Sentences with phrase «middle children who»

I, personally think that although middle children who occasionally suffer from «middle child syndrome» also have a set of surprising benefits from being born second.

All these qualities are apparent in famous middle - child U.S. presidents such as Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy and a trio of middle children who also were firstborn sons: Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.

The characters are well defined, Elliot is the character most children can relate as he is a normal middle child who has intelligence, missing his father and is picked on by his brother.

Not exact matches

She grew up poor on New York's Lower East Side, the middle child of a single mother who washed and ironed clothes for money.

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

Labouring the point she quips: «For example, you could target executive women under the age of 30 with no children, in middle management but who are seeking a promotion.»

Chang — who said upper - middle - class investors are buying smaller apartments for themselves or their children — said that his Beijing contacts expect investment to pick up now that the Communist Party's 19th Congress is in the rearview mirror.

Future children could be paraded through it by guides who say «Look children, as late as 2011, many people in America still believed in Middle Eastern Bronze Age mythology.

Why not stop the killing in the middle east and then no one would have to worry about who will tell your children why they have no mother?

Christianity is a middle - eastern religion that bashes followers who most resemble a 33 yr old man, who did not have a wife, no children, no girlfriend and happily loved 12 men he chose.

What about the millions of Christians who were not «indoctrinated» as children, but came to faith in young adulthood, middle age, older age, etc.?

The children in the Middle East today, who refuse to deny Christ in the face of certain death, have that perfect love, which is greater than even faith, 1 Corinthians 13:13.

«Most refugees from the Middle East are women and children who have suffered the assaults of ISIS terrorists and civil war,» said NAE president Leith Anderson.

Meanwhile, the slightly - older - than - middle - age grandmother who doesn't play the piano so well — or the forester who loves to study the Bible but can't make it every Sunday — or the welder and his wife, who homeschools their 3 children with the desire to minister to their kids and their friends but can't because they ticked off the pastor's wife on the last trip — they'll just sit and wait, or wonder if they should leave and re-enter.

Most refugees from the Middle East are women and children who have suffered the assaults of ISIS terrorists and civil war.

The mainline mix of conventional practice and discursive liberalism is apparently attractive to many young and middle - aged married couples with children, who made up 34 percent of the active adult attendees of mainline churches in the «90s, a clear majority of the active attendees age 60 and under.

It is shameful that this evil is growing so rapidly, still largely unaddressed, and that Middle Eastern Christians — who have survived the likes of Genghis Khan — have now succumbed to a pre-modern barbarism that beheads «infidels», slaughters children and sells women like animals.

The fundamentalists of the Muslim and the Christian faiths are like the middle aged children, republicans all, who are trashing the place with global warming, abusing their younger siblings, making them work to make their older siblings look good.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

However, such ideological differences don't matter to a middle school child who is afraid to go to school.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

When Shane was speaking of Psalm 139 and the «not so nice» part in the middle, I thought of my friend, M, who last week shared that one thing she doesn't like about church is that she has to go home on Sunday and correct the things her children have been mistaught in Sunday School class.

The Sunday School was started to provide Christian nurture and knowledge of the Bible for poor children who lacked the advantages of middle - class family life.

Parents in their middle years also feel a wide gap between themselves and their senior citizen parents who often become emotionally dependent on their middle - aged «children.»

The popular media content pitched to our children as kid stuff derives from the over-sexualized, violent, bad dreams of the middle - aged who seek only to neutralize their longing for the innocence of childhood.

As a child who grew up in middle class America chasing the «American dream» — success has long been a deep - seated idol for me.

This scientific fact offers a metaphor for the mother who sits bolt upright in her bed in the middle of the night, «knowing» something has happened to her child.

A child may not be conscious of the Middle East conflict, so to that child the conflict seemingly does not exist; but who would say that the conflict does not exist simply because the child is not conscious of it?

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

He's like a middle school child who is doing drugs and having sex with various partners?

In fact children who breast feed develop strong cheek and jaw muscles which keeps them looking youthful well into middle age and beyond!!

Schools and parents sometimes have difficulty with the form's middle box, which is a box for conditional clearances or more specifically for children who are «Cleared for all sports without restriction with recommendations for further evaluation or treatment for...» Schools, Districts and YSOs have to make sure that whoever is receiving the forms is vigilant enough to read the recommendations for further evaluation and treatment, and to make sure they're implemented.

While a few of my middle - aged divorced friends are now in cohabiting relationships, I don't know many long - term couples who never married — just three, and of them only two have raised their children without «a piece of paper» or a ring on a finger.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

As the mother of a proverbial middle child teenager who also has ADD, and has a hard time controlling his impulses, I know that what triggers me is his bad attitude.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

Some children change during middle school, and it's possible that your child may have a friend who experiments with drugs, alcohol, or other dangerous behaviors.

On an individual level, if you are well - educated, middle - class parents (the children who make the biggest gains from early childhood education are those from deprived backgrounds) and use quality daycare (if you use it), you are probably not going to influence your child's outcomes all that much whatever you do.

• Children in middle school who are securely attached to both parents are perceived by teachers to be more competent than children who are securely attached to just one parent (Diener et alChildren in middle school who are securely attached to both parents are perceived by teachers to be more competent than children who are securely attached to just one parent (Diener et alchildren who are securely attached to just one parent (Diener et al, 2007).

If so, your child has «Jack - in - the - Box syndrome» — defined as a child who repeatedly comes out of bed at bedtime or during the middle of the night.

What about mothers from the Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala and elsewhere who leave their children behind to raise the children of America's middle - and upper - classes; are they good mothers?

If you can't put your child in the middle, put them into the seat behind the passenger side of the car, if they will be in with a parent who is driving and no one else.

My middle child, who is four years old, protests a stroller most of the time.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first feChildren's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first fechildren arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

An American Girl Story — Maryellen 1955: Extraordinary Christmas tells the story of middle child Maryellen Larkin who longs to stand out amidst the hustle and bustle of her big family.

Any child who is facing middle school will have questions about the changes ahead.

A child who is in middle school has a lot of responsibilities, including homework, project planning and more.

Among middle - school aged children who have four hours or more of screen time a day, only 1 % earn A's in math and language arts.

If there was a change - up in birth order — that is, one child who was previously the oldest is now stuck in the middle — acknowledge the resentment that could cause.

Here, to illustrate the connection between fatherhood and child well - being, I compare adolescent boys and girls who fall into one of four categories: those living in an intact, married family with a high - quality relationship with their father (top third), or an average - quality relationship with their father (middle third), or a low - quality relationship with him (bottom third), or living in a single - mother family.