Overprotect

They should protect benefits against inflation but not overprotect them. ❋ Dan Balz (2011)

Aggressive marketing these days has most of us, even kids, wearing shoes that in many cases overprotect the foot. ❋ Arthur Rosenfeld (2011)

"I don't want to overprotect him, to keep asking him how he's doing." ❋ Gordon Fairclough (2011)

College educators know this, and parents who overprotect their kids frustrate them as well as the college personnel who are there to help guide them. ❋ Barbara K. Hofer (2010)

I still worry though and tend to overprotect him, but he's a sweet kid and I think his dad & I have done a pretty good job raising him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Idiots who overprotect their copyrights really bother me. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These writers point out how parents 'tendencies to hover and overprotect their kids are destroying children's initiative and making them feel incompetent and inadequate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These writers point out how parents\ 'tendencies to hover and overprotect their kids are destroying children\'s initiative and making them feel incompetent and inadequate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In our work at the Glendon Association, a nonprofit psychological organization that provides parent education programs, we have come to recognize that many well-meaning parents overprotect their children, see them as less competent than they really are, and overstep their boundaries because they (the parents) feel connected to them through a process Dr. Robert Firestone calls the fantasy bond. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Last month Alfredo Jam, an analyst at the economy ministry, told the Financial Times that the system, which "overprotect [s]" Cubans with subsidized food while limiting earnings, was causing labor shortages in some sectors of the economy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On the other hand, I also believe it is a mistake to overprotect children from the realities of the world or to give them a mistakenly benign view of how the world works. ❋ Littlemissattitude (2006)

Funny in a sick way how you repugs, from the conception of a child until he or she is 18 will overprotect that kid from every possible boogeyman that exists, and many that do not. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Except for the occasional bout of paranoia and a tendency to overprotect his girlfriend and especially her cute as a button daughter, John has always managed to keep his dark profession secret and separate from his idyllic private life. ❋ Unknown (2003)

You can't overprotect yourselves, so -- of course, you have to be cautious, but not overdoing it. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Having the courage not to pamper and overprotect your child means that sometimes she will be uncomfortable, unhappy, or even in peril, but that you are willing to take a chance because of your commitment to her growth and development. ❋ Ph.D. Wendy Mogel (2001)