Over protective parents are a pain in the rear and I'll be the last person in the world to deny that. But at least they care.
Working in the school district at an elementary school I see parents every day park their cars in the parking lot or on the side of the street and wait inside their car, honking their horns, making these little waist high children run into a parking lot full of moving cars instead of getting out and holding their hands.
Sad, just sad