Sentences with phrase «naughty children»

On the other hand, some pups are like naughty children, and just will not go to sleep at bedtime!

Evangelical it calls for the death penalty for wearing mixed fabrics and for naughty children.

Many policies encourage adults to be process monkeys, stepping naughty children through the system to the cliff edge of exclusion.

This beast is thought to punish children who misbehave and to capture particularly naughty children in his sack and carry them away to his lair.

Like a harassed babysitter trying to cope with naughty children, it hopes that if it hands out enough sweets to its charges, they will calm down.

- The quintessential cautionary tale, Peter Rabbit warns naughty children about the grave consequences of misbehaving.

The erosion of the role of conference is a significant symptom of the disconnect between both the Party membership and the leadership (who regard the former as potentially naughty children who under no circumstances should be let near the sweetie jar).

His verdict on the Church of England was that she was very seedy and sinking fast, «the serious and really good membersof the old lady's family are tending unconsciously to the Faith, whilethe naughty children are rushing intorationalism and infidelity».

He appears on Christmas in places like Austria, Bavaria, Croatia, Hungary and Piedmont, where he breaks into houses rattling chains and brandishing switches, then stuffs naughty children into a wicker basket to later eat, drown or escort to damnation.

Creepy horror comedy introduces America to horned demon who chases naughty children at Christmas

Academy Award winning actress Emma Thompson, who both wrote the screenplay and stars as the titular character, returns to teach discipline to another set of naughty children -LSB-...]

Nicholas comes with a chain and bells that he lashes about, along with a bundle of birch sticks meant to swat naughty children.»

According to ancient German folklore, the Krampus is a horned demon that visits naughty children on Christmas bearing not presents but punishment (think of it kind of like the anti-Santa).

Santa Claus is real, he just happens to be a monster who used to punish naughty children to death until he was trapped by fed up villagers.

While the front occupants will be enjoying their surroundings, the two vestigial rear seats really are best reserved for shopping bags or very naughty children.

So much did I love comics that I even read Munro Leaf's Watchbird, which appeared in my mother's copies of Ladies» Home Journal; that vaguely Orwellian comic featured «watchbirds» censoriously watching naughty children.

We waited until it was dark and marched it across the street like naughty children sneaking something in.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Group Project: For this project, students work together to write descriptions and draw pictures about what happens to the four naughty children in the factory rooms.

It stifles creativity and treats professionals like naughty children.»

The story goes that Krampus travels with Saint Nicholas, leaving coal for naughty children or scaring them into behaving.

His home - town is overrun with naughty children, and the grown - ups have vanished.

and killing your naughty children?

Convert what you said into another example where a parent (mother or father) wishes to instill some education and discipline into their naughty child.

I also made a a bread & butter pudding with some that dried out after being left out on the counter (naughty children!)

He was almost like the naughty child from school with unbelievable potential, who could achieve it all, if they behaved and tried.

«You naughty child» or «why can't you get it right» may seem like mild correction, but to sensitive children, these words can be devastating.

The parents of a naughty child may have endured some difficult experiences of their own.

It may sound silly, but it really does a nice job of keeping the importance of the relationship at the forefront of the interaction, rather than only focusing on the consequence and making the child feel like they are a naughty child and can't do anything right (which is especially good for those feisty little ones that are ALWAYS finding themselves in trouble).

He has become suddenly impassioned with the artificial air of a parent rebuking a naughty child.

I felt like a naughty child and incredibly guilty too, I also felt sorry for the next reader, who will wonder what she is missing.

Nanny McPhee In this wickedly charming tale, Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) enters the household of Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) and attempts to tame his seven naughty children.

As he bumps up against Cyril and Alma, especially Alma, he's forced to confront the fact that he's a spoiled child who doesn't just want and need the indulgences of those around him, he needs, indeed craves, the type of parentally - minded disciplinarian who can pacify even the naughtiest child by reducing them to a helpless foetal state of sulkiness following a tantrum.

Even in the schools they can make fun, they can make noise, they are naughty children, but their level of happiness is high.

In folklore the Krampus (half devil, half goat) would roam the streets on the eve of the 5th December looking for naughty children to punish.

Such unannounced inspections treated staff like «naughty children», says Brian Lightman, head of the Association of School and College Leaders.

They are the adults, we are the naughty children.

My mother shook her finger at me as though I were a naughty child, but then she laughed out loud, for raking Laban over the coals was great sport among his daughters.

Like a good parent your advice is sound and put forth for our safety, but as a naughty child we don't always follow our parents advice until it is to late; lesson learned.

The Krampus roams the land in search of naughty children to punish.

A similar display in London placed the Chapman brothers» naughty children in their own room, with a warning outside.

By redefining the political problems that environmentalism has in persuading people that it knows what their best interests are as a problem of human nature, theories like this can be used to justify acting without consent, and treating the public like naughty children.

Antarctica, the «inconvenient» pole, the naughty child, has been gaining ice mass and cooling for decades, despite a 20 percent increase in atmospheric CO2, and model predictions to the contrary.

Smokers» group Forest have also argued that these measures «treat adults like naughty children» and «infantilise consumers», stating that this latest legal intervention is unacceptable and may not have an actual impact on public health.

You can watch Torchy sing a song about naughty children, or listen to his theme song, on YouTube.

Santa may be exposing himself to a whole heap of liability from intentional infliction of emotional distress for placing coal in naughty child's stockings to trespassing and cookie theft, use of undomesticated animals, potential elf labor law violations, speeding, airspace violations, and red - nosed employment discrimination.