Sentence examples for thing of children from inspiring English sources

And, when it comes to football, there's that schoolkids versus the teachers syndrome Perfumo talks of, and which he describes in his book in terms of the old Oedipal thing of children lusting to annihilate their parents.

He was the thing of children's nightmares, outcast by a Victorian society unable to comprehend his grotesque deformities, but was later immortalised in films and plays.

This kind of thing — overpraising of children by parents who are unable to see just how ordinary their brats are — is destroying our society.

Tolstoy can seem almost childlike in his simplicity, because he is not embarrassed to do the kind of thing beloved of children's and fairy-tale writers when they read the emotions on the face of a cat or a donkey.

According to the End Child Poverty campaign, between 1997 and 2007-8 half a million children had been lifted out of poverty – the result, among other things, of child tax credits, the minimum wage, and focus on helping lone parents back into work.

Our country is full of people who know things, and of children who want to learn things.

He cannot fathom this - that Nigeria's mothers will do this type of thing for children," Mr Okupe said.

There are now two big tented centres with books, toys and a lot of things for children to pass their time and play with.

Here's the thing: the needs of children are far more complex than what can be ascertained through statistics and figures.

They are doable and measurable - things important in the lives of children, things which we must commit our organisations to make real.

The nineteen-twenties saw a surge of adoptions in America, a result of, among other things, the orphaning of children during the First World War.