Sentences with phrase «squabbles over the kids»

With three kids now, I've had to set some standards for lunch time to avoid creating different meals for each child or squabbles over the kids changing their minds about what they want to eat.

What we need is foresight and backbone by government so that it can reduce what it wastes on funding unneeded law and paralegal students, what it wastes on clogged courts hearing unprepared people squabbling over their kids, what it wastes on judges and staff involved in trials that could have been avoided, what it wastes on health care for stressed out litigants, what it loses in harmed productivity in the workplace by stressed out litigants, and so on.

Not exact matches

For kids, yes, they're still learning, and some mistakes and hurt feelings are going to happen in the course of learning, so I wouldn't advocate adults intervening for every little squabble (like, two kids fighting over one communal toy, or arguing about what to watch on TV), but if there's a steady pattern of deliberate and premeditated bullying going on, then yeah, I'd step in, whether it's physical bullying, name - calling, threats, cyberbullying, theft / extortion, repeated exclusion, or whatever.

When kids squabble over toys, help them figure out what's really going on.

Many of us will no doubt recall the times we spent as a kid sat in the back of a hot car watching our parents squabble over which way to go on the way to a summer family holiday.

Kind of like being at the wheel of the bus in the fog on the winding road while a small group of kids is squabbling louder and louder, fighting over how fast the bus is going.