Sentences with phrase «liked by their classmates»

In fact, Canadian fourth and fifth graders who participated in a mindfulness program were better at managing stress and were more liked by their classmates.

Depression was expected to be an outcome and precursor of peer - relevant cognition, and cognition was expected to be an outcome and precursor of being more or less liked by classmates (peer likeability).

Not exact matches

«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates, by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to private equity firms and would thereby earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.

Like Dunbar, Mangi is revered by classmates and faculty alike for his humility and his focus on giving back.

Founded by Georgetown University classmates Nathaniel Ru, Jonathan Neman, and Nicolas Jammet, Sweetgreen has raised $ 95 million from investors like restaurateur Danny Meyer.

He told me he's done the research on different gun control proposals, and opposes nearly all of them, telling me that ideas lifted up by his Parkland classmates (like lowering magazine capacity or reinstating the federal assault weapons ban) are «likely unconstitutional and likely statistically devoid of benefit.»

He was also wanted them to put skin in the game by investing in CDL companies they liked, though he made a handful of exceptions for entrepreneurs whose companies hadn't yet paid out from a sale or IPO, such as Geordie Rose, a former UBC classmate who had gone on to co-found quantum - computer maker D - Wave Systems.

Your disillusionment with the Church may seem like a petty wound to nurse right now, with Latino children getting taunted by their classmates, Muslim communities facing religious persecution, and black families grappling with a world in which white nationalism has been validated and emboldened, but grief is grief.

These criteria were employed in choosing the well adjusted children: Plays well with other children, appears to be a happy child, has reasonable control over his emotions, can be depended on, is achieving somewhere near his capacity, is able to think for himself, is kind and helpful to teachers and classmates, is liked and respected by his peers.)

Aside from fantasizing about seizing the Ginty from his bag and using it to commit parricide; aside from spending the weekend concealing my politics from my dad's gin - blossomed, tartan - blazered classmates; other than being treated by my wife, Laura, upon my return, like a man who had blown two weeks wages on a drinking and gambling binge, I could not have had a better time.

Every child wants, needs and deserves to feel accepted, liked, loved, valued and appreciated by parents, family, friends, caregivers, teachers, classmates and community.

By the time they are 15 or so they won't care about it but 3 - 8 especially like to feel special and celebrated and in day of invite all 24 classmates, school snack is often the only time they get.

If a classmate was mean to your child, you may be tempted to step in like an avenging angel by contacting the other parent or speaking directly to that child.

Driven by her merciless condition, she attacks several of her pretentious friends and classmates (even her professor) and mainlines their blood like heroin.

Once again, instead of Falcone elbowing us to sneer at her pit stains like the film's one over-the-top snob (played with zest by Debby Ryan), he aligns us with Deanna's friend and classmate Helen (Gillian Jacobs), who stares down the haters and cheers her buddy on.

She seems, perhaps, like your typical teen, hanging out with her friends, Bella (Wilma Holmén) and Momo (Louise Nyvall), bullied by classmates and generally feeling like an awkward outsider.

They're joined by Didier Revol (Jules Sitruk), a French exchange student treated like a rock star and blissfully acting the part, along with his entourage of adoring, accommodating British classmates.

Likewise, how many teen comedies address money problems at all, let alone make class insecurity — and what it's like to grow up poor, especially when surrounded by well - off classmates — a central focus?

Immediately drawn to his classmate Olivia (played by Gadon), he's forced to confront his own conservatism, too: while she may look like the paradigm of «50s femininity, she soon proves to be a far more complex — and, for the inexperienced and sheltered Marcus, puzzling — prospect.

But Victor's Igor - like classmate Edgar (voiced by Atticus Shaffer) sees even bigger opportunities for this life - restoring experimentation.

After one of their classmates (Azure Skye) is killed in a freak, «Final Destination» - like accident following a creepy voicemail she received on her cell phone, the rest of the group begins to perish one by one.

Now they share the prospect of being stereotyped by white classmates cavorting around in blackface dressed as pimps and gangstas, and as icons like President Obama and Aunt Jemima.

A subplot where Hit Girl is ostracized by some classmates and exacts a nasty revenge seems like a dry run for Moretz's performance in the upcoming Carrie remake; elsewhere, the filmmakers borrow from virtually every comic - book movie ever made while retaining a smug sense of superiority toward the genre (one throwaway line mocks Stan Lee fan boys).

My inaugural day at P.S. 183 included indignities like having my hair rubbed by one of my new classmates, a white girl who asked how I managed to comb it.

When I was a student, like so many other kids today, I was often shunned and picked on by my classmates simply for being different.

Being accepted by their peers is of paramount concern for students during these years as they strive to look, talk, and act like their classmates.

«Given the caliber of leadership among my classmates who are also graduating, I am humbled by this distinction and I feel like I share it with them,» Deckman says.

However, Newton — speaking for many of his classmates — says, «From an outsider's point of view, we don't have a lot of structure, but we just have a different definition of structure, and I feel like we're learning more by doing it that way.»

Verbally recognize learners when you see them showing empathy, such as by showing kindness toward a classmate or successfully managing a strong emotion like anxiety, frustration, or anger.

by we, i mean teachers, but seriously, that video we watched last week in class, i feel, really scared some of my classmates... is it because technology makes us feel as though we can't «connect» with our students as well as we'd like to?

Although there are plenty of girls who enjoy playing sports like softball, volleyball and basketball at the high school level, they're outnumbered by their male classmates.

«You can repay that by succeeding, by being there for classmates and colleagues, and one day, by being in those donors» seats, giving to someone like you.»

Upon saving classmates from a zombie - chewing you can expect to be rewarded with a golden shower (of coins) and a line like: «I never expected to be saved by someone with a great pair of tits,» or, «I'm so going to masturbate over you tonight.»

In a diverse community like Otis College, we're surrounded by unique perspectives from professors and classmates which help us think independently and become more open - minded and creative.

The study was commissioned by civil - rights attorney Cyrus Mehri (a classmate of mine from Cornell Law» 88) whose firm, Mehri & Skalet, has been behind successful multi-million dollar class action employment discrimination suits against giants like Texaco, Coca Cola and Smith Barney.

The SSSC classmate support scale seems to tap esteem and companionship dimensions of support (e.g., the extent to which the child is «liked the way they are» and that classmates «ask them to join in play or games») and the absence of teasing by classmates (e.g., «don't make fun of them»).

Behavioral comparisons of liked and disliked hyperactive children in play contexts and the behavioral accommodations by their classmates

The survey asks children if they are experiencing any problems with classmates and if they would like to be contacted by their teacher or school counsellor for help.

Consistent with these conclusions, our own examination using the MTA sample of the types of peers children with ADHD named as liked and disliked classmates at age 7 — 9 did not yield support for the hypothesis that deviant children prefer one another; instead, we found that children with ADHD like and dislike the same kinds of peers as other children.8 Our study also indicated, however, that children with ADHD were disliked by more popular peers, suggesting that a process of ostracism by high - status peers was already in motion.8 If this is the case, gravitation toward deviant peers may occur over time, as children with ADHD find it harder and harder to gain acceptance by more preferred peers.