Sentences with phrase «much of my adolescence»

See, she had been dedicating much of her adolescence to practicing classical voice.

Born in Germany, composer Andre Previn spent much of his adolescence in Los Angeles.

Not exact matches

It becomes important in adolescence when a flood of hormones changes the reward centers in the brain and causes lording it over others to suddenly become much more pleasurable.

Much has been written about the «prolonged adolescence» of men in America.

An adolescence in Los Angeles is not much different from one in Boston or Chicago when so many thousands of hours are spent identically in the same virtual worlds.

Gary Bauer, undersecretary of education and chairman of a White House task force on the American family, has been quoted as saying that his group's goal is «to tell children [that premarital sex] is wrong and explain why it's bad for them — not to teach them so much about sex that they can engage in it in early adolescence.»

From the long evolutionary perspective, it is much more to the point to see the human race in a stage of uneasy adolescence.

In part one of this two - part series, James Lehman explains why kids change so much during adolescence, and he warns us about the sudden changes of which every parent needs to be aware.

Because adolescence is the time when your tween goes from concept to concrete personality-wise, allow them to work out the nuances of their character traits under your supervision without too much push back.

Studies in rats tend to use much higher doses of THC than even a committed pothead would absorb, and rodent adolescence is just a couple of weeks long — nothing like ours.

A new study, published in February in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, takes a more nuanced look, attempting to determine just how much each hour less per night really costs — where teenagers are concerned.

Cundiff and coauthor Karen Matthews of the University of Pittsburgh wondered whether this association might be evident much earlier in life, in childhood and adolescence.

African - American youth are much less likely than Caucasians to use alcohol and other substances during adolescence, but exhibit a telescoping phenomenon of «catching up» rapidly in young adulthood — this is referred to as a cross-over effect.

After an adolescence being grain obsessed, I have learned to live a much healthier lifestyle and am a firm believer that poor nutrition and toxic environments are purposely manufactured and maintained for the sake of large scale population manipulation.

The Kings of Summer's narrative doesn't stand up to much thought or scrutiny, but this artsy indie film's exploration of adolescence still holds considerable appeal.

Much of Donnie Darko's cult appeal lies in the accurate way in which it recounts awkward adolescence and teenage rebellion.

Blame Softley, too, for a negro - spiritual - cum - Moby style that doesn't so much make a few of the classic blues tunes on the soundtrack immediate for a modern audience as squeeze them through the pastry horn of adolescence, weightlessly depositing every potentially atmospheric moment like a sweet little decorative nothing.

In this respect, the film is as much a relevant view of adolescence and male / female relations as it is an act of remembrance.

And Michael Haneke's cautionary parable about disaffected, medium - cool adolescence is as much a reference point as Paranormal Activity and its sequels; here, the malevolent ghost in the machine is the spirit of Laura, who decides to take revenge on the classmates who she believes drove her to death one year ago by posting an unflattering video online.

Much of his cast seems trapped in adolescence — Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon - Levitt and Ellen Page — so it's a smart move.

Instead, this is a delicate, light - footed, surprisingly moving portrait of growing up in the England of the late 1970s and early 1980s: it's a hymn, melancholic and joyous, to adolescence in all its wild ambition and agonised introspection, much more than it is the creation - myth of Morrissey, the icon.

About as much shame at most points of my childhood and adolescence as a serious pornography habit.

Another tween hoping to fend off adolescence's arrival occupies the pages of Rita Williams - Garcia's much more somber No Laughter Here (2004).

There aren't really any scientific terms to describe the second six months of your little Rascal's life, «adolescence» pretty much sums it up.

Just as we pass from infancy to adolescence to adulthood and eventually become senior citizens, our pets follow this same cycle in a much shorter, condensed period of time.

Cincinnati's Lincoln Recreation Center, where much of the film takes place, makes for a well - suited setting for an immersive, poetic dip into adolescence and gender rolls.

At first I think the emotions are exaggerations, perhaps too much, but the more I learn and observe, the more I realize how much they share with humans — lifespan, adolescence, family bonds and emotions — as David explains this I can see it there in front of me by the way they are interacting with each other.

The World Health Organisation predicts that by 2030 depression will be second only to HIV / AIDS in international burden of disease.1 Mental health problems that are first identified in adolescence and adulthood, including debilitating depression, anxiety disorders and drug misuse, can have their origins in pathways that begin much earlier in life with childhood mental health problems.2, 3,4

Much of the sun damage to skin occurs in childhood and adolescence.

Adopted children and adolescence utilize mental health services at much higher rate than that of their non adopted peers.

However, if they feel low, sad, anxious or irritable much of the time, it is not a normal part of adolescence.

And much like toddlerhood, many parents find early adolescence to be a difficult period requiring a fair amount of adaptation.

Children who show high levels of physical aggression during the elementary school years are at greatest risk of physical violence during adolescence and adulthood.1 Much research has been done on risk factors for high levels of aggression in school - aged children and in adolescents.

Excessive drinking in adolescence can cause substantial harm to individuals and is associated with future alcohol - related problems.1 — 3 Drinking in adolescence is particularly risky because it is much more likely to be heavy and episodic (binge).4, 5 Excessive drinking during adolescence, while the brain is still developing, can be a major cause of trauma, physical injuries, hospitalisation, prolonged disability and premature death.1 — 3, 6 Alcohol contributes substantially to motor vehicle collisions, homicides, suicide, assault, sexual risk - taking and many other problems in Canada and the USA.7 — 16

Our study contributes to the process of understanding the much researched but little understood association between self - esteem and depressive symptoms in adolescence.

However, less is known about potential adverse health outcomes among the much larger subset of individuals with antisocial behaviour limited to adolescence.