Sentences with phrase «of a teenage son with»

Keri Pinna, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota and mother of a teenage son with ADHD.

As the mother of a teenage son with ADHD, Dr. Pinna maintains an acute awareness of the treatment and policy implications of her work for children struggling with emotional and behavioral problems.

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He said he was spurred to act after looking at photos of the directors with his teenage son, who asked him why nearly everyone was white.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

For example, Hertzke suggests that Jesse Jackson's self - identification with the dispossessed finds its roots in Jackson's own painful childhood as the illegitimate son of an unmarried teenage girl.

Hi Lexi, I am new to your blog, but have a teenage son who has dairy allergies, and can not tolerate chocolate... I'm wondering if you have any ideas for a yummy (peanut free as well) brownie using this recipe, but with something besides cocoa??? I'm not good at changing recipes, but was thinking of some sort of blondie or snickerdoodle - type flavor... if you ever get creative with this idea, I'd REALLY love to hear about it!

She lives with her husband and three teenage sons in the picturesque mountains of western New Jersey in the United States.

a woman who is grieving the loss of a baby a friend who is surviving throat cancer and learning to eat whole foods again a woman who is separated from her husband and dealing with crippling anxiety a friend who is remembering the death of her teenage son two years ago another blogger who is dealing with chronic pain and reconstructive surgeries after a life - threatening plane crash and severe burns that cover her body

When Idaho parents are feeling frustrated with their teenage sons because of their negative and destructive behavior, many consider enrolling them in some kind of residential treatment center that is Read more..

If you can't imagine your daughter curled up in it with a good book, or your teenage son offering it to one of his friends, you might want to opt for something a bit more sophisticated.

And voters make no allowances for local notables» lack of political experience, passing harsh judgement on those who stumble over their words in the media, fall out with their colleagues in public or have to pick their drunken teenage son out of a gutter on a Sunday morning.

He wants the neighborhoods in his district to flourish with livable streets for all, and as a father, he seeks the peace of mind that his teenage son will be able to safely ride his bicycle to the subway or Long Island Railroad.

Weeks earlier, when a grand jury decided not to indict a white officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, de Blasio told a crowd on Staten Island that he'd had to train his bi-racial teenage son Dante how to interact with police for his own safety.

He's six feet tall with a paunch that invites a fair bit of ribbing from his teenage son.

Pictures of family on the wall: a wet - suit wearing teenaged son holding up a trophy shaped like a kayak; a smiling daughter with a mouth full of braces; a picture of the three of them, plus someone who must be Mrs. Babinovich, carrying kayaks down to the water's edge.

After working nearly 20 years in a poultry processing plant, Tonia Gibson was up to the challenge of returning to college to pursue an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering, even though it meant a move to Pullman with two teenage sons to support.But Gibson, who earned that degree in 2004, is now facing a more daunting challenge.

In addition to her love of medicine and film, Dr. St. Pierre enjoys spending time outdoors with her teenage son and black lab, exploring all that California has to offer.

To begin with, how painful is it to watch actors as intelligent as Naomi Watts and Robin Wright mug their way through the story of two hard - bodied middle - aged Australian besties hitting the sack with one another's teenaged sons?

With Jeremiah out of town, Marty is forced to bring his son Roscoe to his next job in San Francisco; hoping for some quality time with his dad, Roscoe ends up spending it all with the Pod when Marty is forced to babysit Alex Katsnelson, the teenage CEO of a security software compWith Jeremiah out of town, Marty is forced to bring his son Roscoe to his next job in San Francisco; hoping for some quality time with his dad, Roscoe ends up spending it all with the Pod when Marty is forced to babysit Alex Katsnelson, the teenage CEO of a security software compwith his dad, Roscoe ends up spending it all with the Pod when Marty is forced to babysit Alex Katsnelson, the teenage CEO of a security software compwith the Pod when Marty is forced to babysit Alex Katsnelson, the teenage CEO of a security software company.

Position Among the Stars (Stand Van De Sterren) / Netherlands (Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich)-- The effects of globalization in Indonesia's rapidly changing society ripple into the life of a poor Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta with her Muslim sons and teenage granddaughter.

Reynolds and Miller will share the screen with Morena Baccarin (Gotham) as Copycat, Gina Carano (Fast & Furious 6) as Angel Dust, Ed Skrein (Game of Thrones) as Ajax, Andre Tricoteux (Seventh Son) as Colossus, Leslie Uggams (Roots) as Blind Al and newcomer Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead.

With the help of Karen and her rebellious teenage son (Judah Lewis), Davis begins to dismantle his old life to understand what went wrong.

The teenage son of late rap icon Notorious B.I.G. is breaking into Hollywood with a key role in Will Ferrell's new dark comedy Everything Must...

Disconnect shows us the Boyd's — a family comprised of a workaholic lawyer dad (Jason Bateman always on the blackberry), a teenage daughter (Haley Ramm), a teenage loner son, and a mom (Hope Davis) who has no close bond with any of them.

In ways that would surely resonate with the denizens of Norway House or the mourners in Waru, the African American single mom and teenage son at the center of this drama are lifelong residents of northern Florida but remain, at best, provisional citizens of their own country.

This dramedy sees Ben Stiller star as Brad, a father who embarks on an East Coast college tour with his teenage son and winds up encountering an old friend who makes him feel bad about his life choices, throwing him into a confidence crisis of sorts.

Their BEST ACTOR AWARD went to the much talked - about Timothée Chalamet in a breakout performance as the teenage son of a professor who falls in love with a visiting grad student one summer in Northern Italy.

Shot along the chilly shores of the Barents Seaww, Leviathan stars Aleksei Serebryakov as Nikolay, a local handyman who lives with his young wife and teenage son in a quaint wooden house by the sea.

That's one reason why I was impressed by a film that may not have come on your radar yet, although it has played at various American festivals — Life and Nothing More, by Antonio Mendez Esparza, a Spanish director working in the U.S.. It's the Florida - set story of a mother - son relationship, about a teenage boy going through problems at home and at school, and his mother, who keeps their household together through a series of diner jobs while dealing with the attentions of a fond but potentially troublesome suitor.

Howie may on the surface seem the calm head of reason, an unassuming man just wanting to «move on», but, unlike Becca, he can not face the driver of the car that killed his son, a teenage boy, Jason (Miles Teller), whom Becca eventually strikes up a kinship with.

The film suggests by its title a health insurance industry run amuck with bad faith and unstoppable corruption, but the title also comes to invoke Sonia as a Medusa - like figure, whose gun - toting rage incidentally sets off a violent chain of events that also involves her teenage son, Dario (Sebastián Aguirre Boëda).

Their introverted teenage son, Luke (Brendan Meyer), feels uncomfortable around him (as he does most people), and their daughter, Anna (Maika Monroe), is the most skeptical of all, dismissing David's story of how he knew her brother with a laugh.

The Greatest (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Emotionally - draining drama about a grieving couple (Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon), already dealing with the untimely death of their teenage son (Aaron Johnson), who find themselves further burdened by the arrival of his flaky, pregnant girlfriend (Carey Mulligan) in need of a place to stay.

As for the film, it's a modest little charmer about a middle - aged housewife re-connecting with her brooding teenage son through their shared love of music.

Twice Born begins as the Italian professor Gemma (Cruz) heads off on a summer vacation to the battle - scarred city of Sarajevo with her discontented teenaged son Pietro.

Playing the least entertaining chronic masturbator of his career, Sandler is buried beneath a neckbeard, sneaking into his teenage son's room to beat - off in front of the kid's laptop because his own computer is riddled with Malware.

Baumbach is one of cinema's sharpest writers of naturalistic dialogue, capable of ringing out layers of meaning from casual exchanges, and here he's at his pithy best: Bernard's offhand categorization of his student's short story to his teenage son as «very feminist but very interesting» belies depths of misogyny and elitism, while his graceless romantic counsel to Walt leads the teen to ditch his perfectly reasonable girlfriend, Sophie (Halley Feiffer), with the same projectiles of secondhand rhetoric that he unveiled to initially charm her.

The film stars Diane Lane as the mother of a teenage son, played by Anton Yelchin, who dreams of reconnecting with his father, a famous anthropologist who studies a primitive South American tribe.

His scenes with real - life son Frank, best - known as Harry Potter's teenage Tom Riddle, but also the beneficiary of at least some of his dad's acting genes, are especially warm and touching.

It's not hard to give her some leeway early on (she is, after all, a grieving mother haunted by her own actions just before her daughter's horrific murder and left in a state of emotional and legal limbo by the lack of progress on the case), but by the end it's hard not to be sick and tired of the manner in which she constantly uses that as an excuse to dehumanize everyone around her, whether it be her surviving teenage son (Lucas Hedges), a local with an inexplicable crush on her (Peter Dinklage), or the aforementioned Sheriff Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who isn't so much a bad man as he is a complacent one.

Some fine performances bolster this otherwise predictable melodrama about grief and recovery that follows a math teacher named Bill (J.K. Simmons) and his teenage son (Josh Wiggins) both trying to cope with the recent and sudden death of Bill's wife.

Collette, whether paired with the great Viola Davis or with versions of herself, was fantastic throughout, and Keir Gilchrist did comparably strong work as teenage son Marshall, who searched for normalcy in an attempt to define his sexuality.

Well intentioned yet pervasively dull, The Stone Boy follows farmers Joe (Robert Duvall) and Ruth Hillerman (Glenn Close) as they attempt to cope with the accidental death of their teenage son (Dean Cain's Eugene) at the hands of 12 - year - old Arnold (Jason Presson)- with the movie also emphasizing the impact that the tragedy has on several periphery family members (including Frederic Forrest's sleazy Uncle Andy and Wilford Brimley's kind - hearted Grandpa George).

In the first film, Amy, a harried newly single mother (Mila Kunis), Kiki, an overwhelmed stay at home mom (Kristen Bell), and Carla, a hard - partying pottymouth with a teenage son (Kathryn Hahn) join forces to oppose the impossible standards of perfection and the mean girl PTA President (Christina Applegate) who embodies them.

Calvin also suspects that his teenage son (Michael Rainey Jr.) may be on the verge of joining a gang, underlining an edgy topical theme that director Malcolm D. Lee's film shares with his cousin Spike's «Chi - Raq.»

When divorcee Lucy Emerson (a wonderful Dianne Wiest) moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to small town Santa Carla («The Murder Capital of the World» according to some graffiti spray - painted across the not - so - welcoming sign on the community's outskirts) in northern California, with her teenage sons Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), to live with her offbeat old man (Barnard Hughes).

Even as Walter establishes a rapport with his younger son Henry (Riley Thomas Stewart) through the puppet, though, his teenage son Porter (Anton Yelchin)-- a smart but angry kid who keeps a list of Post-Its enumerating all the traits of his father of which he wishes to rid himself, and finds himself hired by valedictorian Norah (Jennifer Lawrence) to pen her forthcoming graduation commencement speech — remains aloof.

Oren Moverman is adapting the script from the chilling novel that was published in 2009 in Holland and in February in the U.S. Set at a dinner in Amsterdam, the story revolves around two brothers, one running for prime minister of the Netherlands, who must deal with one of their teenage sons who has committed an unspeakable crime.

Clearly invoking Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan is a fairly clear - eyed look at the State of Things in today's Russia, encapsulated in a bitter dispute between hotheaded mechanic Kolia (Alexei Serebriakov)-- who lives in a house overlooking the coastal town with his young wife, Lilya (Elena Liadova), and teenage son by a previous marriage — and the corrupt local mayor who has obtained legal authorization to appropriate Kolia's land and demolish his home to make way for a vaguely described «communications center» for the town.

Watching a show with my teenage sons is a happy retreat from reality, away from arguments, exams and the friction of daily life