Sentences with phrase «as young adults taking»

High kids need to be allowed more freedom, opportunity, choice & inclusion with the coaching staff as they are treated as young adults taking the next steps towards adulthood.

Although your parents are likely to be willing to give up their time to help you study, as a young adult taking drivers ed, you value your independence and don't like to depend upon them for everything.

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To get ahead in the branding game, here are tips for helping you focus your business's efforts on these young and impressionable adults who are still willing to take accept you as one of their brands.

Not surprisingly, data released this month from the the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Investor Education Foundation, which seeks to promote financial literacy, reveal high school students who are required to take personal finance courses have better average credit scores and lower debt delinquency rates as young adults.

As David Kinnaman explains in his enlightening book, You Lost Me, one of the top six responses among young adults is that they left the church because they didn't feel like their pastors, mentors, and friends took their questions about faith seriously.

The chemical poses particular threats to young children: given their smaller size and the types of foods they consume, they typically take in twice as much acrylamide, per pound of body weight, as adults.

Children as young as 4 or 5 can take the Pee Wee Tennis group lessons, and those skilled enough to play college tennis can take the Adult 4 class, said Bob Swezey, the center's head tennis pro.

If the divorce is contentious it can add an element of stress and anxiety to the situation, as young adults feel forced to take sides or make uncomfortable choices.

Calcium is important for the prevention of osteoporosis in later life, though it should be noted that older adults may need to take extra amounts of calcium supplements; some may not absorb it as well as younger people.

«Treating children as adults in the criminal justice system is short - sighted and ineffective takes opportunities away from thousands of young men and women every year.

Older adults also tend to have lower magnesium levels than younger people in part because they are more likely to have developed chronic disease or be taking meds that could mess with magnesium levels, but also because magnesium absorption from the gut decreases as we age.

As a young adult I was naturally slim, and I took that for granted.

Now, I have horrible digestive and sinus problems that are probably linked to all the antibiotics and Accutane I took as a teenager and young adult.

While most young adults in the Hollywood scene are all for edgy glam, Elle Fanning has taken a different route — choosing to clad herself in structured organza designer pieces and going for whimsical 70s - like silhouettes as in «The Virgin Suicides».

Indeed, today's younger adults have come of age in an era in which Internet dating and online personals ads exist as reasonably well - accepted, rather taken - for - granted means of meeting others (Madden & Lenhart, 2006; Pasha, 2005).

The screenplay begins way back in Reed's school science fair days, eventually flashing forward to these four as young adults, along with Victor Von Doom, working on a breakthrough teleportation device that could take them to another dimension.

It's in San Francisco that we meet other fiery, passionate young people yearning to find some sense of community, including Roma Guy (Emily Skeggs as a youth and Mary - Louise Parker as an adult) who becomes a women's activist and is married to Diane (Fiona Dourif and Rachel Griffith), a nurse who stepped to the forefront to take care of AIDS patients when the epidemic hit.

Listening to this film with your heart may lead you to get in touch with your younger self as well, and the steps you took toward molding your own adult identity.

Ballots don't come with lists of eligible choices so it's up to each member to think up a list and since the category is «under 21» it takes a bit of research for the teen / young adult performances; as is Hollywood tradition almost everyone playing high schoolers in Lady Bird or Spider - Man Homecoming are in their early - to - mid 20s.

With Star Trek, the Abrams - Orci - Kurtzman team basically takes us back to the early days of the franchise's leading player, detailing the circumstances that defined him first as a kid and then as a young adult (I suppose this could have been called Star Trek Origins: Kirk).

Even though Chloe Grace Moretz has been taking very mature roles throughout her career as a young actress, she's now 18 years old, and it looks like her first movie as an official adult will have her causing some trouble in college.

As educators, we must all take responsibility to give young athletes the tools to make the right choices for their sporting development both now, and as adults.&raquAs educators, we must all take responsibility to give young athletes the tools to make the right choices for their sporting development both now, and as adults.&raquas adults.»

We must remain steadfast in our roles as change agents and take active steps to prove our commitment to creating a safer world for GLBT young people by investing in ongoing education for adults who work with youth.

And of the older adults who took part, 95 per cent surveyed said their view of young people had improved as a result of the challenge.

The problem, as I've often reflected, is that we can not grow resilient adults unless we provide young people with opportunities to be stretched, to be challenged and to take risks.

It is our responsibly as adults who work with schools to make these types of opportunities available to students and to celebrate the voices of young people willing to take on the challenge of improving the schools they attend every day.

Treated as less than adults, teachers rarely take the experiences, opinions, ideas, and actions of young people seriously.

She is taking pitches for the following fiction genres: romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery / thriller / suspense, horror, young adult, middle grade, literary fiction, new adult, graphic novels, women's fiction, upmarket fiction, and novels / books by and about people from marginalized perspectives (such as LGBT people and / or racial minorities).

The book offers enlightening, often alarming information for the elderly; for adult children responsible for taking care of their aging parents; and finally, for younger generations who face a grim future, as money is running...

As one of the powerhouse young adult authors who championed the #YASaves hashtag on Twitter, a cause that was taken up by authors and readers alike who felt that powerful teen literature had helped them survive high school and shaped them into the adults they are today, Rainfield often writes about the characters and topics that teen readers hunger for but that the adults in their lives want to pretend aren't real.

As one of the powerhouse young adult authors who championed the #YASaves hashtag on Twitter, a cause that was taken up by authors and readers alike who felt that powerful teen literature had helped them survive high school and shaped them into the adults they are... [Read more...]

Take away the highly charged racial aspect and I would think that a lot of young adults might recognize Scout's feelings in seeing her parent as a multi-dimensional, if flawed, adult.

Labeled by some as the «Libyan Kite Runner», In The Country of Men does share some similarities with Khaled Hosseini's runaway bestseller in that both are about young boys growing up in countries experiencing political implosion, with the result that their boy - sized mistakes take on adult - sized consequences; but Matar's prose is leaner than Hosseini's, and his themes share more with Ian McEwan's Atonement than with The Kite Runner.

A young girl shows great courage as she takes on adult tasks and waits for her mother to come home from the factory.

Romance continued to be published throughout the seventies, of course, but took a backseat to more literary YA novels, a reason the decade is known as the first golden age of young adult literature.

I can see Krystal being taken away from her mother and connecting with Ginny as a young adult.

It's no secret that, taken as a whole, young adult readers become very invested in the characters they come to care about, and the link between paper and an emotional investment is a strong one for many teens.

Enter a world of magic, mystery, and romance in Amanda Hocking's bestselling young adult series that takes readers to Trylle, a world as beautiful as it is deadly.

CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), will feature «It's Written in the Stars... READ» as the theme for this year's Teen Read Week celebration, which will take place October 7 - 13.

As I have watched you grow to be a young adult, I've observed that you have much of what it takes.

If you have a low credit score, it probably either means you're just starting to build your credit as a young adult, or you've been unable to pay bills, been sent to collections, and your score has consequently taken a dive.

Building good credit takes time, and adults as young as 18 should consider starting immediately so they have plenty of time to build up their credit score.

Although term life insurance isn't necessarily required insurance for young adults who are still living at home and have no family to look after, experts believe that responsible parties should take out a policy as soon as someone becomes dependent on them.

Other aspects of the new credit card law — such as restrictions on interest rate hikes, bans on issuing and marketing credit cards to young adults and gift card regulations — take effect in February 2010 and later.

How this doctor diagnoses investments Seeking «fundamentally strong» firms, he considers CEOs» character among other factors Doctor Daniel Kao may have been introduced to investing as a young adult, but it took marriage for him to realise it was a vital life skill.

When we heard about the feline slaughter taking place at the New York City Animal Care and Control facilities - that on Mother's Day there was one of the largest lists of «at risk» animals (just a nicer way of saying KILL LIST) mother cats with their kittens, orphaned kittens and young adult cats - Pets Alive never hesitated to reach out and commit to saving as many of those lives as we could.

However, as a young adult, I took a different career path.

In addition, because they do not kill adult fleas, several weeks were necessary to see a reduction in flea population as existing adults died off and no young adults took their places.

Adopted from the municipal animal shelter (Las Cruces, NM) as a young adult, she's been a celebrated companion — comfortable at humane education sessions meeting children and happy at animal welfare events like «Lobo to Lassie», winning best talent for catching tennis balls to song «Take Me Out to the Ball Game» and featured in «Bark Magazine «with a winning smiling photo.

You will want to take extra precautions if you have any puppies in the house, as their young, immature immune systems may not be able to fight off the virus, as well as adult dogs can.