coddling

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In “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Haidt took a hard stand against helicopter parenting.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business and co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2022

As the epigraph to the new Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt book The Coddling of the American Mind goes: “Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.”

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2018

This idea has been imported from the US, where it received its best-known articulation in a 2015 Atlantic article by lawyer Greg Lukianoff and psychologist Jonathan Haidt, entitled The Coddling of the American Mind.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2018

The By-laws might properly and reasonably be entitled Laws for the Coddling and Comforting of Our Mother's Petty Jealousies.

From Christian Science by Twain, Mark