Parents Anonymous

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noun

(in Britain) an association of local voluntary self-help groups offering help through an anonymous telephone service to parents who fear they will injure their children, or who have other problems in managing their children

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Words nearby Parents Anonymous

parenting, parent-in-law, parent language, parentless, parent metal, Parents Anonymous, Parent-Teacher Association, parenty, pareo, parera, parergon

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How to use Parents Anonymous in a sentence

Many young people are still shedding the ignorance of our parents.
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Parents are talking about it, schools are talking about it, even kids themselves are talking about it.
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In Sweden parents can use those days up until the child turns 12.
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I first saw Marvin when I was ten years old, living with my parents in Arlington, Virginia.
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He was born in an apartment above the grocery store owned by his immigrant parents in South Jamaica, Queens.
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His parents were peasants and he wrought as a day laborer till he attracted attention.
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It is true that the parents so provided think more of the twenty-five francs than they do of the foundling.
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Your father and mother gave you no warmer welcome than the parents of this little Korean baby gave to him.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike
All Koreans pay great honour to their dead parents, and tablets to their memory are placed in some room set apart for the purpose.
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But her parents, did you never discover any thing about them—who or what they were—the motive of so strange an abandonment?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various