His passion for her grows to such a pitch that he starts bounding up stairs instead of crawling over them like a mollycoddled toddler.

For all the female agency on display, Barbie still has to placate and mollycoddle the insecure Ken.

I went from my parents’ mollycoddled child to an adult that had to do their own laundry.

How much longer will the responsible citizens of Washington state and the United States have to bend over backward to accommodate and mollycoddle the irresponsible while the coronavirus continues to rage unabated?

“I don’t think we can be mollycoddled to live in a bubble the whole time.”