Sentences with phrase «of their teenage sons who»

I am a divorced mother of a teenage son who is ready to start a new chapter.

I'm a 44 year old single parent of a teenage son who is my world I'm looking for someone that wants a real relationship and loves kids

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.

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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.

On a chilly afternoon last October, as my son and I walked through a bustling shopping district in Xi'an, China, we passed a group of teenage girls who were chattering loudly in Mandarin.

The storyline revolves around the principle character - Alex, a Canadian widower in his late forties who runs a secondhand book shop and has two teenage sons of college age.

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!

A friend of mine has a teenage son who constantly uses his sister's hot rollers, curling iron and other female hair items.

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

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.

Grayling wanted to reduce the number of solicitors who are able to represent you, me, your teenage son or daughter at a police station or magistrates» court.

Allen's arrest comes after the arrests of Kristen Wright and Phillip Quandt Jr., who area resident Natia Shim has accused of threatening her and her teenage son, Nace, on May 10.

The son of Sir Peter Osborne and Felicity Loxton - Peacock, the boy who became George in an act of teenage rebellion (he was born Gideon) also owns a few rolls of wallpaper at family firm Osborne and Little.

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.

Other distinguished passengers included President William Howard Taft's military attaché Archibald Butt; Mr. and Mrs. John B. Thayer, a senior vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and their teenage son Jack; and Mrs. Margaret Brown of Denver, Colo., who was to gain fame as the Unsinkable Molly Brown for taking command of a lifeboat.

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.

8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter: And Other Tips from a Beleaguered Father (Not That Any of Them Work) is an owner's manual for anyone who Is your son dating?

It's a typical family unit, consisting of harried parents Cindy (Christina Hendricks) and Mike (Martin Henderson), their jock son Luke (Lewis Pullman, son of Bill) and surly teenage daughter Kinsey (Bailee Madison), who naturally doesn't stop complaining or looking at her phone.

Bening will play Dorothea Fields, a mother who's trying her best to raise her teenage son, Jamie and taps the wisdom of two other women in her life, each from a different era of the 20th Century.

The French - Belgian - Senegalese - German - Lebanese co-production focuses on a Congolese bar singer who goes on a frantic search for her teenage son through the streets of Kinshasa, Congo.

Written by Gosling, the story centers on Billy, a single mother of two, who is swept into a macabre and dark fantasy underworld while her teenage son discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town.

The movie loops in a narrative involving the teenage son of one of the mine's victims, another teenager who belongs to one of the mine's supervisors, and the lonely, soon traumatized wife of the supervisor, Diane (Elizabeth Banks).

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.

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.

At first, the family (mother Laura played by Sheila Kelley, father Spencer played by Leland Orser, teenaged daughter Anna played by Maika Monroe, and young son Luke played by Brendan Meyer) are unsure what to make of David, this friendly and seemingly peaceful stranger who's just appeared on their doorstep.

We get familiar tropes, such as a single dad trying to find his sons, a teenage boy who is too shy to ask the school's beauty out but ends up becoming a hero in her eyes, and rival storm chasers (a truly annoying pair of «reality show» - caliber, stereotypical rednecks) who muck things up more often than not.

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.

Wanting her son to understand how to treat women while finding his way through the world, she enlists the help of his teenage best friend played by Fanning who is overconfident and promiscuous to a fault.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An instantly gripping film, it's buoyed by an astonishing, career - best performance from Shirley Henderson (Trainspotting, Okja) as Judy, a Parkinson's afflicted woman, recently widowed, raising a teenage son named Jamie, who's brilliantly portrayed by the rising young star Théodore Pellerin (It's Only the End of the World).

Writer - director Oren Moverman (working from a novel by Herman Koch) eventually reveals that Paul is mentally ill; Paul and Claire's insufferably entitled teenage son is a nasty piece of work who set a homeless woman on fire; Stan's stepson is an imbecile who recorded the murder on his cellphone and posted it.

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.

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.

The residents include Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a young photographer recovering from cervical cancer, hippy dude handyman William (Billy Crudup), who supplies both hammer and other tools to the women of the house, and Julie (Elle Fanning), a teenage temptress of sorts, who shares a bed with Dorothea's son Jamie.

Manchester by the Sea Directed by Kenneth Lonergan USA, 2016, 137m Casey Affleck is formidable as the volatile, deeply troubled Lee Chandler, a Boston - based handyman called back to his hometown on the Massachusetts North Shore after the sudden death of his brother, Joe (Kyle Chandler), who has left behind a teenage son (Lucas Hedges).

Lost River tells a story of a single mother swept into a dark underworld and a teenage son who discovers a secret underwater town.

Chaining her up in the shed, he intends to «civilize» her, much to the horror of his zombie - like wife (Angela Bettis) and teenage daughter (pregnant, presumably with Dad's child), but to the delight of his son, who's just as sadistically inclined.

This season, the only males under 40 in sight are Jules's teenage son Travis (Dan Byrd), who leaves for college (twice) in the second episode of the season, and Stan, the rarely seen infant son of neighbors Ellie (Christa Miller) and Andy (Ian Gomez), who gets a great It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - grade storyline in the same episode.

Another parent told me about their teenage son who was using the pretext of BYOD to buy new smartphones and tablets in order to flaunt.

The mother of a teenage boy who has died in hospital after leaving a goodbye message describes her son's failure to cope with bullying.

The mother of a teenage boy who has died in hospital after leaving a goodbye message has described her son's failure to cope with bullying.

One of our editors» growing teenage sons, who is about 6 feet tall, loved the quality and comfort of the second - row seats but found his knees a little cramped in the third row.

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