Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times

by Margaret K. Nelson

Book Overview

They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to remove all obstacles from their child's path to greatness . . . or at least to an ivy league school. From cradle to college, they remain intimately enmeshed in their children's lives, stifling their development and creating infantilized, spoiled, immature adults unprepared...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814763898
• ISBN13: 9780814763896
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"