Meaning of snowplough parent | Babel Free

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British standard spelling of snowplow parent.

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“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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