Sentence examples for passive child from inspiring English sources

As a well-behaved, quiet, passive child, she was used often as a buffer between disruptive children.

Students take ever more responsibility for their own maturation as they convert themselves from the passive child learner into the active adult learner.

Parents see the aggressive child as mean and bad, and the passive child as unmotivated and lazy.

The aggressive child believes others have hostile intentions, while the passive child believes he should be mistreated.

He hits, grabs, and takes what he wants, while the passive child allows other to hit and grab him without saying a word.

Affirmation of a passive aggressive child's anger is powerful, because the child has been working diligently, through her behaviors, to avoid expressing anger directly.

For the passive aggressive child, masking hostility is a priority.

Rather than being upfront and honest when questioned about his feelings, the passive aggressive child insists, "I'm not mad" even when he is seething on the inside.

Like backhanded compliments, sarcasm is a common tool of a passive aggressive child who expresses his hostility aloud, but in socially acceptable, indirect ways.

Compared to autistic children classified as "active-but-odd," "passive" autistic children displayed reduced alpha EEG power in the frontal region.

Despite knowledge of the adverse health effects of passive smoking, children are still being exposed.