Sentences with phrase «age in the life of a child»

Three is such a special age in the life of a child.

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Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

The initiative allows people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children to stay and work in the country, as long as they entered before the age of 16, lived in the U.S. continuously since June 2007, and have committed no serious crimes.

Companies such as MarketTools and other market research firms can develop random sample populations and help compile lists for specialized market segments, such as women between the ages of 25 and 40 who live in the San Francisco Bay area, or people who have children or pets.

Redick said sometime between the ages of 26 and 30, in between getting married and having children, he began to think more and more about life after the NBA.

«I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it,» said Mr. Gorman, who lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with his wife of more than 20 years, Penny, and their two college - age children.

«The most important and fulfilling thing in my day to day life is taking care of my five children, who are ages 3 - 13 but on the business side, it's knowing CSSCS has so quickly made a difference in people's lives that makes the sacrifices I have made all worthwhile.

38.2 % of black children under age 18 live in poverty.

With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling for life... I have held the hand of an old person as they slipped from life to death... I have stood vigil in the room of a man of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering from cancer at a young age.

Yesterday, Kathleen Parker used her column in the Washington Post to inform readers that she has finally watched the hit reality show «Honey Boo Boo,» which documents the life of a bratty child pageant participant, age seven.

He concluded: «It's a golden age of opportunity for fathers and businesses can help fathers take advantage of that and be really involved in the lives of their children from the word go.»

For my own children, in this video - gaming age, what those fictional children get away with is simply unimaginable, except as the stories themselves seed the imagination, and the lives of the characters work their way into the life of the real child, enlarging that child's world.

Two of the children later died in the influenza epidemic of 1919/20 and the third, Lucia, lived on to a great age as a Carmelite nun, dying in 2005.

Murray comes up with a very useful measure of community dysfunction: the percentage of «problematic people,» which he arrives at by combining prime - age males not making a living, single mothers raising children, a guesstimate of prime - age adults who are living alone, and those uninvolved in any community activity.

Taking a life, either of an unborn child or an aged person, violates a fundamental principle and will in the end be harmful to society.

Origin of Species: written by a man who was ill all of his life, lost a parent at a young age, and lost two children in their young age.

Furthermore, today children are more likely than people of any other age group to live in poverty, and, as Mintz explains in such excellent detail, it has always been true that when children live in poverty both their physical and social needs are apt to go unmet.

Yates writes that according to a recent survey conducted by the Japan Institute of Life Insurance, only one in four Japanese between 55 and 64 felt that children should be financially responsible for aging parents.

When Bruno Bettelheim committed suicide in 1990 at the age of 86 he had a towering and broadly based reputation: as a wise and humane child psychiatrist in whose Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago hundreds of severely disturbed children had been restored to normal life, as an expert on child - rearing in the Israeli kibbutzim, as a survivor of Buchenwald and Dachau whose writings had established him as an authority on life in the concentration camps, and as a specialist in the treatment of autistic children.

«Children will have different needs and different ways of expressing their grief at different ages,» observed Susan Giambalvo, the director of programs and operation for The Center for Grieving Children — a nonprofit, volunteer - led program that provides free, peer - led support groups in Portland, Maine, not far from where I live.

What is the difference, really, between a four - year - old child who is incapable of making a conscious decision to trust Jesus because of his age and an adult living in outer - Mongolia in 50 A.D. who is incapable of making a decision to trust Jesus because he couldn't possibly hear of him?

«Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age — houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields with persecutions — and in the age to come eternal life» (Mark 10:29 - 30; cf. Matt.

Christian parents may be more understanding of the life - style of their children if they realize that the world in which their children have come of age requires their children to make decisions about sexual behavior that were not even issues in the past.

Say: «Come, let me convey unto you what G - D has [really] forbidden to you: «Do not ascribe divinity, in any way, to anything (or anyone) beside HIM; and [do not offend against but, rather,] do good unto your parents; and do not kill your children (born or unborn) for fear of poverty --[for] it is WE who shall provide sustenance for you as well as for them; and do not commit any shameful deeds, be they open or secret; and do not take any human being's life -[the life] which G - D has declared to be sacred - otherwise than in [the pursuit of] justice: this has HE enjoined upon you so that you might use your reason; and do not touch the substance of an orphan — except to improve it - before he comes of age.»

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

It is not necessary for certain ideas to have evolved, as is evidenced by other cultures (not to say in any way that they are wrong, however, there are practices that oppose the morals ingrained in us by the society we live in) so could a parent raise perfectly good children without the bible, in this day in age, probably yes, but you must recognize, that much of what they will be teaching will come from their society, adn quite honestly I'm not sure honoring your parents, and not killing are such a bad thing.

It is a power that is shared, as life within the community is shared».62 We need to ask whether all people, as children of God, participate in the agencies of power or whether there are groups that are excluded on the basis of, for example, sex, age, handicaps, economic circumstances, social marginalization.

Among those detained over the weekend are Usama «Sam» Hamama, a 54 - year old father of four; Jihan Asker, a mother of three who has lived in the US since the age of 5; and Moayad Jalal Barash, the sole breadwinner for his four children.

When the natural seasons and processes of life are interrupted in the Bible — when Sarah gives birth to Isaac in her old age, when an angel tells Mary she will have a child — the intent is to identify a miracle from God, not to argue ethics.

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

And, Julia Child for finding her passion later in life — she didn't even enter culinary school until age 36 and then later wrote the iconic Mastering the Art of French Cooking which ended up as a syndicated television show she hosted well into her later years.

In Mexico, where chile - eating is a part of everyday life, very young children are protected from exposure to it, then allowed to develop their own preference, which usually starts between the ages of four and eleven.

He had recently finished a book called Alex: The Life of a Child about his daughter Alexandra, who had struggled all her short life against cystic fibrosis before dying at the age of eight early in 1Life of a Child about his daughter Alexandra, who had struggled all her short life against cystic fibrosis before dying at the age of eight early in 1life against cystic fibrosis before dying at the age of eight early in 1980.

Today we in the West have lost this, we live as children eternally, there's no coming of age ritual in the same way, society has watered down the issue to having a beer with your dad and his mates when you're 16.

Both kids (and despite the legal distinction that they are of majority age, they are still kids at that age, especially considering that both have been traumatized by the loss of their sister a few years ago) felt abandoned, and have had barely any contact with their mother in the five months that she's been gone (their mother has initiated no contact with our children, one of whom still lives with me and commutes to college, while the other is a college freshman, but who comes here during vacations).

I wrestle with this question in my own classrooms and with my kids, especially these days, living in what Chris Gallagher has called the age of quantification in education: teacher - proof and child - proof classrooms, a widespread sense that if it isn't measurable, it must not be valuable.

• Where mothers had been depressed AND the fathers had worked long hours (particularly at weekends) in the first two years of their baby's life, this predicted poor developmental outcomes for their child through to age 10, especially among boys (Letourneau et al, 2009).

Our readers are the parents of children ages 18 and younger who live in the Triangle.

What this is about is presenting children, from the youngest ages onwards, with clear - as - crystal, living examples of men in caring roles... and of men and women working together to shape our inner worlds.

It is so important that we get the word out and educate parents and caregivers about the importance of selecting the right seat for their child's age and size, and to remind them that car seats, booster seats and seat belts offer the best protection for children in crashes and help save lives.

If your child is a dependent under your health care coverage, the Affordable Care Act allows your child to be covered until age 26, regardless of whether he or she is in college, living at home, or even married.

22 % of all children under 5 years of age in the United States live in poverty, with many more living in low - income families.

I live in Cambodia and travel back to the US often... alone... with two children... under the age of three.

But you do want to make sure that in the 1st year of life, your child is relating to you, smiling, making eye contact and starting to have some gesture language by 1 year of age.

In Birmingham, there are more than 14,500 children under the age of five, and 29 % of our community lives below the poverty line, which is $ 24,250 for a family of four.

53 % of mothers living in the least deprived areas breastfed exclusively to six weeks, compared with only 21 % in the most deprived areas; and 45 % of mothers in their 30s and 41 % of those aged 40 or older at their child's birth exclusively breastfed to six weeks or more, compared with 35 % of mothers in their 20s and only 12 % of teenage mothers.

There is an index that helps you select the perfect activity based on your child's stage in life and many of the activities are perfect for multiple siblings of different ages to do together!

The Western Australian study, the results of which were published in the Jan 2011 issue of Pediatrics, which «studied more than 2900 children born between 1989 and 1991 from before birth to the age of 10» and «found that boys who were breastfed for the first six months of life received significantly higher scores in math, reading and spelling compared to formula - fed children with the same socioeconomic background.»

In 1950, almost 90 percent of children age 0 to 14 lived with married parents — now that proportion has fallen to less than two - thirds of children.

The sentence «The two - parent family is no longer the typical US family» was changed to more accurately read «In 1950, almost 90 percent of children aged 0 to 14 lived with married parents — now that proportion has fallen to less than two - thirds of children.»