Your Pregnancy

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Helicopter parenting is exactly what it sounds like – parents who hover over their children, trying to solve all their problems for them and do everything they can to protect them from getting hurt. While our children need love and care to thrive, there's such a thing as too much love, and this has serious consequences, no matter how well intentioned.

Joburg-based occupational therapist and counsellor Samantha Toweel-Moore explains that coddling your baby and engaging in

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