General Douglas MacArthur's Mom, Pinky, moved with him to West Point and took an apartment near campus so she could watch him with a telescope...

In "The Backlash Against Over-Parenting"
Time magazine takes on

helicopter parents,

hyper-parenting,

perfectionism,

and fear of failure.




Mistakes are good...
so is boredom...
and so are fewer toys.

(Thanks, Stephan, for sending me this article!)