Sentences with phrase «on eggshells trying»

It gets to be too much, and before you know it, the whole family is walking on eggshells trying to keep the child as stable as possible.

More likely, your kids are walking on eggshells trying to please their bully of a mother.

To Over It «More likely, your kids are walking on eggshells trying to please their bully of a mother.

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Children in such a home are always walking on eggshells, antennae up in the air, trying to sniff out which parent will show up that evening — the caring one or the neglectful one, the one who disparages and demeans them or the one who overindulges them by drowning them in kindness as compensation for past abuse.

«Don't walk on eggshells to try to prevent it,» Painter says.

Many parents of oppositional, defiant kids walk around on eggshells around their children, trying not to upset them.

Stephanie Deslauriers, a Psychoeducator and Youth Author, explains, «If every time the parent makes a request the child ends up arguing and trying to negotiate and the parent starts walking on eggshells or altering the normal functioning of the daily routine to avoid upsetting him, the child will come to understand that he can manage his parents.»

A Quiet Place John Krasinski's thrillingly intelligent post-apocalyptic horror movie, in which he stars with Emily Blunt as a couple trying to protect their family from monsters who hunt by sound, is walking - on - eggshells cinema of a very high order.

A Quiet Place John Krasinski's thrillingly intelligent post-apocalyptic horror movie, in which he stars with Emily Blunt as a couple trying to protect their family from monsters that hunt by sound, is walking - on - eggshells cinema of a very high order.

The litigious nature of society has teachers, schools, and districts walking on eggshells as we try to satisfy EVERYONE.

I try to be supportive, but I feel like I'm walking on eggshells.

At that point, you can either try to drive on eggshells for the next year, which seems nearly impossible, or you can get back to the classroom; or get out of the classroom as we like to say!

I would imagine that the children are doing something similar — «walking on eggshells» every day trying to avoid their father.

They grow up codependent with low self - esteem and learn to hide their feelings, walk on eggshells, withdraw, and try to please or become aggressive.

I feel like I'm walking on eggshells, trying not to make him angry.»