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Do you dash to your child’s school to defend him or her for the slightest issues that arise? Did you hesitate to write your child’s college admissions essay? Have you ever called your kid’s boss? If you answered yes to these questions, you may be a helicopter parent. Foster Cline, the psychiatrist who coined the term “helicopter parent,” explains how overprotective parents hinder their children’s development, and sociologist Annette Lareau, who authored the groundbreaking Unequal Childhoods, defends what she calls the “concerted cultivation” style of middle-class parenting. Ron Alsop, auth
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