Sentences with phrase «poor little kid»

Poor little kid.

TO Over It; «Listen, Toots, I was raised by a self - righteous, domineering, opinionated, my - way - or - the - highway, because - I - said - so mother... believe me, you are doing your poor little kids a great disservice, if not downright harm.

Listen, Toots, I was raised by a self - righteous, domineering, opinionated, my - way - or - the - highway, because - I - said - so mother... believe me, you are doing your poor little kids a great disservice, if not downright harm.

Not exact matches

He may not be a friend of the poor but the Catholic Church is certainly no friend to vulnerable kids, especially little boys.

They kept allowing this awful kid in the home, and made my poor little niece sit with her abuser every Sunday in church.

Tom, I agree that this letter, while at times a little cheesy (please tell me Van isn't one of this poor kid's names!)

That poor little boy crying in the crowd is all over twitter...... so sad, poor little sod... hate seeing kids crying.

Moral of the story is just do what you can and don't feel guilty over raising a healthy kid just because you were poor when she was little.

But Tough admirably teases apart the hazards of having it too good without falling into the «poor little rich kid» syndrome.

Kandel: I find it unbelievable that a little kid from Vienna, coming from a poor family, coming to America without any money, [to] have had this fantastic life that I have had in the United States, that brings tears to my eyes.

Poor diet, too little (or too much) exercise, lack of sleep, emotional struggles, long hours, a tough job, small kids... the list goes on.

Kodi might want to do something a little more lighthearted next time, poor kid.

She may be a little off her rocker and too often a poor role model for these kids but she's a single parent desperately trying to deal with her daughter's illness.

Romain Duris is a little wasted on the role of «Cinquanta», the kidnapper hoodlum who begins to have protective feelings for the poor, moon - faced, hippy rich kid who must shortly undergo an ear - reduction process.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

Jaclyn Jose picked up best actress for playing the mother of four grown kids running a small store in a poor area of Manila and dealing a little meth on the side.

Still, I worry that, in the current policy environment, most schools serving poor kids have little incentive to offer gifted - and - talented programs and other mechanisms whereby to boost the prospects of poor but brilliant kids.

Curriculum and content matter — and for no one more than poor kids who get too little of that knowledge and vocabulary at home.

The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow districts and schools to do little to help those kids succeed.

The fact that some organizations even went so far as to push for aspects of the waiver gambit that have led to states defining proficiency down for poor and minority kids has also made them vulnerable to accusations from traditionalists that they care little for children while making it more difficult for allies to support them in other ways.

It is starting to mirror the opt - out movement, which was mostly driven by well - off white parents concluding that the «poor kids» tests meant to spark more accountability in poor neighborhoods did little for their kids.

And if we dig into the data a little more, we see that non-low income students» average writing proficiency scores are double those of poor kids.

In one famous experiment, kids who were «poor readers» and knew a lot about baseball could read better than kids who were «good readers» but knew little about the sport — when the topic was baseball.

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

Especially for families in poor and minority communities who have seen generations of outsiders bearing gifts that do little to help them, the ability to help their kids choose their way to educational heaven (as legendary Morehouse College President Benjamin Mays would say) is expected and demanded.

Today, when White speaks in support of the Common Core, he can seem to talk minimally (or too little) about its impact on middle - class schools, reserving his most impassioned rhetoric for the ways in which the Common Core will help the poorest and neediest in the state, offering those students the caliber of education rich kids in high - performing East Coast suburbs are getting.

It is so very sad how many people get the adorable puppy for their kid and then after the new wears off the poor little dog only barely gets common maintenance.

My family and I came across this poor little English bulldog over the fourth of July weekend he is completely bald and has a oozing sore on his rear next to under his tail, he is the sweetest little dog and the kids are set on keeping it, but... anything u can do to help him

I felt really weird — I was little, I was poor (in a very rich area), and I was the only black kid in the class.

Oh, that's right, Clinton (another poor little rich boy) sent all the good jobs overseas when he signed NAFTA so all the rich, greedy, company owners could pay kids 50 cents a day in sweat shops.

I can't imagine what that poor little baby has gone through... it breaks my heart to think of all the kids / babies out there that are being mistreated!