The point of the article is that many Western parents are behaving more like the hovering Asian parents we think are better.
Kids need free time, time to create, to think, to play, and even to just goof off. Kids learn more at home tinkering around with their toys and playing in their yards than they do at a preschool where they are forced to sit for a couple hours while someone drills the ABCs and numbers into their heads.
I looked at my husband and asked, "how did we survive?"