Sentences with phrase «against kids growing»

Despite the fact that there's often so many things stacked against kids growing up in the inner - city, there's one young eco-hero that's defying the odds and making an incredible difference while helping to shed a bit of light on how successful students can be at affecting change in their own neighborhoods.

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Whether standing over the piano mercilessly coaxing a budding prodigy or arguing at the kitchen table over how many green beans are enough, these mothers gave their kids something to live for, strive for, react against; struggle with and grow away from.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear all this talk about an» just arsenal protest» and if wenger stays he will run this club down to the ground this site is becoming comical were going threw a bad catch and you kids wan na organise a protest and think your going to change anything you lot haven't even seen your team ever finish were united did last season and all of a sudden that's it our whole club is doomed and it's the end of the world grow up u spoilt brats and lets get threw this together the whole world Is against us at the moment and you lot are with them our team need us now more then ever let's get them threw this bad patch and cheer them on and worry about wenger at the end of the season we support this club ffs start acting like it we love u arsenal COYG

With statistics showing that one in five children will grow up to develop skin cancer and that protecting skin from the sun during childhood and adolescence is important to reducing the risk of cancer later in life, it's vital that parents become educated about sun safety, take steps to protect their kids against the damaging effects of the sun and build safe sun habits into the family routine.

Anne: As my kids grow older and move toward more «food independence» I think a lot about what you're talking about at the end of your comment: have I done enough to arm them with good information so they can make sound food choices in a world that often works against that goal?

Dave Taylor, a Boulder, Colo. father of three school - age kids, is one of the growing number of people who ignored pediatricians» warnings against bed - sharing as a way to reduce Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS.

Geoffrey Canada is a teacher who came up against the most - difficult - to - educate group of kids a teacher can face: kids who grew up in poverty, with broken homes, surrounded by drugs and guns and alcohol.

But although Cuomo has railed against he belief that the public education system has grown to become more about protecting the administrative bureaucracy and less about educating kids, the focus of his wrath has been the teachers unions and not — so far, anyway — superintendents, who I'm sure are breathing a sigh of relief.

So, not only were the odds against me in terms of growing from a skinny kid into a healthy adult, but also in terms of being African - American... in a mayoral [race].

Kids Against ANimal Cruelty, started by Lou Wegner, a 16 - year - old actor and singer from Columbus, Ohio is one of the country's fastest growing animal rescue organizations.

Growing up as a kid at the turn of the millennium, we were faced with many hard choices and the one that probably pitted us fledgling geeks against each other more than anything else was the Pokémon / Digimon divide.

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Because whole life policies have this investment and return component (known as the «cash value» aspect of your policy), you can take out loans against your cash value balance to help supplement college expenses for the kids, or an addition to the house to accommodate a growing family, to cite a few examples.