Over-Involvement Quotes

I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?

Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

My family is crazy about watching what - everything I do.

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

I was that kid who did every activity when I was in high school. There wasn't a day that I didn't stay after school to do something. I just had my hands in everything. And I was similarly very, very angry. I was an angry little guy.

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.

Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.

We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

Nick's mother and I were attentive, probably overly attentive - part of the first wave of parents obsessed with our children in a self-conscious way.

Sometimes when you're producing or directing something, and which I've been at fault to do in the past, you find yourself trying to do a portion of everyone else's job because you're just trying to be so in control and you think that you have to be hands on, on absolutely everything. You give your sense, you give your keynote to make sure the DNA is consistent. I think that's all you can really do.

I get emotionally involved with things I should not be.