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Actually, I'm on holiday with my family in Thailand at the moment, although I wish it were with my friends instead.

All the surveys found that people mixed up names within relationship groups such as grandchildren, friends and siblings but hardly ever crossed these boundaries.

And I'm going to miss all my friends here, and especially this place.

He could not watch television except for two programs a week, could not play with his friends after school until he finished his homework, and had to read two books a week and write book reports about them.

I had a really good stay here, and I'd like to recommend your hotel to my friends and colleagues.

I meet my friends for dinner.

In 1977, when he was 17 years old, James Terry Roach and two friends cruelly murdered three people.

In some cases, schools should help children find new, more grown-up ways of doing the same things that are constant sources of joy: making art, making friends, making decisions.

Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening.

Now our furry friends don't really experience romantic love, like in the movies, but they can form deep and lasting bands with their fellow dogs as well as humans.

Roughly the size of a soda can, sitting on a bookshelf, a relatively harmless gadget may be turning friends away from your home.

She looked at the list of over 500 friends she had on Facebook and realized some of them were not really friends at all.

Should you tell your friends, for instance, that they 're being recorded while you all watch the big game together?

That is why being self-aware, investing in broader networks of friends, and being open to new ideas will become even more crucial skills.

That means we need modest, realistic expectations, and we need to teach people to cook food that's good enough to share with family and friends.

That's when Addison and her friends Erika and Emily Borden decided to sell lemonade for 50 cents a cup and sell pictures for 25 cents each.

The study, published online in April in the journal Memory and Cognition, found that the "wrong" name is not random but is invariably fished out from the same relationship pond: children, siblings, friends.

These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

They use drugs with friends or at parties to get into the mood of things.

Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year-old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbe

This is the start of a new adventure for children—playing and interacting with new friends, sharing, taking turns and settling into a new routine.

To have a meaningful, happy life we need friends.

When babies expectations are violated in experiments like the ones performed with the cats, they react much like their animal friends.

Friends and other veterans of the process have warned Meg that the back and forth between editing parent and writing student can be traumatic (痛苦的).

Technology has cut out much of life's donkey work, and we have more freedoms than ever: we can wear what we like and communicate with hundreds of friends at once at the click of a mouse

survey, about half the teens polled said that their cell phone hadimproved their communication with friends.

They allow young people to exchange moment-by-moment experiences in their daily lives with special partners and thus to have a more continuous sense of connection with friends

For example, if a little boy's male friends are punished for crying, he will learn that "boys don't cry.

On occasions it is the fear that certain disclosures may be unacceptable to family or friends that motivates an individual to seek professional help.

Writer friends of mine pay good money to get the Freedom software that enables them to disable the very Internet connections that seemed so emancipating not long ago

Two friends of mine observe an "Internet sabbath（安息日）"every week, turning off their online connections from Friday night to Monday morning.

Other friends take walks and "forget" their cellphones at home

I don't attend services when I am there, and I have never meditated, there or anywhere; I just take walks and read and lose myself in the stillness, recalling that it is only by stepping briefly away from my wife and bosses and friends that I will have anything useful to bring to them.

The author takes walks and reads and loses himself in the stillness of the hermitage so that he can bring his wife and bosses and friends around him anthing valuable

It may seem obvious, but it's no longer enough simply to do business with our friends and neighbors here at home.

Amusa, who is traveling to India this spring to finish a book, then to Senegal to teach English, has ongoing conversations with her friends about how the Obama presidency has changed their daily lives and hopes to put some of those ideas, along with her global perspective, into her posts.

Oh, Julie invited her friends over in the afternoon and they ate it all.

The testimony of his two friends.

People who lack close friends have greater levels of anxiety and depression than people who are close to others.

According to the researchers, the participants' phones apparently substituted for real friends.

All those things are true, but aside from him, all his friends and family are played by actors.

Apparently, we look down on acquaintances more so than friends.

As constant travelers and parents of a 2-year-old, we sometimes fantasize about how much work we can do when one of us gets on a plane, undistracted by phones, friends, or movies.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented d

But we also found little interest in civic life beyond the tight circles of their family and immediate friends.

Each day of Kwanzaa, usually before the evening meal, family and friends gather around the table and someone lights a candle, beginning with the black.

For example, years when people spent more time with friends were better years for well-being and followed by better years.

Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow explains that when people feel the pressure to be always "on,"they find ways to accommodate that pressure, including altering their schedules, work habits and interactions with family and friends.

It is fine and healthy for teens to cultivate their personal interests, and it is good news when young people enjoy harmonious relations with their family and friends.

It wasn't until I entered the corporate world that I realized, for me at least, being friends with colleagues didn't emerge as a priority at all.

Londoner Rachel Taylor joined the campaign with the aim of making new friends.

Most teens say they enjoy the company of both parents and friends.

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of "Friends", a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

Now some experts are proposing that we should take advantage of the teen brain's keen sensitivity to the presence of friends and leverage it to improve education.

One prevalent quality we have found in teens' statements about themselves, their friends and their families is a strikingly positive emotional tone.

Parents of teenagers often view their children^ friends with something like suspicion.

Participation grows through friends and networks and if "you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action" and bring in other students, he said.

The technology, your boss, and your friends, all influence how often you find yourself using or overusin these gadgets.

There are four parties conspiring to keep you connected: the tech, your boss, your friends and you.

They did use an invitation-only photo sharing platform so that friends and family, including those far away, could see the photos, but they stood firm, simply refusing to put their child's photos on other social media platforms.

This was found across measures like self-esteem, life satisfaction, happiness and satisfaction with individual domains like job, neighborhood, or friends.

We've only been working together the last six months, but we quickly became good friends.

When an exhausted student goes to school, he risks hurting everyone on the road with his impaired driving; he doesn't have the cognitive resources to do well on his English test; he has lower self-control with his friends; and at home, he is moody with hi

When college students were reminded of a time they had been excluded in a social setting, they compensated by exaggerating their number of friends—unless they were first given tasks that caused them to interact with their phone as if it had human qualitie

When I re-entered the full-time workforce a few years ago after a decade of solitary self-employment, there was one thing I was looking forward to the most: the opportunity to have work friends once again.

You will make interesting friends, but you need only keep the friends who respect your student commitments.

Your friends are also responsible for the addiction.

At the beginning, when friends offered to take her through her paces, I declined because I knew they had their own households to deal with.

Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, miss.

Before the school year ended, I gave the kids a special gift, t-shirts with the words "verbs are your friends" on them.

But unlike school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term resting.

But when you share a story with your friends, you care a lot more how they react.

By then, Steve was having a hard time remembering the names of some of his friends.

Can I go out with friends, dad?

Cathy didn't expect any award but was still there to cheer on her friends and praise their accomplishments.

Enjoy yourselves while learning about web design and make new friends in the club.

Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their big apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion.

Help them to make more friends.

Her friends came to help her when the war broke out.

Her friends didn't offer any help.

However, there's only so much that prep books, websites, and older friends can teach.

However, they still did not know how to cope with mean-spirited jokes, or the sense of incompetence they might feel if they compared themselves to celebrities or more brilliant friends online.

I love coming here and seeing my family and all the friends I have made over the years.

In cities all over the world, people go to cafés to relax alone or with friends.

It enabled her make more friends.

It really annoys me when Kate calls her friends during office hours.

Many of Natalie's friends had lost their homes and were living far away.

My entire family is hearing, and so are all my friends.

My nature-loving friends had remembered to bring all the necessities of life.

On his 80th birthday, I sent him a letter, noting the things we all should be thankful for — good health, good friends and good outcomes.

On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner.

Over a third of mums felt they needed more training and around half said they missed going out with friends.

People, in general, are less warm here and it's hard to make friends.

Professors are not trained nurses, financial aid experts or your best friends.

She said: " children are using social media with family and friends and to play games when they are in primary school.

She was highly self-critical and also found fault with her friends.

So she hired a truck to bring all the books to the houses of friends in the suburbs.

Some friends had lost their lives.

Stay in active communication with your friends.

Evidence shows that thousands of teachers and parents know a good thing when they see it and recommend Toknow to their friends.

That's how we found our home and how I learned that when people are kind, they are not strangers, only friends we haven't yet met.

The friends who introduced me to camping thought that it meant to be a pioneer.

The presenter will show how students can use Prezi to confidently present on a variety of topics, including introducing family, friends, and hobbies.

The youngsters admitted planning trips around potential photo-opportunities and then messaging friends — and friends of friends — to demand "likes" for their online posts.

We would see each other at various times and became friends.

Welty's new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab.

You may have chances to meet new people who'll become your lifelong friends.

Your lives are busy enough doing homework, playing sports, making friends, seeking after your dreams.

An emerging body of research shows that positive health habits-as well as negative ones-spread through networks of friends via social communication.

And that's the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.

Children aren't born knowing how to say "I'm sorry"; rather, they learn over time that such statements appease parents and friends—and their own consciences.

Failing at something can help you discover your truest friends, or help you find unexpected motivation to succeed.

Greg Jaroszewski, a real estate brokers with Gagliardo Realty Associates, said he's not convinced that kids should be involved in selecting a home—but their opinions should be considered in regards to proximity to friends and social activities, if possibl

If you have no friends or relatives, try to participate in several online communities, full of people who are always willing to share advice and encouragement.

If you're not sure, ask for honest feedback from trusted friends, colleagues and professionals.

It may involve not only his parents and his friends, as well as those of the young woman, but also a matchmaker.

It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television .

Rats and other animals need to be highly at tuned to social signals from others so that can identify friends to cooperate with and enemies to avoid.

Strangers are inherently unfamiliar to us, so we are more likely to feel anxious when communicating with them compared with our friends and acquaintances.

The Parkrun phenomenon began with a dozen friends and has inspired 400 events in the UK and more abroad.

The study also found that the genes for smell were something shared in friends but not genes for immunity.

The study is a genome-wide analysis conducted on 1, 932 unique subjects which compared pairs of unrelated friends and unrelated strangers.

Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was taken to see that all subjects, friends and strangers, were taken from the same population.

Though not biologically related, friends are as "related" as fourth cousins, sharing about 1% of genes.

Yet it is precisely these non-celebrity influentials who, according to the two-step-flow theory, are supposed to drive social epidemics, by influencing their friends and colleagues directly.

You may have a circle of friends who provide constant good humor, help and companionship.