Sentences with phrase «as only children»

Many adopted children are being raised as only children.

While they have the support of their families, as only children, they are also subject to intense pressure from their parents to succeed.

As only children, they were to reap the rewards of a smaller nation and, in turn, smaller families, to become a super-educated, perfect generation.

«Some say they were lonely as only children,» Fong says.

People who grew up as only children had the longest lifespans and also had the most children.

However, that analogy only works insofar as only children believe he exists.

As an only child Judy felt responsible, and she did her duty, caring for her mother without assistance.

As an only child, I am the primary caregiver for my ninety - seven - year - old mother who remains healthy, but increasingly frail and forgetful.

As an only child of a mom entangled in the hippie culture and a father already divorced, I walked, biked, skipped alone.

MJK: The Army, as an only child, taught me how to get along with people I wasn't sure I was going to like.

As an only child, the responsibility for making decisions on her care falls on Mr. Flavor Mosaic.

She is no longer sad and is enjoying her time as an only child spent with Mama's full attention.

The only one I have, as my only child is just now starting to potty train, is to wait until your child is ready and don't push or pressure.

Of course, she saw my growing belly, but we really focused on enjoying having our toddler as an only child for a while and spending time with her.

Growing up as an only child, this was my dream.

Vashanti will do best as the only child in the home, but she could also be the youngest of much older siblings.

I enjoyed the secret of the contractions while hugging my daughter for the last time as an only child.

As an only child from a small family I had never been exposed to the challenges of this phase of life.

We have found it to be good for our son to interact with other kids and to be in environments where he isn't always the center of attention... as he is at home, as an only child.

As an only child growing up in Austria, he loved solving the kind of problems that presented themselves in chess and math, a passion that his father encouraged.

I HAVE long had a soft spot for frogs, and as an only child I spent many a happy hour watching the wildlife in our garden pond.

I was born in Chicago at the end of 1945 as the only child in their middle - class Jewish family.

I didn't know how to take care of a baby when I had my first child because, as an only child, I hadn't been around babies.

I hope you're having fun soaking up hudsons last moments as an only child!

Growing up as the only child wasn't all easy for me but thankfully I have friends now turned sisters and brothers.

As the only child.

Though more mainstream - oriented audiences will not be on board with Ahn's brand of subtlety, for those willing to fully invest themselves, Spa Night offers a carefully considered story about identity or rather identities, with David having to figure out a way to accommodate his orientation and his position as the only child of Korean immigrants in L.A..

In December 7, 2003 respectedCharlize grew up as the only child on her parents» farm near Johannesburg and was sent to a boarding school at the age of 13.

Growing up as an only child in Carlow, Ireland's second - smallest county, she relished her relationship with her homemaker mother and actor father.

He does so with the help of his greatest fan, his young next - door neighbor (Aaron Murphy) who believes in the old man's vision as only a child can.

As an only child of older parents, he doesn't adapt well to having room mates and eventually moves to a single room in the worst building on campus.

As the only child of veteran Swedish stage actor Maria Fahl Vikander, that can't have come as the greatest surprise.

He was chosen as the only child in a professional production of «Revolutionary Romp.»

As the only child of a single parent serving active duty in the Air Force, the classroom is where I found my identity.

Raised as the only child and heir to her family's Yorkshire Estate, Zoe is shocked to learn that she might actually be the daughter of an unknown Romany woman.

Living in a rural area as an only child until my sister came along when I was 6 yrs.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: As the only child of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Chelsea has been in the limelight most of her life, and her book promotion will no doubt garner tons of publicity.

She had paid for a condo in cash 10 years ago, and as her only child and heir, I have lived here, too.

Growing up as an only child, her dogs were her friends and siblings.

As an only child who lived nowhere near other kids, and had friends who went away often, video games were often a haven for me.

As the only child of a single, working mom, I had long given up hope of ever receiving an Intellivision or a ColecoVision, so it must have been some magical combination of my relentless begging, K - Mart's aggressive pricing, and Captain Kirk's commercial for the «home computer of the Eighties» that allowed my mother to entertain the fantasy that her son might one day work with computers on a starship.

There is a loneliness to my paintings, something I felt very acutely growing up as an only child and seem unable to shake.

Oliveira grew up in the Bay Area as the only child of struggling immigrants from Portugal.

If the adopted person grew up as an only child, finding a sibling can be especially meaningful.

As the only child of a single parent, she has been helping her mother sell real estate since age 8.

As the only child left full time at our house (both of his sisters have flown the coop to college), I can finally play up his boyishness with a bathroom he will love.

As the only child of an aging mother, with little money for extras I watch old Christmas movies and hope that one day I will have that one, «perfect» Christmas.

Not exact matches

«As tough as juggling the demands of motherhood and being a Senator can be, I'm hardly alone or unique as a working parent, and my children only make me more committed to doing my job and standing up for hardworking families everywhere.&raquAs tough as juggling the demands of motherhood and being a Senator can be, I'm hardly alone or unique as a working parent, and my children only make me more committed to doing my job and standing up for hardworking families everywhere.&raquas juggling the demands of motherhood and being a Senator can be, I'm hardly alone or unique as a working parent, and my children only make me more committed to doing my job and standing up for hardworking families everywhere.&raquas a working parent, and my children only make me more committed to doing my job and standing up for hardworking families everywhere.»

The result is that the parent is not only providing for their child, but also their grandchildren as well.

There's also some stacking going on, meaning if you set expectations in daughters» heads that they should go to college AND they should not get pregnant as teenagers, they're more likely to make it to age 20 without having a child than they would have been if you'd only pushed the «don't have a baby until you're old enough to be ready» message.