1.   In spoiling the children they are vicariously spoiling themselves.

2.   She had spoiled the child rotten.

3.   Spare the rod, spoil the child.

4.   Their children were spoiled rotten .

5.   This was the Western world, where to spare the rod was to spoil the child.

6.   Experts now understand that the reasons behind what spoils a child have nothing to do with family size.

7.   Marcus and his sister at first attended a private school, but their mother felt too many children there were spoiled by wealth.

8.   Parents have spoiled their children or abandoned them, given them too much leeway or too much pressure, failed to be perfect.