overparenting en · NOUN
Etymology
From over- + parenting.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Excessive parenting, as by being overprotective towards one's child.
(You might think this was in an essay on the perils of overparenting; it’s actually one in which she realizes that she can’t foist her own childhood anxieties onto her own socially adroit children.)
2009 May 10, Susan Dominus, “I Love You More”, in New York Times: