With regard to adapting the characters from the book to film, Ron Clements mentioned that the Jim Hawkins in the book is a "a very smart, very capable kid", but they wanted to make Jim start out as "a little troubled kid" who "doesn't really know who he is" while retaining the aforementioned characteristics from the original character.
The teachers said, "… a wonderful and capable kid, she does well in school work, is an active player, and is a motivated learner" (NT1 23).
"It's not about the coffee or the cookies, it's about the interaction and seeing how capable the kids are," said Ms. Cotoia, who will invite parents to the shop in the spring.
Who has managed to raise kids capable of doing laundry, and will anyone admit to tying an 8-year-old 8-year-old 8-year-old
"You need to figure out, are your kids capable of following your rules?" about using the phone, said Parry Aftab, executive director of the child advocacy group Wired Safety.
"Remove the vampire elements, and this is the story of two lonely and desperate kids capable of performing dark deeds without apparent emotion," writes Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times.
"For the first time in our society's history, we're being presented with a generation of kids capable of exceeding our abilities while they are still kids," he said, citing another survey showing 26% of children claimed to have written some kind of code, while a third had used Photoshop or similar software.
Capable of capturing kids at play or wildlife on the move, the Rebel T3i can shoot up to 34 consecutive full resolution JPEG still images or up to 11 consecutive RAW images at speeds up to 3.7-frames-per-second to either SD, SDHC or new extended capacity SDXC memory cards.
