Sentences with phrase «childhood years as»

Family and social risk, and parental investments during the early childhood years as predictors of low - income children's school readiness outcomes.

When children grow up they often, but not always, use their formative childhood years as a blueprint of how life «should» be.

And while many think of the early childhood years as the span from birth to five, this period actually encompasses the period of life from birth to eight years of age.

As a child of Kikuyu mother and British Kenyan father, who spent her childhood years as an «expatriate» in Middle East it comes as no surprise that her art centers on the questions of identity, liminality, and transition.

Having retained my flexibility from many childhood years as a gymnast, yoga fit like a glove.

Her interest in medicine and the mechanics of the body was also the result of her early childhood years as a serious gymnast.

Not exact matches

Jolie's film is based on the memoirs of human rights activist Loung Ung, who fled her childhood home in Cambodia during a deadly four - year Communist regime, known as the Khmer Rouge years.

In his most recent interview to date, Vidal Sassoon has a highly personal and moving discussion with CNBC Meets presenter Tania Bryer in which he talks about his impoverished childhood, his years in a Jewish orphanage in the East End of London and candidly about how his mother had to hand him and his brother over, as she could not afford to look after them during the Depression.

Just a few years ago, public condemnations from him of police brutality and overall systemic racism in the country were few and far between, with Jay's frustrations and reflections over his tough childhood limited mostly to his music, including «Politics as Usual» from his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt.

Happy birthday from Bob to Erica (a year younger than mass - produced personal computers) and Heather (twice the age of Google); to Christine's son Matt (a year younger than The Simpsons); to Vikram (a year younger than the International Space Station); to Pamela's childhood friend Bert (twice the age of Macintosh computers); to Marian's son Bryan (the same age as Kobe Bryant); and to our editor who makes this newsletter possible, Rosa (one - sixth the age of The Atlantic), from the other members of the Daily team.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

Brainwashing doesn't stick as well unless you can begin it during childhood development years.

Most of my childhood and teenage years as a neo-charismatic Christian in western Canada can be characterized by an almost identical exercise: a big American name comes to Canada to Reach Canada for Christ ™, plant a church, and then in rather short order, heads back over the border, usually while blaming us for the failure.

Spiritually as well as emotionally, childhood years require not only joy and nurturing, but also suffering and growth, if the young person is to face adulthood maturely.

As might be guessed, the Konigsberg kid was submerged in religious imagery in his Brooklyn childhood, which included eight years of Hebrew school.

Should someone explain that the fear of God, in the sense of that felt in this world of time, should belong to childhood and therefore disappear with the years as does childhood itself, or should be like a happy state of mind that can not be maintained, but only remembered; should someone explain that penitence comes like the weakness of old age, with the wasting away of strength, when the senses are blunted, when sleep no longer strengthens but weakens; then this would be Impiety and folly.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

To love included not only the vagaries of circumstances — annoyance, anger, pleasure, laughter — but the growth from a childhood emotion, through all the changing years of becoming womanhood, to that which finally emerged in these last twenty years as an ever - deepening friendship.

How Billionaire Bill Koch Fights Fake Wine Maybe it goes back to my childhood, Koch says by telephone from his ranch outside Paonia, Colorado, pausing to say goodbye to his 8 - year - old daughter as she leaves for school.

Well, one of those oilcloths, my 4 - year - old brother Tommy, and a cake that my mother used to bake were all part of an incident in my childhood that's as vivid as if it had happened only yesterday.

Twenty - six years later, my husband, Albert, and I arrived in the same city, but it had morphed so much since my childhood it may as well have been Neptune.

Then when I visited the US last year, my friend Somer made Mint Choc Chip Ice Cream as my request since it was a childhood favourite and I had seen a picture of her creation before my visit.

Inspired both by my childhood in Suffolk and my years as a pastry chef, the recipes in it embrace the full range of amazing ingredients I've discovered since I started baking and focus on the wonderful tastes and textures offered by whole, nutritious flours, natural sweeteners, good fats and oils, nuts and grains, seasonal fruits and vegetables and many more wonderful, natural ingredients.

For years, the brothers toyed with the idea of using their favorite childhood drink as the foundation for a company.

Spooky, the childhood acquaintance was out of prison and had been going by the name Alex Ramos for years now, hunting women at bars and clubs, just as he had once hunted Alex's own sister, Miriam.

This dark, peculiar idea has haunted me lately, as I have been considering the fact that 50 years ago the greatest hero of my childhood, Bruce Smith of the Minnesota Golden Gophers, won the Heisman Trophy.

Childhood dream to come and play here, almost makes it to New York his first year as a frosh.

He had spent most of his childhood and his teen years as the man of the house, after his father left the family when he was six.

Bull Cyclone had spent his own years struggling through a hungry country childhood, getting wounded and killing in close combat as a Marine and then coming home to raise a family and till a tiny plot of American soil he had fought for.

Wenger wasn't amused with the translation of the interview but unfortunately for the Frenchman, no words were lost in translation as the 28 - year - old did say that he wants to play in the Champions League, a childhood dream.

However it could all have been different for the 28 year old if he had decided to chase his dream as a footballer while growing up because he was also gifted on the pitch of play according to his childhood friend James Mulley

The 27 - year - old, who has also been linked with Arsenal and Manchester United in recent months, has been quoted as saying that a move to join the European champions would be a «childhood dream» but he has moved to clarify the comments.

September 25, 2009 «Over the last few years, a new buzz phrase has emerged among scholars and scientists who study early - childhood development, a phrase that sounds more as if it belongs in the boardroom than the classroom: executive function.»

Imagine Childhood: In it's current iteration Imagine Childhood is going into its 3rd year, but as a family we have been selling children's goods in one way or another for the past 20 years including a storefront in Denver Colorado that we ran for many of them.

Teenage years are an interesting time, as your kids move from childhood to adolescent.What can you expect?

In addition to the many years of hands on experience Shelley also has her Associate degree in Early Childhood Education and ran a daycare from her home for the 9 years prior to her career as a doula.

Encourage and help your toddler develop the vital skills that can aid him or her as he or she steps in his or her early childhood years.

Carol Bovill is celebrating her ten - year anniversary as Director of the Mann Family Early Childhood Center at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles.

Prior to becoming a doula, I worked as a home visitor and parent educator for eight years, helping educate and guide families on pregnancy and early childhood.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

I have an extensive knowledge base of child development and over 20 years of experience working with young children and families as a Certified Early Childhood Educator and Montessori Teacher.

And for more ideas about how to make the holiday season fun - filled and meaningful, as well as keeping the joy and wonder of childhood alive for your little ones year round:

I have worked in Early Childhood for the last five years and spent time in Kenya as a Peace Corps Volunteer.

They agree that screen media and screen time should be discouraged for children under 2 years of age, as recommended by The American Academy of Pediatrics and the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity.

If at any time you feel like something isn't right, contact your school - district's Parents As Teachers program (birth - 5), Early Childhood Special Education office (3 - 5 years) or school based Speech - Language Pathologist (5 and older) and they will point you in the right direction.

The middle school years are often characterized as a stage of life to survive, to get through — jumping from the comfort of childhood into a roughly three - year storm of hormones, insecurity, and nagging, drowning in the frenetic angst of adolescence, frantically rowing to make it to the shore of young adulthood.

I actually chuckled this morning as I packed my five - year - old's lunch, which included tunafish AND a dairy - based smoothie, remembering all the thermoses of lukewarm milk, soup of questionable tepidness, and soggy, room - temperature tuna sandwiches I ate in my childhood, all pulled from wrinkled paper bags with no ice packs and no refrigeration!

And, while your tween is eager to grow up, you as a parent know that the downsides to maturity can be overwhelming and demanding, and giving away precious childhood years is not a good idea.

She received the AASM 2006 Excellence in Education Award, and recently completed four years as the chair of the AASM Section on Childhood Sleep Disorders and Development.

I'd resolved this year (as I did last year) to be as laid - back about the candy as possible, following Ellyn Satter's advice (and my own mom's example from my childhood) and letting the kids do what they want with the candy.