"obstinate child" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a child who is stubborn or difficult to reason with. Here is an example sentence: Despite numerous attempts to persuade her, the obstinate child refused to eat her vegetables.
That included snubbing David Cameron at the eurozone summit in Brussels and later criticising him for behaving like an "obstinate child".
The lead singer held his microphone six inches from his face and screamed at it as if it were an obstinate child.
The most terrifying tale I have ever read in the Grimms is a one-paragraph tale about the obstinate child, in German "das eigensinnige Kind", which means literally the child with its own mind.
The opposition has been at pains to explain – as a teacher may do to a particularly slow or obstinate child – that trying to cut deficits by cutting spending in a stagnant economy is a largely self-defeating exercise, as it reduces growth and thus tax revenue.
In my view, Obama again acted like an obstinate child who doesn't want to go somewhere just because he should.
His agenda eventually becomes an exercise in futility: The more he berates Von Wächter, the more Von Wächter bows up like an obstinate child.
Or even, "their parents are lazy, obstinate, ignorant, and allow their children too much freedom".
That's the point, with Tate: the obstinate refusal, itself childlike, to relinquish a child's naïveté.
While adults experience sleep deprivation as drowsiness and sluggishness, sleepless children often become wired, moody and obstinate; they may have trouble focusing, sitting still and getting along with peers.
In Mercian Hymns (1975), Hill had his Midlands King Offa concede to "obstinate, outclassed forefathers" that "I am your staggeringly-gifted child".
A different kind of tranquillity can be found a few miles south of Aldona, at Olaulim Backyards ( doubles from £40 B&B), the home of Savio and Pirkko Fernandes, their two children and many animals, including a fantastically obstinate donkey named Mantra.
