Sentences with phrase «struggles of adulthood»

I have experience working with adults navigating struggles of adulthood, relationships, and parenthood.

Not exact matches

Not because I want to hold onto bitterness and anger, but because I struggle with things in my adulthood because of how my childhood was.

While working - class young adults «struggle with similar, and structurally rooted, problems, there is no sense of «we,»» reports Jennifer M. Silva, author of Coming Up Short: Working - Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty.

I don't struggle through the late afternoon crash that has been turning my mind to mush from the hours of 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. since I reached adulthood.

Izzy Klein (Madelyn Deutch), a young woman fresh out of college, strikes up and ruins relationships with several men, and struggles to navigate the failures of post-college adulthood, leaning on her mother and older sister for support.

Starting as just a child, the film spans two decades of Marjane's life as she struggles to cope with all of the difficulties that come with adolescence, the teenage years and early adulthood; coupled with the strife of her nation.

What many LGBT people struggle with for a lifetime through puberty, adulthood, and sometimes even middle - to - old age passes for Einar in the course of a fast couple of weeks after a single cross-dressing incident.

As Fay rehearses in the role of Lady Macbeth for the school play, and gets a radically different haircut and look, she is also tentatively trying on the different guises of adulthood while struggling to maintain a semblance of continuity for her changing identity.

Moonlight is a coming - of - age film chronicling the life of a black man struggling with his sexuality from childhood to adulthood.

Complicating matters, he struggles to see the potential in his soft - spoken son's transition into young adulthood without turning him into an object of envy as well.

An absorbing account of growing up as an orphan and struggling with cancer in adulthood is, happily, free of self - pity

The story of Izzy Klein (Madelyn Deutch), a young woman fresh out of college as she strikes up and ruins relationships with several men, and struggles to navigate the failures of post-college adulthood, leaning on her mother and older sister for support.

A timeless story of human self - discovery and connection, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Miami.

At the crux of Tully, we have a woman struggling with taking care of her children, her husband, and herself in the midst of the demands of motherhood and adulthood.

While both have the same amount of depth and introspection on twentysomethings wandering aimlessly through their adulthood, Frances Ha is both less acidic and more empathetic toward the struggles of cutting off your ties from entitlement to make a truly honest living.

Starring Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller (also making his directorial debut), Janeane Garofalo, and Steve Zahn, the film perfectly encapsulates the struggles of emerging adulthood.

It Felt Like Love is an intimate portrayal of a teenager's struggle into adulthood that avoids exaggerating or sugarcoating circumstances in favor of genuinely convincing ones.

The original pair of birds will lay between 4 and 16 eggs (according to the dice outcome described), and each egg is then submitted to the chances of nature as it struggles to hatch, develop and reach adulthood.

• A new intergenerational study shows that for 76 % of 15 - 17 year olds, studying hard for good exam results is their biggest priority for the coming year; and they are preparing to sacrifice friendships, family time, hobbies and even sleep to achieve this, • In fact 57 % of 15 - 17 year olds feel school work must come before anything else if they want to do well in the future • And only 39 % of this age group think being happy is more important than good grades • Yet half (51 %) of UK business leaders calls on teens to develop broader life / work skills before leaving education A new report launched today by National Citizen Service (NCS) reveals that the UK ¹ s 15 - 17 year olds feel under significant pressure to excel in exams at the expense of other life skills, experiences, healthy relationships and even their own happiness, suggesting that they are struggling to juggle the demands of young adulthood.

But educators and education policy wonks should read it nonetheless, because it provides one of the most compelling depictions you'll ever find of poor teenagers struggling (often heroically) to make the transition from high school to adulthood.

The core of this book consists of twelve chapters, each describing of a different period of life, with its own unique changes, struggles, and growth: prebirth, birth, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, midlife, mature adulthood, late adulthood, and death & dying.

Stephen Robertson, in his article «Age of Consent Laws», states: «Narrowly concerned with sexual violence, and with girls, originally, since the 19th century the age of consent has occupied a central place in debates over the nature of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and been drawn into campaigns against prostitution and child marriage, struggles to achieve gender and sexual equality, and the response to teenage pregnancy.»

Through characters like Rosacoke Mustian, Wesley Beavers, Kate Vaiden and Blue Calhoun, Price introduced us to men and women — and critics praised Price for his deep understanding of women's nature — who, in some cases, were tentatively taking their first steps toward the secrets of adulthood, and in others were struggling to discover their freedom and identity in a world that would just as soon keep them imprisoned in narrow cultural stereotypes.

While some puppies seem to «house - train themselves» in a matter of days, others struggle with accidents through canine adolescence and sometimes on into adulthood.

Between turbulent friendships, hormones, and the struggle to find identity, it's a wonder any of us making it to adulthood.

Our many programs touch the lives of children from birth to young adulthood, families in crises including those struggling with the challenges of autism and developmentally disabilities.

However, youths growing up in impoverished, inner - city neighborhoods face obstacles to conventional development.1, 2 Many African - American adolescents are caught up in the subculture of «the streets» and, in the transition to adulthood, risk becoming school dropouts, premature parents, marginally employed adults, welfare recipients, and struggling family members.

This Family Life Cycle transition, Becoming an Adult: Leaving Home and Staying Connected, begins with the adolescent's struggle for identity and independence, and continues with the development of autonomy, healthy emotional interdependence, and self - differentiation during young adulthood.

The lack of discipline and structure can result in the child feeling insecure, and perhaps struggling to reach maturity in adulthood.

Women of all sexual orientations, women struggling to develop a solid sense of self while maintaining important relationships, whether fresh with new adulthood, 30 to 45 or something, or maturing into the wisdom of later adulthood.

Unfortunately, by young adulthood many struggle, with one in four young Australians diagnosed with a mental health condition by the age of 25.

Individuals who were better able to delay as a child showed greater PFC activity in adolescence and adulthood when presented with a rewarding, tempting stimulus, whereas those who struggled with the delay task in childhood showed greater activity in the ventral striatum and less effective PFC recruitment when in the face of positive reward cues [25, 37 • •].