How to pronounce “codd” in English

He coddled them. He took care of them.

I think people are coddling their young people in this way that then they're failing later on in life when you finally

Where you can't coddle everybody, but also, you can't give them everything, either.

That's not coddling. Now, parents get very specific. So, do you make them go to practice? There's so many dynamics in a family. No parent is usually that

way parents and teachers at an early age had somewhat coddled these peop these young people and

Now, the opposite of coddling, I guess would be something like, "You're making a big deal out of nothing. Go to practice. This is absurd."

I hate that. We're raising this coddled, wussified generation of Americans where everyone gets a trophy and everyone should feel good about themselves.

and so excited. And some people can kind of coddle that energy till the end and some people just have to shout amen and be reaching for the handkerchief.

So from the time that we are like 30 months old, we are being coddled.

Oftentimes, for us, because we've been coddled and protected, we haven't gotten that feedback, right?

We told, as you say, with the coddling and so forth-- we have too much stress in our lives.

But it is something we need to spend a lot of time with and a lot of not coddling and not pampering, but just, again,

But it is a nice story about how if you treat those who have wealth really nicely and coddle them in the tax code and our policy preferences,

And Google is known to hire the brainiest people in the world, and then to coddle them with free lunches and free lattes

And if you're not, you're essentially in favor of coddling terrorists.

This dove tells very well with the kind of domestic rhetoric of Miranda rights, coddling prisoners, coddling criminals so it fits very well into Republican terminology and Republican

really, really want to differentiate the two. Coddling is a real thing. Let me be clear. There are a lot of parents. I see

it, too, where there's coddling, and what that really means is you are limiting your kids' capability.

And that’s what led us to write our original article in the Atlantic in 2015 titled The Coddling of the American Mind.

in culture, which is really interesting, because, of course, we are going through a period of high anxiety, but also a period of intense coddling.

But particularly, in a lot of the liberal elite American universities, we see this coddling of students, safe spaces.

And so-- and I don't think, as maybe some on this panel would argue-- that it's about just coddling.

Exactly. There are a lot of great books in the last few years have come out that talked about kids are coddled too much.

And I don't mean to add to that list of books. A lot of books look at the situation say more funding -- that's going to help. Or more technology. Stop coddling professors. There are certainly

So, I'm asked a lot, "All this validation of my kids' feelings, am I just coddling them?" And I love this question because I

Yeah, I I think that's really limiting to a kid. Really limiting. It's not just coddling. I I just think it's a very sad

they become adults in body only. They haven't actually learned how to be human—they are still being coddled. Children who are coddled, who are protected from injury and insult as