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The treatment and instruction received by a child from its parents throughout its childhood.
‘his Quaker upbringing influenced his character’
‘I know it is a strange viewpoint, Mama, but I suspect it is a result of his background and his upbringing.’
‘In the end, it all comes down to the importance of family and a good upbringing.’
‘Both Taylor and Phillips wanted a more rural home that would remind them of their upbringings in deep countryside.’
‘I still think the significant question is why two different paths were taken by two people with similar upbringings.’
‘Tyson has been heavily influenced by his childhood, his upbringing, his mother.’
‘Most of this was due to her parents, her controlled upbringing and her feelings towards the disease.’
‘After pondering the philosophical elements of our individual upbringings, we discovered that both of us had been brought up in the United Church.’
‘Jane had a strict upbringing and she never developed a close relationship with her parents.’
‘Which brings us to your upbringing in the bombed London which seems to reappear in a lot of your work.’
‘With varied upbringings, geographic backgrounds, faiths and even languages, people make more of an effort to find common ground.’
‘He prefers not to dwell on his parents' deaths, but he talks freely about his upbringing in Falkirk.’
‘The unconscious choices, rooted in our upbringings; in compassion and understanding, the core beliefs that guide us through the obstacle course of life.’
‘‘No, we were raised with completely different upbringings,’ Zoe began to explain.’
‘The three athletes are very similar: modest upbringings and supportive families have moulded them into hungry, focused individuals.’
‘Priestley is reluctant to say what he will bring to it from his own upbringing in Vancouver.’
‘I was a very happy and healthy baby and had a normal upbringing, in fact, with lots of nurturing.’
‘She said that he had experienced a difficult upbringing and had been in care for much of his youth.’
‘That way, the child gets to have a normal life with parents who would give him or her a good upbringing.’
‘Perhaps his unflappable nature stems from an upbringing on New Zealand's west coast.’
‘He said that the upbringing of children should be a private matter for parents.’
bringing up, rearing, raising, breeding, care, upkeep, cultivation, fostering, tending