Sentences with phrase «adult child becomes»

If your child suffers from addiction there are a multitude of programs, many of them free, that can help you establish healthy boundaries and learn tools to help your adult child become independent.

The Wall Street Journal cited an emerging trend where Baby Boomers are refinancing their homes to free up equity in order to help their adult children become homeowners.

Not exact matches

Just as parents are responsible for guiding their child to become the best adult he or she can possibly be, it's your job to help your business grow into its brand identity.

And in his book, Children of the Great Depression, Glen Elder wrote that adolescents who experienced hardship in the 1930s became especially adaptable, family - oriented adults; perhaps, as a result of this recession, today's adolescents will be pampered less and counted on for more, and will grow into adults who feel less entitled than recent generations.

The Bildungsroman» the novel of youthful error and growth» has traditionally offered some answer, the distance between the child and the adult he becomes explaining the chasm between character and narrator.

As metaphor the story of Adam and Eve can easily be interpreted as the way that mankind must mature, by disobeying God, just as children become adults when they make their own decisions instead of believing everything that dad and mom say.

Some of our adult children have become Calvinists and have become very hard hearted and judgmental.

But when, by contrast, parental love is grounded in the facts of biological and historical bonding, the child lives in a setting offering the kind of acceptance human beings need in order themselves to become capable of adult commitment — a setting in which individuals who are separate but connected can grow and flourish.

The situation could become even more dramatic because the one - child policy has led to a grotesque distortion of the male - female ratio among young Chinese adults.

Leaders should be enablers, encouraging all to attain to maturity in the same way a parent helps a child to become an INDEPENDENT ADULT able to stand on their own two feet.

Without correction, these children will grow to become racist adults who harbor hate and perpetuate racist systems and structures.

Parents of large families in which older children have already moved on to adult life report a «squash and a squeeze» effect where each child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older children spend the day at school, then they're off to university and adult life, and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.

For adults — which our children will become — this requires values that transcend pleasure and possessions, values that give meaning to our actions and our relationships and our whole way of life.

Do we assume that children will not eventually grow up to be adults, or that adults will not eventually become elderly and need assistance?

When she becomes an adult she is welcome to follow wherever her heart leads her, but don't you dare Mr. Nye tell me how to raise my child.

The idea that the family is declining refers to difficulties that families — traditional, nuclear or otherwise — are having in fulfilling their principal tasks, especially in raising children to become healthy and responsible adults.

Half the children may become orphans in the next five years, with no healthy adults left to care for them.

That is why spoiled children often become terrible adults.

I never minded as a child, but as an adult working in Manhattan, it has become an issue.

If that happens, failure to meet standards could lead to demands to attend some formal schooling, and failure to register could become a criminal offence, with inspectors able to enter family homes and interrogate children without parents or other adults being present.

it is capable of eventually, with much help from relatively adult persons, becoming first an infant (and then a child)....

Popular applications of theories about stages of faith can give the impression that there is a developmental sequence, through which most children and youths in the church can or do pass on the way to becoming adult Christians.

Back then, comic books were intended primarily for children, but as our society becomes more and more visually oriented, there are more and more comic books being put out for adults.

«Without realizing it, children become a «valve» for adults, both opening and restricting consumption,» he says.

It is very difficult for most parents who became adults before 1960 to understand the attitudes of their children about work and love.

Do we not do the same when we are disciplined by our parents as children or by our employer when we call ourselves adults, don't we want to «get our own back» don't we relish it when they become ill or have an accident and we say «it serves them right» justice has been done.

According to the intention of its founder, genetic epistemology should examine how scientific thinking, as it pertains to the established sciences, becomes possible in the development of the individual from child to adult; genetic epistemology should further ask about the relationships between this ontogenetic process and the phylogenetic process of the history of humankind as the history of science.

Believe what you want but when you teach (brainwash) children into thinking irrationally, then eventually they become adults that think irrationally.

For as we have stressed throughout this book, the purpose of prayer is to bring God's human child, now become adult in responsibility and thus asked to act in mature ways, into cooperative awareness of God, opened to his love and ready to act in love toward others.

Most could keep their head above the murky waters, but I drowned in them, my mind and soul became as a vegetable, void of all emotions and life, there are ones that have my testimony when God apprehended me and manifested Himself to me, that I became One with Him in His life: I was a walking zombie and nothing more at that time, a vessel for my master use being cared for by my adult children on disability with a grade 5 education, with ADDHD and dyslexia, I couldn't even spell or string 2 sentences together that made any sense: All that has been done in my life for the last 11 yrs.

I encouraged one of our resident psychiatrists, William G. Reiner (already interested in the subject because prior to his psychiatric training he had been a pediatric urologist and had witnessed the problem from the other side), to set about doing a systematic follow - up of these children — particularly the males transformed into females in infancy — so as to determine just how sexually integrated they became as adults.

Hmm, Yes, I heard similar fairy tales as a child back when I believed in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, but most of us grew out of those childish notions and we eventually became adults and joined the real world!

When you learn and live this way, you will no longer be spiritual children (cf. 1 Cor 13:11), tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, but instead, we will become mature and Christlike spiritual adults.

Independence is not sinful, but is something that every child must go through in order to become an adult themselves.

Despite all that, our three children became responsible adults.

The ironic upshot is that «as adults enjoy more freedom in the pursuit of a satisfying intimate life, children's family lives become increasingly subject to arrangement, regulation and control.

These efforts range from writing divorce - centered children's novels to producing greeting cards that absent parents can send their offspring (more brave new market opportunities) to advising children to become patient parent figures to adults preoccupied by their divorces and by new romantic relationships.

«When a child eats a candy bar, there is a sense of wonder when that person becomes an adult, he or she may lose that wonder if the candy doesn't taste the same.»

Obese children are more likely to become obese adults.

«I guessit's unbelievable when your child all of a sudden becomes an adult,» shesays.

After the sports season is over, a school or YSO should save the PPE until the child becomes an adult because children have the right to bring lawsuits as adults for injuries they suffered as children.

A sports sponsor should check with its attorney to find out when children become adults for purposes of bringing a lawsuit in its state and to find out how long the statute of limitations period is.

These adults should be aware that, as children become adolescents, they typically reduce their physical activity.

Republican Senator Lincoln Fillmore, whose parents thought that was a good name for their baby, passed the law saying, «we have become so over-the-top when «protecting» children that we are refusing to let them learn the lessons of self - reliance and problem - solving that they will need to be successful as adults.»

When children feel loved, they're most likely to grow to become a responsible and respectful adult.

Some day when your child becomes an adult, your relationship may become more of a friendship, but for now, it's your job to be his parent: his teacher, coach and limit setter — not the buddy who lets him get away with things.

Babies and young children should be raised in safe spaces protected by adults, but they are wired to be «explorers» of information and their environment in order to become efficient and innovative in adulthood.

Is family night becoming a bore for your teen and young adult children?

Many parents today are faced with a dilemma: How do I support my adult child in becoming independent?

Children are also become happy like the adults when they got a gift.