Sentence examples for a well-behaved kid from inspiring English sources

Teamed with Stanwyck, he wore the look of a well-behaved kid who had sneaked out the back door for a nervous moonlit date.

For instance, Tyre is described by those who know him as a well-behaved kid who was into sports.

I love you!" A little boy who is happy to field balls for older kids at the park, a little boy who makes old ladies at the grocery store stop to compliment him for being such a well-behaved child.

It defied belief, she thought, that a bookish, well-behaved kid would commit a rage-fuelled knife attack on two people he'd met once and then, for nearly thirty years, be pristinely behaved in one of the most violent and crazy-making environments on the planet.

A Chaucer School classmate I spoke to remembered her as a quiet, well-behaved kid.

Do these judgments form a well-behaved kind?

I was just a regular run-of-the-mill, well-behaved kid.

Neither is likely to do much to help the parent whose child, for whatever reason, isn't qualifying for the well-behaved kid discount today.

— Jeff Gordinier MSN: A restaurant gives a family with well-behaved kids a discount.

Via the Bucks blog and The Consumerist comes a story of a restaurant that rewarded a family with a discount for "well-behaved kids" printed right there on the receipt.

The psychologist Michael G. Thompson, the author of "Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys" (Ballantine, 2000), says it isn't a question of girls and boys, just a question of well-behaved kids and not-well-behaved kids; everyone should learn the same lessons about care and consideration and even about giving up a seat on the subway.