How to Use kid stuff in a Sentence

kid stuff

noun
  • It's time to cut out the kid's stuff and get down to business.
  • His boyhood dream of flying and going to space was no longer kid stuff.
    Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2022
  • What both of your children are doing is normal kid stuff.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
  • Then, there’s kid stuff thrown in there at the same time: soccer game, squeezing in making dinner.
    Susannah Hutcheson, USA TODAY College, 9 Sep. 2017
  • My husband’s not one of those dads that doesn’t handle his half, and it’s definitely a big help with the kid stuff right now.
    Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Elvis was the would-be crooner who wanted to transition from the greasy kid stuff and have a Dean Martin-style movie career.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
  • At those weak spots, Kyle broke his femur three times and his tibia once, just doing normal kid stuff.
    Jeff Seidel, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Among the most endearing aspects of the Miami Heat’s preseason is the kid stuff.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2022
  • This Bridgeport event features about a dozen kid vendors selling kid stuff.
    Web Behrens, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Keep snacks and other kid stuff at child’s-eye height, go-to dinner prep items at your eye level, light items like paper goods higher up and heavy, bulk items down below.
    Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Parents, too, need to guard their mental health in order to provide kids with crucial support: Building resilience isn’t just kid stuff.
    Vanessa Lobue, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The problem with kid stuff is the kids grow up, move on, and soon you’re potentially left with an empty nest devoid developing talent.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 June 2021
  • Get expert picks for concerts, kid stuff, fine arts, movies and more by subscribing to the Preview entertainment newsletter.
    Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 15 Oct. 2019
  • More often than not, it is viewed as kid stuff — or associated with the dreaded green Jell-O salad that, year after year, seems to find its way to the Thanksgiving dinner table.
    The Columbus Dispatch Staff, USA TODAY, 5 May 2022
  • So many of the major issues that YouTube has faced in the past few years, whether misinformation, just wild sort of drama channels and misbehaving creators, the weirdest kid stuff on the platform, YouTubers sell this first.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2022
  • My kids — a middle schooler and two elementary-aged kids — like to post regular kid stuff to their private accounts, like photos of their friends and the occasional oversize snail or colorful lizard.
    Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Without asking their age, Google is able, through other indicators based on viewing habits, to identify this data as the extra-profitable kid stuff, which marketers most covet.
    David Monahan, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
  • His biggest passions were regarded as geeky — essentially kid stuff.
    Reginald Dwayne Betts Kiese Makeba Laymon Carina Del Valle Schorske Dessa Irina Aleksander Sam Dolnick Mark Binelli Maggie Jones Rob Hoerburger Jamie Lauren Keiles Devin Gordon Jazmine Hughes Jenna Wortham Jade Chang Taffy Brodesser-Akner Kaitlyn Greenidge Rowan Ricardo Phillips Michael Paterniti Wesley Morris Ismail Muhammad Anthony Giardina, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The galactic fantastic without human anguish: kid stuff.
    New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The issues of maintaining civilization and taming the hubristic impulses in individual characters and throughout the universe were trivialized into kid stuff.
    Armond White, National Review, 15 Dec. 2017

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