Sentence examples for lean on children from inspiring English sources

The philosophical impact on family dynamics will be profound, as parents continue to lean on children long past retirement themselves, and people in their 80's learn what it means, at that age, to still be somebody's child.

"It's really chilling, that any corporation, and particularly one marketing itself as child friendly, would lean on a children's center," said Dr. Lynn, a psychiatry instructor at Harvard Medical School.

The parents don't lean on their children to perform in school the same way.

But there are also other, indirect, pressures on students: parents lean on their children's examination success as a base for social approval, teachers build their reputation as coaches on their students' grades; schools justify their social, and till recently formal, ranking on their percentages of top GPAs.

Watch toddlers closely, as children just learning to walk may touch--or lean on--a hot oven door for balance.

Manufacturers were well aware of the risks of rocker switches inadvertently closing if a child leaned on one; in 2004, seven children died in the span of three months.

Others leaned on their children.

It was hard to forget: Venus was the one she always leaned on as a child; the one who gave up her milk money when Serena lost hers; the one with the stoic veneer of a bodyguard.

You cant lean on that one forever.

This means that they cannot lean on each other they way children closer in age often do.

She and her husband, Fernando Sihman, an economist and former Brazilian volleyball player whom she met at a competition in Israel, have four children and lean on their families to help out.