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Communicate it to yourself honestly and communicate it to your parent or loved one so that he or she understands that the basis for your concern is evidence, not over-protection.
Mark Lachs, M.D.: Elder Abuse: How to Protect Your Loved One When Cognitive Problems Arise M.D. Mark Lachs 2010
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Communicate it to yourself honestly and communicate it to your parent or loved one so that he or she understands that the basis for your concern is evidence, not over-protection.
Mark Lachs, M.D.: Elder Abuse: How to Protect Your Loved One When Cognitive Problems Arise M.D. Mark Lachs 2010
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Communicate it to yourself honestly and communicate it to your parent or loved one so that he or she understands that the basis for your concern is evidence, not over-protection.
Mark Lachs, M.D.: Elder Abuse: How to Protect Your Loved One When Cognitive Problems Arise M.D. Mark Lachs 2010
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Elizabeth Ann, an orphan in her babyhood, was snatched up by her Aunt Frances to be raised up properly with a good education, piano lessons, a healthy dose genuine love and over-protection, along with a fear of big dogs.
Archive 2010-02-01 Gumbo Lily 2010
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Real self-esteem comes from real achievement, not from over-protection.
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Communicate it to yourself honestly and communicate it to your parent or loved one so that he or she understands that the basis for your concern is evidence, not over-protection.
Mark Lachs, M.D.: Elder Abuse: How to Protect Your Loved One When Cognitive Problems Arise M.D. Mark Lachs 2010
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Television is not the only medium that whips us into a frenzy of over-protection.
The Blessing of a B Minus Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2010
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Elizabeth Ann, an orphan in her babyhood, was snatched up by her Aunt Frances to be raised up properly with a good education, piano lessons, a healthy dose genuine love and over-protection, along with a fear of big dogs.
Understood Betsy and old Golden Books... Gumbo Lily 2010
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Extreme over-protection and overindulgence -- caused by coddling children and suffocating them with far more than they need, and in this way stifling their self esteem and natural talents, often creating spoiled brats who lack confidence to face pressures in the real world and are impossible for others to have relationships with ...
SaraKay Smullens: Love, Limits, Letting Go: Good Enough for Obama 2009
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Middle-class parents, who ferry their offspring from oboe lesson to Mandarin conversation to junior Tai Chi, somehow believe that the web of neurotic over-protection that they weave around little Ella or Sam should extend -- miraculously, seamlessly -- to every object, or person, they meet.
Christina Patterson: Tips on Parenting from the Dad of a 'Stupid Kid' 2009
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