Sentences with phrase «childhood years in»

Did You Know: Former President George W. Bush and his First Lady Laura Bush both spent part of their childhood years in Midland.
Can you tell us about your early childhood years in Malaysia, and how those memories have affected your writing?
One likely explanation for the across - the - board increase in parents» investing in their young children's learning is that parents today are just far more aware of the unique importance of the early childhood years in shaping their children's development... It also may be that the increase in parent - child interactions among low - income families has been driven, in part, by the shift of low - income children out of preschool programs and into parental care during the economic recession.
The story rushes through the artist's childhood years in a highly overworked page - by - page fashion which detaches the story from any significance or emotional weight.
Aifantis spent her childhood years in Greece and the United States, returning to the U.S. in time for her last 2 years of high school.
Joan spent her childhood years in the open air and she was a strong and sturdy girl.

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Sohn is one of the most anticipated hedge fund events of the year, where managers volunteer their time and best investment ideas to raise money in the fight against childhood cancer.
We don't have to remind anyone — from close companions to childhood friends we haven't spoken to in 15 years — that it's someone's birthday.
His four years at the white - shoe law firm Latham & Watkins had crushed the notion that his career would ever measure up to his childhood dreams of strutting across a courtroom like the lead attorney in a John Grisham novel.
A state investigation of the shooting found that gunman Adam Lanza had not been receiving mental health care in the years before the shooting, despite prior advice from mental health professionals throughout his childhood and adolescence.
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.
He was actually born in the Ring of Fire and spent his childhood trapping and hunting for years in that area.
After a troubled childhood (alcoholic parents, years of bullying), Manning joined the army at Fort Meade and, in 2009, shipped out to Iraq.
Researchers found that young adults proficient in two languages performed better on attention tests and had better concentration than those who spoke only one language, irrespective of whether they had learned that second language during infancy, childhood or their teen years.
Sohn is the most widely anticipated hedge - fund event of the year, where managers volunteer their time and best investment ideas to raise money in the fight against childhood cancer.
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 DepressioIn 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 Depressioin 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 Depressioin 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 Depressioin 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.
We talked for a few minutes about William's childhood (he dropped out of high school in Amsterdam at 15 to become a DJ), his past work experience (he was a party planner for years), and how he had heard about us (he attended Hustle Con last year).
In the nine years since childhood friends Fred Perrotta and Jeremy Michael Cohen started the company, it's grown from just the two of them to almost 10 people.
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.
They met every few weeks in a rough Silicon Valley neighborhood the year that Ms. Castro was applying to college, and they e-mailed often, bonding over conversations about Ms. Castro's difficult childhood.
Ontario, Canada has invested heavily in providing early childhood education on a province wide basis by establishing full day kindergarten for four and five year old children.
These beliefs are often deep - seated, having been in place for years, due to programming in your childhood, from organized religion and even the government.
In the cost - effectiveness analysis (GiveWell estimate of Living Goods cost effectiveness (November 2014)-RRB-, in all Sheets except for «U5MR (Jake's assumptions),» we use 5q0, or the probability of a child dying before his or her 5th birthday expressed in deaths per 1,000 live births assuming constant mortality rates throughout childhood, instead of the under - 5 mortality rate (under 5 deaths per person per year), because the original report on the RCT we received from Living Goods reported outcomes in terms of 5qIn the cost - effectiveness analysis (GiveWell estimate of Living Goods cost effectiveness (November 2014)-RRB-, in all Sheets except for «U5MR (Jake's assumptions),» we use 5q0, or the probability of a child dying before his or her 5th birthday expressed in deaths per 1,000 live births assuming constant mortality rates throughout childhood, instead of the under - 5 mortality rate (under 5 deaths per person per year), because the original report on the RCT we received from Living Goods reported outcomes in terms of 5qin all Sheets except for «U5MR (Jake's assumptions),» we use 5q0, or the probability of a child dying before his or her 5th birthday expressed in deaths per 1,000 live births assuming constant mortality rates throughout childhood, instead of the under - 5 mortality rate (under 5 deaths per person per year), because the original report on the RCT we received from Living Goods reported outcomes in terms of 5qin deaths per 1,000 live births assuming constant mortality rates throughout childhood, instead of the under - 5 mortality rate (under 5 deaths per person per year), because the original report on the RCT we received from Living Goods reported outcomes in terms of 5qin terms of 5q0.
But who you were at age 21 was a product of your experiences in early childhood, middle childhood, and your teenage years.
While you or I will never paint a Mona Lisa, we can look to Leonardo to help us see the world more clearly and reignite that sense of wonder we all had in our childhood years.
Melissa was involved in swimming (college swim team) dancing, dance team (in junior high), lifeguarding, and swim lesson instructor throughout her childhood on into her teen and college years.
In 2002, the federal government committed $ 2.2 billion in Early Childhood Development Initiative funding over a five - year perioIn 2002, the federal government committed $ 2.2 billion in Early Childhood Development Initiative funding over a five - year perioin Early Childhood Development Initiative funding over a five - year period.
I've been a non-believer for several years now after a childhood spent in fundamentalist Christianity.
Even without feeling loved or properly touched in childhood years, the human spirit understands the corruptness of it and seeks to heal itself in future years.
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.
In my childhood and teenage years (and perhaps even way past them) I solidly believed the members of other churches than our group of 3 reformed denominations were going to hell.
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.
The CTS has done a competent job with Jim Gallagher's simple booklet telling the story of John Paul's life - the childhood marked by his mother's early death along with that of his brother; the deep, strong bond with his father; the grim years of the German occupation and his tough job in a stone quarry; the mysticism and prayer - life; the youth drama groups; the ordination in a Poland coming to grips with what was to be a decades - long imposition of Communism.
My childhood was spent mostly in the Midwest, while my junior high and high school years were spent in Gallatin Tennessee, just north of Nashville.
«After thirty - five years of studying and teaching the theology and history of the Church,» writes Eamon Duffy, «I find myself living more and more out of resources acquired not in the lecture room or library, nor even at the post-conciliar liturgy, but in the narrow Catholicism of my 1950s childhood, warts and all.»
As might be guessed, the Konigsberg kid was submerged in religious imagery in his Brooklyn childhood, which included eight years of Hebrew school.
Whether it be conflict from his childhood when he was raised in Muslim household, or from his time in Hawaii when his Communist mentor likely eschewed any religion, or during college bringing him closer to a community likely agnostic at best, atheist perhaps, followed by years in which he sat listening to Black Liberation Theologian Wright, his relationship with Christianity's basic tenet is uneasy to say the least.
Parents can play a powerful role in shaping the emotional responses of children during the early childhood years.
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.
[9] The «penny» catechism (still sold for one penny in my childhood) derived from the pre-Reformation «Primers», and expanded over the years; this quotation is taken from a slender version printed in Newcastle in 1790.
Those babies in wedding clothes from twelve years ago have built this life, and this family, we're the Mother and the Father, this is their childhood which feels like a lot of pressure sometimes, I'm unequal to the task.
«The school board was nearly all Baptist, and they drew up a dress code every year that was very concerned with hair and short pants and exposing too much skin,» says Wallar Overton, a childhood friend and Perry's neighbor in Paint Creek.
At a Hobby Lobby in Albuquerqu, some years ago, I purchased a little resin swan, b / c it reminded me of one of my favorite childhood stories, The Ugly Duckling.
Being but an only child for nearly 10 years, I was left in childhood loneliness, not having a playmate to share growing up with.
The gay, lesbian, and bisexual Christians I know tell me they have experienced same - sex attractions for many years, often since childhood, and simply want to be in a committed, sacrificial relationship with someone to whom they are attracted.
In family time, a lot can happen in seven to ten years — childhood passes, people are born, get married, diIn family time, a lot can happen in seven to ten years — childhood passes, people are born, get married, diin seven to ten yearschildhood passes, people are born, get married, die.
During the years of childhood with its increasing autonomy, the closeness - distance cycle between parents and children is in constant motion.
Was she like C.S. Lewis, raised a Christian, spent a few years in her youth going through an atheist phase only to return to her childhood faith?
By virtue of his early childhood in Estonia and his later years in the Russian émigré community in Paris, Fr.
In Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment, Chopra imaginatively fills in «the missing years» between childhood and Christ's adult ministrIn Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment, Chopra imaginatively fills in «the missing years» between childhood and Christ's adult ministrin «the missing years» between childhood and Christ's adult ministry.
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