Sentences with phrase «families at different stages of their life»

I have 20 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families at different stages of their life - cycles.

Not exact matches

The Good Neighbor team at North Church in Spokane, comprised of people of different ages and stages of life, came alongside recent refugees to Spokane, including an 11 - member Muslim family from Somalia.

What appears to be the same family is actually a different family at each stage of its life history.

If you've got budding entomologists in the family, you'll want to spend several hours at Nicholas checking out butterflies in different stages of the life cycle.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

August: Osage County could perhaps best be described as a sort of claustrophobic examination of what holds together, and indeed pulls apart, a family who are all at different stages in their life, emotionally as much as generationally.

Concept: A multi-generational family comedy where the focus is divided equally between the older parents (Wiest and Brolin) and the families of each of their three children (Sadoski, Brandt, and Hanks) who are at different stages of life.

Robespierre and co-writer Elisabeth Holm craft an indelible portrait of the women in the Jacobs family, each at different life stages yet all struggling to feel the love with important companions.

Each spread in this powerful poetry collection looks at a different stage in the Great Migration, and the beat in Greenfield's free verse amplifies the feeling of momentum, down to the rhythm of the train that is felt in a northbound passenger's questions: «Will I make a good life / for my family, / for myself?

Every family is different and at different stages of life, which means that all of them are going to need different lengths of life insurance coverage.

If you look at your life in terms of stages, with different financial resources and needs as you move from your first job to raising a family to retirement, you'll see that other than health insurance it's likely that you'll need other insurance products only for portions of your life.

This plan also provides the insured with regular pay - outs that increase at different stages in life, and ensures protection for their families while giving them the option of choosing additional riders and flexible premium paying terms.

At these stages, children goes through different phases of their lives and along with that different challenges seem to appear according to Tan Chuan - Jin of Minister for Social and Family Development.

Participants will learn 1) what children understand about adoption at different developmental stages; 2) how this knowledge provides parents with a guide for when, how and what to share with their children at different ages, including information that parents perceive to be difficult, negative, or painful; 3) engaging birth family members in this process in open adoptions, and 4) children's comprehension of how other people in their lives perceive adoption.