Citations:kindergarchy

Noun: "the state or phenomenon of children dominating..."

 * 2007 — Joseph Epstein, "'Let All Your Thinks Be Thanks'", The Wall Street Journal, 21 November 2007:
 * For some time in America we have, of course, been living under Kindergarchy, or rule by children. If children do not precisely rule us, then certainly all efforts, in families where the smallish creatures still roam, are directed to relieving their boredom if not (hope against hope) actually pleasing them.
 * 2008 — Tom Sykes, "Kindergarchy", Daily Mail, 1 July 2008:
 * How can we depose the kindergarchy and get back to a sensible balance between the needs of children and their parents, so we are not completely eroded by the experience?
 * 2008 — Jaime R. Vergara, "Autism once more", Saipan Tribune, 1 July 2008:
 * Lastly, parents must beware of the danger of kindergarchy, the temptation to focus parents' full attention and resources totally on the child(ren), particularly the eldest as has happened in the West in the last 30 years,
 * 2008 — Elizabeth Farrelly, "Paint them ugly", Sydney Morning Herald, 12 July 2008:
 * But the kindergarchy runs in direct parallel with the opposite phenomenon: increasingly babyish adults.
 * 2008 — Toby Young, "Welcome to the Kindergarchy", The Spectator, 12 July 2008:
 * I accept that the Kindergarchy is difficult to criticise. Indeed, that is why it has become so deeply entrenched. The reason so many middle-class parents devote so much time to their children is because it is such an uncontroversial outlet for their desire to do good.
 * 2008 — Candace Hammond, "Pop Goes the Culture: An evil doctor and a Gromit game", Cape Cod Times, 4 August 2008:
 * I'm sure we've all observed families where the kids rule the roost; this is now called "kindergarchy."
 * 2008 — Stephen Lunn, "Kids and holidays equals hair loss", The Australian, 12 August 2008:
 * They are halfway through a holiday where the kindergarchy theory, previously disputed in our household (for we are much stronger willed than the average parents) has begun to gain credence.
 * 2009 — Emma Jane, "A good mother who pulls out all the shops", The Australian, 21 November 2009:
 * Critics claim that kids today are the overscheduled and overstimulated overlords of a tyrannical kindergarchy.
 * 2011 — James Craig, London Calling, SohoConstable (2011), ISBN 9781569479919, unnumbered page:
 * The kindergarchy was alive and well in the Carlyle household, with Alice centre stage and Mum and Dad both fretting about being reduced to the role of indentured servants.
 * 2011 —Emma Jane, "Big scary smackdown in the supermarket", The Australian, 9 April 2011:
 * Some audience members will invariably regard you as an unforgivably harsh bitchiplinarian, while others will think you're too lax -- a flunkey for the kindergarchy.