Sentences with phrase «precocious kids»

Robin Storey presents My Five Reading Pet Peeves posted at Storey - Lines, saying, «Indie author Robin Storey reveals the five things that annoy her most in books, from awkward sex scenes to precocious kids.»

There's really only one thing to recommend here, and that's to see Arnold Schwarzenegger being extremely ingratiating as he deals with a group of adorably precocious kids.

The writing is the first problem with «Huff», leaning hard as it does on the Dr. Phil Handbook for Fake Shrinks in its therapy sessions (leave out the dead gay kid, incidentally, and until episode four's guy - who - refuses - to - shit Huff's patients all appear to be beautiful women) and making the bad mistake of thinking that castrating bitch goddess mothers (Blythe Danner, playing Estelle Getty), nymphomaniac wives (Paget Brewster), and precious / precocious kids (Anton Yelchin) will write themselves out of narrative Bermuda Triangles.

The casting choices are also a liability, with Kunis laboring to look even slightly domestic or even just lived - in as a character with a long history with a one - dimensionally self - centered husband and two precocious kids that look like they were freshly pulled from the Movie - Kid rack at the film studio prop store.

Nicholas Sparks is sitting this January out, but Forever My Girl offers a shoulder to cry on, along with the hallmarks of the most romantic movies ever made: parenthood, precocious kids, humble small - town stores, and the grim specter of death forever hanging over the characters» every move.

We use diapers at daycare because he won't go potty there, but do underpants at home in the evenings and weekends.It's been a slow process, probably because our precocious kid went straight past the novelty of going potty to realizing that being a big kid kind of sucks, compared to the easy life of a baby.

That reliance is less engaging in the movie's interpersonal relationships, which, despite charming performances from Jackman (who manages to overcome his character's numerous flaws) and Goyo (who avoids the trap of becoming a grating «precocious kid»), are as rote as their development is inevitable.

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (G) Natalie Portman stars in this escapist fantasy as the insecure manager of a magical toy store who inherits the business from her 243 year - old boss (Dustin Hoffman) and then realizes that she has the right stuff to run the place with the help of his accountant (Jason Bateman) and a precocious kid (Zach Mills).

Although she's only six years - old, the precocious kid has sense enough to protest.

At first glance, she seems to be the generic precocious kid who knows more than she probably should and wants to get in on the action.

Blake is trapped in an underground garage together with a young and comely British engineer, Ben (Hugo Johnstone - Burt) who showed up for a job interview with his precocious kid brother Ollie (Art Parkinson), who was cast to allow 11 - year - olds in the movie audience to relate to someone.

We meet the females in Jimmy's life: his mother (Marion Servole), his girlfriend (Harring) and a precocious kid (Anabel Sosa) he rendezvous with daily on a park bench until the director finally puts us out of our misery by pulling a rabbit out of his cinematic hat during the denouement.

It was probably these playful marine creatures swimming along the side of the ship he rode in the 1960s that made Michael Marasigan, a precocious kid back then, make a vow that some day he will go to every island in the Philippines.

Not exact matches

It's really difficult to tell sometimes when kids are ready to cook — some are extremely precocious and are able to compete like old pros on shows like Masterchef Junior, others lack the interest or even the drive to boil a kettle of water.

It was a two - story brick dwelling at 8130 Morrison Road, where White lived with his girlfriend, Tangie Thompson, 28, who owned the house, and her three - year - old son, Devyn, an outgoing, precocious sweetheart of a kid.

It's an important point that they make I think: becoming peer oriented leads to flight from vulnerability, precocious sexual acting - out, aggression, but most important makes it harder for kids to genuinely learn and gorw.

Does your little one seem more curious and precocious than other kids the same age?

Have your kids discovered the precocious redheaded schoolgirl, Madeline, yet?

In case you're not familiar with these precocious little elves, the idea is that Santa sends one of his elves to each kid or household at the beginning of December to keep an eye on the kids and make sure they deserve their spot on the nice list.

Wonder does occasionally suffer from kid - movie pitfalls, straining to be cute or mining humor from ridiculously precocious little ones.

Every great Bildungsroman needs a kid — preferably precocious — dealing with bullies, insecurities, embarrassments, and parental drama.

The kids, led by six - year - old Moonee (the arrestingly but never studiedly precocious Brooklynn Prince), regard the motel as the fairy - tale castle it garishly pretends to be, scampering about like Eloise in a down - market Plaza under the watchful eye of beleaguered manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe, radiating exhausted compassion).

The precocious Astro Boy does battle with the president and then vamooses to Earth, where he meets some scavenger human kids, led by the Faginesque Hamegg (Nathan Lane), who builds fighting robots out of scrap parts.

Imagine if the precocious secret agents in «Spy Kids» had been deployed on a mundane mission to terminate zealous developers, and you get the general drift of this latest in a barrage of family movies.

Schwartzman plays him as precocious, yet still a kid and inept in so many ways of the adult world he wants so desperately to inhabit.

Coming to his rescue is a most unlikely hero, a precocious homeless kid named CJ Joseph (Issac Ryan Brown).

On the child - actor scale that runs from «irritatingly precocious stage - school kid» to «Dakota Fanning,» Jacob Tremblay is one of the few who falls into an extra special category: the «where - on - Earth - did - they - find - this - kid - and - how - does - he - give - a-performance-like-this» category.

Professor Plummer was killed over a piece of software named G.H.O.S.T. (though not in the pantry with a candlestick) now believed to have been stashed somewhere in his home; when the snot - nosed kids — vain Zoe (Brittany Snow), surly Seth (Max Thieriot), precocious Lulu (Morgan York, also one of the Cheaper by the Dozen brats), and reaction - shot fodder Peter (Keegan & Logan Hoover) and Baby Tyler (Bo & Luke Vink (and with «The Dukes of Hazzard»'s impending renaissance, boy are those two in for a rude awakening at the start of school)-RRB--- grease the stairwell to take out Shane, they end up driving away their German nanny (a typically misused Carol Kane) instead, forcing Shane into a more maternal role and leaving him little time to search for the computer program.

If I tell you that it consists largely of the adventures of these precocious motel - residing kids, it would probably sound like some horribly cloying piece of Hollywood trash, those movies that idealize youth and really look down on poverty.

He recognizes that Moonee is kind of a unique kid, the sort who can get a kick out of making noises into an oscillating fan or brushing her doll's hair in the tub, but he never makes her into a precocious Hollywood cliche of the wide - eyed innocent.

It's been more than a decade since Owen Kline starred as a precocious Brooklyn kid in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach's comedic portrait of a fractured family.

Growing up in central Indiana, Russell says he was «one of those kids they didn't know what to do with,» too precocious for his tiny school district to accommodate, but kept in high school by state laws that typically require kids to sit through 40 or so courses to graduate.

There are too many lawyers and too few jobs to pretend that you can do anything other than be that annoying kid who always raises his / her hand when the teacher asks a question (I admit, I was totally that kid, but I prefer to say that I was just precocious).

In these video vignettes, kids give their innocent, precocious and absolutely hilarious take on all things having to do with homes.