Sentences with phrase «mother befriends»

A teen who lost her mother befriends friendly ghost Casper while staying at a mean heiress's haunted mansion.

For example, interaction guidance with or without video was used to enhance parental sensitivity; psychotherapy was used to transform maternal representations and in social support interventions, experienced mothers befriended and offered practical help to highly anxious mothers.

Not exact matches

In an unusually open - ended interview, the subject turned to Princess Diana, whom Mother Teresa has befriended.

We are trying to get to know some of the single mothers in our area, not just to befriend them, but also to provide what help we can in life.

It's funny because that's how my Mother was in all her indirect mind - wrecking GLORY and to beat all, I went and befriended an older woman (who reminded me exactly like her and who I didn't understand I was using to feed my own sick need to be demoralized and degraded) but soon her true colors emerged.

Some laymen may do a job of befriending by taking certain people in trouble into their homes — the unwed mother, the youth who is away from home and in need of certain boundaries, the mental hospital returnee.

But as an attached parent (I breastfed my son until he was almost 2 years old, we still share a family bed, and aside from daycare, he has never had a babysitter other than my mother) I can tell you that daycare and attachment parenting can live happily together.My son is also very cautious and quiet, but he has always been happy at «school,» and even more, he is the one who befriends the children who cry easily and who need extra comfort at daycare.

All were hosted by mothers who breastfed their own babies and felt they could support others and offer a safe space for befriending.

He plays alongside the children of Camp Shriver, his mother's revolutionary project, which provided a space for children with intellectual disabilities to play, and years later he gains invaluable wisdom from the incredible athletes he befriends as chairman of the organization it inspired, Special Olympics.

You know, one of the prettiest and most popular of the girls who wore Villager was befriended by my mother years after I had moved away from my hometown.

This shocking case follows shortly after paedophile James Smith was found guilty of using Plenty of Fish to befriend single mothers and then sexually assault their young children.

A paedophile who was jailed for three years for using popular dating site Plenty of Fish to befriend single mothers and assault their children has had a further 20 months added to...

A paedophile who used popular dating site Plenty of Fish to befriend single mothers and then sexually assault their young children has been jailed for three years.

Throughout his ordeal, he befriends Katie (Hayley Squires), a single mother who finds herself in a similar situation, while trying to raise and feed her children.

He befriends a single mother of two, and they try to help each other stay afloat in a society of indifference.

Monster gets a taste for camping and the great outdoors when he befriends a baby bigfoot and tries to help it reach its mother, before Mr. Hinkle and Beastur get wind of him.

Most of the romance and humor stops as the film reaches its more serious climax (becoming a Silence of the Lambs homage with John Wayne Gacy allusions), with Ronnie poking around in the Turner residence in order to scratch up some evidence, while Kale's mother, who has befriended the intense bachelor, also heads inside, while Kale can only watch in despair.

Following a teenage filmmaker with only one friend, Earl, forced by his mother to befriend a girl with leukemia, and was described by Time Out's David Ehrlich as, «The Fault in Our Stars for Criterion Collection fetishists + an Eno soundtrack».

Balk will play a prostitute / mother who befriends Ray's father (Jon Voight) while Crooks will play her daughter.

Oscar - winner Witherspoon brings her Type - A + game to Madeline, a hyperactive stay - at - home mom who befriends Jane (Divergent's Shailene Woodley), a young single mother who's new to Monterey.

The best actor award was carried off by Murray Melvin, for his performance as Geoffrey, the gay student who befriends and moves in with Jo when she is abandoned by her mother.

In a subplot that goes nowhere, at least nowhere interesting, Norah, under false pretenses, befriends a woman (Mary Lynn Rajskub) whose mother was a victim in one of the crime scene mop - ups.

A family befriends a struggling single mother and invites her into their home to be their nanny, and, eventually, their surrogate mother.

Home Director: Tim Johnson Running time: 96 minutes Certificate: PG Animated comedy with Rihanna voicing a young girl who befriends an alien that helps her to find her mother after the human population is relocated.

Following the death of her mother and a series of self - inflicted setbacks, young Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) escapes a humdrum existence by moving out West to befriend her Instagram obsession and LA socialite Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen).

He heads back to his hometown where he is given a job fixing things, while also allowed to stay near the home of Frank (Black, Cold Mountain), a boy he befriends, along with his mother (Canerday, One False Move).

A working class French man (André Wilms) befriends and protects an African boy (Blondin Miguel) who lands illegally in Le Havre on the way to reuniting with his mother in London.

Vincent (Bill Murray) is a slovenly alcoholic who inexplicably befriends his young neighbor (Jaeden Lieberher) after desperate circumstances force the boy's single mother (Melissa McCarthy) to use the vulgar man as a babysitter.

For Greg, it means learning the true definition of empathy after his mother (Connie Britton) forces him to befriend the neighbourhood sympathy case, and how doing the right thing often means putting your own self - interests to one side.

While trying to skipper the digital divide Daniel meets and befriends a sunk single mother, Katie (Hayley Squires), whose trudging in the same governmental confusion.

Comedian Dave Johns plays the titular carpenter who battles England's dehumanizing welfare system while befriending an impoverished mother (Hayley Squires).

Pushed to the breaking point after a particularly bad day (and faced with a particularly unhelpful, possibly disloyal husband), Amy wanders into a bar, where she befriends Kiki (Kristen Bell), the similarly beleaguered stay - at - home mother of four, and single mom Carla (Kathryn Hahn).

There, Jake befriends the charismatic Tony (Michael Barbieri), whose single mother Leonor (Paulina Garcia), a dressmaker from Chile, runs the shop downstairs.

JULY 6 THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE Starring: Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen Directed by: Rob Reiner In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair - bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids.

Young Joe tracks down and befriends one potential victim, Cid (Pierce Gagnon) along with his mother, Sara (the consistently reliable Emily Blunt, Your Sister's Sister).

When Amy, a hardworking 32 - year - old mother of two with a thankless boss (the perfectly apt Clark Duke) and unappreciative family suddenly finds herself single and quasi-unemployed — and in need of friendship, support, and a damn good time — she befriends fellow mothers Kiki and Carla (Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn, respectively).

Based on the award - wining children's book by Patrick Ness, Bayona's adaptation tells the story of a boy struggling with the death of his mother when he befriends a giant monster.

The movie, about a boy (Thomas Mann) whose mother (person - we - wish - we - were, Connie Britton) forces him to befriend a former Hebrew school classmate with leukemia (Cooke), may sound like dying - teen schmaltz, but don't dismiss it just yet.

The Magic of Belle Isle is a dramedy about a «wheelchair - bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.»

His one friend is Katie, the quick - tempered single mother whom Daniel befriends, becoming a gentle, grandfatherly figure to her two kids Though he is as innocent as a child when it comes to the web, he shows he can fix up their dilapidated flat, and give them savvy tips on keeping it as warm as possible.

Feeling nothing but devastation after the loss of her mother and father, teenager Maryann (Natasha Calis) moves in with her grandparents and is delighted when she befriends Andy (Charlie Tahan).

Mr. Church (PG - 13 for mature themes) Eddie Murphy plays the title character in this bittersweet drama about a chef who befriends a little girl (Natalie Coughlin) while cooking meals for her terminally - ill mother (Natascha McElhone).

[The story follows Xiao Douzi, sold by his prostitute mother to the director of a perfomance training school, and Xiao Shitou, an orphan who soon befriends him.

Struggling to care for David, who doesn't speak, and isolated from other «normal» families, Millie meets Jake, a psychologist who says he can help David, and befriends Ethel, also a young mother.

In Tremain's nuanced novel, Gustav, a Swiss kindergartner in 1948, displeases his mother when he befriends Anton, a Jewish classmate, launching a profound exploration of the cost of remaining neutral both personally and politically.

If there is a mother caring for the kittens and they are not in danger, you can try to befriend the mother first by offering her food.

His mother, Henriette Pascar, took a great interest in modern art and theater, and while Liberman was living in Paris he met a number of artists she befriended, such as Chagall and Fernand Léger.

Jones suggested that attachment styles between mother and offspring may play a role in the expression of the tend - and - befriend response — much like the personality research mentioned earlier, this seems like a promising area of research but one that has not yet been explored.

And the more hostility and resentment she will get from her stepchildren who fear that their mother would feel betrayed the befriend their stepmother.

It presents «befriending» as part of building substitute networks around very isolated new mothers.