When a parent practices a lack of parenting and giving the child what it wants when it wants it, and refuses to do anything the child doesn't like or take any advice to help them almost always using this technique as the excuse.
I need to give my child a bath, but he doesn't like it so he doesn't get bathed because I practice GENTLE PARENTING.
by Rhodamanthus October 8, 2016
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The same as helicopter parenting. When parents micromanage their childrens' lives.
Etymology: Kobe Bryant and his daughter died in a helicopter crash.
Etymology: Kobe Bryant and his daughter died in a helicopter crash.
My mom keeps Kobe Bryant parenting me! She took my computer away because I played video games last night instead of doing my homework. Now she keeps checking in on me every 10 minutes to make sure I submit my assignments on time.
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Get the parenthesis mug.by The Real Jack Brown January 7, 2011
Get the Ron Prentice mug.Any person, usually an elderly individual, whose facial creases create the shape of parenthesis on either side of their lips.
These "parenthesis" run from the base of one's nostrils to the chin line, placing one's mouth within a set of parentheses.
It is a very unattractive feature, and usually causes one to appear puppet-like, with the chin and lower lip creating the lower part of a puppet's mouth.
Usually obnoxious, rude, obtrusively religious ex-English, now-substitute (sometimes single-school exclusive) teachers possess such a trait.
These "parenthesis" run from the base of one's nostrils to the chin line, placing one's mouth within a set of parentheses.
It is a very unattractive feature, and usually causes one to appear puppet-like, with the chin and lower lip creating the lower part of a puppet's mouth.
Usually obnoxious, rude, obtrusively religious ex-English, now-substitute (sometimes single-school exclusive) teachers possess such a trait.
That parenthesis face really said "God bless you and save you" when I sneezed!
I can't believe she doesn't know how to look through her glasses instead of over them!
I can't believe she doesn't know how to look through her glasses instead of over them!
by Ryan Dunn is Blessed and Saved November 4, 2008
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