teeter-totter

A teeter-totter of freedom and dependence, junior year is a step into adulthood that somehow requires more parental focus than kindergarten.

“It’s the most I’ve ever been able to teeter-totter between being a human onstage and being a dancer onstage,” she said.

Watching their sons play against one another in the NFL can be an ‘emotional teeter-totter’ for parents who want their children to win.

Our motorboat broke down here, too, and so we waited two days for our own repairs, watching boys on the beach using a broken plank as a teeter-totter.

The Mets had not lost a series all season, but that streak sailed when the Seattle Mariners closed out a teeter-totter affair Sunday.