snowplough parent

Definitions

British standard spelling of snowplow parent.

Examples

“Making life safer and nicer for our children is a reasonable aspiration. Stripping it of any jeopardy is not. For one thing, the snowplough parent is almost always over-involved.”

“It’s easy to be confused by the traits of the Snowplough Parent. It doesn’t mean⟳ someone who is funded by the council, difficult to manoeuver and only comes out in inclement weather. It actually refers to manipulative elders who remove⟳ any obstacle from their offspring’s path, thereby ensuring they always get⟳ where they want⟳ to go.”

“Over the years she had passed on to me a barrage of ‘how-to’ books and advice columns listing ways to be a better parent/book-week-costume-maker/cake-baker/gardener/hubby-pleasing fellatrix, while also being thinner, prettier and less cellulite-riddled. I’d endured conversation after conversation about whether she would be a helicopter mum or a tiger mum or a snowplough parent, a domestic goddess or a sex goddess, or possibly all at once.”

“At the car, Josephine shows me how her booster seat fits in the front. ‘I do my own⟳ seatbelt now,’ she says and tries three times. / ‘You can do it next time.’ I know⟳ I’m being what the books call⟳ a snowplough parent.”

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