Sentences with phrase «like adolescence»

I think it's going to be a good thing overall, but it's turbulent — like adolescence.

And like adolescence itself, the picture has moments of great humor, great sadness, and great meaning.

Awkwardness is really just loneliness with a twist of hope; hope that maybe those uncomfortable feelings are just a momentary fling with insecurity, like adolescence.

Until a few years ago there were few histories of the family or of people in various stages of life (like adolescence, or old age); there remain few histories of neighborhood and parish.

I suggest that... we are not at the beginning of continually accelerating change, but that we are in the middle of a unique transition crisis, like adolescence, as we make the jump from an undeveloped scientific and technological society to a fully developed one....

Not exact matches

Like renowned programs such as Y Combinator and Dreamit Ventures, these corporate - run initiatives help early - and midstage companies get from the concept phase through adolescence and into young adulthood.

I personally am thankful to have made it through adolescence before the likes of YikYak, and frankly wish today's kids could do the same.

I believe God wants us to make the sincere effort, but like a loving parent, he doesn't expect more than we can offer and he loves us through all of our adolescence:)

Like Freud, Sullivan made the fallacious assumption that the die is cast at the end of adolescence and that only intense psychotherapy can effect significant changes.

Her dearest wish during adolescence was to «be like everybody else,» to be allowed to practice the outward and visible signs of social conformity.

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.

Adolescence is being stretched all the way through the twenties, which creates a generation of men who still think like boys.

Research repeatedly has found a mass exodus of young people like Paula from the church during late adolescence and young adulthood.

It is like we are in a transition stage, moving from adolescence to adulthood.

I think there are also periods of time when parents don't like their child because of a certain stage their son or daughter might be going through — adolescence, for example.

And a secure attachment in adolescence continues to confer benefits like better mental health, better social skills, fewer risky behaviors, and better coping in teens.

If it's hurtful when your child is embarrassed by you, come up with a slogan you can tell yourself in the moment like, «This is normal; it's part of adolescence and it's what he's supposed to be doing.

She likes to eat the meals I cook (maybe because they are free), help in the kitchen from time to time with a curiosity that seemed to disappear with puberty and return as adolescence departs.

I feel like we are moving out of adolescence and into... geez I guess the 20 - somethings.

As a result, Norway has underwhelmed on the international stage in early specialization sports like gymnastics, which ask that children train in one sport well before adolescence to advance to elite competition.

The media also offers a distorted view of what kids should look like during adolescence, which adds to their frustration.

While a large percentage of mothers with IGT felt like their breasts were «different» or «something was wrong» during adolescence, it is usually not until pregnancy, when «the booby fairy doesn't arrive» and her breasts change little or not at all, or after she has given birth, when she does not produce enough milk for her baby, that a mother knows she has insufficient glandular tissue.

While a large percentage of mothers with IGT felt like their breasts were «different» or «something was wrong» during adolescence, it is usually not until pregnancy, when her breasts change little or not at all, or after she has given birth, when she does not produce enough milk for her baby, that a mother knows she has insufficient glandular tissue.

The connections develop very slowly over childhood, with a dramatic shift toward the end of childhood when the transition to adolescence brings about more adult - like characteristics.

Studies in rats tend to use much higher doses of THC than even a committed pothead would absorb, and rodent adolescence is just a couple of weeks long — nothing like ours.

«Ideally, one would like to measure diet at different points in time: during adolescence, young adulthood, etc..

«In adolescence, something amazing happens and the kids with ASD begin to perform like the typically developing kids,» said Dr. Foxe.

«Instead of doing a cross-sectional study like this, where we tested children at various ages, we would prefer to do a longitudinal study that would involve the same kids who'd be followed over the years from childhood through adolescence,» Dr. Foxe said.

«You can think of a brain like a muscle that we have to strengthen throughout childhood and adolescence,» said Brody, Regents Professor of Human Development and Family Science in UGA's College of Family and Consumer Sciences.

- In a rat study, exposure to nicotine during adolescence sent animals into a depression - like state in adulthood, with decreased sensations of pleasure and increased susceptibility to anxiety.

Women whose fathers died during their adolescence had slightly fewer kids, but hit puberty just like the rest

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found an association between lower socioeconomic status during childhood and adolescence and the length of telomeres, protective cap - like protein complexes at the end of chromosomes that ultimately affect the susceptibility to colds in middle - aged adults.

Regular exercise is just as important to your health now as in adolescence — in fact, age - related conditions like sarcopenia may make exercise even more crucial than many people understand.

Of course, as one maternal blogger observes, «long - term consequences are nowhere near the radar» during adolescence, and lectures by parents are unlikely to soften teens» sense of invincibility.21 On the other hand, teenage boys are certainly mature enough to begin to understand «what is good and what isn't,» even if they won't admit it.21 Fortunately, parental willingness to cook regularly with ingredients like butter and bone broth greatly facilitates the task of preparing appetizing meals that teenage boys will not only accept but gobble up.

Calorie and nutrient needs vary throughout the life cycle, and rise and fall based on age, sex, activity level, and illness or disease — not to mention formative periods like pregnancy or infancy through adolescence.

For many people potently who does relation like wife / husband or girlfriend / boyfriend make their sex life evident to them during adolescence or young adulthood, and in many cases without any sexual experience?

Interestingly enough, I never fit into the «code of blackness» during childhood / adolescence and I was still well - liked enough by most of the black people at my schools, with the exception of a few black girls.

Be prepared for a level of vulgarity that hugs the film like a warm blanket, firmly rooting it in a state of suspended adolescence in which it dares you to find something endearing in our antiheroine, and often succeeds.

Lady Bird, a coming - of - age story starring Saoirse Ronan that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said is «so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.»

Like the best vampire myths, it recognizes that the root of the monster lies in sexual consumption and addiction, in the interplay between nostalgia for the freedom of youth and the pricklier remembrance of the confused fever dreams of adolescence.

The winning new teen romp Superbad was written by Evan Goldberg and Judd Apatow's protégé Seth Rogen, and directed by The Daytrippers» Greg Mottola, but it still feels like the concluding film in Apatow's trilogy of raunchy, big - hearted, improvisation - heavy comedies about man - children torn between the pleasures of eternal adolescence and the relentless pull of adult responsibility.

Blame Softley, too, for a negro - spiritual - cum - Moby style that doesn't so much make a few of the classic blues tunes on the soundtrack immediate for a modern audience as squeeze them through the pastry horn of adolescence, weightlessly depositing every potentially atmospheric moment like a sweet little decorative nothing.

This is a film about growing up, after all, and the way we see Lady Bird marching through her last year of high school makes it quite apparent that adolescence is, for her, like a battlefield.

Lady Bird is something truly special: a coming - of - age comedy so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.

Japanese master filmmaker Hirokazu Kore - eda might be the best director of young actors working today: Films like Nobody Knows and I Wish have explored childhood and adolescence with grace, wit and extraordinary emotional depth.

The incredibly lazy device of voiceover narration assures girls in the audience Cassie is just like them, so the film's extended metaphor about surviving adolescence will resonate more quickly.

Not only was he a child star appearing in movies alongside his father Rance Howard, but he made a name for himself throughout his childhood, adolescence and early adult years as the co-star on shows like The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days, not to mention films like American Graffiti.

While his live - in father (Paul Jesson), who appears to have sired him in adolescence, struggles with hard housework like chopping wood, Mr. Turner paints shipwrecks and landscapes and gives dry lectures on light and color.

What seems like an ordinary teenage comedy about cliques and bullying on the surface is actually a modestly perceptive and touching glimpse into the ways in which we transition from adolescence into adulthood.

This is an integral part of the Disney brand, of course — projecting a super-fashionable and somewhat chaste version of adolescence, in which the riptide undercurrents of hormonal acting out are always channeled in the most, like, totally amusing and mock - outrageous ways.