Sentences with phrase «fitting in with my peers as»

on the one hand, this makes me feel content about not fitting in with my peers as a gen y - er.

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A study published in March in the journal Neurology suggested that women who were physically fit in middle age were roughly 88 % less likely to develop dementia — defined as a decline in memory severe enough to interfere with daily life — than their peers who were only moderately fit.

Kids with Learning or Behavioral Disabilities When your child doesn't fit in with his peer group for some emotional, behavioral or physical reason, I think you have to find an organized way as a parent to work with them step by step, to show them how to manage their daily lives.

Peer pressure tends to escalate during the tween years as children attempt to fit in and bond with their school mates.

Anxious feelings can also be caused by a child's internal feelings and pressures, such as wanting to do well in school or fit in with peers.

In an attempt to fit in with their peers, kids sometimes insist they've either endured similar experiences as their friends, or they attempt to impress their friends with their storieIn an attempt to fit in with their peers, kids sometimes insist they've either endured similar experiences as their friends, or they attempt to impress their friends with their storiein with their peers, kids sometimes insist they've either endured similar experiences as their friends, or they attempt to impress their friends with their stories.

Results indicated that both high - quality close friendships and a drive to fit in with peers in adolescence were associated with better health at age 27, even after taking other potentially influential variables such as household income, body mass index, and drug use into account.

There, Bill works as a math teacher at a fancy prep school, while Wes tries to fit in with his upper - class peers.

My younger years were the awkward stage of not knowing who I was as a person, and I tried extremely hard to fit in with my peers.

Her book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Her forthcoming book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Students must come to terms with challenges such as leaving home, fitting in with a new group of peers, managing new freedoms, and meeting academic goals.

This dressing - up of the work can be seen as a compromise, evidence of Overby's desire for his work to fit in with his art world peers; conceptual artists of a different mentality such as Sol Le Witt, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin and Robert Smithson, who Overby described as «basically abstract painters» [2].

Substance use increases in adolescence (Johnston, O'Malley, & Bachman, 1998) as smoking, drinking, and other drugs become a way to appear mature while fitting in with peers.

But if you take a child headed down the wrong path and move him to new environment such as a small suburban town, chances are he will get himself on the right track, because he is trying to fit in with a new peer group (Harris, 1998).

Young people may also join these groups as a result of peer pressure and the desire to «fit in» with their social circle.