I think that there are such a thing as helping you affiliates TOO much. This is situation where you as sponsor, try to do things instead of your affiliates and by that action you make a mistake. Sponsor is here to help by learning and by his example, not by doing things instead of affiliates. In that case, they will never learn and they will always wait for you. The target is to learn them to be sponsors and this will be possible if they are confident in their actions.