Sentence examples for household rules from inspiring English sources

Start by setting limits and household rules.

She found counseling for the children and imposed household rules, and they learned to live together.

YEARS ago, I instituted a series of household rules that, I remind my children, are really for their own good.

And she has often teased her daughter, Michelle Obama, and the president-elect about their household rules for her granddaughters.

"I like the system," Mike said, adding that it made him more likely to do extra work and less likely to break household rules.

Our household rules steered my siblings and me away from petty one-upmanship and competition for our parents' attention, but did so in a way subtle enough that we didn't notice.

He never returned to New York in the 24 years he had left to live, and a household rule banned the Titanic from mention.

It was common for Christopher Hitchens or Salman Rushdie to pop round for dinner "Never be boring," was the only household rule.

Early on their parents established one household rule: If the sisters bickered over anything — toys, who said what — they had to resolve the argument themselves.

The author, the 8th of 14 children in a Roman Catholic Lithuanian-American family, tells of being raised in fear in the 1950's and 60's in a household ruled by parental anger, physical punishment and gratuitous cruelty.

The fifth of seven children, Mr. DeRubbio, a Brooklyn firefighter, was famous in the family for his countless ways of getting around the household rule against profanity and for the zany nicknames he gave out.