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How Parents Are Robbing Their Children Of Adulthood

For Parents, For Teachers & Principals

Helicopter parenting is so 20th Century!

Today’s “snowplow parents” keep their children’s futures obstacle-free — even when it means crossing ethical and legal boundaries.

Snowplowing has gone so far, they say, that many young people are in crisis, lacking problem-solving skills and experiencing record rates of anxiety.

Read the article in the New York Times (3/16/19): How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood. (A free account may be needed to read.)

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