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Helicopter Parenting: When Too Much Help Is No Help
It's a natural instinct to want to help your child. After all, that's what parents do: We protect and support our children until they are ready to go out on their own.
But these days some parents are defining "protect" and "support" a little differently than usual. (The definition of when kids are ready to be on their own has gotten fuzzy, too.)
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