Sentences with phrase «grow up to adult»

They even go so far as to not want their puppies to grow up to adult size.

For a shiba inu pup that grows up to an adult, what size would be suitable?

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After growing up in a financially unstable home, I didn't want to be enslaved to debt as an adult.

The use of prescription sleep medications, meanwhile, grew by 52 % among adults in the five years up to 2006.

There are many rules and traditions that they have to follow as they grow up and grow into royal adults.

You may have seen the think pieces — adults en masse are redefining coloring from a kiddy activity to one that can be enjoyed by sophisticated grown - ups.

And I think when people ask me about it now, as an adult — I actually raised my own children in the same business — it was just the most joyful way to grow up.»

The measure would allow adults 21 and older to possess up to two ounces (57 grams) of cannabis and grow up to six plants.

The added slang includes adulting (describes acting like a grown up), «bye Felicia (a dismissive term used to bid someone farewell), cuck (a derogatory term for an inadequate man), Hey Girl (a reference to a Ryan Gosling meme), Netflix and chill (the act of watching Netflix with an expectation of sexual activity), and rickrolling (when you troll someone on the internet by linking to Rick Astley's hit song «Never Going to Give You Up»up), «bye Felicia (a dismissive term used to bid someone farewell), cuck (a derogatory term for an inadequate man), Hey Girl (a reference to a Ryan Gosling meme), Netflix and chill (the act of watching Netflix with an expectation of sexual activity), and rickrolling (when you troll someone on the internet by linking to Rick Astley's hit song «Never Going to Give You Up»Up»).

PEP's interest in ACG underscores the growing demand for Australia and New Zealand - based adult education firms as growing numbers of migrants into the two nations seek to brush up on their English before embarking on university degrees.

I remember how adult I felt being privy to the grown up talk of my adult co-workers, their sexcapades, foul language, and adult themed problems.

Or grow up and make an attempt to be an adult.

You tell your kid not to believe in their imaginary friend... yet grown up, educated adults still can't process their rational thought and hang on to their teddy bear GOD for comfort... like Linus who can't give up his blanket.

Left alone to think on their own as they grow up, most adults will find any organized religion just a bogus scheme.

Finally, it bears mentioning that while all adults (our parents included) truly do make it up as they go along, for better or worse, traversing our world as young adults can present to us positive opportunities — opportunities that allow us to shepherd and encourage others in our churches and communities, even the wee ones or our own children who desperately want to grow up.

The influence of gay marriage, Sullivan believes, would not only make it easier to grow up gay, but would actually change how adult homosexuals conduct their lives.

«Critics who treat «adult» as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term,» he said, «can not be adult themselves... When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown - up.»

The statistics: Today's students and young adults have grown up in a time when abortion was widely accessible and acceptable, and a striking number are determined to end that era.

I didn't think to do it before, but I should also add that even with the help of Jesus, I had multiple problems growing up and through my early adult years as a result of the unstable home life.

Mathewes - Green believes that Baby Boomers» parents shielded their children from the trials of adult life, making us unwilling to grow up and assume our adult roles in society.

I've been accused of the things I've been studying to treat and grew up as an ACOA (adult child of an alcoholic).

It is time for the adults to grow up now and stop playing pretend about the big guy in the sky.

I am beginning to discover, however, that it is all an ingenius conspiracy on the part of adults to amuse themselves and still give the impression of being grown - ups.

But Vine is certainly happy to talk about it to me, and admits that, despite growing up in a strongly Christian background, his adult relationship with faith was an on - off affair for a long time.

Do we assume that children will not eventually grow up to be adults, or that adults will not eventually become elderly and need assistance?

Many grew up in church or had Christian parents but their adult lifestyles did not necessarily measure up to Biblical standards.

Its cute when children hear these stories, but when you're an adult, its time to grow up, live in the real world, and actually contribute something.

Growing up, I never would have told you that I was abused but, as I recalled some childhood stories humorously to some friends as an adult, I've realized mid-story that I was telling a story of child abuse.

Many of the lies were taught to me by adults in authority as I grew up.

[there'd be no babies since babies grow up... and there'd be no adults to repopulate the earth].

I'm beginning to understand why so many atheists are hostile and hateful towards the religion they grew up with and left as adults.

Even a small child knows it's fables and myths just like Santa Claus until adults continue the indoctrination telling them what to think until they no longer have the capacity to question and grow up to be... welll,... you!

Grow the fuck up and let the adults talk now... back to the sandbox little one!

I had to grow up and be an adult... not the dependent child, the subject of a relegated religion, and not even the middle manager of my spiritual life.

I grew up in a sober home where adults having fun was never linked to clinking ice cubes or lipstick stains on a wine glass.

Grow up, little one, you are not ready to debate with adults.

I've read tales of Spanish Conquistodoros in the 16th century killing Indian babies by taking them by the heels and bashing their brains out against rocks after they were baptized by priests, so that they might enter heaven, to ensure that they wouldn't grow up to become heathen adults.

I also grew up in a time when the Church failed to teach Her people effectively, and as an adult, I began seeking the truth and the answers myself, and found everything I needed was right there.

The adults took pictures, the kids all waved to their grown - ups, we clapped and cheered for them all.

Even though it won't be released until June of 2010, my first book — a spiritual memoir about growing up in the conservative evangelical subculture only to question my faith as a young adult — is really starting to come to life.

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In the theater of the absurd that followed the bipartisan deficit - reduction proposals of Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, Democrats and Republicans alike proved themselves unwilling to grow up and act like adults.

Can't remember on growing up and being a young adult that anyone was concerned about our nation praying in unison to one God we all believed in.

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.

Young people worry most about fulfilling adult expectations (80 percent about obeying parents, 78 percent about getting good grades, 69 percent about preparing for the future, 62 percent about earning money), instead of what adults routinely perceive to be the big crisis in growing up — sex, substance abuse, peer pressure.

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.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

Children who were «born unwanted» prior to the legalisation of abortion not only grew up in more disadvantaged households, but also grew up to be more disadvantaged as adults.»

I grew up in church and a family that took the inerrant view of the bible — and as an adult, I studied it — led in depth Bible studies where we dissected it to death.

One of the more important purposes of a school chaplain, IMO, is to be an adult, perhaps the only adult in the kids lives, who isn't asking the kids to perform / become better / grow up / score well / study hard / etc.