Sentences with phrase «meddling parents»

Advice on how to deflect meddling parents is thoughtful and handy, as are a primer on treating food poisoning and a pre-written «There is No Santa Claus» speech.

Some entries in the largely undistinguished dysfunctional - family - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comforts.

Meddling parents or in - laws can be the bane of a young person's existence, and that is never truer than when the kids are new parents.

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Because they think that if they need some kind of «mental» fix or coaching, or something like that, that it is a sign of weakness or that they are broken... or that they just don't want their parents to meddle in their stuff and they want to figure it out on their own.

More often than not, the role of mother - in - laws get a bad reputation for meddling or dishing out completely unhelpful parenting advice.

It left me feeling frustrated, inept, and like a meddling helicopter parent, which I'd made a conscious effort never to be.

Beijing — Young people in China are accustomed to overbearing parents meddling in their love lives — but employees of a district government in Beijing says it's seniors...

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Also, parents from both cultures tend to meddle in relationships quite a bit but it comes from a good place.

A meddling mother is a parent that is constantly on the lookout for their own kin.

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Billy Bob Thornton (Bad Santa, Bandits) plays the coach dealing with the adversity of leading a team where the parents are always meddling and the townsfolk always giving their advice on how to run the team.

Minding Frankie, like Binchy's Whitethorn Woods, is another «small town knows best» story that finds a single father fighting for custody of his daughter when a meddling social worker thinks the recovering alcoholic is an unfit parent.

Parental involvement should decrease relative to a child's age, which means that constant meddling in an adolescent's school assignments is age - inappropriate, and parents would do better leaving their older kids to take the initiative and learn the consequences of not getting things done on time or preparing adequately.

I have been a licensed M.F.T. for 35 years, and have coauthored a book: Becoming a Wise Parent for Your Grown Child: How to Give Love and Support without Meddling.

In addition, the flexibility of a childcare right of first refusal will give a parenting coordinator unwarranted opportunity to churn time and fees, and an inappropriate amount of power to pass judgment on and meddle with parents» lives and personal decision - making, as well as with the timeshare arrangement itself.]

Joint custody * increases *, not decreases, covert resentment and conflict, because it permits the parent who is not spending the day - to - day time raising the children and operating the household to exercise veto power over decisions made by the other, and if so inclined, to meddle and interfere, creating stalemate between the two parents, followed by power plays attempting to break it.

By contrast, the children of women who are on their own as parents, and LEFT alone — those who have no divorce stress or custody hassles undermining authority, and no financial problems or social pariah status or social worker meddling (compare widowed mothers versus welfare mothers versus struggling working single mother with young children)-- do just fine.