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"overprotective" Definitions
  1. too anxious to protect somebody from being hurt, in a way that limits their freedom

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"I don't view Mitchell as an overprotective dad," he says.
Does she mean as overprotective sisters or as concerned executive producers?
They were so overprotective it felt hard to breathe at times.
Overprotective mothers were seen as robbing their children of their American inheritance.
Of course, both the young criminal and his overprotective mother deny any wrongdoing.
Instead of locking the kids out, moms are overprotective and keep the kids inside.
Parents have become overprotective, inducing anxiety in their offspring long before they get to college.
I'm not overprotective, but you just don't want anything bad to happen to your kid.
Darchel, who was already plenty overprotective before Brooklynn died, is an even more nervous mother.
My dad Drac begins dating, so in this one Mavis acts as the overprotective parent.
Jewish mothers are supposedly overprotective, demanding and obsessed with cleanliness, higher education and worldly success.
Jennifer Jason Leigh is his overprotective mother, who wishes that someone, anyone — maybe the bartender?
What starts as a story of overprotective parenting gets, in true Black Mirror fashion, much darker.
She's overprotective over her name, but finds it hilarious when people spell or pronounce it wrong.
Ask Duda if he considers himself an established player, and he sounds like an overprotective mother.
A sassy candelabra with a French accent, an plump and overprotective teapot, an uptight British clock.
That kind of overprotective relationship turning into something that's really chaotic and dangerous for both parties.
But quite often our fears of getting hurt cause us to become emotionally overprotective of ourselves.
The girl later confessed to staging the scene because of her "overprotective" mother, an official said.
"These guys are so overprotective of their dogs, they treat them like their own kids," he said.
A clearly tempted Yorkie explains that she has a fiancé named Greg and a very overprotective family.
There are those who question everything the midwife says and does, and are generally overprotective, but caring.
" One reviewer prophesied that the millennial college experience would "give a new meaning to the word 'overprotective.
This overprotective tendency has extended beyond not allowing children to roam free and play on their own.
An artist of paranoia, he's outrageously overprotective of me and my siblings, and always delicate with our emotions.
"It's probably made me like the most paranoid, overprotective, annoying parent ever," she said, according to the Oklahoman.
Ms. Fields has found herself snapping at strangers for minor offenses and grousing about her daughter's overprotective nature.
According to the report, Sanchez said that this was an effort to get away from her overprotective mother.
When his sister brought a date to his concert and he couldn't help but be an overprotective brother. 3.
Freya is not only alive, but the embodiment of overprotective motherhood, one that is desperate, manipulative, weak, and secretive.
Shaniah is something of a goody two shoes, who is undoubtedly going to butt heads with her overprotective father.
His decision shocks his overprotective mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh), overwhelmed father (Michael Rapaport), and tough sister (Brigette Lundy-Paine).
When those feelings of possessiveness arise within us, we worry about coming off as overprotective, jealous, or even insecure.
Here's a golden retriever dad being really overprotective when a human tries to shake the paw of his puppy.
It is almost like there is a finite pool of power that makes local strongmen overprotective of their turfs.
He is annoyingly wholesome and chauvinistically overprotective of the duplicitous Josie, and I like that he gets bamboozled by her.
So our children aren't turning out right because we are dangerously overprotective in our parenting or too strict and demanding.
If you've ever wondered why you sometimes spot babies with helmets on, it might not be because they've got overprotective parents.
But it won't bring peace of mind—it will no doubt make parents more worried and overprotective than they already are.
Don't overprotect: Every parent may be inclined to be overprotective, especially after they've lost a child to something like gun violence.
Nanny state is a British term used to refer to government policies viewed as overprotective or excessively intrusive into personal life.
She had no difficulties with his overprotective and interfering family, or with smoothly running the Tarkington homes in Indianapolis and Maine.
Daniel is one of three sons being raised by a clinging, overprotective middle-class mother (Audrey Tautou in an atypical role).
The other half grow up in overprotective families and emerge into adulthood unready to face the risks that will inevitably come.
With overprotective parents, "I was like this little dumpling bao," she said in an interview from Greece, where she was vacationing.
If you don't want Instagram's overprotective helicopter parenting, now you can download the extension here to put an end to it.
Do you agree with her father that "parents today are so concerned about child abductions and other dangers that they become overprotective"?
He was fun, lovable, caring, just a good guy, and very overprotective of me, his mother, and other loved ones in general.
In that environment, as the video shows, they were free to share feelings, discuss issues like overprotective parents and explore their sexuality.
"I think there are more overprotective parents than there are parents who send their kids to school too easily," Dr. Shope said.
What will become of the Cuban people without an obsessive, overprotective "father" who won't allow them to sneak out into "savage capitalism"?
The actors are all better than the parts that are written for them, especially Octavia Spencer as Frank's saintly, overprotective trailer-park neighbor.
"She is overprotective and very sweet to him," Queen Silvia said of her granddaughter, who is second in line to the Swedish throne.
Thelma (Eili Harboe) is a young woman headed off to college in Oslo, a move that has her overprotective, devoutly religious parents nervous.
The lie detector test soon brought on memories of Meet the Parents, in which De Niro's overprotective father character administers one on Stiller.
The window through which an overprotective mother spies on her daughter's life looks like an app that Apple might design for the iPad.
Usually, the scariest thing on a Bachelor hometown date is an overprotective, gun-owning Daddy, a confrontational big brother, or a lovelorn ex.
As a card-carrying member of the Beyhive, I admit that we can be overprotective, even petty, when it comes to Queen Bey.
His mother, Elsa (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is overprotective and underappreciated, that second quality leading her mind to wander off the straight and narrow.
"She is overprotective and very sweet to [her brother Oscar]," Silvia said of her granddaughter, who is second in line to the Swedish throne.
Martínez's mother is described as the overprotective, villainous mother who didn't want the baby, while her son is depicted as an easily manipulated fool.
Critic score: 99%Synopsis: Overprotective father Marlin (Albert Brooks) is an anxious clown fish who never lets his son Nemo (Alexander Gould) wander far.
At the same time, the text's observational tone and Fliakos's dispassionate delivery maintain a sense of distance, which can feel overprotective of both characters.
Karol&aposs mother, who the teen described as "overprotective," wanted to move them back to Honduras, which the daughter did not want to do.
However, an overprotective mom and a son who is willing to let his relationships suffer for the approval of his mother is a red flag.
I've ridiculed friends who would ask for exam deferments or homework extensions, siding with those who argue that my generation is coddled by overprotective parents.
When Mr. Kahl, the CBS executive, was asked if the networks are a tad too overprotective, he argued that it was better to be cautious.
Anastasia (Dakota Johnson) wants to maintain her career in publishing, but must deal with a wealthy husband, Christian (Jamie Dornan), who's overprotective, jealous and controlling.
Netflix Description: As danger stalks the world outside his isolated home, an overprotective father faces a tough decision when another family shows up seeking help.
This time around, Penelope (Justina Machado), a single mother, faces tough conversations with her children about sex and drugs and falls for an overprotective father.
"H: "Even though sometimes overprotective, I know regardless of what I do or say, whether I'm right or wrong, she'll always, always stand in my corner.
Ginny has always trusted her friends and family to make their own decisions, a likely overreaction to her own mother's tendency to be overbearing and overprotective.
The policy today is, as health policy experts W. Nicholson Price and I. Glenn Cohen argued in a recent Nature Medicine editorial, simultaneously overprotective and underprotective.
On the overprotective side, HIPAA makes it really hard to share data and do research, says Price, a professor of law at the University of Michigan.
It helps, also, that we come to admire the strength and resourcefulness of both Rachel and her prime foe, Henry's overprotective mother (beautiful, formidable Michelle Yeoh).
It's about a Pakistani American teenager figuring out how to straddle two worlds — the adventures of high school, and the locked-down world of overprotective parents.
Parents of children with allergies often feel that they are subtly accused of causing allergies by being overprotective or of being neurotic and exaggerating the risks.
Yet while Mr. Obama held a forum at the White House on the dangers of concussions, Mr. Trump has repeatedly said the N.F.L. is being overprotective.
But even then, his mother, who he describes as an overprotective Jewish mom, forbade him from walking across town to CBGB to catch punk shows at night.
She was coming from a place of being an overprotective mom, and not wanting me to have a tough life, or one that was scary for me.
"There are some real challenges for parents today in terms of encouraging them to be protective while at the same time not be overprotective," Dr. Davis said.
It won't surprise you to learn that Cadi's dad used to be the town's police chief, or that Dylan's mom is simultaneously overprotective, abusive and totally frightening.
Denizet-Lewis explores an extensive list of adolescent anxiety-provokers — academic pressure, smartphones and overprotective parents — but barely touches on social inequality's huge impact on the disease.
There's the overprotective and annoying dad, the action movie dad keeping his child safe, and the dad who does as much of the care taking as the mother.
She is also a child of immigrants: Her parents are Cuban-American and overprotective, and she longs for independence, even more difficult to attain as an only child.
To the Editor: As a child care provider in Marin County, California, the land of helicopter parents, I observe many children whose growth is inhibited by overprotective parents.
Alex admitted that the two are a "little bit soft" on their kids given their own childhood experiences, though he also noted they're also "quite overprotective" of them.
I still remember the moment I visited Bill in The Last of Us. He was the cranky, overprotective sort, living by himself in a ghost town lined with traps.
For example, when parents are extremely overprotective, they may produce children who are obedient at home, but lack personal discipline and self-confidence when outside their parents' fastidious oversight.
Hopefully, people who are parents will go, "Oh, that's me," and people who have overprotective parents will look at it and see some aspects of their life in there.
"Admittedly, as a new mom, I was overprotective and excited and on a mission to find a soft, cozy, natural and unique blanket I could rely on," Yazew says.
If the parents in "Blockers" seem overprotective, well, they are easily outdone by Grug, the father in this animated children's movie, who won't let his children leave the house.
The show follows Andie (Jenn McAllister known on YouTube as JennxPenn), a sophomore who struggles with dating —  largely because of her overprotective older brother Alec, played by Logan Paul.
Karol&aposs mother, who the teen described as "overprotective," according to The Times, reportedly wanted to move them back to Honduras, which the daughter did not want to do.
In "Arkangel," directed by Jodie Foster and starring Rosemarie Dewitt, an overprotective mother has her daughter's mind uploaded onto an app that allows her to filter her child's experiences.
In its ruling, the court says NOAA Fisheries has to be overprotective, using precautionary ecological principles to make sure the Navy only uses the sonar array in mammal-free waters.
Working with sex offenders did have an impact on me; I was probably overprotective of my teenage daughter, as my fears of what might happen to her were always heightened.
The real romance is between Cam's mother, Maddie, a famous detective-story writer who's just come through a successful bout with chemo, and Kirstin's cantankerous, aggressive and overprotective father, Sam.
Bronx Girl Seen Kidnapped in Video Admits It Was a Hoax, Official Says She told police she had set up the kidnapping because of her "overprotective" mother, an official said.
As the Huffington Post points out, the focus isn't on the fact that Clyde's dads are gay or of different races, it's that they're both extremely overprotective of their little boy.
This scared the bejeezus out of overprotective Danny – Steve had just gotten his own apartment – but we'd like to see how D.J. and her popular friend compare all these years later.
After a panel member asked Obama to share his perspective on failure and the impact everlasting social media posts have on young people, America's overprotective father replied with a selfie warning.
In the historic episode, Loud's friend Clyde McBride heads to his house for a sleepover – with his overprotective dads in tow, according to a clip of the episode uploaded to Twitter.
I paid close attention to Forest Whitaker expertly move from peak "overprotective father" to "peak survivalist father," who instructs stupid Theo James on how to survive the end of the world.
In "Unforgettable," you play an immaculately groomed divorced woman and overprotective mother who isn't about to let her ex's new girlfriend get comfortable with her former family in her old house.
Hell-bent on building back a business empire, Johnny is juggling his renewed sense of career purpose, loving his wife Moira deeply and being maybe a little too overprotective of his kids.
In Moonlight, she was a crack-addicted mother who manages to be equal parts overprotective and negligent; in Collateral Beauty, she's a mother grieving the loss of her 6-year-old daughter.
Those feelings, along with the normal college antics of parties and drinking, conflict directly with Thelma's upbringing, and she's torn between her overprotective parents and the person she's growing up to be.
Kotb says that much of her decision not to be an overprotective parent comes in the lessons she learned as a child that ultimately shaped her into the person she is today.
One small 2012 study found that anxious and inhibited kids whose mothers tended to be overprotective were more likely to have anxiety disorders during adolescence than those whose mothers were not overcontrolling.
"She was always very overprotective in terms of having me my brother wear SPF all the time, which I still do, and I think it helped my skin growing up," Coopersmith says.
Here we meet a green young queen who has spent her childhood shut up in a moldy palace with an overprotective mother and her mother's adviser, the bullish, ambitious Sir John Conroy.
"I can see the world I'm dreaming all around me," sings Young Amélie (a charmingly poker-faced Savvy Crawford), the isolated daughter of overprotective but unloving parents (Manoel Felciano and Alison Cimmet).
She said that patients diagnosed with NPS are showing signs of what nurses have dubbed "new parent syndrome" — overprotective parents who bring their newborns into hospital for displaying perfectly normal baby behavior.
In this comedy, an overprotective father drives his daughter to a college interview and, along the way, they both get a taste of what her post-high-school life could be like.
After discovering that his apartment has been trashed and his overprotective mother missing, he teams up with a captain from Tara on a journey that leads him to the hidden world of Tara.
One of von Trotta's great gifts is the ability to always ground her work in specific social settings, which creates a rich cameral drama of jealous husbands, overprotective friends, and cowardly art dealers.
Like Rapunzel in Tangled, Moana (Hawaiian newcomer Auli'i Cravalho) is brave and ambitious, but also naïve and sheltered, because she's been held back by overprotective parents with their own agenda for her life.
Adam Scott plays the hapless new dad, Evangeline Lilly is the overprotective mother and the movie was written and directed by Eli Craig, who previously made the horror comedy Tucker and Dale vs. Evil.
While June thinks John is being disturbingly overprotective years after her mother Elena (Laura Birn) abandoned the family, it's suggested that something more concerning than helicopter parenting is the cause of John's weird behavior.
Thanks in part to their brute strength, Goliath frogs have tended to be overprotective of their young by nurturing them in ponds away from dangerous rivers, as well as guarding them from potential predators.
Throughout the interview, Hart's love for his daughter is clear — so while we'd love to hang out with him, any boys looking to capture Heaven's heart better prepare to deal with an overprotective pop.
To the club's thinking, the alternative for the boys, ages 7 to 12, is life in a society where androgynous pop idols, overprotective mothers and mostly female teachers would turn them into effeminate crybabies.
I had something of an overprotective mother growing up and it's only now that I can see her overprotectiveness as a one very anxious manifestation of her love, and that makes me love her.
At the other end of the scale, this broken device is a low-tech assault weapon from the fourth-season episode "Arkangel," where a teenager named Sara uses it to bludgeon her overprotective mother Marie.
But, in the case of oral allergy syndrome, your body has taken a couple more overprotective steps and is now confusing the proteins in your food for the proteins in whatever plants you're allergic to.
Regina (Miranda July), a single mother, frets over Madeline's eating habits and prescription medication; she is overprotective and fragile and doesn't know how to talk to her daughter, sometimes exploding into a nearly violent state.
In the end, Kourtney realizes she needs to ease up a little bit, and Scott realizes, mostly after speaking with Kris, that as the main caregiver for their kids, Kourtney has the right to be overprotective.
Now in its fourth season, the show explores everything from Star Trek-inspired tech nerd revenge in ("USS Callister,") the plight of overprotective mothers ("ArkAngel,") and the simulated fates of star-crossed lovers ("Hang the DJ").
Sadly, Millie is fated to spend her life in the shadows unless she can convince her overprotective parents that the No-Furs (the Yare term for humans) in the school across the water mean no harm.
The first one is the overprotective client: They want to spend half an hour talking to you about your personal life first and ask you way too many personal questions, including whether you're really doing this voluntarily.
An overprotective mother fits her young daughter with a chip that will allow her to keep tabs on her child at all times – tracking her movements, monitoring her health, filtering everything she sees and hears, and more.
When we meet Rosie Ming, the heroine of the animated feature "Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming," she is living with her overprotective grandparents in Vancouver and suffering from a severe case of wanderlust.
It could be a budding pop star who is stressed out by her overprotective father, an orc game developer in the midst of exhausting crunch, or maybe an elf and succubus whose families won't accept their relationship.
By the mid-1980s, when Dr. Hoffman was beginning to remake her career, they had linked certain family environments — those that are particularly critical, for instance, or overprotective — to worse outcomes for people with schizophrenia and depression.
And in 2003, Finding Nemo became a $900 million box-office smash by scolding overprotective parents, encouraging kids not to let their folks' nervous fussing hold them back, and gently suggesting that disabilities aren't the same as limitations.
And though Albus has a lot in common with young Harry — feelings of being an outsider and a desire to prove himself — he is increasingly at odds with his father, whose worried, overprotective parenting fuels antagonism between them.
During the annual National People's Congress in March Finance Minister Lou Jiwei, a longtime critic of the Labor Contract Law, said current policy is "unbalanced" and overprotective of workers, meaning employers are unwilling to create new jobs and invest in training.
After the police dismiss her story, she sets out with her dog, Pretzel, to find the killer while also managing her colorful dating life and the job she hates at Breaking Blind — the guide dog school owned by her overprotective parents.
Her character doesn't make a lot of sense—she's a cat lady, but she's also an adventurer, but she's also a shut-in, but she's also calm in crisis, but she's also overprotective and suffocating her children, but she's also . . .
The gathering is orchestrated by Garner's control-freak, overprotective mom, Kathryn, a classic wheatgerm-y type who quotes NPR and proudly informs the too-friendly park ranger that they've ordered the Groupon rate -- four nights, for eight adults and one kid.
At that point, Anastasia and her sisters were pushed even further into the background, an indistinguishable herd of femininity that only needed to be considered in terms of which royal family they might marry into—if their overprotective mother would let them go.
Whether confronted by the forces of alt-right trolls or local governments struggling to find a balance between overprotective regulations and the kinds of policies that foster local creative scenes, marginalized people have, once again, paid the price for a national tragedy.
"Depending on the purpose of the behavior and the context in which it is occurring, it could be conceptualized as a safety behavior, an overprotective behavior, or compensatory strategy," says Martin Antony, director of the Anxiety Research and Treatment Lab at Ryerson University.
Overprotective, overbearing parents have to learn that it's OK if their kid doesn't get a trophy sometimes, OK if they hear a little bit of criticism every now and again, and OK if they, once in a while, do something without you.
It's hard to tell what was stranger about the guest roles in this episode – Paul as a would-be contestant on a show that's very clearly meant to be a parody of Jackass, or Lynch as an overprotective mother who's also part insect?
They intuitively sense what a 2013 study in the Journal of Child and Family Studies concluded: that overprotective or helicopter parents thwart a child's basic psychological need for autonomy and competence, resulting in an uptick in depression and lower life-satisfaction levels.
Most of the time, one comes at the expense of the other, with hero-ing getting in the way of school or first kisses or with things like doting parents, overprotective siblings, and the need to maintain grades at school interrupting hero time.
"Dreams were broken, relationships with loved ones were damaged, and the harm now carries over to our children as many of us have become so overprotective that it strains the relationship with our kids," Kilgore said on a website set up for victims.
"In time, maybe, we will rethink some things," Julian muses, going on to offer a list of social factors that are potentially contributing to young people having less sex, ranging from bad sex education to an overdependence on technology and, of course, overprotective parents.
"As a programmer I've always had a sneaking suspicion that the digital diversity of our files and folders is kept completely hidden from us by our operating systems–kind of like an overprotective parent bundling up their child for a snowy day," Corriel tells The Creators Project.
Ted Knight (Ted Baxter, the anchorman) Ted Knight was one of the stars of the classic film comedy "Caddyshack" and went on to play Henry Rush, a married, overprotective father whose two daughters also live in his duplex, on TV's "Too Close for Comfort" in the 1980s.
The daughter of overprotective parents from Bensonhurst, she left the claustrophobia of home for Las Vegas, where she worked as a cocktail waitress and went to bed with musicians and blackjack dealers until her roommate had a nearly fatal back-alley abortion, which initiated a feminist awakening.
When her overprotective Long Island mother (Elizabeth Rodriguez, in a 180 from her OITNB role) makes her promise to quit skating, Camille treks down the LIRR to join the "Skate Kitchen," a pack of teenage girls in the LES based on the collective that Vinberg co-founded in real life.
Born to an all-female race of Amazons supposedly put on the Earth by Zeus to be a guiding light for humanity, Diana (Gal Gadot) knows from childhood that she wants to be a warrior, and she defies her overprotective mother Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen) at every turn in order to get the training she needs.
Mothers bore the brunt of this new diagnostic scrutiny: overprotective mothers stunted their children's maturation and were, according to a leading American psychiatrist, "our gravest menace" in the fight against communism; excessively permissive mothers produced children who would become juvenile delinquents; a mother who smothered a son with affection risked making him homosexual, while the undemonstrative "refrigerator mother" was blamed for what is now diagnosed as autism.

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