dodge-ball

Over-parenting sold a lot of cue cards for one-year-olds, lent logic to playing Mozart in the nursery, made for a lot of very stressful parent-teacher meetings and, at least to some extent, led to the end of dodge-ball and the rise of personal Little League coaches.

Dr. Peggy Drexler: Mommy Confusion Dr. Peggy Drexler 2011

A lot of adults whose parents "stayed married for the kids" know what that feels like: you feel scared, lonely, and like a pawn in a particularly unpleasant game of chess or dodge-ball.

Jonathan Weiler: The (Sometimes) Surprising Benefits of Divorce for Parent-Child Relationships Jonathan Weiler 2011

It is true that we have become more polarized over the past 20 years and that many Republicans and Democrats approach politics like a dodge-ball fight: They line up with their backs against the walls on opposite sides of a gym, flinging balls harder and harder at each other, afraid to venture to the center.

Matthew Dowd: Common Sense Matthew Dowd 2011

Over-parenting sold a lot of cue cards for one-year-olds, lent logic to playing Mozart in the nursery, made for a lot of very stressful parent-teacher meetings and, at least to some extent, led to the end of dodge-ball and the rise of personal Little League coaches.

Dr. Peggy Drexler: Mommy Confusion Dr. Peggy Drexler 2011

All the legislation in the world will not make a game of dodge-ball any more fair for a child in a wheelchair playing against a child with full use of his or her limbs.

Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people? - Boing Boing 2009

A lot of adults whose parents "stayed married for the kids" know what that feels like: you feel scared, lonely, and like a pawn in a particularly unpleasant game of chess or dodge-ball.

Jonathan Weiler: The (Sometimes) Surprising Benefits of Divorce for Parent-Child Relationships Jonathan Weiler 2011

It is true that we have become more polarized over the past 20 years and that many Republicans and Democrats approach politics like a dodge-ball fight: They line up with their backs against the walls on opposite sides of a gym, flinging balls harder and harder at each other, afraid to venture to the center.

Matthew Dowd: Common Sense Matthew Dowd 2011

A lot of adults whose parents "stayed married for the kids" know what that feels like: you feel scared, lonely, and like a pawn in a particularly unpleasant game of chess or dodge-ball.

Jonathan Weiler: The (Sometimes) Surprising Benefits of Divorce for Parent-Child Relationships Jonathan Weiler 2011

Over-parenting sold a lot of cue cards for one-year-olds, lent logic to playing Mozart in the nursery, made for a lot of very stressful parent-teacher meetings and, at least to some extent, led to the end of dodge-ball and the rise of personal Little League coaches.

Dr. Peggy Drexler: Mommy Confusion Dr. Peggy Drexler 2011

It's war not dodge-ball; people are dying daily, turned into human torches, dismembered and painfully reassembled, gut-shot and left to slowly die in the Hindu Kush, and a million other grotesque things.

Jane Hamsher, get out your pitchfork. Ann Althouse 2009