Sentences with phrase «kids in the neighborhood who»

Having said that, there are some kids in my neighborhood who love the motorcycle and playing with my dog — and have never had any problems here in Glasgow Scotland with that.

Not exact matches

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.»

Cruz — at 5 - foot - 7 and 120 pounds — was scrawny, and rarely, if ever, felt comfortable with other kids, either in his Parkland neighborhood or at Stoneman Douglas, according to Paul Gold, who lived next door to the Cruz family and remained in touch with Nikolas up until his mother's funeral in November.

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 was talking a guy this past week who said he was going to pass out Gospel tracts to the kids in the neighborhood when they came by his door.

Thus, if a minister today is not in process of being ousted, is regarded by at least many of his people as a wonderful Christian, a helpful preacher, a diligent pastor, and so on, he may rest content in this kind of status even though privately he is disturbed at all the kids who drop out of church school, at the inattentiveness of the church to its neighborhood, at the virtual neglect of older people, and at the bourgeois aroma that infects everything.

There's this kid in the neighborhood, a kid who spends enough time at my house that he has taken to referring to me as «mom.»

The recently opened Recess Eatery in Northeast Los Angeles caters to young families who live in the area with a very kid - friendly environment, adapting to the neighborhood.

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.

It upset her to think that these perfectly good toys were being thrown away when at the same time there were so many kids in the same and other neighborhoods who couldn't afford to have toys.

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!

There is also research that shows that kids who are more civically engaged are more likely to vote as adults, and that engagement can also be a method of reducing violence in neighborhoods.

His theory is that in a low - income, high - crime neighborhood, if you offer social and educational supports to just a few of the kids who live there, their participation will always seem a bit oddball, and they won't have much of an effect on their peers.

Matt Guncheon, 22, a North Park senior who has played softball with neighborhood kids in the park, said, «I'm as supportive of the athletic teams as anyone.

That's the way it was for months in the Belmont - Cragin community, until midsummer, when neighborhood folk decided that it wasn't enough that the gangs went away; they wanted to reclaim the park for the kids who deserved it.

I've heard of several other kids who stopped nursing down of their own accord somewhere in the 10 -12-month neighborhood, but I'm wondering if this is common.

Get in touch with other parents in the neighborhood who will be schlepping their kids to the same places as you will.

«It's about getting kids back to learning where their food comes from,» said McGreal, who ran Joe Bailey's restaurant in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood before he took up teaching at JJC 15 years ago.

«If you are able to make a neighborhood safer for people by getting rid of a gang problem, and the next day, people feel more comfortable letting their kids go play in the park because you've put away people who were terrorizing their neighborhood, that's great,» Bharara said, adding the caveat that you haven't done your job if the next day, 10 new gang - bangers show up.

But the collective fear ratings of all the caregivers who lived in or regularly visited a neighborhood was strongly linked to the amount of time kids spent close to home.

Children who live in «smart growth» neighborhoods — developments that are designed to increase walkability and have more parks and green space areas — get 46 percent more moderate or vigorous physical activity than kids who live in conventional neighborhoods, finds a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

and I turn the lights off for Trick O» Treaters (there aren't many little kids in my neighborhood, and most of them go to other neighborhoods on less busy streets... so all we get are older kids who don't even wear costumes... which is really just going door - to - door begging for food... which is awkward).

DJ (Mitchell Musso) has spent years staking out the neighborhood crank, Mr. Nebbercracker (Steve Buscemi), and his tumbledown house, the one in stark contrast to the otherwise pristine suburbs around it, all the while keeping a journal of exactly what he's been confiscating from the hapless neighborhood kids who trespass by so much as a millimeter on his sinister lawn.

With (really) offbeat humor, the story centers on man - child «Clinton» (Fran Kranz) who still lives with his mother «Edie» (Blythe Danner) at age thirty - something, lazily watches television in a dirty robe, and fights with neighborhood kids over action figures at his own makeshift yard sale.

New York has Sachs, a down - to - earth city scion who tackled love and apartment - hunting in the must - see Love Is Strange and returns to examine the budding friendship between two Brooklyn kids: an introvert with art skills and the safety net of white privilege, and an audacious aspiring actor being pushed out of the neighborhood by gentrification.

Ten - year - old Chiron (Alex Hibbert), a boy being raised by his mother (Naomie Harris) in Miami's crime - ridden Liberty City neighborhood, is taught to swim by Juan (Mahershala Ali), a drug dealer who has become a surrogate for the kid's absent father.

In his «Get Off the Shed» sketch, the Step Brothers star plays a dad at a neighborhood barbecue who gets increasingly annoyed at the kids on top of his shed.

«Well, when I was shooting «It Felt Like Love,» I had some cast members who were from a neighborhood in Brooklyn called Gerritsen Beach, and kids from Gerritsen Beach are called «beach rats.»

But the movie implies Connolly is acting out something other than a repressed crush: It's the need of a bullied child in a tough neighborhood who looks to the biggest, meanest kid to protect and define him.

These are the kids whose fathers may be incarcerated, whose mothers may be working long hours at low - wage jobs, who live in troubled neighborhoods with little to occupy them in their free time, and whose parents lack the connections and knowledge needed to put them on a path to the middle class.

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.

That it doesn't matter who your parents are or what color your skin is or what neighborhood you were born in — every kid in this country should get a fair shot at the American dream.

«Sixteen percent of our kids graduate from four - year colleges, compared to less than 5 percent of public school kids in our neighborhoods; and it's only 3 percent of CPS Latinos and 4 percent of CPS blacks who graduate from college.»

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

Here was a kid who had flunked vocal music in his neighborhood school who would have never discovered his talent if it had not been for magnet schools.

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.

A parent who moved into a studio apartment in another neighborhood just so their kid could attend school.

For kids who need services that can't be provided by their neighborhood school, the district may a different school in mind.

And there are plenty of non-wealthy DC parents who are seeking and finding opportunities for their kids, either in their own neighborhoods, in charter schools or in neighborhoods where the wealthy parents choose to avoid public schools.

Kids in all schools in all neighborhoods need and deserve teachers who are committed to success, committed to communities, and committed to the kids they teKids in all schools in all neighborhoods need and deserve teachers who are committed to success, committed to communities, and committed to the kids they tekids they teach.

For example, Sarah Judd, a lawyer with the Vermont Forum on Sprawl who developed the Healthy Kids, Healthy Neighborhoods Program, benefits by understanding what's important in the education world — it's good for the community to understand what schools are dealing with, what the responsibilities of an educator are, and how teachers are expected to «raise 25 kids» to be responsible adults — often because their parents aren't able to fill that role, working too hard to make a living.&raKids, Healthy Neighborhoods Program, benefits by understanding what's important in the education world — it's good for the community to understand what schools are dealing with, what the responsibilities of an educator are, and how teachers are expected to «raise 25 kids» to be responsible adults — often because their parents aren't able to fill that role, working too hard to make a living.&rakids» to be responsible adults — often because their parents aren't able to fill that role, working too hard to make a living.»

«I don't want my kids going to school with neighborhood kids,» one mother in Kenilworth - Parkside who sends some of her children to a charter told the Post.

But if a charter in a low - income area wants to set aside some of its seats for nearby kids who want to attend, giving the school that option could provide some of the benefits of choice without undermining the institution of the neighborhood school.

Although one can find heroic exceptions here and there (generally in schools led by extraordinary, beat - the - odds and damn - the - torpedoes principals), far too many public schools in tough neighborhoods and poor communities fail to get beyond the challenges of discipline, truancy, turnover of both students and staff, the ever - present risk of drop - outs, students» lack of basic skills, and such fundamental human needs as feeding breakfast to kids who come to school with empty stomachs.

It would disappoint but not surprise me if LAUSD schools in the same neighborhood — who serve the kids — would keep disruptive students in school (with all the damage they can cause) just to keep their suspension statistics looking good for writers and others like this.

Particularly for single mothers, who may often have kids in early childhood education centers at the same time their older kids are in K - 12, the need for high quality schools right in the neighborhood is critical.

He's a lauded boxer - in - training who's afraid of stepping into the ring; a straight - laced, head - down kind of kid on a bad block in Bed - Stuy, a neighborhood rife with drugs and violence.

In the case of a YA novel or children's book, look around for be age - appropriate relatives, neighborhood kids, or the children of your friends — or perhaps you know a teacher or librarian who would be willing to read some or all of it aloud to students and collect feedback.

As savers go, I'm somewhere between decent and so - soâ $ ¦ or at least that's what I thought until I saw a 22 - year - old neighborhood kid who used to work with me saving $ 800 a month with his earnings, plus furnishing his own rental apartment (in New York!)

If you have or plan to have children of your own, if you have family with young kids who visit frequently, or lots of younger children in your neighborhood, you are probably seeking a dog breed that is good with children.