New word please.
Is there a parental equivalent of pussy-whipped? The best Spike and I could come up with was the wussy 'indulgent.' Surely we can do better than that.
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Is there a parental equivalent of pussy-whipped? The best Spike and I could come up with was the wussy 'indulgent.' Surely we can do better than that.
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comment by Arun Sannuti:
Fawning? Which direction did you mean? (Are the parents fawning on the children, or vice versa?)
comment by Jeff:
The subject-object relation usually goes the other direction, and we use "spoiled".
comment by Sebbo:
I considered thosep possibilities. The problem is that they're too broad. 'Whipped' describes not just a state of affairs, but a process. Someone so described is implied to have once had a will that has now been broken. There are a great many reasons people spoil their children, an the child having beaten the parent into shape is a particular one that (IMHO) deserves a particular term.
comment by Harry:
"Brat-punked" pretty well describes the operant conditioning process. The little evildoers are remorseless.
comment by Sebbo:
Ooh! I like it! That's nasty. A phrase that was just made to be spat from between clenched teeth