Are You Overparenting?

There's an ongoing debate between moms in the “free range parenting” camp and moms in the “helicopter” camp.  Who's right? We have no idea. Each side is pretty set in their ways and convinced the other moms are irrevocably ruining their children for life.

There's constant pressure to get it right, to be the best mom EVER! Meanwhile, we wax philosophic about how we shouldn't be engaging in “Mommy Wars” and comfort one another by sharing our parenting foibles on Facebook while bragging about how we're totally getting it right.

One thing's for sure, we want to get it right. If there's one thing we can all agree on it's that all moms want to be good moms. So here's a question for you: can we be too good at it? If we could be “the perfect mom,” would that be a good thing?

Find out on the next page.

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