upbringing
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A child's temperament, special educational needs, family support, finances and their own upbringing can all influence family life.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
He begins with a quick account of his upbringing in St. Louis and how, during college at Trinity in Connecticut, he fell in love with New York City.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
This dual-language class is also a federally funded Head Start program — long considered a gold standard in early childhood education — and must integrate learning with each child’s cultural and linguistic upbringing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Here, Szor and Abraham quietly demonstrate the lengths and risks of their allyship, pitting their relatively comfortable upbringing in Israel against their fervent quest to unlearn a propagandistic way of living.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026
Anthony’s Quaker upbringing also had discouraged interest in partisan politics and women’s suffrage, so she focused on working with the temperance movement.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Both had tough upbringings marked by an absent father, intermittently absent mother and reliable grandparents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Though their upbringings were markedly different, it was their shared comedic sensibilities that connected Jimenez and McMechan when they met in college.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
Their contrasting upbringings is what attracted them to each other, Charles Tyler, a Yale classmate and friend of the couple, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025
One morning, Nina and Simon, high school sweethearts who come from very different upbringings, decide to go rock climbing.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
I'd always known that my mom and I had completely different upbringings.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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