Modern parenting is defined by an unprecedented level of overprotectiveness: parents who rush to school at the whim of a phone call to deliver forgotten assignments, who challenge teachers on report card disappointments, mastermind children's friendships, and interfere on the playing field. (jessicalahey.com)
We also test whether maternal overprotectiveness moderates the link between kindergarten predictors and fifth - grade internalizing problems. (cambridge.org)