contented child

When we finally regained coverage, he listened to each message like a contented child with a security blanket against his face.

She was still far away but Wesley saw on her face, as if with magnified clarity, the peaceful expression of a contented child.

Her parents believe her to be a happy, contented child, but this is a carefully contrived mask.

His daughters dreamed the rainbow-colored Raggedy Ann dreams of contented children.

Visitors described the prince, who was lavishly provided with toys and comforts, including his own troupe of minstrels, as a contented child.

In 2010, Glass released Happy Kids: The secret to raising well-behaved, contented children - based on her own child-rearing experiences.

The first impression is one of endless tranquillity - smooth waters, pale yellow skies, fishing boats disgorging their catches, which seem always to be of skate or hake, and contented children.

"No, she's asleep ..." So, almost, was her busy and contented child, for whom the excitement of study and the small intrigues of friendship opened the world that was closing on her.

Tammy saw all of this, but she registered nothing-not a word, not the raising of a finger-for fear of alerting the contented child to the fact that his time in this idyllic state was about to end.

The scents of plomeek soup and roasted acorn squash engulfed him, symbolizing the dichotomy of his life in a way that was lost on the hungry, contented child who had simply come in for his supper.

Fortunately, there are many ways to raise contented children, and if you have less vitality, less run-around-the-blockability than you did at age 20, there may be other qualities your 52 years have given you that will benefit your children: patience, financial stability, an understanding of life.