overinvolved

If you feel overinvolved, talk to the other person about those feelings.

No, it has nothing to do with children being smothered by overinvolved parents.

In the past, I was guilty of getting overinvolved.

I found it to be a mishmash of old accusations against overinvolved parenting.

What it really meant was Dont get overinvolved.

But on every trip, a traffic light turns red and, like an overinvolved parent, Jump Start gives your child one or two quiz questions.

“This seemed like the ultimate hovering,” she said, alluding to this college generation’s nickname for overinvolved parents: “hovercraft” parents.

I agree with her assessment that Jong's essay is mostly “a mishmash of old accusations against overinvolved parenting.”

Borderline patients who are from overinvolved families are often actively struggling with a dependency issue by denial or by anger at their parents.

Studies also suggest that children of overinvolved or overcontrolling parents may feel less competent and less able to manage life and its stressors.

Like Tara, Mira has an overinvolved Jewish father and a loving if distracted Indian mother.

Making fun of overinvolved, Type A helicopter parents of newborns is easy; in today’s hyper-protective world, it’s harder to lampoon the negligent.

At the beginning they has serious difficulties in meeting because of her overinvolved father, who eventually realises that he has been trying to essentially imprison her at home.

"I think people do get overinvolved," said my friend Anne, a novelist, the mother of a 2-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl and a veteran of playgrounds around the city.

"Adult children may become overinvolved with their parents when they fear their own lives aren't going well," said Dr. Matti Gershenfeld, an adjunct professor of psychoeducational processes at Temple University in Philadelphia.

That's why parents are making sports such a priority right now, and with every expert emphasizing that dads should be participating too, there's nowhere for those like my brother or even for overinvolved uncles like me to hide.

Best known in foreign policy circles until now for being on the losing end of 90-1 Senate vote last year on Iran policy, Senator Paul emerged as a voice of populists on the right who are concerned about what they see as an unchecked national security state that too often becomes overinvolved in the rest of the world.