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[quote=Anonymous]I also have to hold myself back from being a snowplow parent.  I have to check myself frequently.  You want your child to succeed and it's so tempting to pave the way for them rather than let them make some mistakes and learn from them.

I don't think snowplow parenting is all that new, though.  PP suggested that the people who had it together in high school are the ones who also have it together today.  I would push back on that a bit.  Those who had it together in high school - through their own ambition, efforts, etc and not their parents' snowplowing - are by and large the ones who have it together today. I went to a private school in the NY metro which even though this was 30 years ago looked pretty similar to what you see today in terms of very heightened competition, unhealthy focus on admission to the right elite schools, etc.  Many of my classmates were the "beneficiaries" of snowplow parenting back then.  Parents who made sure their kid was in the right sports, activities, groups, clubs, test prep, etc.  Some of those people who appeared extremely successful back then also appear to be very successful today.  But not all.  Many are thoroughly unimpressive today.  My parents were not snowplows (they didn't have the money or the "savvy" to be so) and so my successes then (and now) are really the results of my own drive and efforts.  Back then, I appeared relatively less impressive than many of my classmates; today, I think I appear relatively more impressive (financially, career success, etc.)

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