Sentence examples for less nurturing from inspiring English sources
It is correct and can be used in written English
This phrase is used when referring to someone or something that is not providing enough care, support, or attention. For example: "The children are receiving less nurturing in this environment than they need."
Yet most of us don't spend nearly enough time identifying, much less nurturing those relationships.
By contrast, she said, those exposed to severe psychological and physical stressors in infancy and early childhood received less nurturing and were less equipped to deal with the stress, and would "be living with it and re-experiencing it for a greater percentage of their life".
Certainly, what had passed for normal in these children's pre-canine lives was far less nurturing, and significantly more dangerous, than life with the pack, a regime that offered the warmth, contact, unbreakable loyalty and intense sense of belonging that abused children so profoundly lack.
Until the recent creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2011, there was no single mandated federal government agency responsible for protecting, much less nurturing, family and consumer livelihoods.
In followup work published in the February 2007 issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, the team found that mothers of naturally shy children may respond to their children in less nurturing fashion, reinforcing the children's fearfulness and shyness.
I squarely blame the young, who, through foolish apathy, criminal self-indulgence and sometimes uninformed loathing of the women's movement, have ensured that our social, political and economic environment is less fulfilling, much less safe, less equal and less nurturing than it was even in the 70s and 80s when we old Fems were burning bras and raising hell.
Never mind that the same families had owned and more or less nurtured the place for 65 years.
Thompson recalled another, less-nurturing approach, courtesy of a baseball lifer named Tommy Thompson (no relation).
"Typically, these people are spending less and less time nurturing traditional relationships with their kittens.
In their worlds, childhood is less nurture and more savage.
Older women, it appears, do indeed invest more time in furthering their daughters' welfare and reproductive success and less in nurturing relationships with their husbands, no doubt to the latter's chagrin.
