Sentences with phrase «average kid»

The report says the lives of average kids in 2010 are immersed in technology, and that parents need to wake up to the reality that children today spend only four to seven minutes outside each day in unstructured outdoor free play.

He says the data clearly show that these were average kids who were not growing up in problem families, yet these kids who engaged in early sipping and tasting were embedded in a social context that supports drinking.

While they look like average kids, they are actually aliens who need to get to Witch Mountain in order to return to their planet.

Audubon starts testing for admissions for third grade because the Montessori style is so independent that «kids who are not average kids can't keep up with the work,» Dupre said.

«I'm just not prepared to give up on it because I think 90 per cent [whole school attendance] is unacceptable - on average every kid missing a day a fortnight is just outrageous.»

Wenger has his faults but developing players is not one of them, if anything he has developed average kids like Gibbs into a player that has helped maintain UCL football up until this year.

Noah is a pretty fair example of the classic Average Kid, at least at first — he loves his parents, gets along with / tolerates his little sister, does OK, but not spectacularly, at school, etc..

When Megan's Prescott handlers finally turn up to wreak havoc, chiefly in the form of a rival agent played by Sophie Turner (Sansa from Game Of Thrones), Newman handles the spy games perfunctorily, because it's less important than her adjustment among average kids.

And what was incredibly interesting to me in our findings is that for the kids who were below average on these non-cognitive skills — the ability to concentrate, to remember things, to kind of think their way through problems — the below - average kids made no progress in our program.

Even there are desi boys and girls (people who are Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi at birth or descent) and people from the higher class who were not able to explore who they are and never get to make mistakes like any other average kids do.

Imagine that you're a very average kid, but your best friend happens to be the best athlete in town, the captain of all the teams, the best looking, the most popular, the smartest, and you are basically trying to find your own identity while being eclipsed by your friend's presence.

The judge also did not refer to evidence that very bright children who enter gifted programs and cost the school board more than average kids also cost a lot to our social service system, yet they are never «screened out» as applicants for permanent residency.

As gifted kids move up in grades, their age - and grade - equivalent scores will become unusually high, because though they are attending classes with the brightest kids in their grade, the age - and grade - equivalent scores compare them only to average kids in their grade.

While this tongue - tied teen doesn't measure up to the suave superhero we've come to expect, he may appeal to average kids who have to face their own worries — even without backup from headquarters.

The average kid takes home around $ 8.74 a week.

(In its user survey, they found that the average kid saves 43 percent of his allowance.)

On the contrary, I expect them to be more decent than the average kid.

What the evidence is telling us is that regular kilojoule soft drink consumption is declining, with just 1.6 % of the average kid's dietary kilojoules in 2007 coming from soft drinks compared to 3.3 % in 1995.

«Research shows that the average kid gets just 1.6 % of their daily energy (kilojoules) from soft drinks1.

This means Queensland's top health officer is mounting a misguided campaign to tackle 0.16 % of the average kid's dietary kilojoules.

«According to the 2007 Australian National Children's and Physical Activity Survey, a mere 1.6 % of the average kid's energy (kJ) intake is from sugar - sweetened soft drinks and just 2 % from fruit juice, and the juice contribution of energy to a kid's diet hasn't changed since 1995.

I was not your average kid and always ate the traditional meal option at school instead of the pizza or burgers (and the white milk instead of chocolate.

Popular children were similar to average children, except that their peers perceived them as being better students than the average kids.

Did you know that, according to the Johns Hopkins University for Summer Learning, the average kid loses about 2.6 months of academic learning over the summer.

In the late 1970s, the average kid between the ages of 2 and 6 ate one snack a day between meals, but today kids typically eat almost three....

Your average kid is not compelled by the desire to seem daring and cosmopolitan, and therefore their reaction to new and interesting foods is, «Gross.

«Your average kid, who does what they «re supposed to do... they «re not star academics or star athletes, just kids who do what they «re supposed to.

What does gymnastics offer the average kid?

Even with fees for text messages as low as 10 cents each, that can quickly add up if you have an average kid that sends 10 to 20 text messages a day.

The average kid has a busy day.

An average kid above the age of two sees more than 25,000 commercials a year.

They are just intensely loved by more people than the average kid, and that is wonderful.

I must add though, they are pretty well behaved compared to the average kid.

They will grow to see life from a very different dimension and perspective compared to the average kid.

For the average kid standing in the street, nose pressed to the glass of the toy shop window, a new shiny railway is a great idea.

Stocking America's waterways with fish for anglers has a persistent Norman Rockwell kind of appeal, based on the idea that, with a little help, any lake or stream can be a place where your average kid (or grown - up) can toss out a line and just maybe reel in dinner.

Another important thing to consider: how many of these juices is the average kid drinking in a day?

I was your average kid from the country although I was leaning more to the anti-social side in high school.

Brad Renfro looks like your average kid, which is why his bizarre characteristics are even more disturbing and effective.

The movie's political and moral points — and theme about creating family however you can find it — elevate it above the average kids movie.

As Meg Murray, the average kid in a family of scientific geniuses who is thrown headfirst into keeping the peace between a collection of interplanetary eccentrics, actor Storm Reid does something remarkable.

Their film is zippy and funny but also layered with a let's - all - get - along message that feels more relevant and engaged than your average kids» movie (including feminist gags about not calling women animals «cute»).

Just an average kids film.

Suffice to say that if you go in expecting your average kids» animation, you will be wonderfully surprised.

«My favorite moments from senior projects involve the average kids, the ones who rarely give their best efforts in the classroom.

Families pay an average of $ 4,000 in annual tuition while the average kid earns about $ 14,000 working one - day - per - week during the school year.

In fact, in another study of Texas school records, presented at the 2005 meeting of the American Economic Association, Kristin Klopfenstein of Texas Christian University and Kathleen Thomas of Mississippi State University found, as Klopfenstein says, «zero effect for the average kid» of AP enrollment on college performance.