overhelp
verbEtymology From over- + help.
1
To supply with too much help.
- Modify homework and independent projects to the child's instructional or independent level, so that parents are not forced to overhelp the child.2008, Rich Weinfeld, Michelle Davis, Special Needs Advocacy Resource Book:
- Gilbert and Silvera (1996) found that overhelping can be used to spoil another person's identity by causing onlookers to attribute the other's success to the help.2012, Mark R. Leary, June Price Tangney, Handbook of Self and Identity, page 561: