Sentences with phrase «children brag»

We all know children brag about everything from how many toys they have to how long they can hold their breath underwater.

Not exact matches

I suspect that if you took spousal and child abuse statistics in the US (and account at least a little bit for what goes unreported), you'd probably find that the spectrum of our «Christian» nation doesn't exactly have a lot to brag about either (but of course anyone who abuses children or spouse can't POSSIBLY be a «true Christian»... and I hope you see the irony in that remark).

But how many of you would brag about being a child of George W. Bush?

He sang Dylan to his wife Diane at the karaoke bar, treasured his time doing prison ministry, and adored his children by pestering them at home and bragging about them in emails.

This kind of broad association is of particular value to a society like ours, one in which people are increasingly tribalized and segregated and even a laudable value like diversity can be trivialized, as when a mother brags about how her child attends such a «wonderfully diverse» prep school, what with the boy from Senegal whose dad is a UN diplomat and the girl from Sri Lanka whose mom is an officer with the World Bank.

If each faith attends their own school, interacts only with children who believe as they do, Might this not interfere with the melting pot, we often brag about?

Mom can share with friends, and brag about how talented her child is in the kitchen, or keep it all to herself, thinking about you every time she indulges.

I know this will a) make her v happy and b) brag about her children to everyone at work even more.

I imagine that progressive moms everywhere proudly slip packs of toasted seaweed into their children's lunch boxes, and kids confidently brag about how good it is.

This competition was held not only to give a few companies bragging rights, but also to raise both awareness and money for the Snowdrop Foundation, a worthy organization dedicated to assisting patients and families at Texas Children's Cancer Center.

If you're not bragging about your kid pooping in the pool, you're asking your neighbors to sign documents that make them want to douse your water slide in gasoline and set it on fire in front of your weeping children.

But in recent years, it has become the winter swing set for the Chicago suburbs, offering children much - needed outdoor play time and their fathers bragging rights over whose is rink is biggest, smoothest and most fun.

All parents worry about their child's development from time to time — especially when that one mom in your child's playgroup is always bragging about her kid's latest milestone.

We're made to feel that the age age their children started crawling, walking, talking, and even using the potty is a bragging right, that somehow by doing it «sooner» or «earlier» makes us better parents and more - talented people.

I'm distressed that any woman would consider sacrificing the life of her child for bragging rights, but I'm appalled that someone whose baby is actually dead as the result of her selfishness and self - absorption would go on being self - absorbed.

While the sarcasm was thick, we have all also agreed on separate occasions that our lives are significantly more meaningful than they were before we had children and we often come to work bragging about something sweet or adorable or silly that our kids said or did.

Some days I honestly wish I could just round up all the mothers I know or don't even know but sometimes see on the sidewalk or around my neighborhood, pop open a couple (read: all) bottles of wine and just sit and talk and complain and brag about our children and just, you know, talk.

If a child lies because he's bragging, it may be that he has low self - esteem or wants to gain attention.

She gets jealous and hurts because she wants her child to do those things, or at least something she can brag about.

She has a child with autism, who struggles to do the things that these parents are going on and on bragging about.

The playground mother who brags nonstop about her child's achievements.

Second - graders now brag about their taste for quinoa — a South American staple grown mainly for its seed — while older children crunch on apple wedges and honeydew slices brought from home.

This is often what's behind bragging: A child says, «I can do this!

So don't brag about something that's putting both my child and yours in jeopardy.

It's a day when I tend to stay off social media, as obnoxious humble brags abound about worlds» best children and husbands, who are, in reality, probably selfish and thankless and piggish every other day of the year, but on this day are photoshopped to be the standard bearers for selflessness and generosity.

They brag incessantly about their kid's first crap in the potty on Facebook, they're overly protective to the point of making their children wear life jackets in the bath, and they incessantly praise the brilliance of -LSB-...]

Juice and plain milk are apparently passé, so we're left with mothers who brag, «My child has been going to cafés since he was a newborn.

As my high need baby grows into an almost 2 year old, I am — and believe me, I am not bragging — now the enlightened mother of a child who is going through her terrible twos.

Although there are always parents on the playground who brag they trained their child in a day, the study — published in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of Pediatric Urology — found timing was more important than technique.

We had several children in the hospital and had good experiences each time, but the last two babies I did give birth to at home and it had nothing to do with granola and bragging rights.

The same parents who beam at their child's repertoire of AP science courses eventually stop bragging when the child's Ph.D. program enters its fifth, sixth, or eighth year.

The country's leaders brag that their one - child policy has spared the world's climate 300 million greenhouse gas emitters, the population equivalent of a U.S. that never happened.

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Help them understand the homeless man on the corner, or that they can't go bragging about what they got for Christmas because some children may have not received much for the holiday.

Do the rich cougars brag about the high class college they are paying to send their grown children?

Jonze and co-scenarist Dave Eggers are clearly in touch with their inner - miserable child; they seem to vividly remember all the daily turmoil that childhood is heir to — the tantrums, fights, scrapes, bruises, fears, anxieties, insults, hurt feelings, bossiness, cruelty, rejection, confusion, heckling, bullying, bragging, pouting, moping, testing, haggling, crying, rage...

When children were happy and accomplishing important things ~ parents ~ even those that can be difficult ~ began supporting my gifted program and bragging about what their children were doing.

Although the risks of behavior problems among children in child care programs are low, McCartney and her colleagues did find a correlation between the number of hours spent in child care each week and the likelihood of adults to report disobedience, aggressiveness, or assertive behavior such as bragging and demanding attention.

The announcement featured President Obama bragging, «After waiting far too long for Congress to reform No Child Left Behind, my Administration is giving states the opportunity to set higher, more honest standards in exchange for more flexibility.»

The American Federation for Children, a front group for the voucher movement overseen by disgraced former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen, has publicly bragged of spending massive amounts of campaign cash to elect sympathetic and sycophantic state senators.

Mrs. Wind brags about her children, which annoys Mrs. Wat...

In fact, not to brag, but according to the Connecticut Master Test results, depending on the subject, my child has reached Goal * or Advanced * levels of achievement.

4) Brag Box: Have a place to keep your child's more noteworthy assignments and projects.

Or yell at people (Chris Christie), or make up facts (Stefan Pryor), or denigrate parents (Arne Duncan), or brag about taping the mouths of children shut (Michelle Rhee), or lie about test scores.

Specific to Asian Americans, who particularly enjoy bragging to their friends about the professional careers of their children, boosting not only the reputation, but also the salary of teachers would trickle in many more Asian Americans interested in teaching (Lee & Zhou, 2015).

I don't like to brag, but my children's picture book, «A Birthday Story» has a great cover.

And the only successes I could brag about at the time were the sales of a music book to Simon & Schuster, and some children's books to a medium - sized publisher called Peachtree.

We're scheduling a tour for children's book «Ernie the Elephant in Henry Brags».

Amazon's release notes for their «Kindle for Android» app already brag that it supports «illustrated children's books, comic books, and graphic novels, including fixed - layout books.»

However, Story Studio will unleash your children creativity teaching them animations of Disney beloved characters while the parents will be able to earn bragging rights by sharing the creations on Facebook.