Sentences with phrase «as a kid because»

I've met so many adults who say they loved Thanksgiving as a kid because they got to eat «all of their favorite foods» in one night.

Michigan captain Andrew Copp must have played some baseball as a kid because this was a perfect swing at the puck...

It's affected how I've grown up as a kid because I've had to experience how to handle and get through things.

«I loved science as a kid because we were able to go out and just sort of see what was going to happen,» says Rosie Cook, a curator at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.

I loved blackberry ice cream as a kid because of the gorgeous color.

«I couldn't talk as a kid because I stammered all the time, so I would just watch.

Short Circuit was one of my favorite movies as a kid because Johnny 5 was extremely likable, but really, who doesn't like Johnny 5?

Heather was born in Indianapolis, but lived in Iowa and New York as a kid because of her father's military career.

There were plenty of games I found epic as a kid because they lasted 100 hours, but looking back that was probably because you moved slowly, or battles in RPGs were too long or unresponsive or you spent half your time clicking through badly designed menus - iron it all out and you have a much smoother and more immersive game, I feel.

TYO always strives to work with the parents as well as the kids because you can not work on improving the children's behavior and expect the growth to continue by sending them back to an environment that doesn't reflect the same positive change.

War as a game was great to play as a kid because you didn't need much else aside from a stick or tree branch for a rifle.

Not exact matches

But we have got to get together as a nation, do better than we are doing to educate these kids because it's getting worse and worse and worse.

But others point to an overreliance on movie tie - ins and a lack of novelty: Star Wars toys didn't sell as well as expected, perhaps because kids see them as a tired formula.

He seems compelled to add that his children are as obsessed with the iconic bricks as he is — but increasingly, successful entrepreneurs needn't find shelter in the «it's because of my kids» rationale for building with LEGO bricks.

Economists such as Carleton University professor Frances Woolley note that we've moved to this rebate system because everyone wins: well - off students with mediocre grades (who wouldn't have gotten into university at all back when I went) are now effectively subsidizing the smart kids and the ones who need financial aid.

As it turns out, it doesn't matter if you wear socks with sandals, because if your kid thinks that you're cool, then you're cool.

Because we oozed creativity as kids — it was in our DNA.

It's possible older Americans aren't saving as much because the cost of raising kids increases the older they get, O'Shea said, especially when parents «start feeling the crunch of college.»

Family helped, not only in the support and love they provided, but also because as my kids grew, they became much more competitive — so there is no room for distraction during family game night.

Because if kids think their achievements are all about innate talent, they see the inevitable stumbles and struggles of learning as counter-evidence of their own abilities.

So it was a bad time, but as kids my sister and I never really knew too much about it or thought too much about it because we were only seeing it from what we knew.

This concept, often known as time - blocking, can completely revolutionize a business because tasks are given a place of priority among all the calls, meetings, commuting, haircuts, kids» soccer games and other daily events.

Austin and Plano, Texas, also got props from small business owners as family - friendly because kids have access to a top - notch education.

For example, here's a story about a business that used the weather as a reason to create a relevant marketing message: I happened to learn that my kids» schools were opening late because of a snowstorm a few weeks ago from the Twitter account of a car wash in town.

I'm doing this marketing business but my day job's over at Walmart and my family and two kids... I'm not going to talk about my day job at Walmart, I'm not going to talk about my family and two kids, I'm not going to talk about any of the things I like, I'm going to focus strictly on marketing because I want to be known as a marketing guy».

Frankly because much of the market can't imagine themselves as being that central banker in that seat, but if you were, you know, like any good parent, you wouldn't necessarily want to be painted in the corner by your kid.

Yes and how we still have children in schools because there are child rapist teachers and how we still have kids in sports because there are child rapist coaches, that's all beyond me as well.

Just like you believed in Santa when you were a kid, now god is your adult Santa Claus because you never matured EMOTIONALLY and you still need a hand to hold like you held your mommy's hand as a child.

If his stepfather even really was a Muslim (hard to know in Indonesia, because atheism wasn't an option for registration) he sure as heck didn't take it seriously enough to prevent Obama's mother from placing the kid in Catholic school.

Just because thousands of years ago people did not know how it all began and came up with a fairy tail to tell the kids — it does not mean its true or you as adult should believe.

You believe what you believe because of how you were brought up as a kid, not because it is actually universal truth.

@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's» of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers of Darts becoming government instead of staying in the realm of sport where it belongs

If you are trying to say that a man can not provide the same emotional support as a woman I simply disagree because I have known many gentle, tender and caring fathers and many brittle, bitter angry mothers where the kids got their emotional support from dad.

The kids unwrap their small Valentine's and maybe this is a season for the soul, a time for love because maybe, as Lent literally is an old word about lengthening, about spring — this is a season of more, a season of growth.

I wanted to dance in a swirl of indigo and gold, in red and kelly green, because in the midst of all the craziness of this world and all of the work there is to do it's a holy thing to take a minute of your life to say Oh, God, you're beautiful you're as good as we dare to hope right alongside of a bunch of kids.

And then they asked to hear the story again, and so I told it again, just the way I remembered it anyway, because that is the story I heard all the time as a kid.

After a while, God decides to have a kid, because he wants to kill the kid as part of a magic ritual.

It seems to me that Christian organizations have a long history of not supporting those who are seen as having fallen from grace or those deemed unacceptable and unChristian (ie: parents of LGBT kids should kick them out of their homes because of course you can't support their «alternative lifestyle»).

Explains Justin, «When parents tell their kids that they must not be gay because they're not like the negative images in their parents» heads, it doesn't change their kids» understanding of themselves as gay.

I found this Sunday morning after rushing to get 4 kids ready for church only to have all of them fighting as we drove at 15 mph because the transmission didn't want to shift correctly.

We're doing the things as a couple we've always said we wanted to do but thought we didn't have time to because of the kids.»

As a matter of fact, Where the Wild Things Are fails because it's not scary enough for your kids.

† Just because a Blind Christian has the need to feel as if they posses a traditional family lifestyle, religious holidays where the give their kids chocolate eggs, dvd gifts on christmas of movies full of women acting as the equals of men (Against the bible), a lack of understanding culture, and the feeling of belonging, does not mean all people need / want / or feel that way.

Because, if you're talking about gay parents, the research shows that their kids fare just well as the kids of straight folks.

Some of the children do make use, at times, of syntax that some people call «Black English» (not only black kids do this, the Hispanic children do as well, because so many of their playmates are black children); but it isn't done continually or helplessly, as if they didn't know what standard English is.

It looks as funny as a kid writing 2 +2 = 1111 because they don't understand or know what they talking about, but think they do.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

How many times they had to take a back seat in activities, or not be defended as another parent probably would have because it would be seen as «the pastor» is playing favorites with his kid, rather than a father is defending / supporting his child.

You either believe because your parents made you go to church as a kid, or you were looking for answers during hard times and the thought of a better after life comforted you.

Rowling's plots repeatedly acknowledge the importance of what many adults too casually dismiss as «just a game» or passively tolerate because «kids will be kids.»