The Overparenting Epidemic: Why Helicopter Parenting Is Bad for Your Kids . . . and Dangerous for You, Too!

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Helicopter parents, tiger moms, cosseters, hothouse parents . . . Whatever we label it, "overparenting"--anxious, invasive, overly attentive, and competitive parenting--may have finally backfired. As we witness the first generation of overparented children becoming adults in their own right, many studies show that when baby boomer parents interveneinappropriately--with too much advice, excessive favors, and erasing obstacles that kids should negotiate themselves--their "millennial" children end up ill-behaved, anxious, narcissistic, entitled youths unable to cope with everyday life.

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George S. Glass, MD, has served as a medical doctor and board-certified psychiatrist for over thirty years. He received a BA in psychology from Swarthmore College and a medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, and he did his psychiatric residency at Yale University Medical School. He has served as associate professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, and Cornell Weill School of Medicine. He lives in Houston, Texas.

David Tabatsky has coauthored several books, including Chicken Soup for the Souls The Cancer Book and the forthcoming Beautiful Old Dogs: A Loving Tribute to Our Senior Best Friends. He lives in New York City.