Sentences with phrase «parents coddle»

The more parents coddle their children and helicopter parent them, delaying their maturation into responsible capable adults, the more this abhorrent work - around to prove their bravado and strength in negative ways will persist.

By the looks of your profile you know a lot about parents coddling them time to move outta mom's house and get a job son!

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Schools, teachers, and parents need to stop coddling kids.

the third: kids graduating from elementary school are coddled by delusional parents haven't seen anything about this either, but seriously, why would you celebrate that you have 8 more years of school left?

God's love is not the molly coddling kind of love of the guilty parent.

My parenting hours don't end at 8 pm, tending to my child's needs and reassuring her and making her feel safe and important is NOT coddling.

And, this can sometimes put a rift in relationships when a family member (often from older generations — our parents or in - laws in particular — takes offense to the baby not wanting to be held or finds the child's behavior to be clear evidence that you must be coddling them too much and doesn't mind telling you so.

In a recent conversation with other parents, I discovered that many of us are coddling our kids.

At home, there was little support because in those days parents were taught to keep a baby to strict four - hour intervals between feedings and to coddle an infant as little as possible, Froehlich recalls.

«I'm increasingly struck by the sense that lots of parents, educators and administrators feel that there is something missing in education — with low - income kids in particular — but really with kids from every background,» says the 45 - year - old author and journalist, coddling his herbal tea in an East Village café on a wintry New York morning.

Our generation is being accused of coddling our kids, with attachment parenting at the forefront, but science tells us that hitting our kids isn't good for their development.

One classic example comes from the work of psychologist John B. Watson, who admonished parents not to hug, coddle or kiss their infants and young children in order to train them to develop good habits early on.

This strict and rigorous style of parenting resembles the ideologies of Locke, who believed that children should not be coddled or raised tenderly, and that each aspect of the child's development should be determined by the parent.

Good parents can't get enough of their babies, and must make it a habit to resist the urge to incessantly coddle and check on their children.

In contrast, parent R. imitator frogs coddle their young.

When one of the camp's guiding shrinks tells a room full of parents that their children are addicted to online games because «they can't experience satisfaction and heroism in real life,» the film can't help but invite comparison to the child - coddling excess of American culture, while capturing the opposite scenario in excruciating detail.

Polite, charming in his own way and a dedicated straight A student coddled by his overprotective Jewish parents, Marcus is sent to college in Ohio as a means to avoid being drafted into the Korean War, a conflict that has claimed the lives of many of his peers and cousins in his neighborhood.

Ill - prepared by coddling helicopter parents and grade - inflating schools, my generation is entering the workforce with unrealistic expectations about promotion and responsibility, and, according to Levine and Dean, we are in for a fall.

When parents and educators voice concerns, they have been accused of coddling.

While some points may have an element of tongue - in - cheek humor to them, the basic message is clear: Children do not need the constant coddling they're given by most parents in the U.S. and Canada these days, and parents will benefit by stepping back.

A lot of people like to coddle babies — and for good reason, since your basic job as a parent is to protect your weak, smushy baby from a lot of things.

New to this kind of public opposition, these young marchers won't find much practical advice from their parents, mostly members of the coddled Gen X era who are unskilled at organized dissent.

As a result, today's young generation is dubbed as the «snowflake generation» because many are unable to deal with life's stressors due to their parents» overprotection and coddling.

The coddled generation, whose feelings parents try not to offend, have not learned to grow up, per Michael Brown of Townhall.

The findings also demonstrate that 82 percent of millennials surveyed embrace their independence with gusto and prefer to handle home improvements on their own instead of turning to their parents for money; a stark contrast to the general misconception that paints young Americans as coddled or entitled.