Sentence examples for strange parents from inspiring English sources
I wanted just to fit in and be part of everything that was around me, and these strange parents were holding me back.
"Strange" parents lurk unseen in the background; academic enthusiasms melt away unmourned; his most successful relationship is with a hearty girl who quickly confides in him about the "spasmophilia" that makes her reluctant – provoking a striking lack of concern on his part – to have sex with him.
The strange parent we mean is the French.
As I noted on Monday's "The Dylan Ratigan Show," it's always struck me as strange that parenting, the most important job in the world, is treated as something you don't need any knowledge or preparation to do well.
It seems strange that adoptive parents have to undergo tougher tests than foster parents (who get paid for looking after children), or staff in children's homes where parentless youngsters would otherwise end up.Most adoption organisations agree that adoption should be simplified and that children's welfare should be given greater priority.
"They thought I was slightly strange, but my parents are quite lovely; they're progressive.
"The Stepford Wives" (or Stepford Husbands), with their expressionless faces, would make strange bedfellows and parents indeed.
In this strange atmosphere the parents were determined to keep an eye on their boys: they accompanied them to photo shoots and demanded tour-bus seats.
It is strange that today, parents' response to this age-old child behavior is to give preschoolers the actual tools of adult life to play with.
Ms. Foy is voluptuous and sensual as the ghost of the young Viola, but she can never top her entrance as another character: the self-possessed child Tanisha Taylor, jumping rope and singing about her parents' strange behavior at church.
