grown-up

If I could bring one gift to all the grown ups this Christmas, it would be more smiles and laughter.

Suddenly a little boy pushed his way through the grown-up legs and sat down by the window. He was all alone among the unfriendly grown-ups.

Many of the children Ms Evans sees do not want to talk at all, regarding grown-ups as untrustworthy or irrelevant.

Holding my nose seemed at first to be the only way forward, which isn't a very practical solution, for grown-ups, at least.

A generation of reluctant grown ups is raising children, caring for aging parents and beginning to think about retirement.

Never had I eaten spaghetti, and none of the grown-ups had enough experience to be good at it.

What shocked us is the fact that this little girl never thought to ask grown-ups for help when she was in trouble.

He'd close the door, leave me to wonder why it was always grown-ups? time with him. I'd sit by the door, knees drawn to my chest.

It was hard not to feel a bit nostalgic for the days when grown-ups were in charge.

Sure. And not the black-and-white kind either. We'll probably be grown-ups by then, but I'll get us two. One for you and one for me.

But the best part of Back-to-Front Day was the evening because that was when the children put the grown ups to bed very early.

"The grown-ups are certainly very odd, " he said to himself, as he continued on his journey.

As he pointed out about another work, "The Witches" , it was "a book for children and I don't give a bugger what grown-ups think about it" .

For friends comments here, i think most of them are grown-ups, social experienced, beginning to understand the world in a deeper manner.

But a sign came down from the world of grown-ups, though at the time there was no child awake to read it.

But we're all grown-ups and if I wake up in the night and want a coke or an orange juice I should be able to do that.

Browse the grown ups' selection too: it's good for your kids to see you're interested in books.

My Drawing Number One. It looked like this: I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

But then producers began to shift strategy, moving away from extravaganzas towards leaner musicals and straight plays for grown-ups.

Leaning over close to Bonnie's nose , Evey grinned , smoke leaking through her teeth , and said , " Only for grown ups , honey . "

The one time I see grown ups with that same sort of look on their faces is when they're just at first falling in love.

While Mrs. Brent made coffee and brought out some cake, the grown-ups told all the stories they had ever heard about this monster.

And no grown-ups will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance !

"It's a way for grown-ups to dress in a cute and young way, " she said.

And in May the House of Lords halted passage of a bill that would have given doctors some scope to help grown ups to die.

Learning by direct sharing in the pursuits of grown-ups becomes increasingly difficult except in the case of the less advanced occupations.

The grown-ups applauded after the children had finished their performance.

She's at home, sleeping. This is a special tour, only for you, because it's your birthday. Besides, grown-ups don't do this sort of thing.

I would like to, if the juvenile is still alive, as grown-ups, the kind of life how to live.

She listened, then said the usual things grown-ups say to comfort a child.

In his words, "if grown-ups really have superior brains, why don't we act as if we do? "

The reason why grown-ups are slowly washed out by the times is not the increasing age but the decreasing passion of learning.

Grown-ups all say, 'A year's plan starts with spring. ' In such a lovely season, there should be much fun, hey, are you ready?

but we're grown-ups, you know, let's agree to disagree. . .

He had called for voters to be treated like "grown-ups" over the fiscal tightening to come.

You want your outdoor greenscapes to beckon to you, to appeal to the kids, grown ups, cats and other wild creatures in your life.

Hi! I am from Israel. At my birthday party, the grown-ups raise me up into the air and back down, again.

On matters of consequence, the little prince had ideas which were very different from those of the grown-ups.

As(he was)a boy, he liked playing table tennis with the grown-ups.

This has turned out a whole generation of grown-ups who seldom cook a meal for themselves.

This book is to remind grown-ups that we have an Inner Child who wants to be playful.

Grown-ups are bothered by my face, but children don't seem to mind.

It was like a first date, a new phase, the start of being proper grown-ups.

The trick in making a family film. . . is finding ways to interest grown-ups without boring, confusing, or grossing out the younger set.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand . And that has's much improved my opinion of them.

The grown-ups had coffee, but the children wanted milk instead of coffee.

And rather than feeding voters infantile advertisements peddling childish certainties, politicians should treat voters like grown-ups.

The grown-ups kept shouting "Henry" in the fading afternoon, in the half-light of dusk, in the cool and starry night.

Electronic games don't have many effects on grown-ups but affect students a great deal.

It's a bit like trick-or-treating -- but for grown-ups and featuring wanton destruction.

Through play with the blocks, grown ups can introduce kids to architecture, history, mathematics and science with memorable results.

The same life, in children's eyes, will present pleasures and happiness which we grown-ups can never imagine.

They are suddenly beset with life's difficult questions, and are all trying, unsuccessfully, to be grown ups.

But they were card-carrying grown-ups with laptops and spreadsheets returning from sales meetings and seminars.

The place is filled with grown-ups when he arrives, old friends drinking beer.

As grown ups, we've lost this childlike sense of life. And that's actually a sad thing.

In different countries around the world, people become grown-ups at different ages.

Then both babies and grown-ups break into a series of complicated dance moves.

Lots of what the grown-ups tell them is true and based on evidence, or at least sensible.

Available in different flavors, shapes and sizes, chocolates are a favourite Thanksgiving gift among children and even grown ups.

Grown ups and children who spent the whole day in the streets earning a living were the most likely to get cwt in summer downpours.

Some of them are worse than you've suspected-- in ways that make "bad" grown ups you've known before look less significant.

Because if they kept files on grown-ups, it would be a different story, wouldn't it?

Sometimes I think we parents must sound like the grown-ups in the Charlie Brown specials, all "WahWahWah. "

Grown-ups understand that a free ride is an occasional nice surprise, not a way of life.

I handed her my boots and stuck out my foot. Like most children, I expected grown-ups to do all the work.

At the beginning we made an oath that as grown-ups we should have a sense of responsibility for our society.

In a financial crisis, central banks must be the grown-ups.

Maria: Everybody's children are so special. It makes you wonder where all the ordinary grown-ups come from.

It's enough for me , I can't stand grown-ups chattering in front of me .

For many , that piece of paper is an important symbol that they are now grown-ups .

(Ben nods. ) Well, believe it or not, a lot grown-ups feel the same way about work.

College students are mostly grown-ups and their parents do not have the duty to support them.

So the big question for U. S. -China relations right now is, Are the grown ups really in charge?

The grown-ups, to be sure, will not believe you when you tell them that.

Meanwhile, our qualifications are being laughed at over polished table-tops by grown-ups in stiff suits and beads or cufflinks.

Kids can be kids and grown-ups can restore in the glamorous spa, or dine overlooking the ocean.

Why do kids learn math when they could just use calculators like the grown ups?

Go to bed now and let the grown-ups have a little time to themselves.

"Really? " she interrupted, "there's none in the card catalog. Zero! Ridiculous! Aren't there any grown-ups who work here? "

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to have to explain things to them always and forever.

The same goes for grown-ups: money becomes associated with work and work can be dull, tedious and painful.

Are we as grown-ups still able to memorize words?

"Students are grown-ups, " she says. "We rely on them to make a whole host of decisions on their own. "

" Concurrency for grown-ups" explains that there's a lot more to multi-tasking than just threading.

American parents must also square the circle of ultra-short holidays for grown-ups and absurdly long ones for kids.

Playing with bricks is said to enhance motor skills, creativity and other things that grown-ups fuss about.

They were, after all, schoolchildren playing at being grown ups.

Yet many classmates and grown-ups know less than you do about your field of interest.

When we were little, grown ups would not allow us to talk freely.

There's a book out this week, Homework for Grown-Ups: Everything You Learned at School and Promptly Forgot.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves , and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them .

From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd.

Parents fret that youngsters grow up too fast; children complain that grown-ups refuse to grow old.

In fact cartoons and comics are also for grown-ups, people need this kind of relaxing and happy pastime.

Especially the grown-ups, feeling for the Spring Festival, usually willing to eat delicacies all out, placed in the moonlight.

Journalists are hardly ever grown-ups, and neither are entrepreneurs.

Like most children, I expected grown-ups to do all the work.

To grown-ups, he is a special symbol of good will and selfless giving.

Interview kids, teens or grown ups or do one yourself, asking: When has a story really changed you?

Learning between grown ups and kids should be reciprocal.

There is a moment, though, when the inner critic just hasto shut his stupid little mouth and let the grown-ups talk.

Any one of the boys can do what the two grown-ups are doing.

"Unlike teenagers, these grown-ups don't have parents who can drag them to counselors, " Dr. Ha said.

She wants to wear tight-fitting costumes to imitate grown-ups expose sexy dance.

then knock on each house with Jack-o-lanterns, asking for Halloween gifts from grown-ups.

This year, however, more freshmen are choosing to prove their *self-reliance as grown-ups from their very first day as college students.

There's a moral question, for grown-ups who pride themselves on honesty and openness.

I see nearly as many films about grown-ups from France alone as from mainline Hollywood studios.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, grown ups usually give red envelopes to children.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, grown ups usually give red envelopes to children.

Grown-ups are not attracted to watching cartoons anymore.

All grown-ups were once children -- although few of them remember it.

I know what it is to be in a room, as a 21-year-old, with a bunch of grown ups.

Yes, well, sometimes when grown ups say "forever, " they mean "a very long time. "

There is adult supervision so parents can scan the grocery aisles without having to rush, and there are high- tech toys for grown- ups too.

As a result, the Shrek series has shrewdly played to children as well as grown-ups.

These cute, easy egg animals are fun to make for both kids and grown-ups.

Children, like grown-ups, stop listening when they've heard enough.

"I like nasty things better than nice things, " said Jessica, with such a prunes and prisms of dictionthat all the grown-ups had to laugh.

All grown- ups were once children, but few of them could remember it!

Grown-ups will also enjoy the music, which includes songs by Green Day and other rock bands.

I think it's safe to say that kids look at things a lot differently than us grown-ups.

It's impolite to interrupt the conversation of grown-ups.

Yes, children need grown-ups, but they need other kids more.

Christmas Movies: For the Grown-Ups!

Fighting with colleagues is what people in positions of authority (grown-ups) do.

Perhaps Big Boss hates "grown-ups" because he hates other people telling him what to do?

Second, grown-ups I didn't know came in to buy groceries, for the first time exposing me to adults who weren't relatives.

Had I now joined the ranks of grown-ups who were never juvenile?

That is the military service which all the Taiwan male grown-ups have to encounter.

Why do children believe in fairies, but "grown-ups" don't?

From grown-ups to toddlers, we're a sleep-deprived nation.

Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups.

Most of us grown-ups are seriously fun-deprived.

grown-ups talking about grown-up things.

Pop culture is full of clowns creating all kinds of anxiety among grown-ups as well as children.

The world then was divided into two groups, grown ups and kids.

Students in colleges tend to think they are already grown-ups who're responsible for what they can do and what they want to do.

He pushes the shopping cart. He just has to copy everything grown-ups do.

Sandy: Don't grown-ups do boring things, Sue?

Grown-ups with their little ones, enjoying every minute.

There is much in the play of children which grown-ups cannot get into touch with.

The baby boomers are all grown-ups now.

Grown-ups already know all those words, and they find them boring and unpleasant.

Many children and grown ups think that Santa's study with the fireplace is the nicest room of Santa's Main Post Office.

Sadly, the same can't be said for some grown ups.

At 13. I was making more money than most of the grown-ups in the neighborhood.

Nor do I think grown-ups are an altogether bad thing.

I like the main living areas of our home to feel like grown ups live here and not just little people.

No. You can never count on the grown-ups when there is something.

And there are high tech toys for grown ups , too.

After exploring the teenage brain, why did you decide to write a book about grown-ups?

So how do all these grown-ups manage to get through it?

Stop lying to me. I am sick of grown-ups lying to me.

And how grown-ups are born.

It's a pincer movement that can induce panic in grown-ups, even when we think we've got over ourselves.

I am sure the ceremony is very important for us. From then on we will know our responsibilities as grown-ups.

Never use foul language in front of adults. Grown-ups alreadyknow all those words, and they find them boring andunpleasant.

It can also mean convincing your parents, bankers, and other grown-ups to take you seriously.

These are skills that kids and grown-ups will need in the 21st century world.

We are grown-ups now, but we miss our childhood very much.

But this is also a book for grown-ups.

I can remember summer nights when we'd put down what we called the Baptist pallet, and we listened to the grown-ups talk.

Ross: Yes, yes, fine, that is my penis. Can we be grown-ups now?

Yes, yes, fine, that is my penis. Can we be grown-ups now?

The Investigation and Analysis of the Opinions of Grown-ups in Qinhuangdao on Physical Consumption

A Brief Discussion on the Urgency of the "Spiritual Grown-ups" of the University Students

Out of misery, we surely will be the rank of grown-ups;

Noticing the Community Correction of Grown-ups Under Age by Known Imbalance

just to show what grown-ups and tough guys they were

My View of Grown-ups Correspondence Education

Grown-ups preaching about the evils of drugs

the effect of childhood events on the health of grown-ups

Harry Potter and the sad Grown-ups

I know that grown-ups are supposed to make good decisions, but sometimes we make mistakes

The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups