Sentences with phrase «for becoming an adult»

Kids also need rules that will help prepare them for becoming adults.

It does not come out if a child is not interested in a grown - up life, if he does not strive for becoming an adult.

Creativity is crucial to life as a child in preparation for becoming an adult.

Like all good monomyth stories, they are intended for those becoming adults but not there yet.

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Starting and running a business is invaluable in paving the way for young people to become responsible adults,» says Molly Young, YEF program manager.

Marijuana became legal for recreational purchase and use in Colorado on the first of this year, and adult - use facilities are doing a booming business.

I had been competitively tracked from middle school to high school to college, and by going straight to law school I knew I would be competing at the same kinds of tests I'd been taking ever since I was a kid, but I could tell everyone that I was now doing it for the sake of becoming a professional adult.

But there's one easy, important thing you can do to settle in and become efficient in your new role, writes John D. Spooner, author of «No One Ever Told Us That: Money And Life Lessons For Young Adults»: Take an experienced employee out to eat.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

Just as parents are responsible for guiding their child to become the best adult he or she can possibly be, it's your job to help your business grow into its brand identity.

Delvinia designs the Next Great Innovator Challenge for RBC Royal Bank — a crowdsourcing competition created to gain insights into the innovations young adults wanted to see in banking within the next 30 years — and helps RBC become the first Canadian bank to launch a banking blog.

In 2014, Florida Statute 825.103 «Exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult» became effective, which makes it easier for authorities to prosecute persons who exploit elders and increases penalties for crimes committed against elders.

The way I figure, baby DivHut will have two decades of dividend compounding till he becomes a legal adult at which time I hope he'll continue on his own dividend growth journey from the portfolio we have started for him.

And in his book, Children of the Great Depression, Glen Elder wrote that adolescents who experienced hardship in the 1930s became especially adaptable, family - oriented adults; perhaps, as a result of this recession, today's adolescents will be pampered less and counted on for more, and will grow into adults who feel less entitled than recent generations.

He became Google's CEO — so - called adult supervision for Page and his co-founder, Brin.

The more accountability we take for ourselves as adults, the more freedom we actually obtain, to create the life and become the person we've always wanted to be — apart from our parents.

Jesus asks us to go beyond the rudimentary stick - and - carrot «safeguards» for spiritual infants and become adults.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

As a young adult, I became convinced of the centrality of religious faith for a full life.

My understanding comes from the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) classes that adult converts to the Roman Catholic Church must attend for 9 months to a year before becoming a member.

No matter how I tried, I could hardly get a job even I have some interview.I used to be a counselor for the developmentally handicapped adults for few years but just couldn't find the same old job again.Right now, I have just got a license and will become an insurance agent in a few weeks.

Adult's Ministry Pastor at Orlando's First Baptist Church, Chris Ogden, explains: «For a lot of guys that have struggled in the area of sexuality, the lie becomes «This is just who I am.

For adults — which our children will become — this requires values that transcend pleasure and possessions, values that give meaning to our actions and our relationships and our whole way of life.

The death of parents also provides an opportunity for one's Adult to discover that it can cope with the new reality this brings, and use the new sense of inner freedom of which it may become aware.

The predictable stages and transitions of adult development with their tasks, crises, and opportunities become major occasions for maturing in the Christian life.

The Christian life becomes incarnate in the psychosocial development of adult life as it is now being described by people like Levinson for men and Sheehy for women.69

Half the children may become orphans in the next five years, with no healthy adults left to care for them.

That is, I am an American citizen (of Polish - Russian lineage, if it matters) who became a Baha'i as an adult of my own free will and out of love for the Faith.

For these extremists it becomes like adults still believing in Santa Claus.

And it becomes apparent that these young adults need opportunities for communion: to share their stories in supportive communities, to name and to share their suffering, and to receive healing.

Back then, comic books were intended primarily for children, but as our society becomes more and more visually oriented, there are more and more comic books being put out for adults.

«Without realizing it, children become a «valve» for adults, both opening and restricting consumption,» he says.

It is very difficult for most parents who became adults before 1960 to understand the attitudes of their children about work and love.

It's not often that a small group Bible study curriculum for adults / students / kids becomes a # 2 trending topic worldwide on Twitter.

There's enough action, intrigue and drama to convince adults that it's «a serious movie well worth your time» but in reality, it's a film for the whole family, and for many, watching it together has become something of a rite of passage.

For as we have stressed throughout this book, the purpose of prayer is to bring God's human child, now become adult in responsibility and thus asked to act in mature ways, into cooperative awareness of God, opened to his love and ready to act in love toward others.

Most could keep their head above the murky waters, but I drowned in them, my mind and soul became as a vegetable, void of all emotions and life, there are ones that have my testimony when God apprehended me and manifested Himself to me, that I became One with Him in His life: I was a walking zombie and nothing more at that time, a vessel for my master use being cared for by my adult children on disability with a grade 5 education, with ADDHD and dyslexia, I couldn't even spell or string 2 sentences together that made any sense: All that has been done in my life for the last 11 yrs.

But the problem was that the church was trying to grow up, learn how to think for themselves and become a mature adult, but the founder couldn't handle losing the control he loves, so he stopped the development.

We do not live alone, and somewhere in growing up, in becoming adult, we learn that others not only make life possible for us, they rely on us to make life possible for them.

Your church, and specifically your young adults group, can become a community - renowned source for the arts.

It wasn't until I became a mature adult — although some say they're still waiting for that day to happen — so I'll say... it wasn't until I moved to France that I developed an appreciation for plain, unsweetened whole milk yogurt.

I had to become an adult to eat spinach but I know if my mother had made these, I would have definitely eaten them more so for them being green than anything else.

For us, this experience becomes an adult food lover's scavenger hunt as we carefully scrutinize each and every aisle and shelf inspecting products and looking at labels.

That's not very becoming for such an adult as you.

I want to reiterate while Team Moccio's will leave 2013 like last Season — as Runners - Up — they have become the Gold Standard for the Suburbs Men's Adult League.

Unlike their parents» and grandparents» generations, for whom marriage and parenthood were prerequisites for adulthood, young people today more often view these markers as life choices rather than requirements, as steps that complete the process of becoming an adult rather than start it.

You will be rewarded for your troubles when you discover what a fine man your adult son has become.

After the sports season is over, a school or YSO should save the PPE until the child becomes an adult because children have the right to bring lawsuits as adults for injuries they suffered as children.

For the last 13 years you've been raising this awesome kid, and now they're entering the first stages of becoming an adult.

A sports sponsor should check with its attorney to find out when children become adults for purposes of bringing a lawsuit in its state and to find out how long the statute of limitations period is.