Snowplow Parenting Is The Modern Parent’s Love Language That Backfires

ETV Bharat / lifestyle

Snowplow Parenting Is The Modern Parent’s Love Language That Backfires

Snowplow parenting might feel like love, but it plants the seeds of lifelong dependence.

Rajesh K, a 48-year-old investment banker from Mumbai, grew up believing that hustle was the ultimate love language. His daughter Ananya was barely in kindergarten when he began plotting her education abroad. “Every parent wants their kid to have opportunities they didn’t,” he’d say. By middle school, Ananya’s weekends were booked with dance class, coding workshops, and debate tournaments—because, as Rajesh put it, “you never know what the Harvard admissions committee will like.” It was all well and good until Ananya landed an assignment she had to complete entirely in school, and was left helpless