that she can’t foist her own childhood anxieties onto her own socially adroit children.)
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