Sentences with phrase «when kids my age»

When kids my age were playing as astronauts or whatever, I was playing private eye.

Not exact matches

When I was a kid — way back in the dark ages — I used to be fascinated by the massive scale of the city I lived in, New York.

That statistic makes a ton of sense when you consider that at present 49 percent of kids under age 15 are minorities, -LSB-[PLEASE LINK DIRECTLY TO THE RESEARCH FOR THIS INFO, INSTEAD OF A NEWS ARTICLE]-RSB- and by 2055 there won't be a single ethnic or racial majority.

The same things you probably stress about when you see your kid staring into an iPad screen, mesmerized — cyberbullying, exposure to age inappropriate content, the crowding out of more beneficial activities by screen time, and the danger of developing an addiction to the devices» hollow pleasures.

Instead of looking to work more or grow his business, Ellis says he's aiming to «hang out with my wonderful kids before they reach an age when they're off all the time doing their own thing.

«When you keep delaying, you run into crunch time, aging parents, kids in college, etc..»

«I showed up at Cal Tech with other kids who had been using computers when they were 5... who had been building their own video games at a much younger age,» he said.

It became very reminiscent of the dark days of Jimmy Carter when, as a college age kid, I was sure that there was another answer... Then came Ronald Reagan.

Claiming that his mother was «not fit to raise a kid» when she gave birth to him at age 16, he was adopted by his grandparents.

When I have kids, I prepare to educate them at a young age and to have their first dividend investment portfolio started early as possible!

So when somebody does something like that, I might respond in a way that to the middle - aged white professor seems really excessive, but in the life of that kid is really human — there's an incentive to reacting really harshly.

Whether they're looking after our babies, infants, toddlers, or school - aged beacons of joy, we're able to work and take care of our other obligations with more ease when we know that our kids are safe, secure, and well looked after while in their care.

However I'd like to add another reason, that of an epihany at the age of 10 when all the talk among adults and the news and us kids was the new concept called «brainwashing» which the Chinese Communists were using on American POWs in the Korean War.

I was a kid about the age of my own tinies when that happened; they reoriented their entire lives and our family story on Jesus Christ.

Haven't you seen kids have tons of fun with Santa even past the age when they are 100 % convinced he is real?

When you force something onto a kid at a young impressionable age, it has long term psychological effects.

When I'm writing the stories about a few of these homeless and runaway teens, I'm thinking in terms of kids out on the streets without their families, kids that mostly fall into the thirteen to eighteen or twenty age group.

For the uninitiated, Adventures in Odyssey centered around the many adventures of John Whitaker, a portly, aging inventor who owned and operated an ice cream parlor where kids would go when they needed a moral lesson tacked on to their daily lives.

Even if they don't, they dress like many other kids their age and spend lots of time when it's hot or cold outdoors «studying» (also known as keeping cool in warm weather and warm in cold weather) in the library.

In a way, I got my own seminary education just at the age (10 - 13) when kids are first starting to figure out what they believe, independent of their parents.

A survey out today of kids ages 13 to 17 by the Associated Press» NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that, when it comes to politics, teens are just about as pessimistic and cynical of politics as their parents.

I hope her kids take the opportunity to speak to someone when they reach the age of consent.

When Lisa and I were talking about this topic the other day, she said our kids were already deconstructing before we were because we allowed them to question from an early age.

My kid is at the age where she's been asking all sorts of tough questions — where do people come from, how was the Earth formed, what happens when we die etc..

The confusion for me, again even as a little kid (ages 9 - 11 particularly, at a time when I was quite the believer even), was that all the other religions pretty much said the same thing... prayers answered, miracle cures, and with the same back up, that «unanswered» prayers were either an answer, «no» or «not yet»... OR... the person asking didn't have the right heart, or didn't ask for the right thing, or asked the wrong way, etc..

The foster kid checks you got for me stopped when I aged out of the system.

My kids — ages 40, 45, and 50 still request it when I go to visit.

I think we've finally hit the age / time when my kids just want gift cards and my husband and I really don't need or want anything specific.

One day when I was around age 13, we kids secretly switched it with a stick of Imperial Margarine.

Many people outside Mexico will think that we only eat tacos, which is a great cultural misconception, but when you are a school - age kid, even a college student, eating tortas was the norm.

I haven't made these for ages but they sure are the goods Glad you got to do the mountain thing, when I was a kid there was a swinging bridge on my Grandfathers property.

I too enjoy reading others reminiscences (must be my age) and the one thing I do know Kenny is that it does not get better than when you first started supporting as a kid.

His transformation began around age 8, when he noticed that every other kid in his building, all his cousins and friends, had an Atari or a Nintendo, and they had clothes that weren't old and secondhand, like his.

Laca has a beard - so does Giroud.Other than the fact they are both French there is no comparison.Give this kid (yeah I know he's 26 but that's still young at my age) the service and he will be a top top player.Look at his movement and see how frustrated he gets as the ball continually goes from side to side and backwards.I see a lot of Ian Wright in this boy but even Wrighty would struggle with the way we are set up and play.When Sánchez is gone he will become our main man and just watch the difference.Remember those days when the football was slick and fast?Remember when we had pace all through the team and had players who knew how to use it?When we change manager a bring in a coach who gets the best from players by playing to their strength you will see a totally different Lacazette and Arsenal

We have invested allot of time patience and tutoring in the young man all the way back to him being a six year old, and you cant tell me that at six years of age the kid looked destined to be a footballer so with that Arsenal gave him a blessing, a wish for most, when deciding to educate a child in how to become a professional football player.

The problem with this board is that, they don't like it when older players are replaced with younger ones from within the squad, they are obsessed with having world class starting xi and incompetent «bench pieces», who can't replace the aging squad, look at RM and Bayern, they have at least 8 kids on the bench who can replace their current starting xi s.

He treats them like little pre-school age children and is surprised when they display the weakness and lack of physical and mental toughness of young kids.

When he isn't coaching college football, he spends his extra time coaching at the football camp he started for kids ages 8 to 14 years old.

the idea should be that the players age and get replaced by the youth team, like persie chamakh rosicky arshavin sagna eboue, but most of our current first - teamers still have 6 - 8 years left in them, so what happens when the kids hit 21.

When we stayed at a resort with multiple pools, housed in different buildings, we were traveling with six kids of various ages.

I only hope that when my kids get to that age, I'm as good as you at handling things like that — because heaven knows, with my anxiety, it will come up... LOL

And even though I'd like to think I'd make a different choice in the situation when my kids are high school age, now that I do have children of my own I'm a lot more sympathetic to my dad.

My partner was a stay - at - home dad for around six years, staying at home with our kids between the time I went back to work and when they started preschool at age three.

You work, you settle down at an age when you're not too shriveled up and old to even have kids, you save, you stick with your partner and you muddle through, being grateful.

In fact, in this day and age, when people use dating sites to meet, the first filter tends to be no kids, then no women over 40.

Last summer when we traveled through France, every night our group of boys (ages 5 - 10) would meet kids from all over the world and play tag in a random square.

My school age kids sleep just fine in their own room & put themselves to sleep & then put themselves back to sleep when they wake up (since EVERYONE wakes up at night occasionally, not just babies).

When kids are small, it's up to the parents to organize play dates and to get them in touch with other kids their age.

Sometimes our families are expanding — when aging parents or grown kids move in with the generation sandwiched in between.

Yes, you are at a tough age, when many women your age or younger want children of their own (and it's a really tough age for women trying to date men who want kids and consider them a little too old).