His movies made growing up more fun for me.
Among those were many friends I made growing up, who decided to stay when others of us left.
Broadway had entered my life when I was 10 and now opera made growing up in New York a dream for a kid who liked that sort of thing.
I don't want to make the same music I made growing up, but I want to take something old and turn it new.
Green grass, new friends, warm summers, and snowy winters made growing up in Small Town, USA, the idyllic childhood, especially as one fortunate enough to come home to a full family at the dinner table every evening.
One can't help feeling the sanctimony bred by publicity has made grown-up romantic life, marital and extramarital alike, at once more boring and more hazardous.
Global fame makes growing up challenging, they say, acknowledging they've become more insular.
But in "American Born Chinese," Gene Luen Yang makes growing up Chinese in California seem positively terrifying.
This clear, balanced, understated book makes growing up seem somehow possible.
Maybe working improved parents' self-esteem and expanded their social circles, making growing up easier for the kids.
Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, zealously seek to minimize reporting about their daughters, Malia, 13, and Sasha, 10, in an effort to make growing up in the White House as normal as possible.
