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As early as childhood, emotional neglect, exposure to violence, bullying and racism all impact your telomeres, and the effects are long-term.
Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-five, he hops back and forth between a childhood trip to the Grand Canyon, his life as a middle-aged optometrist, his captivity in an intergalactic zoo, the humiliations he endured as a war prisoner, and more.
See, being a survivor myself of police brutality and having lost a childhood friend, Alonzo Ashley, at the hands of the police, I had a little something to say about the topic.
Parents are very worried that this device is going to stunt their children's social growth; that it's going to keep them from getting up and moving; that somehow, this is going to disrupt childhood.
One of the children was old enough to realize that the way his nanny was being treated was wrong, and he gave her the money that he had been saving through his childhood to help her escape.
When something big in our life happens, like a traumatic childhood event, stress hormones flood our brain.
Your childhood certainly plays a role, but nobody knows how.
She'd tell me about her early childhood and how she was feeling now.
This painting brought me back to my childhood.
And, actually, it did make sense, because ever since my childhood, each letter in the alphabet has a different color, and colors bring me flavors.
All throughout my childhood, as I rolled bidis alongside my mother, I would wonder: What did my future hold?
Thereafter, she has one baby only every five or six years, a long period of childhood dependency when the child is nursing, sleeping with the mother at night, and riding on her back.
And we believe that this long period of childhood is important for chimpanzees, just as it is for us, in relation to learning.
And, but we were still a long ways from, you know, answering a question which sort of dominated my childhood, which is: How do you nature-nurture?
I was the first of eight children, and I spent my childhood helping my mother cook, clean, farm and take care of my siblings.
FGM was supposed to mark the end of my childhood and, by extension, my education.
You probably have heard childhood stories of different birds and how they relate with man.
Most of my childhood was spent playing with Legos.
Born in 1960 to a Haitian father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat spent his childhood making art and mischief in Boerum Hill.
So in the end that powerful ambition that had carried Lincoln through his bleak childhood had been realized.
As part of our personal professional development plan, we studied the research of Dr. Bruce Perry and his research on the effects of different childhood experiences on the developing child's brain.
We all know that in childhood, boys tend to be taller than girls, but go into any elementary school classroom, and you'll find some girls who are taller than some boys.
By the time those two kids are 35 years old, if the first child spent her entire childhood living in poverty, she is up to 75 times more likely to be poor herself.
And over the past 30 years, researchers have found that it predicts all kinds of good things in childhood and beyond, like social skills, academic achievement, mental and physical health, making money, saving money and even staying out of jail.
So that whole thing, that whole childhood echoes and takes me into the next piece.
Wilson wrote a great book called "Naturalist," about his childhood.
And in lieu of gifts, they each brought a favorite memory from their childhood to share with the table.
And, you see, this era coincided with my own childhood.
I choose rainbows and unicorns and glitter, and I sing that it's OK to be gay with my childhood stuffed teddy bear.
So, I want to start out with this beautiful picture from my childhood.
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