snowplough parent

English

Noun

snowplough parent (plural snowplough parents)

  1. British standard spelling of snowplow parent.
    • 2014 August 27, Anne McElvoy, “Watch out, snowploughers are at the school gates”, in Evening Standard‎[1], London, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 August 2014, page 15, column 3:
      Making life safer and nicer for our children is a reasonable aspiration. Stripping it of any jeopardy is not. For one thing, the snowplough parent is almost always over-involved.
    • 2018, Shari Low, “The Parent Label”, in Because Mummy Said So, London: Anima, Head of Zeus, →ISBN:
      It’s easy to be confused by the traits of the Snowplough Parent. It doesn’t mean someone who is funded by the council, difficult to manoeuver and only comes out in inclement weather. It actually refers to manipulative elders who remove any obstacle from their offspring’s path, thereby ensuring they always get where they want to go.
    • 2020, Kathy Lette, chapter 4, in HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy, London: Head of Zeus, published 2024, →ISBN:
      Over the years she had passed on to me a barrage of ‘how-to’ books and advice columns listing ways to be a better parent/book-week-costume-maker/cake-baker/gardener/hubby-pleasing fellatrix, while also being thinner, prettier and less cellulite-riddled. I’d endured conversation after conversation about whether she would be a helicopter mum or a tiger mum or a snowplough parent, a domestic goddess or a sex goddess, or or possibly all at once.
    • 2021, Katie Allen, “Bat-shaped”, in Everything Happens for a Reason, London: Orenda Books, →ISBN:
      At the car, Josephine shows me how her booster seat fits in the front. ‘I do my own seatbelt now,’ she says and tries three times. / ‘You can do it next time.’ I know I’m being what the books call a snowplough parent.
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