permissive attitude

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• permissive attitude — relaxed approach that allows a great deal of freedom …   English contemporary dictionary

• attitude — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ carefree, good, healthy, positive, right, upbeat ▪ I try to have a healthy, positive attitude to life. ▪ She seems to have the right attitude for …   Collocations dictionary

• permissive — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc. ▪ sexually …   Collocations dictionary

• permissive —    less constrained by custom in personal conduct    Formerly meaning not obligatory, and then relaxed or lenient, as in the British permissive society resulting in part from reforms initiated by Roy Jenkins in the 1960s, which decriminalized… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• permissible - permissive — ◊ permissible If something is permissible, you are allowed to have it or do it, because it does not break any rules, laws, or conventions. Pictures of your pets are quite permissible. I understood that it was permissible to ask a question. ◊… …   Useful english dictionary

• per|mis´sive|ness — per|mis|sive «puhr MIHS ihv», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. not forbidding; tending to permit; allowing: »a permissive attitude, permissive parents. Not a positive, but a permissive command (Henry More). A discussion of pragmatism was naturally… …   Useful english dictionary

• per|mis´sive|ly — per|mis|sive «puhr MIHS ihv», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. not forbidding; tending to permit; allowing: »a permissive attitude, permissive parents. Not a positive, but a permissive command (Henry More). A discussion of pragmatism was naturally… …   Useful english dictionary

• per|mis|sive — «puhr MIHS ihv», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. not forbidding; tending to permit; allowing: »a permissive attitude, permissive parents. Not a positive, but a permissive command (Henry More). A discussion of pragmatism was naturally related to their… …   Useful english dictionary

• tolerance — /tol euhr euhns/, n. 1. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one s own; freedom from bigotry. 2. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward… …   Universalium

• tolerance — tol•er•ance [[t]ˈtɒl ər əns[/t]] n. 1) a fair and permissive attitude toward those whose race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one s own; freedom from bigotry 2) a fair and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ… …   From formal English to slang

• Child discipline — is the set of rules, rewards and punishments administered to teach self control, increase desirable behaviors and decrease undesirable behaviors in children. In its most general sense, discipline refers to systematic instruction given to a… …   Wikipedia