Sentences with phrase «like kids whose»

These children — most children from divorced families — feel and function pretty much like kids whose parents are married.

Without having these at regular intervals, the entire multi-billion-dollar advertising industry would be struck inert, like kids whose soccer ball has just been run over by a bus.

«We're like the kid whose trying to turn around whose maybe been in trouble with the law, been in trouble doing the wrong thing,» Green said.

Though I feel a little like a kid whose parents made her move.

Not exact matches

Beyond its direct services, Livestrong also lobbies the government, conducts research on survivors, and funds smaller nonprofits like Camp Kesem, a camp for kids whose parents have, or have died from, cancer.

«Look at mothers whose kids you respect and want your kids to be like,» says Hoersten.

It would be like having a Dad whose name was Larry... and his kids thought it was just fine to call him Fred, or Tim.

I like to think of the kids eating good homemade treats but perhaps I should teach my youngest (whose events these were) to bake

Like «Caca,» a short, wiry kid whose real name I never learn: «Nobody throws to Caca Island anymore [the name borrowed from the Patriots» Darrelle Revis],» he boasts, showing me a florid tattoo sleeve down his arm, ending in his number: 24.»

See, I, like my friend, was a stay - at - home mom whose «job» was to care for the kids, cook and clean and handle all of life's niggling details.

Also ask to speak with other families whose kids have attended to see what their experiences were like.

It's like this in the preemie communities too — it's like some of the moms want to top each other with whose kid was the most premature, most ventilated, most medicated, etc..

Or maybe there is a retired person whose grandkids live far away, or who doesn't have any, and would like to help you out with looking after your kids for a bit, just because they like being around kids.

Alison Baquero - Cruz of Omaha, Nebraska, whose 3 - year - old son, Jaime, has cerebral palsy, says, «I always stress to other kids that Jaime is like them.

It's like a parent whose kid wasn't in a carseat and gets injured in a car accident complaining that the hospital staff mistreated / disrespected them because they didn't act like it was all fine and dandy to skip using carseats.

Because even someone whose stats were identical to mine — late 20s to early - 30s, two kids, fortunately had an easy time breastfeeding, nursed for 17 - 20 months — may have a wildly different take on what that experience felt like.

I know a lot of kind, thoughtful people who don't have strong bonds with siblings or cousins, and good, conscientious parents whose kids don't particularly like each other.

College students can take it or leave it, some of them might give you an inkling if they like something, but it's nothing like elementary school kids whose eyes light up when they see their favorite food and suddenly it's the best day in the world for them.»

Yes kids, it's the latest «wisdom» from Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen (via Dave Weigel), two former Democratic pollsters whose consistent advice to Democrats is to act like Republicans and lower taxes.

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

Directed by Ken Kwapis in a hyperbolic jump - cut style matched twitch - for - twitch by a score by the late Miles Goodman, whose oom - pah - pah legacy, sadly, lives on in other kid and animal films like K - 9 and Problem Child, the film is a jittery, discombobulated mess.

To me, he's always seemed like a technical whiz - kid whose emotional maturity never evolved past his teenage fanboy years.

Like Roald Dahl, whose Chocolate Factory Burton just returned from, this director understands that kids — and audiences in general — respond to honesty.

But like many rising young directors of his generation (e.g. Star Wars rebooter J.J. Abrams), Coogler carries around the little - boy version of himself, a kid at heart whose dreams have been colonized by the»70s blockbusters.

This is, essentially, a movie that has no idea of whom its audience consists, or better, it's a movie that realizes its audience will be made up of two different age groups: adult fans of the book and children who like animated movies or whose parents believe introducing their kids to this material will be good for them.

Cable arrives from the future, like a cousin of the Terminator, to wreak havoc in the present as he tries to kill a mutant kid (Julian Dennison) whose super power is the ability to shoot flames from his hands.

The Misery - like plot follows the calamitous misadventure of Wallace (Justin Long), a snarky L.A. podcaster who heads north to Canada to interview the Kill Bill Kid, a teen whose viral video shows him accidentally slicing off his own leg with a samurai sword.

There's the intrigue of a nameless hero whose past forces him into action, and the threat of a villainous kid, who likes to shoot off his mouth almost as much as he likes to shoot his pistol, terrorizing a small, struggling mining town.

0:00 - 2:05 — Introduction; we didn't do a show on Friday because of reasons 2:05 - 11:00 — «21 Jump Street» review 11:00 - 16:50 — QOTW (movie characters whose high school years you'd like to have seen) 16:50 - 41:50 — South By Southwest Film Festival highlights: «Cabin in the Woods,» «Fat Kid Rules the World,» «Big Easy Express,» «Killer Joe,» «Safety Not Guaranteed,» «Sinister,» «Sleepwalk -LSB-...]

The kids in Dauntless, the enforcer faction whose members traverse the damaged city streets (and rooftops) like a parkour S.W.A.T. team, catches Beatrice's eye as she shares their (ostensible) taste for adventure and camaraderie.

The central conspiracy also feels like something out of a turn - of - the - millennium Dick Wolf episode, with the police eventually stumbling upon a cabal of diabolical abductors whose schemes involve not just kidnapping kids, but also spying on their devastated parents.

I suspect that their thinking was something like the Underpants Gnomes from South Park whose business plan for profiting from stealing underpants from kids» drawers during the night is lacking: «Phase 1 — Collect underpants Phase 2 — ?

Ron Avi Astor, whose Building Capacity project at the University of Southern California did foundational work on the needs of military - connected kids, focuses even more narrowly: «What is that first day like — and that first week?»

If the state is successful in its current court appeal and the ESA program moves forward, I would love to see the kind of robust Yelp - like parent evaluations Ladner envisions — so long as they're paired with strong oversight representing the public interest of all the taxpayers whose kids aren't attending ESA - financed schools.

This school year, families have to pay for their kids to ride the bus, or drop kids off at schools themselves while driving past several things they think the district might not need to have paid for — like Franklin Township's $ 4.3 million football stadium, and a high school whose hallways are lined with flat screen televisions.

(Thus the recent appearance of programs like «Teach for America,» whose theory folks preach that a kid's home life should never be blamed for his or her performance in school, and that teachers need to step it up.

It should come as no surprise that private charter operators and their employees are driven by economic imperatives to avoid accepting children whose scores are tough to raise, like kids who are English language learners.

Eventually, we will have schools whose sole purposes are serving our most challenging kids and do not provide the same educational experience as other schools like School B.

And, too, the good fortune borne of hipness swings like a pendulum; 40 years on, kids whose parents were sick of the Cadillac name are the ones now sick of Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, because everybody's already bought one.

The latter is aimed at parents whose kids will borrow the car, and allows elements like top speed, stereo volume and ESP disabling to be controlled when the car is started with a particular key.

Freeman Thomas, VW's chief of design, believes the new Beetle will appeal to aging baby boomers who owned an original model and whose kids now are grown, as well to new buyers who like the unique look of the new car.

Maybe, like my wife and I, 50 - plus couples whose kids have left home.

Nothing completes family life like a loyal, lovable Labrador who is a great guard and is good with the kids, or a well - trained German Shepherd on the K - 9 unit who can sniff out trouble and true love for his master, or even a slightly scruffy rescue dog whose need for human kindness and stability helps heal a broken soldier's heart.

There she meets Patches and Harlan, other kids like her whose parents have come here to do their part in the war.

Here are some details on how Amazon is paying authors whose books are included in Kindle Unlimited: Publishers like Abrams don't have to actively participate for Amazon to include their books; it may simply be paying Abrams each time someone reads a Wimpy Kid book through the service.

Indie authors are ramen - noodle eating, Salvatian Army clothes - wearing sorts of people whose kids walk uphill in snow to school, and like it.

Monster Hunter always seemed a bit like a «cool kids club,» a series whose praises a certain subset of gamers could never stop singing, but I always scratched my head about.

At a hike - in «camp» around 8,000 feet up, we read everything from Emerson («Nature,» 1836) to Aldo Leopold («Wilderness as a Form of Land Use,» 1925) to Jack Turner, a philosopher turned mountaineer and essayist whose self - described «rant» from his 1996 book, «The Abstract Wild,» felt (no kidding) like a fierce, but grounded, mix of Hunter S. Thompson and Peter Matthiessen.

For someone whose qualifications and education limit them to entry - level work like flipping burgers, making coffee, or bagging groceries, it's probably a bit disconcerting to realize to how rapidly the tech industry is working to develop their replacement — a replacement that will never take a sick day or vacation, won't have kids or need to attend to them; and one that doesn't require costly health insurance or any other company benefit.

Sue Whitney answers questions for a parent whose son is either misbehaving or he is behaving like a kid with anxiety and ODD.