Sentences with phrase «farther than the other kids»

The only indication I had that there was something there was that I could always throw farther than the other kids — not harder, just farther.

Not exact matches

Out there in the wings still is the huge army of young soccer players, more than eight million strong, according to an A.C. Nielsen survey, that far outnumbers the participants in any other team sport in the U.S.. You'll hear, of course, that these kids will grow up to be lawyers and then buy season tickets to baseball and football games.

Well - off kids have on average more access to books and other printed materials; just as important, their parents speak to them more than low - income parents speak to their children — by some estimates, far more — and the speech they use is more complex.

And kids listen to other kids, often far more attentively than they listen to adults.

On the other hand, my own pediatrician and a second doctor I consulted on the issue have both advised me that if a kid is not otherwise drinking milk, the nutrient / sugar trade - off clearly favors the flavored milk; it's far more important for a growing child to get sufficient calcium than it is to avoid the added sugar.

Yes some kids have greater abilities than others, but we would do far better to advocate for a system that is adaptable enough to meet all kids where they are at, instead of believing that we can somehow magically predict the golden children (we can't) and then provide a special track just for their benefit.

Most dads are likely to embarrass their kids at some point whether it be cheering along over-enthusiastically a ball game or questioning their daughter's new boyfriend over his employment prospects, the list is endless.But some parents go further than others when it comes to humiliating their offspring.

Most importantly, the non-chemical mineral sunscreen glides on smoothly, with far less white residue than other sunscreens I have tried (I'm looking at you Badger) and far less grease than the new kid on the block (Honest!).

Your experience and the other comments indicate that many U.S. school lunches are far healthier than what many kids get at home; I can attest to this from my own childhood, although looking back the lunch I CHOSE (there's that missing education about food) was pretty deficient.

As far as sick children go you bring your child sick and all the sanitizing in the world is not going to keep all the other kids «Bug» free and if your provider or her child ends up with it more than likly you'll be missing work.

A year later, the math scores of the kids with glasses had improved far more than those of peers in the other schools.

Far from trailing the developed world in science education, as some claim, «on PISA, the U.S. has more high - scoring kids in science than any other country» and nearly as many in the top math category as top - scoring Japan and Korea, Salzman says.

The Next Karate Kid exists in a perverse dreamland, crammed to bursting with unlikely moments and impossible situations — each of them set up for the sole purpose of a Miyagi reaction shot (he's a dog now, going so far as to talk to one in this picture) or a bloody Julie - fied rant, excepting the bits of course, where every man other than Miyagi or Eric offers to rape Julie but good.

Though Mrs Trotter is friendly and has dealt with many kids in the past, Gilly takes an instant dislike to the woman and her other foster child, William, who is far younger than Gilly.

In some classes, kids listen to teachers talk about reading far more than they actually read themselves, while in other classes, independent reading is kept sacred and kids have ample time to explore books of their own choosing.

Why it happens is an interesting question for which nobody has a great answer, as far as I know, other than the obvious point that the schools and classrooms those kids enter into don't know how (or don't try very hard) to sustain earlier gains.

Certainly, the interests of teachers in ensuring adequate educational investment are far stronger than they are for most voters, who don't have children in the school system and may be more concerned about holding down taxes than investing in the education of other people's kids.

If parents who make school choices for thir own kids, but stand in the way of other parents choosing a school that best fits their needs, whether magnet, charter or anything else, they should feel far more than a little hypocritical.

Taro and the Magic Pencil takes this a step further than other all - ages manga in serving as a bridge between children's story books and comics, similar in the approach of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Captain Underwear books, if for a slightly younger audience.

Items in the Variety Kit might be able to be built independently by kids younger than 10 but other items like the piano or the Robot Kit are far more complex and could require assistance.

You drift further and further apart until the kids are adults and you don't really need to interact at all, other than at weddings and graduations.