Verb

indulge, pamper, humor, spoil, baby, mollycoddle mean to show undue favor to a person's desires and feelings. indulge implies excessive compliance and weakness in gratifying another's or one's own desires.
//indulged myself with food at the slightest excuse pamper implies inordinate gratification of desire for luxury and comfort with consequent enervating effect.
//pampered by the amenities of modern living humor stresses a yielding to a person's moods or whims.
//humored him by letting him tell the story spoil stresses the injurious effects on character by indulging or pampering.
// foolish parents spoil their children baby suggests excessive care, attention, or solicitude.
//babying students by grading too easily mollycoddle suggests an excessive degree of care and attention to another's health or welfare.
// refused to mollycoddle her malingering son