How native speakers pronounce “child”

Do you? Because you don't think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven?

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as far away from the front door as possible, so that when a child makes a break for it, you have the maximum

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about your body and your options. So when we think about child development, we all know that the first five years are a critical period

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It's realizing you can't have that career you now want. It's realizing you can't have that child you now want, or you can't give your child a sibling.

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It's realizing you can't have that child you now want, or you can't give your child a sibling. Too many thirtysomethings and fortysomethings

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a brain that's being remodeled. The neural network of a child has to convert itself, has to rewire itself to

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And these chatbots are super responsive to the child. They're always there to

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offer comfort, to be there for the child. And of course, the parents are

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while the parents aren't as responsive, the child's attachment system, which is looking for who in my environment is the

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Give them nothing that conveys that it understands the child or that it cares,

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hold on a second. I want my child to be successful in the digital future and the digital workplace.

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I have spent the last four decades in the reality of conflict. As a child, as a mother and as a professional.

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whether we should, whether we might consider adopting a child with Down syndrome. And there it was, the choice.

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that seemed to me at the time very hard and difficult. How would this child respond to us? My first thought was,

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Now I want to be clear, raising a child with an intellectual disability is hard. It's really hard.

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We just kind of accept that that's the human condition. And so I think, you know, in the case of the child in Santa Monica ... our car was traveling 17 miles per hour.

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and as so many of the bystanders said after observing it -- “The child would not have survived” -- is what we were told. We weren't obviously there.

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performing was a gift that granted my family more access. See, only a child could fit through the gatekeeper’s gates -- especially a child like me that was so eager to please.

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See, only a child could fit through the gatekeeper’s gates -- especially a child like me that was so eager to please. So when I started auditioning and booking,

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I learned a lot today by listening to the previous speakers, and I learned a lot throughout my life, growing up as a child of war, as you mentioned at the introduction.

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we've learned that oftentimes the line that stands between a child of war and a leader of peace

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To explain what I mean, why don't I tell you a little bit about what I was like as a child? So, I was what you might call a gross kid.

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against genocidal regimes, and make sure that we become the voice of that child who today is standing on the line, to survive,

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and other institutions, I shared with leaders how, as a child, we were sheltering in mountains, we were sheltering from the shelling and the bombing

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that I never forget that. That there is a child, there are millions of children around the world who are now listening to today's leaders,

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So many people around the world don't know whether they do. There's always that child that is still standing on the line and waiting for that opportunity.

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and waiting for that opportunity. And let’s not forget that that child of war today, whether in Ukraine or in Gaza or somewhere in Africa,

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That is, language that does something other than describe the world. When you tell a child to clean up their room, you're not describing the state of the room,

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When I was a child, I thought changing the world was simple.

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free or low-cost education, affordable child care and elder care. No spouse required.

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So many people leave the workforce for caregiving reasons. To care for a new child, to care for an elderly relative, to care for themselves.

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came back a long time ago, and that little child who comes back is the child who will forgo a part of himself

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and that little child who comes back is the child who will forgo a part of himself in order not to lose the other.

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It continues into our sex lives up to the end. Child number two comes back but looks like that over their shoulder all the time.

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the less I was able to let go in your presence. The third child doesn't really come back. So what happens, if you want to sustain desire,

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and share a bit more about themselves. Think about this as if you're talking to a child coming home from school. If you ask them,

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the inconvenient thing happens. Your child is sick. You're rushing to the vet. Or the worst.

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district leaders to imagine school that truly centered the whole child. Nurturing mind, body and relationships

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and two men in black came to carry my father away. And I suddenly realized, as my parents’ only child, it was now all up to me to console my grieving mother,

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who come to a river. It's a beautiful scene, but it's shattered by the cries of a child, and actually several children, in need of rescue in the water.

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that interrupts the everyday flow of Our Lives many disruptors like adopting a child or starting a job would not traditionally

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powered by clean energy and run by local women. A mother contributing to her child's lunch with a tap of a wristband. Now

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real budgets and real policy changes. It can mean instead of a child relying on an NGO that might go away tomorrow,

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Sadly, our reef, my reef has become the poster child for climate change. And here's why.

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in the Watts section of Los Angeles, I witnessed things no child should ever be subject to. By the time I was 16, I had attended 20 funerals of friends.

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I've witnessed it my entire life. But nothing prepares you for the loss of your child. But what I've come to understand

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moments like reading bedtime stories to your child playing cards with a neighbor

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from a damning photo of a cheating spouse, gut-wrenching images of child abuse, photographic evidence in a capital murder case,

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few friends isn't good enough anymore your child has to be in a soccer Clinic with a professional coach

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about how they were going to obtain food or shelter or heat, or how they were going to bury a child who died of diarrhea before its first birthday.

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in order to believe in ourselves. I’m a child of the ’60s, and that was hard. Oh.

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for every 10 dollars donated, they provide one bed net to protect a child from malaria. We saw that the more money people gave to Spread the Net,

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BR: I could never pinpoint certain moments, but I think -- I was the youngest child. And so as the youngest, you're almost always giving in.

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top athlete or the next big politician, whatever. So they put a lot more energy sometimes in that oldest child than they do with the subsequent children.

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that we're working with or medical schools, nursing, child protection, judges. So it's almost demand-driven, which is really exciting.

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And to be clear, I'm not talking here about forced marriages, child marriages. These are a violation of human rights.

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since COVID or since phones or whatever, since No Child Left Behind, it's really been decades in the making.

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it's that we're taking the the childhood the child out of childhood and replacing it with adult oriented, adult-run

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