Sentences with phrase «young school kids»

Before «The Hunger Games» novels became a YA phenomenon, there was this Japanese movie that looks at a future where young school kids are ordered to take part in a killing tournament that ends when one person is left alive.

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And in September, at about the first Wednesday after Labour Day, they «go haywire,» as parents with young kids scramble to readjust to a new school year.

As we all remember from our younger years, high school can be pretty brutal on less popular kids.

Setting strict limits on screen time during the school week (or even banning screens entirely for younger kids)

But that is the case for Jakob Sperry, who along with six other young inventors recently presented their work at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering as part of Kid Inventor's Day, an event hosted by 3 - D design and engineering software maker Autodesk.

When we were raising our young kids at home, we would try to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, just for the experience of it all — gingerbread house kits at Christmas, school projects on the kitchen table, taco night with all the fixings prepped in bowls.

Kenney hasn't chosen thus far to do that, and in his only statement raised the straw man that this gay - straight alliance legislation could affect kids as young as five — though the clubs are essentially for junior high and high schools, not kindergarteners in any context anybody imagines.

«They still want good restaurants, but now it's also about space, affordability and being able to send their kids to a good public school,» said Paternite, 45, who said that about 70 percent of her business now comes from young families who are making the move from Brooklyn or Manhattan.

Among younger ones, the percentage staying in school has remained around 1 %, with no discernible trend, notwithstanding anecdotes of kids going to grad school while employment opportunities are scarce.

you went to school, now you were The Old Guy, surrounded by young kids moaning about their work load for studying.

knew a kid when i was young, got molested, the parents and the school made it out to sound like it was the kids fault.

Through both the training at the school and the shows they put on, Byer wants to introduce young kids to theater and dance.

Older and married (or widowed) that could be good role models for the younger women to get their kids in the Sunday School programs.

«When we were young and went to school, there were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they could, by pouring their derision upon everything they did, exposing every weakness no matter how carefully hid by the kid.

When I was a kid, we sang Sunday School songs about Joshua and the Battle of Jericho that never mentioned the fact that the Israelites «utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.»

Well, all last year we had a non-profit group that took young kids for a couple hours after school and did crafts and stuff with them, nothing religious, until parents got home from work.

With 3 young kids I am finding the transition very hard (especially with snacks to send to school when I am an avid baker) and am constantly worried that not just the children but also my husband and I are missing out on important minerals and vitamins etc..

This recipe is a great party activity and snack for young elementary school kids.

My kid - focused brain knows that this weekend signals the 2 - week mark until my youngest graduates from elementary school and officially becomes a middle schooler.

I was in Kindergarten, and my elementary school organized two Easter egg hunts: one for the older kids in 2nd through 4th grade, and one for the younger kids in 1st grade and below.

The travel, the flights, the 5 a.m.s, all that stuff is a grind and you have to be mentally tough and to throw a young high school kid down in here.

We are seeking high school volunteers to coach and help younger kids learn the basic skills of volleyball.

Putting the biggest match of the QF on a Monday when the fans have to work and young kids have school.

Those kids are famous and their reactions to your school / town get noticed by other recruits (in the same class and the younger guys).

I'm a 37 year old father of 2 young kids, one of whom is on the severe side of the autism spectrum, and I dread the day when they each enter into the latter years of elementary school when bullying starts to become an issue.

Meanwhile, the dude is opening up a new school for at - risk kids in his hometown of Akron and blocking shots like a young Dikembe Mutombo.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

Young people are often called, with much truth,» snowflakes» by we older people — let alone older football fans — who lived when times were tougher and kids were not pampered and forbidden to do everyday things at school and elsewhere, lest they hurt themselves.

We've raised our kids to young adulthood and we've spent the majority of those 18 years focusing on those kids — homework, sports, musical recitals, after - school activities, orthodontist appointments.

Building independence in children and young people Building emotional intelligence Parenting and teaching anxious kids Parenting, teaching and technology Building strong family - school partnerships Parenting and teaching kids on the autism spectrum Enriching school engagement with parents Parenting for resilience

We actually were disinclined to send our kids to a K - 12 institution because we wanted a smaller environment for them in their younger years, and then the option for them to move to a larger institution for high school.

I must still get up and feed the kids breakfast, send two of them off to school and then some how entertain the two younger ones.

With older kids back at school, it's a good time to take younger children when the nature centers are less crowded.

And to me, that «s the proof in the pudding: not a quiet home or well - behaved toddlers, or preschoolers with consistently good table manners or school kids who always speak respectfully, or teenagers who never lash out or young adults who never make mistakes, but a family in which everybody is encouraged to be the best possible version of him or herself.

Not a baby rookie now, but there are lots of rookie things I'd love to learn about with older kids: * Packing peanut - free school lunches * Getting dinner on the table every night (have loved this series) * Crafts that older sibling and younger sibling can do together

and our faves around here are «Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood» (seems to be a favorite of all the kids no matter what their ages are) «Arthur» (great for preschoolers and early grade schoolers), and «Super Why» (great for the younger set learning their alphabet and letters, but older toddlers / preschoolers seem bored by it).

Especially with younger kids, explain how a nutritious lunch will give them energy to finish the rest of the schoolday and enjoy after - school activities.

As a former Elementary school teacher, Baby Gourmet Co-Founder Jill Vos was an avid collector of children's books, so her kids were exposed to books at a very young age.

In addition, school - aged kids may like this clothing - related craft; I loved my Fashion Plates when I was young.

For some reason, grade schools tend to make kids feel like they can't be friends with other kids who are older or younger than them.

A simple idea in college motivated a group of 17 - 21 year old women to earn top grades on campus, so I'm thinking this could really work for younger kids as a reward system or as extra inspiration in school work.

School - age kids — especially younger ones — need a bit of time to go from one thing to another, whether it's going from one place to another or going to sleep.

I find it bad enough that kids start school so young in the UK.

Kelley Kitley, owner of Serendipitous Psychotherapy in Chicago, says that it's important to talk to kids as young as 5 in a general sense about sex because that's the age when they're exposed to other children at school.

Later, when our second son was born, I worked part time a few days a week, relying on the help of the lovely young woman, a former nanny who lived in our rental until and watched the boys in exchange for reduced rent while she went to school to become a hair stylist, until I got a job that I could do at home, as the editor of a kids» newspaper.

Great for preschoolers and younger school - age kids.

As a young girl, I always wanted my mom to buy this Nestle Strawberry powder that other kids at school were mixing into milk.

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Some kids mature faster and can handle the responsibility at a younger age; other kids may not be ready until they're in high school.

When my kids were young, I was often frustrated with how to help my kids deal with difficult situations at school, or how to help them cope better when they were under stress.