"So many kids don't have a significant grown-up person in their lives to cheer for them, to push them on," she said.

Try telling a grown-up person that you don't see things as he does!

"It didn't take a grown-up person to figure out my mama was awful unhappy," Tiny says.

It's very trying to be living in the same house with someone all the time if you're a grown-up person.

He's probably the most thoughtful, grown-up person in his family.

They went home and are now like two grown-up persons.

She's got some money, she's a grown-up person, she doesn't need anybody to take care of her.

After all, I was a grown-up person who could take care of herself.

He beat her, as usual, for an almost grown-up person, she sure didn't know much about financial wheeling and dealing.

But he was the first grown-up person who assumed I could discuss ideas.