Sentence examples for difficult parent from inspiring English sources

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I am a difficult parent: disorganised, grumpy, sarcastic and unfair.

The notion that Rimbaud somehow owed his visionary poetics to his difficult parent has a nice psychological irony.

She had a troubled childhood: her father left before she was born, and she remembers her mother as a distant, difficult parent.

Amber is when staff and family begin to take sides; staff avoid contact with a "difficult" parent and families take notes and question the expertise of the staff in granular detail.

The best support I had recently was a colleague dropping her paperwork and coming out with me to have a difficult conversation with a difficult parent when she wasn't even on duty.

Using the excuse that you are advocating for your child, or believing you are giving constructive advice with not-so-nice words will be quickly recognized and you will be labeled the difficult parent or nasty person.

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_Both this story, and your last story in the magazine, "Rollingwood" (and your last novel, "Notable American Women," and your forthcoming novel, "The Flame Alphabet"), deal with difficult parent-child relationships.

Both this story, and your last story in the magazine, "Rollingwood" (and your last novel, "Notable American Women," and your forthcoming novel, "The Flame Alphabet"), deal with difficult parent-child relationships.

At any rate, the market for unhappy childhoods is so crowded that when a genuinely original memoir comes along - one prepared to explore, without cheap thrills or easy blame, the difficulties of a "difficult" parent-child relationship - there's a risk that it will be missed or set aside for something less taxing.

Difficult parents are hardly Mr. Cabo's only concern.

Instead of echoing the phrases of "difficult parents", say what you see once you meet them.

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