And though I recommend A Christmas Memory without reservation, its sadness might disturb sensitive youngsters).
Now there are two boys, sons of Kelby's friends, in the same position - one a sensitive, intelligent youngster and the other stronger and a bully.
Yet if anything Wilds's transformation from sensitive, relatively innocent youngster to coarsened, semi-reluctant gangster is more subtle than Pacino's – signalled more often than not through gestures and murmurs, punctuated by affecting swings back and forth from boy to man before he is finally trapped by the crushing inevitability of his new life.
Sunday: Sugar 12.30am BBC2 (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, 2008) This brilliant social-realist character study by the writer-directors of Half-Nelson looks at the temptations and challenges facing a sensitive, non-English-speaking youngster from the Dominican Republic when he arrives in Kansas in the hope of making it as a pro baseball player.
Such systems acknowledge that minors may be perpetrators of criminal offenses, but are also sensitive to seeing these youngsters as victims of their personal and social environments.
Shawna recently lost her best friend to cancer, and is very sensitive to the suffering of youngsters.
Dr. Baker, in her remarks about minority representation, said, "We need the input of people sensitive to the needs of minority youngsters". This sensitivity, she said, "does not come easily" from officials who are not from minority groups.
They might be adults who can better relate to minority youngsters and be more sensitive to their dreams.
As a mother of two youngsters, I am very sensitive to pain and misery caused to children around the world.
As a youngster, Kinugasa was taunted for his mixed race, a sensitive subject that was not mentioned in two unauthorized biographies and that his teammates did not discuss, Lancelotti said.
