While it can be important for children to resolve simple squabbles on their own, they are less equipped to handle deep insults to their psyches, sent from multiple electronic screens, and often anonymously.
Yes, the above examples may seem like simple squabbles, but as a minority whose mother grew up on the doorsteps of Afghanistan, where a Communist-Afghan government ceded control to the Soviet Union, with the eventual goal of invading the rest of South Asia and turning all the innocents into serfs, then yes... yes, it is difficult not to remain very cognizant of the stripping of any civil liberty.
This applies to everything from an election to a simple family squabble.
These apps have been met with equal parts backing and backlash and the conversation surrounding them brings up bigger questions than simple surface squabbles.
Half-term looms, and while my children love making simple cakes and squabbling over the spoon v bowl, the wizardry that goes with making fruit reappear as something completely different (rollable, windable and whipable) is second-to-none.
In simple form, this is a squabble between a buyer and a seller.
Democrats, from this point on, should adopt a very simple technique to disarm Republican squabbles about Obamacare numbers.
In recent weeks White House indifference, partisan squabbling in Congress and simple shortsightedness appeared to blind Washington to the urgent need for election reform.
But today, Mr. Bruno sought to play down the squabble, casting it as a simple difference of opinion, similar to those that arise in a marriage.
Simple cakes – Victoria sponge, jam buns, marble cake – and squabbled over the wooden spoon afterwards.
