While it is okay for parents to coddle, spoil, or pamper a young child, it’s a little unnerving when parents coddle, or pamper adult children. And downright weird when adult children wear Pampers.
To parboil, or soften by boiling.
Verb
cook in nearly boiling water; "coddle eggs"
Verb
treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let''s not mollycoddle our students!"
v. t.
To parboil, or soften by boiling.
v. t.
To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.
Coddle
It [the guava fruit] may be coddled.2.
How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas!
He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation.
To parboil, or soften by boiling.
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I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them it's to push them.
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