Sentences with phrase «like adults than children»

By age 16, most teens become more like adults than children.

Not exact matches

But it may be healthier for adults than continuing to think like a child and believe in old myths designed to have a person behave decently before they achieve maturity.

Prevalence of food allergies around the world is believed to be increasing, with more than 8 % of children and 2 % of adults in countries like Australia and New Zealand having allergy to one or more foods.

But it's so much easier to manage an actual child than it is an adult who behaves like one.

I'm a huge proponent of real food for children & adults (and eat more whole foods than not) and I absolutely thing HFCS should be banned in the U.S — just like it is in Europe.

Doing yoga with your children is different than doing it in a class full of focused adults, but it's fun and beneficial in its own way, because there's nothing like mindfully moving with someone you love.

If you are worried about your toddler's development, keep in mind that children develop at different paces, and, just like adults, every toddler has some skills that are stronger than others.

When it comes to bullying, we should hold adults to a much higher code of conduct than children since child bullies do not have control over their target's physical or psychological health or future like adults do who may be in the powerful position of teacher or coach.

When an adult sits upright on a toilet, pooping is more difficult than it needs to be, but when a child sits upright, legs dangling, it's like trying to poop uphill.

And this is where I gain some understanding of what it must be like to be a child who is so much smaller than an adult;

In fact, as explained in Maryann Jacobsen, RD and Jill Castle, RD's book «Fearless Feeding» (I highly recommend this book by the way), children have more taste buds than adults do, making them much more sensitive to bitter compounds found in foods like vegetables (this is one of the reasons your child may suddenly reject vegetables).

As they grow older, children increasingly like sweet treats, and prefer more intense sweetness than adults.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

When the researchers asked adults to rate the children's productions for how much they looked like English words, they found that the adults gave higher ratings, on average, to the productions of older prephonological spellers than to the productions of younger prephonological spellers.

Ph - like ALL, a high - risk leukemia subtype, is more common in adults than in children.

Less than 1 % of children have mood cycles that look like bipolar disorder in adults, according to Dr. Leibenluft, while 2 % to 3 % have the extreme irritability that may or may not be a sign of the disease.

She is behaving more like a child than an adult.

Children will likely get much more out of this game than adults; nonetheless, if a short, simple point - and - click adventure about a Pikachu solving pokémon - related crimes sounds like fun to you, you'll probably enjoy this one.

The film is Anderson's best live - action feature — his best feature, period — since Rushmore, in part because, like that film, it takes as its primary subject matter odd, precocious children, rather than the damaged and dissatisfied adults they will one day become.

This is a fairy tale for adults, and there's a good reason: Young children aren't born with prejudice; they have to learn it, and they learn from watching their elders treating those who are different like they are less - than.

It might even play better today to adults than to children, especially if the latter have been weaned on the irreverence and sarcasm of today's talking animal comedies like Beverly Hills Chihuahua and the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies.

Some of the dialogue feels oddly adult despite the child - like aesthetic, making the game feel even stranger than the forced samurai - like conversations do.

Let's remember, the featured anchor standard calls for «diverse partners» and children are no different than adults: We like what and who is most familiar and usually stick to those we know.

The advisory board of Ask, Listen, Learn, which includes educators and physicians such as Family Physician, Parenting and Youth Development Expert Deborah Gilboa, have found that children, much like adults, are persuaded by science, more than by scare tactics.

The authors of the study hold out hope that the positive finding on kindergarten retentions means that the TN - VPK had a positive effect on children's social / emotional development, which will lead to long term positive outcomes like those that were found in the famous Perry Preschool Project (in which, for example, participants were less likely than nonparticipants to have had encounters with the criminal justice system as adults).

The danger of this kind of animated, childish video is that it appeals to children, and unfortunately to more than a few adults who tend to see things in a simple, child - like way.

But too much hovering, scaffolding and doing something merely for a grade, rather than a tangible outcome, pushes middle grades kids to act more like children, just when they want most to try out their adult skills and options.

An Annotation by Bobbie Dunn This article explained how the teen brain is more like a child's than an adult's, which is contrary to popular -LSB-...]

Here are some interesting figures on the children's books market in China we'd like to draw your attention to: according to the 2017 Chinese Retail Book Market Report the Chinese retail book market is worth more than 80 billion CNY, with over 40,000 children's titles published every year in China — more than any other nation in the world, targeting 367 million children and young adults, with more than 800 million books printed every year and nearly 300,000 titles on the market currently.

More importantly, there was a lot of discussion from some of the industry leaders about why children's books are slower to be adopted as ebooks than adult fiction, namely factors like the file size necessary to store an illustrated and interactive book, considerations which have led to the popularity of book apps.

Just like human children, kittens tend to cause more trouble than adults.

she's 14 years rescued off the streets at 10 years escapee from new Rochelle ny humane society pound part shepherd part lab angel from heaven got on great with my two bassets acted like a nurse maid to young children an seem to obey a young childs commands right off than an adult; well the genetic disease has settled in rear hind leg going to visit the vet today aware of outcome but will try to keep her she seems not to be in any discomfort an eats well.

As adults, we may know better than to eat lots of sweets, but like a child, the birds do not know.

Teaching children in Istanbul often pays a little more than the run - of - the - mill English classes for adults, and many of these options are in international schools like Small Hands.

The family duplex is more like a house than a hotel room and costs around S$ 220 per night, including breakfast for two adults and two children.

- parents spent on average $ 131 on toys to life games over the last six months - almost 80 percent of families considered this a good investment - two thirds are planning to invest further - 70 percent of parents in the U.S. are familiar with Interactive Gaming Toys - 41 percent own more than one franchise - 77 percent said it was definitely or probably worth the investment - only 7 percent of families have abandoned play altogether - within households currently playing toys to life games, 52 percent indicate that adults are among those that play - among Nintendo amiibo - playing households with children, 21 % of parents say that only they are playing these games - with other franchises, less then 10 percent of adults play in the household - 22 percent of total character playtime is spent playing with the figurines as toys and not with a video game console - 40 percent of parents state that that their 13 - 17 year olds continue to play with characters like toys or action figures

Rather than being forced into a game in which she has to solve murder mysteries like the original series, Another Episode is a third - person shooter that has its young hero fighting for her life in Towa City, which has been overrun by children using robots made to look like Monokuma (the series» sadistic teddy - bear mascot) to kill adults.

After some more research, it looks like the way unlawful presence is determined is different for children than adults, but I still haven't found any definitive answer to the question above, though it seems to be «yes.»

The main benefit of a policy like this is being able to lock down low insurance rates early on in your child's life that is considerable less than expensive than waiting until they are an adult.

As your child grows older, it can be confusing to see her appear more and more like an adult, yet act in a way that feels more immature than ever before.

If you are an adult who feels that play therapy would be a better way to express yourself than talking, or if you have a child who seems most like themselves when they are playing, play therapy might be the perfect option for you.

There is always a special bond between daughters and their fathers and any new partner for their father is seen as a rival for their fathers» affections whatever age they are, although one would hope they would be more adult about it than appearing to act like children.

An adult might also prompt the child to think of solutions, for example, «It looks like the left lace is shorter than the right one.

She also loves to work with young adults in transition and parents who find parenting more challenging than they expected, either because of adoption, medical conditions, infertility or issues like child temperament or learning disabilities.

Peer problems: is rather solitary, tends to play alone; does not have at least one good friend, not generally liked by other children, picked or bullied by other children, gets on better with adults than other children.

Like adults, also children found it easier to judge when a player was in a wrong rather than a right place.

This pattern of involvement can be observed throughout the lifespan of the child (Cabrera, Tamis - LeMonda, Bradley, Hofferth, & Lamb, 2000; Gorvine, 2010; Phares, Fields, & Kamboukos, 2009) with researchers like Finley, Mira, and Schwartz (2008), finding that fathers are less involved than mothers in the lives of their young adult children.

Thus, we suggest that sibling relations, much like parent — adult child relations, are shaped primarily by socioemotional, rather than structural factors.

What child doesn't like pretending to be a adult, nothing feels more grown up than cooking (albeit pretend).