NY Times: At Home with Amy Sohn

From the Home section of the New York Times:

"ONE recent afternoon, the writer Amy Sohn sat at the Third Street Playground in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, a few blocks from her apartment, and explained the central paradox of her neighborhood. “Every mother knows what a Park Slope Mother is, but no one thinks she is one,” she said.

"Ms. Sohn was referring to the stereotype of the overprotective, militantly organic, so-called helicopter mom. Looking around the playground, there appeared to be a few in attendance.

“If you went to Pierrepont Playground in the ’70s, when I was there,” Ms. Sohn, 35, said, referring to the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood where she grew up, “the mothers sat on the benches, and let kids work things out. If you come here, you see parents on the structures. There’s a quickness to intervene. Shouldn’t we allow some degree of ‘Lord of the Flies’?”"