He criticized what he saw as the sentimental coddling of the mediocre and botched. The coddling process does not cease now. Another symptom of too much robotic coddling presented in the book is called Inertia Syndrome. It's not coddling them to acknowledge that. Warren Buffett has used the term "coddling the super rich". There are two methods of coddling eggs. Also, he's fed up with Ralph and Johnny always coddling Bobby. They added that a "lifetime of coddling" makes living in Summer Bay difficult for him.