A new kind of nightmare 'snowplow' parent is calling their kids' employers to talk about issues their children are having at work

'Snowplow parenting' is the new helicopter parenting

"Helicopter parenting, the practice of hovering anxiously near one's children, monitoring their every activity,," Claire Cain Miller and Jonah Engel Bromwich wrote in The New York Times."Some affluent mothers and fathers now are more like snowplows: machines chugging ahead, clearing any obstacles in their child's path to success, so they don't have to encounter failure, frustration or lost opportunities.

and college coaches to ensure students would be admitted to elite universities, according to federal authorities.

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