The coddling needs to end long before they walk through college doors so we can get down to the business of teaching them.

But a little coddling never hurts when there's an ego involved.

What do you want in exchange for all this coddling?"

And next winter, they will have to change locales for his coddling.

No coddling, or the others will turn on them, but try to see they don't do anything stupid.

Daughter got in the pool, and after a little extra coddling, she did beautifully.

Coddling - food is heated in water kept just below the boiling point.

But at some point, the team's coddling of Garnett had to end before real maturity could begin.

Gardeners know that stronger plants require less coddling and water.

There was a part of Shannon that rebelled against the coddling.

I want this coddling and browbeating of women to cease.

It is a drastic measure, but there can be no coddling in time of war."

Orders from higher up had put an end to the coddling of troops just back from the front.

"Is there no hazard in the coddling of this devil's egg?"

"Even at orientation," he said this week, "the coddling begins."

They both stand up to their parents' excessive molly coddling who for the first time see Ben as a young adult.

We presented ourselves at the Boulders reception desk and let the coddling begin.

And most studios, learning from Disney, seem to realize that animation requires special coddling.

They added that a "lifetime of coddling" makes living in Summer Bay difficult for him.

After nearly two weeks' imprisonment with no coddling, the prisoners were not prepossessing.

It is unclear how many travelers in general fly enough to qualify for any airline's special coddling.

Such coddling has made Asian airlines profitable, but inefficient.

On the other hand, when a little coddling is called for, "you aren't alone with other football players," he said.

Law-abiding citizens should not be required to foot the bill for the coddling of death row inmates.

His concern softened her somewhat, but she was still sick and tired of his coddling.

At the same time, he is too good a friend ever to coddle me.

He told me that I coddle the rest of the staff too much.

I'm not going to coddle him, I can tell you that.

This is no time to coddle those who break ranks.

But I'm almost forty years old, not a child to be coddled.

I had to find my own way, and I'm not good at being protected or coddled.

Coddling patrons seems to be the main job of the service staff.

It is not that we intend to go in and coddle everyone.

He's not the type to coddle antiques just because they're old.

But the last thing he needed, Reese knew, was to be coddled.

It would be a serious mistake to coddle this child.

He somehow managed to look hard and coddled at the same time.

She wanted nothing to do with eggs, coddled or otherwise.

Going it blind this way, he could see how much his father's money had coddled him.

Here at last, the message goes, are programs that do not coddle criminals.

People who pay that much money for an automobile like to be coddled, he added.

Now, "coddled by the international community," they are planning violence.

However, plants can be coddled so they will bloom next spring.

Never before had she been coddled and treated like something precious.

The defense also said prosecutors had coddled the real killers.

The quarterback is also not coddled by the coaching staff.

He said the bill would "coddle the interests of organized crime."

Sidney could hear the receiver being coddled by the small hands.

I think we may have coddled his self-doubts long enough.