Quotes About Sheltered

My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen.

I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in 'Life Goes On,' and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think - I never had to do anything for myself.

I had a sheltered childhood.

I was someone who used to live a sheltered life.

I was a sheltered kid.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

I lived in a bubble as a kid.

I can live in a bubble, I like not to know anything about financials.

I was brought up in a bubble to an extent.

My mom was born in the 70s, but grew up in the 90s, seeing all types of things. Because of her PTSD, she sheltered us from all of it as best as she could. There was a lot going on around us that we didn't even know because my mom kept us in a bubble.

Krashen's insistence that a sheltered classroom consists of second language learners only.

sheltered classes are for intermediate [language learners], not beginners." The reason should be obvious: "It is extremely difficult to teach subject matter to those who have acquired none or little of the language. Beginners should be in regular ESL, where they are assured of comprehensible input."63 Unrealistic language demands create, in effect, a sink-or-swim situation, in which academic learning is minimal.

not focusing on language turns out to be an effective way to teach language in sheltered classrooms, especially the kind of academic language that students need for school.

SIOP's authors never explain the benefits of standardization; yet standardization was clearly their intent. They say they first conceived of SIOP "as a research and supervisory tool to determine if observed teachers incorporated key sheltered techniques consistently in their lessons.

defensively.

a family wanting no more than to live without challenge or drama could easily find a quiet street, and peace, provided they were fortunate enough to live in a comparatively sheltered and favoured geographical area, and provided they were able to make the mental adjustment to relegate war - and its consequences - into something that happened elsewhere and did not affect them; or something that had happened to them, but between such and such dates, and then taken itself off.

These problems were Miss Marple's first introduction to the world of detective story readers. Miss Marple has some faint affinity with my own grandmother, also a pink and white pretty old lady who, although having led the most sheltered and Victorian of lives, nevertheless always appeared to be intimately acquainted with all the depths of human depravity.

...a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides — firesides that were waiting — waiting, for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

ORDINARILY, children are supposed to spend their childhood like saplings sheltered in a greenhouse. Even if on occasion some wind or rain of the real world slips in through the cracks, a child is not supposed to be weatherbeaten in earnest by the sleet and snow.

In America, we tend to be very sheltered, and I'm speaking from personal experience because I feel sheltered.

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.

I was so sheltered as a kid that when I went to college, it was like taking the chains off. That's where the trouble came from. It was the first time for me being by myself, and I got into everything you could think of.