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Overly attached/clingy parenting, as compared to the hypervigilance of helicopter parenting.
Schools letting parents eat lunch with their kid every day is just encouraging more barnacle parenting.
by dietotaku February 24, 2019
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Apr 26 Word of the Day
1. The default beliefs installed when you were a child.

2. An unexamined position you absorbed from your environment growing up.
I grew up in a conservative home so my factory settings lead me to vote Republican.
I grew up in a liberal home so my factory settings lead me to vote Democrat.
by riemannslost0 February 04, 2020
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