A new study shows spending too much time with your kids makes...

A new study shows spending too much time with your kids makes them lazy. And I learned a new term: Hyperparenting.

Hyperparenting basically means you are extremely involved in your kid’s life—like helicopter parents or Tiger Mother parents. A piece in the Wall Street Journal, titled “Too Much Parenting, Not Enough Exercise,” is filled with stats and percentages from the study, but here’s the point…

Children with parents who tended to be overly involved in their academic, athletic and social lives…spent less time outdoors, played fewer after-school sports and were less likely to bike or walk to school, friends’ homes, parks and playgrounds than children with less-involved parents.

Suddenly, I don’t feel so bad that both my wife and I are usually so goddamn busy we can’t hyperparent.

By the way, this article contains another term I’d never heard: Little Emperor parenting. Apparently, that means you give the kid whatever material thing they want. I thought that was just called “raising a spoiled asshole.”

(pic by Chris Selvig)