Sentences with phrase «year our kids got»

We are sufficiently winter - ed out, so it looks like next year will be the year the kids get up on skis.

For instance, one year our kids got a movie, a book, and some shoes each, and I spent less than $ 10 on all of it.

Not exact matches

«Our kids are typical, involved in activities and other events that seem to be getting more expensive each year.»

That's the thinking behind Smarter Science, an Ontario - based program that arms science teachers with the tools to get kids thinking like scientists all year long.

Science fairs, all year long How to get teachers to think beyond the textbook and kids to think like scientists.

College was never in the cards for this Florida kid who got a head start on his friends and went into the work force at 18 years old, and started fixing and racing cars on the side.

Think long term, he advises: «If you don't get retirement fully funded, you're going to be on your kids» payroll for 15 or 20 years,» which could end up being more expensive in the long run than student loans would be.

Kids and folks 29 or younger get $ 2,000 a year.

If you're in the exhausting middle years of your life, squeezed between growing kids and a growing career, chances are good that getting out of bed early enough for self - care is a perpetual challenge.

A recent BMO study found that in 2013, Canadian moms and dads were willing to fork out more than $ 425 to get their kid ready for the classroom, up 18 % over the previous year's figure.

Anyone who buys the Echo Dot Kids Edition will get a free year of FreeTime Unlimited.

Walter Mischel, Ebbe Ebbesen and Antonette Raskoff Zeiss» famous 1972 study of 92 kids, 3 to 5 years old, found that when given the option between getting a small reward right away or waiting for a larger one, the children preferred larger rewards but were more likely to accept a smaller reward instantly.

«This is not something a guy who's making $ 100,000 a year, who's got a mortgage and two kids in college ought to be invested in.»

In a late - stage study, Aimmune, a biotech immunotherapy allergy treatment taken via pill, found that of the roughly 500 kids with peanut allergies between the ages of 4 - 17 who were part of the trial, 67 % of those who received the treatment were able to tolerate 600 milligrams of peanut protein (about two to four peanuts) after about a year of treatment, while only 4 % of those who got the placebo could tolerate that dose of peanut protein.

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

In his junior year, he quit school to move for L.A., where he got his breakthrough fronting KYSR - FM's afternoon drive - time show (reportedly for $ 15 an hour) and hosting three TV shows for kids.

Today most of us think of back - to - school time in terms of getting the kids ready for another academic year.

Vacations are over, the kids are off to school, people are re-energized and looking to get stuff done before the end - of - year craziness.

But once I got over that, I was able to go from a kid at 18 years old that was always like a very average, underperforming student and then fast forward almost to the day 18 years later, I flew in space for the first time.

I love the idea of getting kids involved in back - to - school shopping, as it often increases their excitement about the upcoming year.

This young man at 16 was arrested — for something any suburban kid could have gotten away with — and held at Rikers Island for three years, mostly in inhumane solitary confinement.

Lola's still quite a few years away from college and getting a job, but we thought we'd ask what some of the career options are for kids who are interested in careers involving animals and animal rights.

There are jobs our kids can get in college, scholarships they can earn, community colleges they can attend for a couple of years and if push comes to shove, student loans they can take out.

For Rachel Huse, whose days were typically spent homeschooling her kids, sewing children's clothing for her Etsy shop and co-leading a volunteer organization that took nearly 30 hours a week of her time, the foray three years ago into direct selling centered around one goal: «I definitely saw it as an opportunity to get a house cleaner,» she said.

In other words, even if you buy a $ 1.5 M median home and pay $ 20,000 a year in property tax, you are not guaranteed to have your kid get into the public school down the street.

Covenant House is a national nonprofit organization that has been helping homeless and trafficked teenagers, young adults, and single moms with kids get shelter and support across the country for more than 40 years.

She does like YouTube, though: In a speech at Google's developer conference last year, Wojcicki said she had been a strong proponent of Google's decision to buy YouTube for $ 1.65 billion in 2006, after seeing a user - uploaded video of kids lip - syncing to the Backstreet Boys get far more traffic on Google Video than the premium studio content for which she had helped cut deals.

In the worst case scenario, where the kid doesn't get any money for college, you always have the option of taking 4 years off from investing for retirement and plowing the money instead right out of your paycheck into school costs.

When I was a kid I did my farm chores and got an allowance from my dad for helping and depending on the year it might have been pretty small.

«The exceptional generosity and kindness from year to year is humbling and allows Marriott Vacations Worldwide to continue our commitment to help sick kids in Central Florida get better.»

For decades, parents have had an ace to play when it comes to their kids getting tattoos: «Do you really want that when you're 70 years old?»

After living in Asia for 12 years, where no one cared that I was not Christian, then coming back to the US and having people get in my face about Christianity and my kids belittled in school has got my furor up.

Reflecting on Kevin Kiley's article «Long Reads» at Inside Higher Ed, Erin O'Connor writes: Teaching high school for a year at a very interesting little Berkshire boarding school got me onto shared class reading projects — the kids I was teaching were very smart, but, like....

I fought for my kids to get money for years and now I am taking it into my own hands getting my Masters and will pull us out of poverty.

Truly, this is why I don't respond on blogs or forums anymore... as my fingers flew across the keyboard last night, with four kids reminding me to get back to new years... I expressed thoughts without proper explaination of what was going on in my head.

If you don't agree with Hogg's politics, there's no reason for an adult to taunt a 17 - year - old kid to millions of Twitter followers for not getting accepted to colleges he applied for.

I did my first meeting at 14... I'm now 32, got 2 kids a good job and I'm married to a beautiful caring women that has been sober for the last 5 years.

They know that, while there are no sure things, someone with a four - year college degree is much more likely to be in the labor force, be employed, get married, stay married, and keep their kids out of trouble.

Also could never figure out why 9 million children under the age of 5 die every year from simple causes like diarrhea in third world countries while archbishops are building 2 million dollar mansions and the Vatican has billions of dollars in art... think they could may get these kids some clean water and some vaccinations?

A standard ploy in our efforts to loosen up and stimulate the kids» imaginations is to get them wondering — like Ken — how it would feel to be some creature or thing they're not: steam shovel, garden hose, vacuum cleaner, wild horse, 100 - year - old turtle, old man on a park bench.

In fact, they fight in court for years to get their kids back.

My kids got almost 100 % on Sceinece SOL test this year.

If you want it so much then get the schools to allow kids a couple of days off each year to observe the holidays.

Other recent movies that emphasize 3 - D» from Robert Zemeckis» Beowulf and A Christmas Carol, the 2008 remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth, this year's Clash of the Titans remake, and the upcoming Shrek Forever After 3 - D, and even Martin Scorsese is getting into the game with a 3 - D version of the children's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret» are kid - marketed.

Such as — every kid gets 5 days off a year — to use at their discretion.

Harper told People magazine: «For years, I always wanted to be a parent, I thought, you know, you get married, you have kids.»

How can you be breast fed when the catholic church does not like birth control — if mom is popping them out every year for the first 6 kids say it is tough to get a breast?

The kids were getting older and it was kinda ridiculous to keep uprooting them every couple of years.

I couldn't get away with, all the others kids are doing it, when I was about 10 years old, so your reference to the government being just as bad or worse makes little sense.

However, it wasn't until my freshman year in college that I started getting blowback from jewish kids calling my own judaism into doubt because I didn't practice like they did.