Sentences with phrase «of adulthood for»

Forced to confront the realities of adulthood for the first time, Donna prepares herself to have an abortion — on Valentine's Day, of all days — and finds support in the most unexpected places.

Before we hit a state of blood sugar pathology (diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or latent autoimmune diabetes of adulthood for example), we most likely spend some time, perhaps decades, in a state of functional blood sugar imbalance.

Andy Doyle, author of Adulthood for Beginners: All the Life Secrets Nobody Bothered to Tell You, shares tips from his book.

A loving father adds focus, growth, confidence and an insight into the world of adulthood for a child that the mother can not provide in the same objective way.

Not exact matches

That might be news to some overprotective parents, but it's probably blindingly obvious to lots of 20 - somethings who have recently smacked into the reality that, thanks to their loving but sheltered upbringings, they're woefully underprepared for adulthood.

One of Buffett's investments in himself came in early adulthood, when he signed up for a $ 100 Dale Carnegie public speaking course that he says changed his life.

Whatever «big city» you pick (every state has one or two), you will be battle - tested and prepared for the rigors of adulthood.

«Blockers» also carries a strong message for parents about letting go of their young ones once they transition into adulthood.

Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

An increasing number of youth are taking longer to achieve the typical markers of adulthood — full - time job, spouse, car, house — and it's a source of shame and anxiety for the millennials receiving assistance.

As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.»

From his youth through adulthood, Turner has suffered from distractibility, agitation and impulsive behaviour, as well as enjoying significant self - confidence and a constant level of high energy that's limited his need for sleep.

As the price of Bitcoin zooms to its highest ever heights, the cryptocurrency's most valuable startup is preparing for adulthood.

These types of accounts, where financial gifts to a minor are held in a custodial account until the child reaches adulthood, offer another option for saving for your child's education.

For many, this complicated web of emotional stakes only exists on Facebook, because Facebook is the only social platform on the web where who we are now, in adulthood, converges with the past life we had as a teen or a college student.

As earnings season ramps into full gear, the performance of some of the biggest names could determine future of the tech boomAs large tech companies report first - quarter earnings in a flood of results during the next two weeks, they face a major test: Will they continue to post huge growth, and fuel further overall gains for the market, or settle into a more mild adulthood?

Ordering your life around the Lordship of Christ will increasingly seem an exotic (if salvific) alternative for a select few, rather than a natural step for responsible Americans entering adulthood.

The fact of the matter is simple: The idea of adulthood is a dangerous one for young adults venturing out into «the real world,» whatever that may be.

Merle, that's all good except over 40 % of Americans believe the fairy tale well into adulthood after being brainwashed for the first 18 years of their lives, often on a weekly basis.

Then the first man and woman were cast out of paradise for breaking the taboo, raised two sons to adulthood, at which point one became so jealous of the other that he killed his brother.

For those doing a bit too much partying, Paul suggests a glimpse of adulthood, learning to just say «no.»

In our drug - saturated culture, learning what responsible behavior and attitudes are, relative to drugs, is a vital part of the preparation of children and youth for constructive adulthood.

I can't imagine how you reached adulthood without achieving even the most tenuous grasp of the science that has long since explained away the need for - if not the very existence - of gods.

It's not easy for youth to move into adulthood in this time of conflicting values and rapid social change.

A major key to the capacity to draw gospel implications for adult life stages will depend on the clergyperson's own awareness of his or her own negotiation of the path of adulthood.

By showing his willingness to sacrifice what is his for what is right and good, he also puts his son on the proper road for his own adulthood — the true test of the good father.

Our first order of business for parenting and families ought to be to hammer out a gospel context for the transition to adulthood, adolescence and young adulthood, comparable to the one we are developing for the mid-life crisis.

We humans are aware of change in personal development, as described in Shakespeare's «seven ages of man»; so we are used to planning for the next day, the next year or even for a lifetime as when, in early adulthood, we choose a career or a spouse.

And yet, the boomers» exhilarating adolescence left them ill prepared for the labors of responsible adulthood.

For some reason, the promise of adulthood, and everything associated with it, made many of us think we'd simply be able to outgrow our personal flaws.

The age of adulthood varies from country to country — in the US it is 18 for most things including voting, but 16 to drive, 21 to drink, 25 to run for sentate, 35 to run for president.

Sadly, many children who are simply prepared for adulthood, just as adults who merely prepare for retirement, find the time and space of their lives monopolized by what is not most important.

Today's kids are addicts to doing their own thing; they can't seem to make that step to adulthood where they would find the ultimate legitimation of being able to do something for somebody else.»

This wound is passed on by the laws of inheritance and ripens in bitterness and destructive potential as a tragic consequence of the very progress of humanity towards the adulthood of control over the face of the earth which God originally intended for our blessing.

Writing at a time when many people were paying attention to the travails of «the Clinton couple of Arkansas,» A. M. Rosenthal, on the Op - Ed page of the New York Times that he once edited, thanked the Clintons for the «gift» of presuming «that Americans have achieved adulthood at last» and delivered himself of this opinion: «I know there are voters who do believe that a President should have what they consider a spotless sexual history.

For a believer to remain «a mere child» may add to his charm, but it deprives him of a prime lesson of adulthood: Orthodoxy is no servility; gratitude, no indignity.

I was 23 years old, ready for the adventure of adulthood and ministry.

So by the author's logic, if a person is single for whatever reason throughout adulthood - let's say a person has not met their life partner or someone is severely disabled - then they will never know the highest level of spiritual intimacy?

The plane, we are told, fell like a moth, and only Julie was injured, singled out for a kind of brutal rite of passage into adulthood.

As a Jew in the newly post-Holocaust period, and as someone who had come with adulthood to loathe the Soviet government and its apologists, I too for a time, that much - libeled time known as the fifties, professed to derive my ideas of the world from a deep commitment to the doctrine of human imperfectibility.

It is also a second - chance stage, when partially unfinished developmental tasks may be completed as a foundation for the life tasks of the three adult stages — intimacy (emotional and sexual) in young adulthood, generativity (being a generator or creator) in the middle years, and ego integrity (making peace with life) in the older adult years.

Indeed, it would probably seem to him that taking a couple of years out of a life that has not yet reached full adulthood, spending them on a few of the nation's lighter household chores, so to speak, and then being rather handsomely compensated for it would more accurately come under the heading of perk than of citizenly offering.

Allen Cates writes for RELEVANT about the seasons of childhood and how he has learned faithfulness in the rhythm of adulthood.

The suggestion,» he writes, «led me to ask myself what particular aspect of the Gospel of Jesus Christ provided for me the continuing crucial link first between the spiritual experience of my adolescence and of my adulthood, and second, between my inner spirituality and my concern for religious renaissance and social change in India.

Until recently, half of the human race died from infectious causes before adulthood, providing strong selective pressure for genetic alleles that enhance host defence but why are the genetic alleles that are most frequently associated with depression so common in the modern gene pool?

What would you say to a millennial who is on the cusp of settling into a rhythm that could define them for adulthood or taking a risk that could change their lives?

As Erik Erikson observes, the achievement of intimacy in young adulthood provides essential equipment for handling the life task of the next period, generativity.

From being a helpless baby he progressed to adulthood, where he was capable of holding down a job, getting married and having children (should he so choose), making and keeping friends, earning and spending and saving money, respecting confidences, theorizing about the origins of things, separating fancy from fact, getting angry without having to hurt others, caring for others without needing to possess them.

But different from the wrapping paper drives and the soccer team camp fundraisers, Girl Scouts is celebrating its 100th year of teaching our young ladies skills and grace that actually do lead them into young adulthood armed with some semblance of a higher moral ground and conscience for others and the environment.

And then a new home — moving away for school — which never felt quite as solidly like home but nonetheless allowed me to find my own footing in the world and curate a space for myself amidst the confusion of beginning adulthood.