I agree!
This syndrome applies particularly, I think, to so-called “Helicopter Parents.”
I am told, by officials at my alma mater, that students sometimes speak to each parent as much as three times a day! The parents, in turn, zoom down to visit the kids frequently, and run interference for them with the college’s administration and faculty members. The prospect of being away from at home, at college, with others as a way to learn of the world is crushed.
Life, for these kids, has been totally controlled and recorded - every moment. Too many activities, weekdays and weekends. Life for them has become a wheel that never stops spinning; and Mom and Dad are always there, cheering them on to greatness.
I think there is something essentially incorrect about all of this.
But I was a history major and wouldn’t know what to call it.
You are: “Spot On!” I see this with some of my own nieces and nephews. The younger ones never just go out and “play” there is always some sort of activity lined up, i.e. soccer, flute, etc, etc. It’s like they don’t even have time to think for themselves! My one nephew was so incensed that he got stuck in the geek dorm his freshman year, that he badgered his mom every night, driving her insane about how he wanted to go to the college where “all his friends are.” Aren’t you supposed to go to college to learn first, then meet new people, and learn that there is life outside of the watchful eye of Mommy and Daddy? Sadly this is no longer impressed on much of our youth. Reality will hit them when they apply for their first job, and realize they aren’t too special anymore!