Once upon a time, a little girl lived in a tiny white house with her mom, dad, and older brother. Her father taught the little girl that, as long as they were together as a family, they'd be happy forever. ... While she grew up, she found friends who remained with her from elementary school to junior year of high school. ... The friends hung out at the local park and ate dinner together if it was late and they could all afford McDonald's. ... A tight group of friends also falls into the category of families without blood relation. ...

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Even though it gets me in trouble at times, my friends know they can count on me. All the late night conversations and adventures to friends' houses have enabled me to be who my friends need me to be. ... This also means my little know-it-all attitude has to go. ... After these past years' experiences, we have become best friends, because we are inseparable. ... I feel like I live a little more, and I let stuff roll off my back. ...

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A girl on the show, when asked about her friends, revealed that she hang out only with boys. Her mother explained that, when she was introducing her to friends and calling her "my little girl," the kid argued with her that she is in fact a boy "You have two boys mom, not a boy and a girl, " she replied. ... From the results could be inferred that the girl was prone to accept her as a boy and to accept boys as her friends A recent show on NBC Superchannel was dedicated to the problem of "tomboys" and "sissies." ... She revealed that all of her friends are boys. Her mother explained that whe...

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They married a little while after I was born. ... Now I live with my mom and my little brother, I am real close to my oldest half sibling she is my best friend. ... Then as I made friends and we started to get familiar, I realized that my friend's families were not all perfect. ... My other friends were raised in single family homes, raised by grandparents, aunts and uncles and some were adopted. ... We had a great relationship we were best friends. ...

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My sister and I would listen to our friends and how difficult it is for them to be fair and see each parent every other week. ... They went to counseling and little get-aways. ... Not only to my sister and me, but also to our family and friends that would come and visit. ... After a couple of weeks my sister and I started to realize what our friends were talking about all along. ... Everyday little things happen where I learn a valued lesson. ...

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i) Elaine's behavior is changing - just when Michelle adjusted to her sleeping, she is now waking up at night ii) Baby has stopped taking bottles - While at work Michelle feels guilt knowing her baby is at home hungry iii) More time getting ready in am - 1.5 hrs more b) Stress being a wife - husband has new job i) More job responsibilities at work for husband ii) Works additional hours at home iii) More difficult for husband c) Grad student - thesis hanging over her head i) Works over 40 hours between office & home ii) Owes boss over 100 hours due to maternity leave iii) Little ...

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At school the rambunctious boy gets dirty, plays baseball while his sister and her friends, in little skirts, play house with dolls, a miniature stove, washing machine and car. When he masturbates, he is told it is ok, when she, at six, is caught under the bed with one of her boy friends, the column in the paper says it is just a stage. ... The man at the planetarium says that human evens "seem episodes of little consequence" in the vastness of the galaxy. ... The seeds, little at first, of what would become the sixties, the children that would, in college, wear flowers in their hair and da...

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"Go for your dreams, my little princess. ... " As time went on, little did I realise that this world is that rosy all the time. ... " Po Po gave me a smile and said, "Sshhhh, do not cry, my little princess. ... Her friends were her neighbours, whom from young were hooked into drugs and prostitution. ... Many thought that she would either be a prostitute like her childhood friends or a gambler like her mum but she proved all of them wrong. ...

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Our identity is formed from all the influences we have around us like people we talk to or our friends or anyone that might be older than us whether they are successful in life or not. ... Well based on my self-esteem on my weight and having to be careful about it looking at them and comparing myself does make me think a little bad about myself when I know I shouldn't feel that way. ... Thanks to my mom I'm described as a caring generous guy by my friends and people that I talk to or help out. ... Like I can say I do get mad for the smallest things, I let little things bother me a lo...

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The adolescent world is a more independent one, more separated and distant from parents, more self-sufficient, where friends have become favored companions, and where the major locus of one's social life now extends outside of family into a larger world of life experience"(Pickhardt) Without this trust that is gain and shown by the parent to each other, the child will not know how to build trust with others. ... Friends can be harder to make for them and companionships will be tougher to build. ... "Parents do not have to be friends after divorce, being considerate and busines...

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My two other siblings helped my mom and dad a lot because they wanted a little attention. ... The only problem my parents had when I was born is that they had two other kids to take care of then I came and it was a little more work than they thought they can handle. ... I liked every school I went to when growing up, even here in America because I had my other Arabic friends to help me. Though, when I first attended school in the US it was a little difficult, because I didn't know how to speak the English language. As the first school year went by I started speaking English properly a...

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The chronosystem is a little harder define, this refers to how the environment is not constant it is ever changing, and the chronosystem is the temporal changes in a childs environment, that produce new conditions that will effect his/hers development. ... Now once they get older and go to school and start spending time at friends houses, etc they start to notice that hey most of them have two parents, and usually do not like that they are different." ... I felt nothing was wrong until I started hanging out at friends and felt the loss of not having a dad. ... Once I started noticing inter...

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It didn't matter where she was going, whether if it was going to the grocery store or just going to the mall with her friends. ... During the weekend we would always have a get together with some of our family friends. ... My little sister Emilia and I ended up staying over at our aunt Margarita's house for a couple of weeks. ... I have to make sure certain standards are made for my little sister hoping she makes the right choices in life like the way Rosa did for me. ...

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I was the only red head in my class, and in my whole school for a little while in elementary. ... When I was little my mother would have to put a bonnet on me to go to the grocery store because all of the older people just couldn't keep their hands off my "beautiful red hair". ... Everyone always said I had my dad wrapped right around my finger, meaning I could get just about anything from him I wanted because I was daddy's little girl. ... We met in Kindergarten, and instantly became best friends. ...

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With this, Amy Tan touches on an obscure, little discussed issue, which is the divergence of Chinese culture through American children born of Chinese immigrant parents. ... Byron would insult his mother and make rude comments about her in front of his friends. ... Blaming her family for a miserable life, Adele runs away from home to go live in her boyfriend's apartment, seeking to find friends that could replace her family. ...

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I started dinner and fed my little brothers. ... That night I didn't sleep because I knew my mom would be calling him and asking if I could stay with her for a little while. ... No one except for a few of my friends knew my secret and I knew that I could trust them not to tell anyone. ... So when my family and friends asked why I wasn't having a birthday party I told them that I didn't want one. ... My friends from school would come by on the weekends to see her and they would spend the whole day asking me questions and playing with her. ...

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By telling her - she had to help Grandma so we both could eat- (Dash, 32), the little girl thought that this is a way of earning money for food. ... But finally one of his friends also introduced him to heroin. ... When Rosa Lees brought home her costumers, they used to have sex in the same bed Patty was sleeping in as a little child. ... The little girl was thus introduced into shoplifting as an easy and cheap way to get new clothes. One day, Bobby and some of his friends broke into a music store and stole expensive instruments. ...

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She wrote "to family and friends asking them to help her however they could. ... "She was still young enough to enjoy partying, dancing and being noticed by men "and noticing them back "much to the chagrin of her family and friends who ended up watching the boys so many nights " (19). ... Wes knew what a real man looked like, and could model himself after his father, even if he remembered very little about him. ... Tony, by contrast, was desperately trying to give his little brother information he thought he needed, the kind of information that Tony never got " (27). ...

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By the turnout of all the fundraisers combined we raised enough money for each person in our youth group to go on the trip for free and also with a little bit of spending money. ... During the march, I walked with five others in my youth group, all whom were fairly close friends of mine. ... I learned to uphold and support the culture of life that all life needs to be respected including family, friends, classmates and everyone that I meet. ...

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He sneaks out on weekends and week days with lies about going to movies with friends and a camping trip to pursue his knew faith. ... This a problem that many postmodern parents are having, because they were friends with their children at a earlier age, the children will not listen to their parents once they start trying to tell them what they can, and cannot do (Elkind). ... Eliza was expected to entertain herself while the rest of the family did what was best for their needs, instead of thinking of spending a little time and attention with her (Elkind, 1994). ...

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Once I got out of treatment I decided to lose contact with all of my old friends. ... Just as any teenager would I still wanted to hang out with my friends, and go to the school dances. ... I doubt they look at me and still see that little girl anymore. ...

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A physical move may be in order once the parents no longer live together, resulting in a loss of contact with family, friends, classmates and a familiar environment. ... At the age of eleven my parents decided that they no longer were going to live together as a couple, but rather as friends. ... I was scared of switching schools, I was scared of losing all of my friends, but I think most importantly I was scared o losing one of my parents. ... The truth is I have very little if any trust in him but I continue to have a desire for a close, healthy relationship with him. ...

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She is at the Plaza playing bridge with friends. ... One of his friends/associates mentions his drinking habit saying: "You may be slow in starting, but there's nobody faster coming down the homestretch." ... A little taller. A little more polished than the others." ... It's never been anything else...So obviously, your friends picked up the wrong package when they bundled me out here in the car...I told you I'm not Kaplan, whoever he is!" ...

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As resistant as she is, he pays little attention to her actions; he is more concerned with her attitude. ... The two female friends she spends most of her time with in this story also serve as two polar opposite female archetypes. ... Even today, one must admit that condoning the way she acts is a little hard to do. ...

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A few old ladies come in, in the morning and his friends come over in the afternoon and he plays cards with them in the back. ... He would send his runner to Italy on a shrimp boat called Little Italy. ... He had everyone involved in the molasses run no one would search Little Italy but papa still didn't trust anyone. ...

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