cosset (oed)

verb {T} -t- or UK ALSO -tt-
to give a lot of attention to making someone comfortable and to protecting them from anything unpleasant:

- Children need to be cosseted.

- DISAPPROVING The country has been cosseted (= too protected) by the government for so long that people have forgotten how to take responsibility for themselves.

also

cosset
1659, "to fondle, caress, indulge," from a noun (1579) meaning "lamb brought up as a pet" (applied to persons from 1596), perhaps from O.E. cot-sæta "one who dwells in a cot."

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