Sentence examples for a disturbed kid from inspiring English sources
'I was kind of a disturbed kid,' he drawls by way of understatement.
Martin meets a long lineup of abusers: the riot squads who "will hit anything that moves, including kids with their hands up in the air"; the thuggish "soldiers" who act as other inmates' enforcers, sending messages with fists and wooden scrub brushes; the guards who batter an emotionally disturbed kid before they hose him down with a fire extinguisher.
He was, by his own account, a disturbed and disturbing kid.
They were describing a group of very difficult, very disturbed kids.
A. I joke sometimes that everything I needed to know about management I learned from working with emotionally disturbed kids, which I did for two summers.
"We work with very disturbed kids, anything's possible," she says, before adding firmly, "but whatever has come up, I've always referred".
It grows when a child is dragged by their mother to social services screaming for help and security guards remove both; or in the shiny academies which, quietly, rid themselves of the most disturbed kids.
My friend Camilla Batmangelidgh is the head of Kid's Company, the organisation that takes in some of the most disturbed kids in London – and she has been at the forefront of explaining the neuroscientific evidence about how young, forming brains are literally transformed by strong bonds of affection.
But I find it funny that the services are taking the time to worry about the sad, disturbed kids cutting and starving themselves, and yet, aren't worried all that much about the fact that they're hosting teens' posts and photos alongside some very, very adult content.
