Sentences with phrase «kids in neighborhood grown»

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Including investments in consumer companies he holds through Maveron, a venture capital firm he co-founded — and the tens of millions of dollars of equity he owns in Groupon (GRPN) as a director — his net worth is in the neighborhood of at least $ 2 billion, which isn't bad for a kid who grew up in the projects of Brooklyn, on the seventh floor at 1560 East 102nd St. Obama himself, according to Schultz, said he was «very aware of my personal story.»

There are families in my neighborhood who have relocated here with their kids, and one thing they tell me is that they want their kids to grow up knowing that not everything is okay in this world — that racism exists, that injustice exists, that just because someone smells doesn't mean we have to be afraid of them, and so on.

I grew up in one of those half - rural half - suburban towns where everyone in the neighborhood is friendly and you may have a pack of at least five neighborhood kids descend upon your house at any given moment.

Usually I fault the parents a bit more than the kids but one time some little shitty girl in our neighborhood who spent all of last year playing with my kids decided that now she's grown as an 8 year old and she started bullying the shit out of my son.

Well moving on is sometimes a hard matter for kids who may have grown a big group of friends, for instance 2 years ago when I had to go under a similar situation, one of my kids who as a consequence of me introducing him to a k 12 homeschool curriculum, had grow a good group of friends around the neighborhood, when time came for us to move on he did not want to move on and let behind his friends, so we had to explain him a lot about what we were doing and promise to bring him back so that he could keep in contact with his friends!

We moved back to the place that I grew up; my kid's are growing up in the neighborhood I did, going to the same school, some of the same teacher's.

All kids grow at different paces, so you can't determine whether your child will be short or tall just from comparing her to other kids at school or in the neighborhood.

By teaching kids how to grow their own food, Ritz showed them how to take ownership over their diets and look past the processed, unhealthy fare in their neighborhood.

But ten years later, the kids in the neighborhood are slowly growing up.

But as Paul Tough writes in his book, Whatever It Takes, about Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone, Canada had something growing up that a lot of other kids in the neighborhood didn't: a mother with a couple years of college under her belt who realized that education doesn't only happen in school.

Kids growing up in poverty are more likely to experience trauma, to live without their fathers, to go home to more violent neighborhoods, and to otherwise face all manner of difficult circumstances that make it more likely that they may misbehave at school.

This, she suggests, fosters out - of - control toddlers and may lead to serious problems down the road, particularly for kids growing up in neighborhoods where community bonds have frayed.

Many of these individuals are white, middle - class kids who grew up in white - flight - created suburbia, but are choosing to return to the neighborhoods that their parents and grandparents left decades before.

«We don't have kids that grew up with each other since kindergarten in the same neighborhoods,» said Principal Brenda Chun.

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I grew up in nice neighborhoods where kids played ball in front yards, the Tooth Fairy left a quarter under your pillow, we had corn on the cob and merry - go - rounds, and PTA meetings.

I grew up in neighborhoods where kids played ball, swang on swings, and rode merry - go - rounds.

Wilson has said that his art frequently leads him back to his own experiences growing up black in a multicultural family and a neighborhood with no other black kids.

Despite the fact that there's often so many things stacked against kids growing up in the inner - city, there's one young eco-hero that's defying the odds and making an incredible difference while helping to shed a bit of light on how successful students can be at affecting change in their own neighborhoods.

• Enjoy a five - senses hike • Organize a nature scavenger hunt • Explore a local nature trail • Camp out in the backyard • Take a nature photo safari • Put up a bird feeder and watch for visitors • Observe the night sky • Plant a family tree and watch it grow • Invite neighborhood kids to join in a bug walk and critter talk

Melrose, MA About Blog I grew up in in a neighborhood filled with kids that knew how to enjoy an adventure and the outdoors.

I grew up in a neighborhood everyone called called «Nordeast» in nearby Minneapolis, where a white kid like me was happily in the minority.