If the house was heaven for small boys, the grounds were a balm for beleaguered parents.
Like a beleaguered parent, thought Daniel; he suppressed a smile so she wouldn't think he was mocking her.
Facing a record budget deficit, the White House sounded a bit like a beleaguered parent going through a teenager's credit card bills.
The camp's dual mission is to provide joyous days for children and a break for their beleaguered parents.
This makes sense, but it leaves beleaguered parents with no real enemy to target.
It could also reduce competition that leads to stress, cheating and protests from beleaguered parents whose children are being pressured to enlist by rival services.
Young romantics have become beleaguered single parents.
Multiple births produce multiple money woes, beleaguered parents say.
There's one consolation for beleaguered parents: 83 percent of youngsters pay for their own gasoline.
You see the result in the teenagers; angry, full of shame, but afraid to vent their anger on their beleaguered parents.