overprotect

Do not overprotect them. Teach them that life will throw you curve balls, but they can get back on their feet.

Not likely, oh how we overprotect our poor little darlings these days.

Is hovering to catch him/her in case of fall overprotecting?

As a society, when it comes to "the children" we tend to overreact and overprotect.

Just have a loose eye out and don't overprotect everything, children are really not that fragile.

Frequently people tend to overprotect their repositories and projects as if they were their own children.

While I think it's true we overprotect our kids, this article just goes off the rails with crazy after the first few reasonable paragraphs.

Regarding kids specifically, people use to have more, so they would learn that they are pretty durable after raising a few. When you only have one, all your eggs are in one basket, so there is a greater tendency to overprotect.

Some have read into this as suggesting that the children of the village are always kept inside for safety reasons, much like how todays helicopter parents and governments overprotect children out of irrational fears like "stranger danger".- The veneer of the village is cheerful in a saccharine-sweet way, so as to drown out any of those negative thoughts or "sudden attacks of egoism".