Sentence examples for a sympathetic parent from inspiring English sources

A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves.

Kevin, by then head anchor of Canada's Global National and striving to spend more time at home with his family, was determined to be a sympathetic parent.

I read that this situation happens a lot in families, where the kids will milk an elderly, wealthy, sympathetic parent or grandparent, sometimes draining their savings.

I'd rather see her go on TV uncensored and widely ridiculed (as she has been on "Frasier") than see a boycott by the Southern Baptist Convention silence next season's prime-time series with John Goodman as a sympathetic gay parent.

But the makers are at pains to present some sympathetic "parent" figures.

Playing multiple roles--teacher, analyst, sympathetic parent, and inspirational leader--his remarks were "pitch perfect".

Since her mom has already gone on the record with the "lame and annoying" decision, I can come out of this looking like the cooler, more sympathetic parent.

The prodigies often have sympathetic parents, as young George did.

Frances's circumstances often seem to be at war with her sense of entitlement, the idea, no doubt carefully nurtured by sympathetic parents and progressive schools, that her specialness makes her immune to failure.

They waved signs declaring, "It's world history, not white history," and talked about Cesar Chavez and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leaders of the walkout urged others to stay out of the streets and not to curse, and sympathetic parents brought poster board, magic markers and bottles of water.

The sympathetic parents of Spielberg's suburbia often give way to self-involved adults who view their own children as inconvenient distractions.