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“Helicopter Parenting Works,” Says New York Times. But —

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The New York Times certainly knows its readers' sweet spot. Its most-popular story of the moment is, "The Bad News about Helicopter Parenting: It Works." ...Except that it seems to define helicopter parents as those who are neither total slackers, nor old-fashioned Father-knows-best-so-shut up-ers (so-called "authoritarian parents"). That leaves a lot of middle ground. How

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