Sentences with phrase «time as an adolescent»

I immediately went to my old neighborhood to check in with everyone, to see my guys and the girls on the block where I'd spent so much time as an adolescent.

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To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

c) As a solid reference point for parochial catechesis it is necessary to have a nucleus of mature Christians, initiated into the faith, to whom different pastoral concerns can be entrusted d) While the preceding points refer mainly to adults, at the same time catechesis for children, adolescents, and young people which is always indispensable will also benefit greatly» (GDC 258)

I first fell in love with camping as an adolescent in the Youth Conservation Corps at Yellowstone, the most magical place in the world, and my love for camping deepens every time I escape into the woods for even one night.

The result was a report titled «Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners,» published in June 2012, which for the first time represented noncognitive skills — or «noncognitive factors,» as the report called them — not as a set of discrete abilities that individual children might somehow master (or fail to master), but as a collection of mindsets and habits and attitudes that are highly dependent on the context in which children are learning.

As a former child and adolescent therapist, I have heard these quotes about spanking from parents so many times before.

Other possible symptoms of depression in children and adolescents include difficulty with peer relationships, such as an inability to get along with friends; separation anxiety manifested as school avoidance or school phobia; and changes in home relationships and interactions, such as losing interest in family conversations, and a desire to be alone most of the time.

The study — conducted by Hio Wa Mak, doctoral student of human development and family studies — examined how parental rejection, as well as the overall well - being of the family unit, were related to changes in adolescents» social anxiety, friendships and feelings of loneliness over time.

As a parent, it's good to be aware that some intersex conditions could appear around the time your child becomes an adolescent.

Because I've made a career out of my work with adolescents, I see as a matter of course what a parent might be seeing for the first time.

Teens without fathers were twice as likely to be involved in early sexual activity and seven times more likely to get pregnant as an adolescent.

As time goes on, however, many adolescents come to rely heavily on substances in social situations, creating a false perception that socializing without the crutch of a psychoactive substance is impossible.

He also noted the creation of adolescent diversion courts and the push for new ways to address the state's subpar record on wrongful convictions during his time as chief judge of the Court of Appeals.

What's more, a 2015 study in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that transgender youth are two to three times as likely as their peers to suffer from depression and anxiety disorders, or to attempt suicide or harm themselves.

They were also nearly three times as likely to engage in antisocial behaviour, and more than twice as likely to be unemployed (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1097 / chi.0 b013e3181948fdd).

Until a better vaccine is available, the CDC urges adolescents and adults to get a one - time booster shot, but as of 2010, only 8 percent of American adults had done so.

The researchers queried 785 adolescents three times over four years: in seventh grade, about their social autonomy and parental relationships; in eighth grade, about peer influences; and in 11th grade, about problem behaviors such as drinking and aggression.

Some researchers suspect that the same is true for people, but they've had a hard time establishing whether adolescent drinking makes people prone to risk - taking or whether risk - prone people are simply more likely to start drinking as teenagers.

Over the years, as the battle for entry to the best universities has grown ever fiercer, the juku have mushroomed, consuming more and more of the adolescents» free time.

These energy drinks can contain as much as 10 times the caffeine as soda and are often marketed to adolescents.

«On the immediate horizon is a look at the effects of some things that become more common during adolescent years as kids hit a high - risk time for substance and alcohol abuse and other problems that often co-exist with clinical depression.

«When you hear the story, which has been reported many times, that adolescents lose gray matter, you think of it as something negative.

Had a horrible time with Mono in early twenties and some sort of oral herpes infection as an adolescent, I only remember that it hurt to drink water!

Scoliosis Information for Adults and Children In most cases, scoliosis will present itself in the adolescent years - starting out as a mild curve that in time, may or may not progress into a more severe curvature.

As a general rule, around age 10 is a good time for some basic skills to be learned with gradual independence gained in the ensuing adolescent years.

Sexuality is a healthy element of adult life at all stages of our maturity and senior citizens are simply just as capable of such inside their romances as your most randy adolescent, at the same time perhaps being a good deal extra cautious.

It's also hard to really root for any of the three, despite the best efforts of the young cast — particularly Teller, as Daniel, having wonderfully naturalistic delivery at times — with Jason a selfish ladies» man, Mikey a workaholic pushover, and Daniel a crass, tactless adolescent.

Furthermore, Hoop Dreams now exists as kind of a time capsule: a reminder of what adolescent athletics were like in the 1990s.

But this time, as the lead, Fanning is transformative, heartbreakingly conveying the inner life of an adolescent with an almost eerily nuanced command of her craft.

In large and small ways, this ensemble understands the rhythms of how old friends interact — and how easy it is to revert to your adolescent identity, no matter how far from it you've run as an adult... Pegg and Frost do some of their best work themselves, completely avoiding repetitions of their earlier collaborations with Wright; Frost gets to be the intelligent, responsible one this time out, while Pegg plays the boozy screw - up.»

The main problem is that for the first time since maybe Event Horizon, Anderson seems to be trying to make an actual movie and not just a thinly veiled excuse to indulge himself in ludicrous adolescent fantasies, mainly starring his wife (see: The Three Musketeers 2011 and the entire Resident Evil series, or the «Check Out My Ridiculously Hot Wife» franchise as some on the internet have affectionately dubbed it.)

Though it's been rightly celebrated for its guerrilla shoots and nomadic production history — depicting an adolescent's maturation from six to eighteen by reassembling the cast once a year, more or less in secret, for a few days at a time — Boyhood might be most impressive as a reflection on the impossibility of fully capturing what happens in all those «and thens» that constitute a life.

[5] Given this discordance between natural sleep rhythms and school start times for adolescents, it's no surprise that students lose as much as two hours of sleep per night when they start school in the fall relative to the summer.

In secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to school.

Every first - period teacher who has looked across a classroom of drooping eyelids and nodding heads is familiar with the effect of a high school day that starts at 7:30 A.M. Jodi Mindell, associate director of the Sleep Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, told the Associated Press, «Sleep not only serves as a restorative function for adolescents» bodies and brains, but it also is a key time when they process what they've learned during the day.»

A New York Times article noted that young adolescents are as likely to die from suicide as from traffic accidents.

Her career spans from time as a front line bilingual adolescent crisis counselor, with La Raza Consortium, to spearheading national think tank efforts in education equity and social justice on the boards of Grantmakers for Education, the National Equity Project, and the National Coalition for Community Schools.

My interest in the topic stemmed from my time as a teacher of severely emotionally disturbed adolescents in Brooklyn, N.Y..

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At the same time, the echoes of the 1963 Russian Embassy Party itself (when the students behaved and talked like the late - adolescents they were) cut veins through the story, linking its participants in ways they realize, bit by bit, as adults.

The first is a book which I read for the first time this year, a book that most people have read as adolescents in high school or studied at length in university in its original language.

The problem, here, is that I am flush off my successful investment in Sycamore Networks, and the time to be most wary of your own ideas is right after you've been unexpectedly successful; it tends to give you a bit of that «I'm invincible» rush that you might have felt as an adolescent.

By the time a dog is 6 months old, she is an adolescent, and as wild as a teenager who has never been asked to sit still in class and learn.

This is actually a poor time to start training as the puppy is no longer a puppy, but an adolescent.

Just as with human adolescents, canine adolescents need time to adapt to their new bodies and to develop coordination for the specific skills they will be performing.»

It is very easy for the adolescent dog to see his owner as nothing but a spoil - sport outdoors, because the only time he gets near to him, or engages with him, is when the walk is about to finish.

At the ten - month peak, testosterone levels in adolescent male dogs may be as much as five to seven times greater than adult levels.

I actually loved FFIX, as after FFVII awakened a love of JRPGs in my adolescent self, I got really into FFI alongside the various SNES and PSX JRPGs I was catching up on and / or playing through at the time, and found IX to be a lovely return to FFI form after the off - putting FFVIII.

Acting as an extension of the artist's body, each work draws upon adolescent memories — those of maps, legs clad in 90s neon, and the cover of Beck's Midnite Vultures — and propels moments frozen in time into contemporary discourse to create a new narrative.

The series «Playland,» for example, uses as a point of inspiration the now - defunct Times Square arcade where she hung out as a youth — an adolescent gathering space surrounded by porn palaces.