True. But, I was sarcastically making fun of the fact that they never let him have uncomfortable, negative, emotions. The slightest grimace from him invokes a reaction from them. The effects of their helicopter parenting is going to be hard to correct as he grows older. Yes, our emotions mature as we age, but we're all learned behavior from childhood. He will always have an annoying level of impatience. Their idea of being patient is for him to wait for them to do it, instead of them waiting for him to figure it out. They're not patient with him. For example, he literally sits, staring at a screen, while they put food into his mouth. If the food doesn't come fast enough he screeches and cries to get his bite. They didn't have the patience for him to learn how to feed himself. He will obviously outgrow the need to be spoonfed at some point, but something about that experience will be a part of his personality. He doesn't seem to want to do things himself, and that is a learned behavior that will manifest itself in different ways as he grows up.
