article_snippet: As a parent, it's the kind of thing that makes you rethink your opposition to public caning as a logical punishment for such transgressions.
article_snippet: So what additional insights can we draw, and what larger lessons can we learn, from this unexpected but predictable collision of old-fashioned parenthood and newfangled media?
article_snippet: There's also something to be said about protective parents, and how essential protective parents are to a working society.
article_snippet: We should still be concerned about those overprotective parents who hover like helicopters from little league to job interviews.
article_snippet: We shouldn't bubblewrap We kids, and keep our kids from playing outdoors, and then sit around wondering why our kids're soft, timid, and risk-averse.
article_snippet: But protective parents -- the kind who shield our kids kids from real danger -- never go out of style.
article_snippet: A parent's top job is to protect A parent's top job children.