Traveling can be a very unsettling time in
the life of adults and children alike.
With more than 19 years experience in national and international non-profit work, in 2002 Jenn co-founded Nomad Charities, a registered non-profit dedicated to improving
the lives of adults and children that are homeless, exploited and orphaned by the devastation of the HIV / AIDS crisis in Kenya.
The classes transformed her relationship with her children and gave her direct experience of the ways in which
the lives of adults and children can change when given the tools to build respectful relationships.
Not exact matches
The treatment, named Kymriah, was hailed by doctors
and the
life sciences community as a major advance in medicine
and a boon to
children and young
adults with a certain form
of leukemia (the group for whom the gene therapy is approved).
People — regardless
of their gender — who were independently ranked as conscientious as
children and as
adults lived longer than their peers who were not conscientious during either phase
of their
lives.
The portable products to date are mostly improvements on the classic
Life Alert «I've Fallen
And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging and gaining traction in the marketpla
And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking
of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting
adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging
and gaining traction in the marketpla
and gaining traction in the marketplace.
Typical freelancers, for the purposes
of this experiment, are single
adults with no
children, moderate
living expenses
and a 1,000 - square foot apartment, «which is a good sized one - bedroom in most cities.»
«Every new person affected by measles in Europe reminds us that unvaccinated
children and adults, regardless
of where they
live, remain at risk
of catching the disease
and spreading it to others who may not be able to get vaccinated,» said Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, the organization's regional director for Europe.
There are worrying social impacts downstream as a result
of these factors: a lowered marriage rate, more
adult children cohabiting with their parents, a reduction in the birthrate,
and young people holding off on major
life events such as starting relationships or home ownership.
For instance, many Canadian
adult households will be making mortgage payments
and raising
children through a significant part
of working
life.
Prof. Wolfson
and co-author Scott Legree
of the University
of Waterloo have now completed a new report, called Private Companies, Professionals
and Income Splitting, to consider how much income is flowing from CCPCs to spouses or
adult children who are
living at the same address as the company owner, which could indicate a tax - reduction strategy by splitting income with lower - earning family members.
We've all experienced some form
of bullying throughout our
lives both as
children and as
adults, there is no place for this behavior in your Legislature.
Or a young
adult with little experience with
children and life,
and little personal investment in the character
and development
of the kids?
I don't want the gov» t to come into my home checking that I'm being a responsible
adult... In New Hampshire, where I
live, there are few gun laws... one
of them is you can store
and keep a firearm however you want... but if a
child gets a hold
of it, whatever happens is on you the owner
of the firearm.
But when, by contrast, parental love is grounded in the facts
of biological
and historical bonding, the
child lives in a setting offering the kind
of acceptance human beings need in order themselves to become capable
of adult commitment — a setting in which individuals who are separate but connected can grow
and flourish.
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.
In my formative years, I saw excessive use
of alcohol
and tobacco by
adults who were self - absorbed, bored with
life,
and, in fact, not very interested in their
children.
If this quality
of relationships is experienced, to some degree, part
of the time, then a deep - level religious attitude toward persons
and life will be caught by the
children and reaffirmed in the
adults.
A commitment to the larger good, a sense
of wonder,
and the ability to say «yes» to
life and all it brings are caught by
children who experience them in the need - satisfying
adults in their early
life.
This could only cause confusion in the minds
of children (
and adults)
and fear that they may cause their father to lose his own
life.
Parents
of large families in which older
children have already moved on to
adult life report a «squash
and a squeeze» effect where each
child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older
children spend the day at school, then they're off to university
and adult life,
and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.
In the name
of stability
of life and values, our
children are presented with role models
of adults who (at least on the surface) make every effort to block out the feelings
and influence
of the
child.
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.
This operational description
of growth has proved a valuable tool for breaking the control
of the past (Parent /
Child)
and learning to
live in the present (
Adult).
Articulating a vision
of the family centered on marriage but sensitive to the growing ranks
of adults and children who do not
live in conventional families is,
of course, a challenging assignment.
Murray comes up with a very useful measure
of community dysfunction: the percentage
of «problematic people,» which he arrives at by combining prime - age males not making a
living, single mothers raising
children, a guesstimate
of prime - age
adults who are
living alone,
and those uninvolved in any community activity.
While many
of us can thank God that our
children are not likely to die from flu, diphtheria, or polio, or even suffer the mumps, measles, or rubella because
of advances in medicine, we must be mindful
of the enormous number
of children and adults in this country
and abroad who are forced to
live as if these advances were never made.
Of course, being abused as a child does not excuse the one who abuses children when they are adults (and I know you are not saying that), but it does make one wonder about the cycle of sin that happens in people's live
Of course, being abused as a
child does not excuse the one who abuses
children when they are
adults (
and I know you are not saying that), but it does make one wonder about the cycle
of sin that happens in people's live
of sin that happens in people's
lives.
A comprehensive demographic study
of more than 230 countries
and territories conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public
Life estimates that there are 5.8 billion religiously affiliated
adults and children around the globe, representing 84 %
of the 2010 world population
of 6.9 billion.
For a «
live» illustration
of the use
of T.A. in a growth counseling session, listen to cassette course 3A «Using Marriage Problems for Growth,» in Growth Counseling: Enriching Marriage
and Family
Life) Suffice it here to say that if both persons respond to the counselor's initial presentation
of the P - A-C concepts, they should then be coached in using this tool to interrupt Parent -
Child transactions
and in learning to relate on an
Adult - to -
Adult basis.
The dumping
of all
adults into a unified
life style called marriage may guarantee to a military empire the
child - warriors it needs
and to an economic empire the consumer - citizens it is greedy for — but it can not guarantee the existence
of the authentic cell
of society which is love - justice.
Otherwise, instead
of dead fetuses, you'll have dead
children and dead
adults who have
lived shortened
lives filled with suffering due to an absence
of basic resources like food
and health care.
A darker assessment
of current
child well - being would accord more consistently with what Mintz's entire history reveals: that economic
and social trends afflicting
adults»
lives have an even more negative impact upon the
lives of children.
14 Daniel Levinson gives his report
of fundamental research on men through mid-
life in The Seasons of a Man's Life (a similar report on women is to follow).15 What these and comparable investigations show is that there are predictable stages and transitions in adult life just as we know there are for child
life in The Seasons
of a Man's
Life (a similar report on women is to follow).15 What these and comparable investigations show is that there are predictable stages and transitions in adult life just as we know there are for child
Life (a similar report on women is to follow).15 What these
and comparable investigations show is that there are predictable stages
and transitions in
adult life just as we know there are for child
life just as we know there are for
children.
Older
adults are sometimes attuned to the
lives of children and youth in a congregation in ways that parents are not.
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.
Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early
adult life however 75 per cent
of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor
and then the self - induced trance - like altered state
of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation
and prayer coupled with the theology about how prayer
and God work in a Christian's
life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.
Sadly, many
children who are simply prepared for adulthood, just as
adults who merely prepare for retirement, find the time
and space
of their
lives monopolized by what is not most important.
The use
of supernaturalism to manipulate
and control people is the world's oldest confidence scheme, it relies on the ritual abuse
of children at their most impressionable stage by
adults who have themselves been made childish for
life by artifacts
of the primitive mind.
Children experience time as moving slowly because they generally
live at a less abstract
and complex level
of consciousness than do
adults.
The contributions unloving people might make to
children run the risk
of damaging them,
and there is little doubt on anyone's part that the contributions
of hate - filled persons create serious damage to the
lives around them, whether
child or
adult.
The
children and young people
of every congregation need
adults who are able to help them think critically about
life values to be their teachers, leaders,
and role models.
What is the difference, really, between a four - year - old
child who is incapable
of making a conscious decision to trust Jesus because
of his age
and an
adult living in outer - Mongolia in 50 A.D. who is incapable
of making a decision to trust Jesus because he couldn't possibly hear
of him?
Only in a tradition where
adults continue to refer to the family
life of individual church members as «the Christian home» would pastors, educators,
and theologians have continued to believe for so long that parents are more important than the church is to the faith
of children.
«The Social Significance
of the Traditional Two - Parent Family: The Impact
of Its Breakdown on the
Lives of Children,
Adults,
and Societies» reinforces courage with an excellent summary
of the pertinent findings from social science.
The great interest
of the study arises from the fact that, as the years went by, the researchers noticed that many
of the
children they had identified as «at high risk» (i.e.,
children subject to four or more serious disadvantages) were able to lead satisfying
and socially productive
lives as
adults.
How should the parents
of single young
adults respond to twenty - five -
and thirty - year - old «
children» who
live lives so different from their own years as young
adults?
While Christian parents may rightly wish to prevent premature sexual experimentation
and possibly disastrous relationships, a parent
of a young
adult actually has little control over the private
life of grown «
children.»
But all contractual relationships are first founded on a prior community
of kinship relations, which themselves are founded on ineluctable biological realities
of mammalian
life: mother /
child, begetter / conceiver, infant /
adult,
and so forth.
I have deliberately left out
of the discussion such topics as ethics
and the Christian family — although I have talked about responsibility, both for one's own
adult behavior
and for helping one's
children develop the essential emotional equipment with which to face
life.