The phrase "grew up facing" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to have experienced or dealt with a particular challenge or situation during one's formative years. Example: "She grew up facing many obstacles, but she never let them stop her from achieving her dreams."
"However," one fan wrote, "if, say, Ruth were born in 1970 and grew up facing sliders and modern pitchers and modern exercise techniques, he probably would dominate today's game as he dominated it in the 1920's".
We grew up facing one bully after another, from our schoolmates to our own family members.
Two stories of strength and the uncovering of the TRUTHS Take Roger, fitness personality and contributor to the book INVINCIBLE, and Kadian, a fellow fitness guru who, like Roger, also grew up facing adversity in her childhood home -- specifically, they experienced CDV -- childhood domestic violence.
My girls, aged 21 and 17, grow up facing difficult decisions about whether to be tested, and then about surgical options.
David Beckham has said he backs a vote to remain in the European Union, saying he wants his children to grow up "facing the problems of the world together and not alone".
Chodorow's work is controversial, but it is undeniable that girls and boys grow up facing different expectations of how they will behave.
Instead, children grow up facing a lifetime of issues other kids don't have to manage.
Did they also grow up facing adversity in childhood and struggle with resentment, perhaps handing it on to you as a right of passage?
Or as Sheila (Ashley Yeater) approaches 30 and realizes opening up a dance studio may not be giving up but growing up; facing new realities, going down unexpected avenues.
Now that there's more concrete evIndeed than ever before that it is possible to give our nation's most disadvantaged children an excellent education, we have a moral imperative to step up, immerse ourselves in the lessons from their success, and act on them with urgencyearn
In Kyrgyzystan, a new generation is growing up facing greater potential dangers in their homelands than ever before.
