Sentences with phrase «generation of kids on»

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Whereas an entire generation of kids who grew up wishing for fame imagined being on an ABC sitcom or starring in a big - budget blockbuster, tomorrow's daydreaming kids will likely be imagining a very different image of super-stardom.

She is also the founder of Generation Veggie, an online community that supports plant - based families by providing resources on how to raise plant - based kids.

Instead of winning the most he could with what he had any way he could, he tried to establish as best he could with what he could get early on his style of play, so he could show kids and sell his vision while establishing relationships with the next generation of recruits.

They Grow Fast The major regret of our fathers» generation is that they missed out on spending time with their kids.

Let's be okay with being real moms, let's focus on where we are succeeding rather than failing, and let's give each other a little TLC so we can be great moms who raise the next generation of caring kids!

November 3 - 6: The Boston International Film Festival returns with screenings of 54 films, including films made for kids and by kids, as well as hands - on workshops for the next generation of filmmakers (Arlington, Somerville)

What we feel is also disappointing about the second story is that the dad and two moms overlooked how they contributed to the unfortunate stigma about dads not being good parents and passed it on to the teenage kids, who will more than likely become the next generation of parents.

For nearly seven years we have worked hard to set the stage for a healthier next generation of kids by engaging stakeholders on all levels - parents, child care providers, schools, chefs, local elected officials, faith - based leaders, museums, and more.

«The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act will finally put us on a path toward improving the health of the next generation of Americans, providing common - sense solutions to tackling childhood hunger and obesity.

So hopefully we'll raise our kids» generation to carry on our ideals of diversity and acceptance, regardless of what our own children's realities are.

Based on lessons from the life of Noah, the Noah Conference will prepare you to engage your kids, disciple them in an ungodly generation, and launch them into life as faithful ambassadors of Jesus Christ.

All of the toys on this list are well - built, durable toys that can be used for several generations of kids.

Similarly, you can drop a ton into education without it showing appreciable impact on outcomes for 20 years as you need a whole generation of kids to grow through that upgraded system and into the workforce, and if the economy is depressed or the new jobs aren't there then you just have a bunch of better educated people facing hardship.

Neuroscientist Bob Knight started a kid - reviewed, kid - targeted online journal to inspire the next generation of researchers on their own terms.

But it is even better than that because to go from generation to generation in the human world is either nine months or 21 years, depending on who you talk to; you've got to get pregnant; you've got to buy baby clothes, the whole thing; the kid goes to school and then college and a couple of decades later, you've got a new generation.

The breakdown of the family dinner has resulted in many kids missing out on proper manners that were commonplace in generations past.

We are about to witness the first generation that won't outlive their parents on a regular basis — kids who are under 10 getting high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and all this other lifestyle problems because of the rubbish they eat.

The other thing that I think too many people are not aware of, my epigenetic heritage, which is how the environment interacts with my genes without changing the DNA, has been passed on to my 2 kids, Zach and Zeb, but my choices get passed on for 4 generations.

i'm 3/4 Irish, only 3rd generation on my dad's side born in america, i'm single mother of 4, ages 12, 15, 16 & 19 years old, that i have been raising with no help at all the past 12 yrs, every since i left their sorry ass daddy, that lives 3 minute drive down the road but our kids don't see or...

The alleged assaults on two girls, ages 12 and 15, and on a 13 - year - old boy underscore how tough it can be to keep kids safe on a new generation of mobile apps.

But the truth is that like those «80s films many of us grew up on, and which we watched a million times over on home video and cable television, «Real Steel» feels destined to become a staple in the libraries of kids in this generation.

Up there with The Goonies, Gremlins and the like, Fred Dekker's adventure about a brave neighborhood gang of kids who happen to be the only ones knowledgeable about taking on monsters will take you back and it's great to share with this generation.

«A whole new generation of kids look to social media, be it on the IMDb site or gets their showtimes with a location search.

If the movie sees board games as quaint and items of nostalgia, it also wants to channel into that quaintness and nostalgia for an older generation — those who saw the original movie as kids and, hence, are old enough to know that video games where once contained, not on discs or in digital downloads, but in plastic boxes.

This isn't the best racing game on the market, but it's one of the most kid - friendly ones available for the next - generation consoles, and it's a lot of fun to play.

An apparent suicide that has fostered a small measure of conspiracy theories, Reeves, television's original Superman, is shot in the head, naked in bed, on a summer night in 1959, briefly throwing a generation of kids into minor existential turmoil.

The beautifully oversaturated colors, lighting, and clever camera - work will bring to mind early Peter Jackson or Sam Raimi handing his bag of tricks to a new generation of nihilistic punk kids raised on Lloyd Kaufman's Troma movies.

Franco goes on at length about the Sax Rohmer and Edgar Wallace / Republic Pictures Fu Manchu series and his affection for it and for the comic - book series that sent a whole generation of kids into a frenzy over the Yellow Peril, God bless»em.

Those speeches, combined with all of the other combat movie cliches found in Battle: Los Angeles, reveal the film to be little more than a traditional war film disguised as an alien invasion flick, tailor - made for a generation of kids raised on first - person shooters and jitter - inducing energy drinks.

We're looking to get 25 pilots set up in the next 13 or 14 months with colleges to make sure that when first generation kids of color get on campus, the set - up is conducive to them not just starting, but finishing, college.

Because her kids tend to think that the history of pop music started with Coldplay, Euterpe opens her laptop and clicks on performance videos of Nat «King» Cole and Billie Holiday, just two of the many windows on great song stylists that show students what their grandparents» generation responded to.

The attempt to write the playbook on what it takes to get first - generation low - income black and Hispanic kids into the world with college degrees in hand will offer something of a referendum on KIPP and the No Excuses model.

This led to a patient explanation from other charter leaders as well as district leaders about how hard it is for communities to see a building shuttered or handed over to a charter school when generations of neighborhood kids, some of whom went on to be accomplished leaders, attended the school.

To allow an entire class to use the technologically sophisticated Second Life, the High School of Global Citizenship and Global Kids relied on a Motorola Innovation Generation Grant to pay for new laptops for all the students.

As media and pop - culture scholar Henry Jenkins says, this generation is «growing up connecting online with kids from all parts of the planet being able to connect and collaborate with people who they don't see face to face takes on new importance in a network society.»

In virtually every class that has taken on NatureMapping, kids, sometimes the most unlikely ones, have emerged as competent researchers and potentially the next generation of scientists.

Thousands of kids each year begin a journey on this «school - to - prison pipeline,» and we miss out on generations of leaders, innovators, educators, and entrepreneurs.

... Groups like Education Minnesota, Educators 4 Excellence, Generation Next, ISAIAH and the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership are leading the way through effective organizing and a focus on social justice to make schools into the kinds of places that deserve to serve Minnesota's kids.

Having previously built two generations of Fit project vehicles, Tjin Edition brings its own take on the Civic Si Sedan, showing that style and performance can coexist with kids and a family.

The generation of kids growing up now realize that content on tablets is interactive.

«The partnership between Scholastic and educators has been a strong catalyst in inspiring new generations of book lovers, and we are thrilled to be a part of this effort to provide teachers and parents with an incredible new tool to meet kids where they are on the electronic devices they love and make reading even more fun.»

«We need to improve the way we teach our kids; we need to inspire a generation of digital natives who are already avid consumers of technology to embark on careers as entrepreneurs and coders, in e-commerce and as engineers,» said Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull while stressing on the far reaching changes that technology and computer science have brought to our lives.

This theme is expanded on in Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age by Dan Kindlon, Ph. D. Kindlon praises baby boomers for being emotionally close to their children and for raising kids who confide in their parents more than earlier generations, but he also finds them too indulgent.

Despite all of the (old) people clamoring about how no one wants to read comics on a computer screen and what about holding the paper and blah blah blah you kids get off my lawn with that rock music, there is an entire generation of people out there who have been reading comics on the web.

We decided to do this because we talked to people and the younger generation of kids these days don't mind panning and scanning and reading comic books on the iPod Touches and their iPhones.

A new generation of kids ready for Harry Potter, a group of adults who've never read the series before, and all the people who are fans already and want to read the books again in a new format — that is potentially a group of millions of buyers for the e-books on Pottermore.com.

It shouldn't be much of a surprise that the retailer is planning a followup to the original Nook as rival Amazon did with its Kindle (now on generation three), but we had originally thought that Nook Kids was just a children's section of the digital bookstore; now, however, we have evidence that this may actually be a piece of hardware.

• Breeders who can not produce a 5 or even 7 generation pedigree when asked • Breeders who do not show their dogs in any discipline • Breeders who say «we had a really nice dog» or «we wanted our kids to experience the micracle of birth» so we bred • Breeders who sell or breed unpapered dogs — PUREBRED dogs are required to be registered • Breeders who do not do any health testing such as on eyes, heart, thyroid, hips etc. before breeding • Breeders who do not want you to visit with them or their dogs • Breeders who do not have a contract • Breeders who have zero health guarantees on puppies / dogs sold from their Kennels • Breeders who do not require all pet / companion pups to be altered • Breeders who say that some colours are «rare» and promote the puppies as such • Breeders who breed a dog before the age of 2 (hips can not even be certified until the age of 2) • Breeders who breed their bitch every heat cycle • Breeders who indiscrimanately breed outside of the GDCA Colour Code — Yes, years ago, it was acceptable to bring in a Blue or Fawn to improve head / bone / substance in a Harlequin line etc. yet this type of breeding was to be done ONLY be highly reputable / quality knowledgeable / experienced Breeders.

This generation is looking to spend money on experiences and things that enhance their lives and their kids» lives, and pets are definitely part of that experience.

This post-war generation of 44 to 62 year olds is focused on aging gracefully through healthy lifestyles; and they have more disposable income to spend on their kids, aging parents and, of course, their pets.