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So there's a famous quote by Shakespeare from "The Winter's Tale" where he describes adolescence as follows: "I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting."

That could be any child who's got a cold, glue ear, an ear infection, even hay fever.

And the Essex study which has just been done in the U.K., which incidentally showed that when you do this, you do not just make a room that's suitable for hearing-impaired children, you make a room where behavior improves, and results improve significantly, this found that sending a child out of area to a school that does have such a room, if you don't have one, costs 90,000 pounds a year.

I knew my IQ because I had identified with being smart, and I had been called gifted as a child.

So after some guided trial and error, the child will discover, with or without help, that he or she can duplicate the original figure and then take the result, transpose it, glue it to the original and then proceed [with] what we did before: cut, rearrange, paste — oops— paste and glue, and tile.

So, in addition to learning some useful geometry, the child has been exposed to some pretty sophisticated science strategies, like reduction, which is the art of transforming a complex problem into a simple one, or generalization, which is at the heart of any scientific discipline, or the fact that some properties are invariant under some transformations.

And all this is something that a very young child can pick up using such mobile apps.

Not the ones for your kids, but the one you had as a child, where your parents come to school and your teacher talks to your parents, and it's a little bit awkward.

I will also add that this was a child being abused by an adult in the family.

But even though I know it's difficult to sit with those feelings in a room full of strangers, if we can find our way through all of the messy feelings, I believe we will find our way to the light of compassion for that child, whose relationship with her body was damaged by an adult whose job it was to protect it.

I mean, if I had had a broken leg or I was with child I would have been inundated, but all I got was a couple phone calls telling me to perk up.

If you ask about child tax credits, the future of the penguins in the south Antarctic, asked to hold forth on whether or not the developments in Chongqing contribute to sustainable development in carbon capture, and we will have an answer for you.

Having spent 18 years as a child of the state in children's homes and foster care, you could say that I'm an expert on the subject, and in being an expert, I want to let you know that being an expert does in no way make you right in light of the truth.

Harry Potter was a foster child.

It seems that writers know that the child outside of family reflects on what family truly is more than what it promotes itself to be.

— between these incredible characters of popular culture and religions, and the fostered, adopted or orphaned child in our midst?

The adoption papers were signed, the child was given to the adoptive parents, and the mother shipped back to her community to say that she'd been on a little break.

The adoption process took, like, a matter of months, so it was a closed shop, you know, sealed deal, an industrious, utilitarian solution: the government, the farmer, the adopting parents, the consumer, the mother, the earth, and the child, the crop.

So anyway, two years sort of passed, and they had a child of their own, and then another two years passed, and they had another child of their own, and then another time passed and they had another child that they called an accident, which I thought was an unusual name.

And this was the preparation that I was being given after 17 years as a child of the state.

But I'm reporting back to you to say quite simply that you can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats its child.

I mean the child of the state.

And I think that attachment, the third brain system, evolved to enable you to tolerate this human being at least long enough to raise a child together as a team.

There's a lot of gender differences; anybody who thinks men and women are alike simply never had a boy and a girl child.

This forming of the powerful attachment between child and parent provides the building blocks for physical, social, language, cognitive and psychomotor development.

It was hard to believe there were any children there at all, yet the director showed me into room after room, each containing row upon row of cots, in each of which lay a child staring into space.

If a child soils its nappy at 8:30, he will have to wait several hours before it can be changed again.

The child's daily contact with another human being is reduced to a few hurried minutes of feeding and changing, and otherwise their only stimulation is the ceiling, the walls or the bars of their cots.

Across all of these diverse lands and cultures, the institutions, and the child's journey through them, is depressingly similar.

Every child has the right to a family, deserves and needs a family, and children are amazingly resilient.

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