Don't coddle the boy too much.

The schoolmaster's wife interferes, and generally coddles the boys.

She is too sane to have coddled the boy and made him effeminate-whathas she done instead?

But coddling the boy would do him no good either, and there was no time for it anyway.

What should I do, punish, or act as I longed to, coddle the boys and comfort the poor knees?

"We must not coddle the boy, Margaret," he said as Guy and Henry went off.