Involved Parents - The Supermom Phenomenon by Amanda Robb

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... Supermom!

O, The Oprah Magazine | From the July 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Amanda Robb writes about so-called "helicopter parents" and the Supermom phenomenon in O, The Oprah Magazine.

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