Sentences with phrase «as parents of multiple children»

Not exact matches

We just welcomed two new members into our family, and running as fast as you can isn't sustainable for parents of multiple small children.

Believe in One God and there is no partner with him, No son or any creatures and Jesus was just a messanger sent to Children of Israel who was born thru virgin Marry and no father, this is another miracle of God that He can create a human without father as HE created Adam and Eve without parents... what if you found yourself in «wrong» by believing in multiple Gods?

Recipient of multiple parent's choice awards, we invite you to relax, connect with other adults, and enjoy free coffee, tea and WiFi as your children explore our 1,500 sq. foot space.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

This is true for all parents of multiple children — we are not the exact same for our first child as for our second, or third, and so on.

Harried parents, often of multiple young children, who spank (but usually refer to it as an occasional «smack» or «slap» rather than spanking).

So, our task as parents is to teach our children that they can make healthy, satisfying (on multiple counts) and tasty eating choices by giving them that kind of food, to the best of our ability.

Whether you are a new mom or a seasoned mom of multiple children, child safety is probably of the utmost importance to you as a parent.

Divorce is so common today that almost all children know peers with multiple parents already — dad and his new wife, mom and her new girlfriend — so the presence of additional adults is not nearly as socially outlandish as it would have been 50 years ago.

As a mother of five now adult children, three «singletons» and a set of monozygotic (MZ or identical) twin boys, I've experienced the different dynamic of parenting multiples and singletons.

As a teacher, school director, child development and behavior specialist, parent educator, multiple birth parenting consultant, best - selling author, and parent (of adult triplets), she has developed a unique style in delivering her advice to parents.

Here are some of the excluding criteria most experts agree on: «Obese parents; parents who smoke (either during pregnancy or at present); parents sleeping on a waterbed, recliner, sofa, armchair, couch or bean bag; parents who sleep on multiple pillows, a sagging mattress or a sheepskin or use heavy bedding, such as comforters or duvets; sleeping in overheated rooms; parents under the influence of drugs or alcohol; other children or pets who can or are likely to climb into the bed; and stuffed animals on the bed that could cover the baby's face.»

Patterns of behavior can develop over multiple generations, and the parents may be as affected as the child.

Remember to acknowledge the loss of your child and the loss of your identity as parents of multiples, and to also celebrate the life of your surviving twin.

In support of this model, multiple studies have shown the association between infant negative reactivity and later psychosocial outcomes such as problem behaviour and self - regulation to be moderated by parental behaviour, so that highly reactive children fare better than others when they experience optimal parenting but worse than others when they experience negative parenting.41 - 46 Further support is found in studies indicating that interventions targeting parental attitudes and / or behaviours are particularly effective for children with a history of negative reactive temperament.47, 49

Lowcountry Parents of Multiples The purpose of the Lowcountry Parents of Multiples is to support awareness of and interest in children of multiple births; to participate in research pertaining to multiples and their families; to exchange ideas and information with parents and guardians of multiples throughout the Greater Charleston Area; to offer parents of multiples emotional support; and, to use its proceeds, as possible, to assist charitable organizations which aid multiples and their faParents of Multiples The purpose of the Lowcountry Parents of Multiples is to support awareness of and interest in children of multiple births; to participate in research pertaining to multiples and their families; to exchange ideas and information with parents and guardians of multiples throughout the Greater Charleston Area; to offer parents of multiples emotional support; and, to use its proceeds, as possible, to assist charitable organizations which aid multiples and their faParents of Multiples is to support awareness of and interest in children of multiple births; to participate in research pertaining to multiples and their families; to exchange ideas and information with parents and guardians of multiples throughout the Greater Charleston Area; to offer parents of multiples emotional support; and, to use its proceeds, as possible, to assist charitable organizations which aid multiples and their faparents and guardians of multiples throughout the Greater Charleston Area; to offer parents of multiples emotional support; and, to use its proceeds, as possible, to assist charitable organizations which aid multiples and their faparents of multiples emotional support; and, to use its proceeds, as possible, to assist charitable organizations which aid multiples and their families.

The UPPAbaby Vista is described as a hybrid between a sports car and a super-utility vehicle because of the luxurious sleek look as well as the multiple functions it serves for parents of one, two or even three children!

As the parent of two children with multiple food allergies, I am constantly frustrated by the birthday treats and idea of shared snack.

With our first child, I was still of the strict belief that babies slept in cribs away from their parents, but after trying to let him cry it out via similar methods, and witnessing him becoming so upset with the sudden and unexpected transition and the separation from us that he vomited multiple times and screamed until he could not make a sound anymore, I knew that there was no way that this abuse that is thinly veiled as «Babywise» could possibly be for real.

Familial Alzheimer's also affects multiple generations, as the mutations that cause the disease are dominantly inherited and fully penetrant, which means that if a parent has a mutation, he or she has a 50 percent likelihood of passing it on to his or her children.

Poster Presentations Allison Schreiber — «CHD7 Variants in Two Families with Evidence of Parent - to - Child Transmission of CHARGE Syndrome» Patty Arscott — «Genetic Counseling Dilemma: Multiple Gene Variants Identified Through Genetic Testing for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy» Christina Rigelsky — «Clinical Features of Three Patients with Vascular Ehlers - Danlos Syndrome as the Result of COL3A1 Functional Haploinsufficiency with Stable mRNA but Unstable Protein» Rebecca Cook — «Assessing the Utility of Four Educational Videos Concerning Alpha - 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency» and «Guidelines for Advocacy Organizations Considering Establishing a Registry or Biobank» Educational Breakout Session Presentations Meg Doerr — «Using Information Technology to Facilitate the Cancer Genetic Counseling Process»

In California, we believe parents, as educated consumers and advocates for their children, want to know more about how public schools are performing, and that policymakers should ensure the public has the necessary tools to make good use of multiple measures.

The expansion of learning time can serve as one effective vehicle to modernize our schools because it allows teachers, principals, community organizations and leaders, and parents to build multiple curriculums to best educate our children to succeed in the 21st century.

As documented under Section 1115 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «may use funds received under this part only for programs that provide services to eligible children under subsection (b) identified as having the greatest need for special assistance... Eligible children are children identified by the school as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria established by the local educational agency and supplemented by the school, except that children from preschool through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures»As documented under Section 1115 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «may use funds received under this part only for programs that provide services to eligible children under subsection (b) identified as having the greatest need for special assistance... Eligible children are children identified by the school as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria established by the local educational agency and supplemented by the school, except that children from preschool through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures»as having the greatest need for special assistance... Eligible children are children identified by the school as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria established by the local educational agency and supplemented by the school, except that children from preschool through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures»as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria established by the local educational agency and supplemented by the school, except that children from preschool through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures»as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures».

I visited Thailand multiple times during my childhood — with my parents — but this was my first time returning as an adult, since getting married and having children of my own.

This plan is having multiple maturity options which can be decided earlier by parents as and when they want the maturity amount to be used for the purpose of child future planning.

• Assist the teacher in classroom activities while catering for emotional, psychological, social and cognitive needs of physically or mentally disabled students • Provide one to one tutoring and reinforce daily lessons in small groups • Identify weak areas of students and develop individualized lesson plans accordingly • Supervise the children during play and lunchtime • Inculcate strong moral and social values among the students to make them responsible citizens • Facilitate the teacher in conducting various classroom activities • Maintain all teaching aids in an organized manner • Devise need - based AV aids to facilitate teaching process • Assess multiple instructional strategies for effectiveness and change the teaching methodology as per requirement • Carefully record and gauge each student's progress and discuss the same regularly with teachers and parents • Encourage students to participate in extracurricular activities and boost their confidence in all possible ways • Communicate home assignments clearly, mark homework and test papers • Assist students in completing classroom assignments • Maintain daily attendance and early departure records • Discuss individual cases of individual needs and interests with teachers and parents of the student • Develop and implement targeted instructional strategies to cater for particular needs of each student • Observe students» behavior at playtime and chalk out a behavioral intervention plan to address any inappropriate, violent or disruptive behavior • Operate adaptive technological equipment single - handedly • Maintain complete confidentiality of student data • Aid physical, speech and rehabilitative therapists in their sessions and encourage the student to cooperate with them

Zoe has supported individuals and couples experiencing pregnancy loss through Multiple Angels in Greenwich, led infertility support groups for Resolve, presented at «What to expect those first months» workshops to prospective adoptive families at Family and Children's Agency in Norwalk, and has served as a Licensed Foster Parent for the Connecticut Department of Children & Families.

Multiple life stressors, such as a family history of abuse or neglect, health problems, marital conflict, or domestic or community violence - and financial stressors such as unemployment, poverty, and homelessness - may reduce a parent's capacity to cope effectively with the typical day - to - day stresses of raising children.

In contrast, other child welfare practitioners denounced ASFA as inherently unfair to families of color because the time limits were not realistic to support the rehabilitation of parents who had multiple problems, which many minority families were likely to have.

In addition, there is consistent evidence to suggest that children raised in stable two - parent families do better than those who experience multiple transitions in family structure, which has been referred to as the instability hypothesis.24, 25 Because family break - up and the experience of poverty often co-occur, 26 it is important to assess their combined as well as separate effects on children's outcomes.

The primary objective of our review is to systematically review and meta - analyse evidence to determine if parent skills training programmes for parents who have a child with a developmental disorder produce greater benefits than no treatment or standard care on child functioning and on parental or family functioning, as measured across multiple domains, and to use meta - analytic techniques to determine which programme components are most reliably associated with the most successful outcomes of parent skills training programmes.

Multiple studies undertaken over many years attest to the effect of parenting on the development of children and young people, 1,2 and on their mental3 — 5 and physical health in adult life.6, 7 Good quality, timely support for parents has now been identified in national and international policy documents as important for reducing social inequalities in health, 8 preventing mental illness, 9 — 11 and enhancing social and educational development.12

Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.

Moreover, for one parent to function in lieu of the other parent's hired or family childminder, that parent must be willing to be contacted multiple times daily, and disclose the very same information about the child's activities and whereabouts as the current timeshare - exercising parent ordinarily would be receiving from a hired childminder.

[A right of first refusal for anything less than a multiple overnight trip by the timeshare parent is unreasonable if it will add long car rides and travel for the child during the school week that the child otherwise would not have to suffer, or if it requires that the nonrequesting parent undertake burdensome out - of - the - way travel time, scheduling, and preparation, such as packing the child's things, in order to comply with the right of first refusal, especially if that parent's alternate childcare arrangement was in - home or close to home.]

Because of their responsibilities for children in other households and the complicated relationships they have with the mothers of those children, men in multiple parenting relationships tend to be less «marriageable» or less likely to be viewed as desirable life partners by new partners.

An alternative approach focuses on children's unmet needs, acknowledging the many possible contributors (e.g., lack of access to health care), as well as parental behaviour.3 The latter approach fits with the developmental ecological perspective which posits that no one factor alone contributes to neglect; there are multiple and interacting contributors at the level of the child, parents, family, community and society.

When parents view deaf children through the lens of a Deaf epistemology, they can effectively support their children's visual learning styles (Hauser, O'Hearn, McKee, Steider, & Thew, 2010), achieve positive educational success with their children (Holcomb, 2010), and reframe deaf children as positive with having multiple opportunities (Benedict, 2011).

Family reunification in law, policy, and practice Family reunification can be viewed from multiple perspectives, such as the body of law that delineates parental rights and the implications of the law on public policy, the practices and decision - making processes child welfare agencies engage in when deciding whether to return children to their birth parents, and child and family factors that may affect the possibility of successful reunification.

ECD programmes can take many forms, including promotion of good health and nutrition, support for safe and stimulating environments, protection from risks such as violence or abandonment, parenting support and early learning experiences, media, preschools and community groups.4 Poverty is the key underlying cause of poor child development; children living in poverty are exposed to many negative influences, including poor physical environments, inadequate nutrition, parental stress and insufficient cognitive stimulation.5 Undernutrition can influence brain development directly by affecting brain structure and function, or indirectly via poor physical or motor development, in addition to other pathways.6 — 8 Exposure to multiple co-occurring risks most likely contributes to greater disparities in developmental trajectories among children with differential exposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive language.

Casey Foster Family Assessments Casey Family Programs Helps workers assess foster parent applicants» strengths and development needs using online assessments that address multiple areas of foster parenting, such as the ability to support foster child development, care for challenging children, negotiate worker and agency challenges, available time to foster, cultural receptivity in fostering, receptivity to birth family connections, and more.

Even when study is limited to family processes as influences, multivariate risk models find support.9 - 12 For example, Cummings and Davies13 presented a framework for how multiple disruptions in child and family functioning and related contexts are supported as pertinent to associations between maternal depression and early child adjustment, including problematic parenting, marital conflict, children's exposure to parental depression, and related difficulties in family processes.10, 11 A particular focus of this family process model is identifying and distinguishing specific response processes in the child (e.g., emotional insecurity; specific emotional, cognitive, behavioral or physiological responses) that, over time, account for normal development or the development of psychopathology.10

For more than 35 years, Dr. Jones Harden has focused on the developmental and mental health needs of young children at environmental risk, specifically children who have been maltreated, are in the foster care system, or have been exposed to multiple family risks such as maternal depression, parent substance use, and poverty.

It is a trauma - informed intervention that is specifically designed for parents and caregivers of children who come from «hard places,» such as maltreatment, abuse, neglect, multiple home placements, and violence, but is an approach that can be used by parents and caregivers with all children.

One of my favorite pieces of parenting advice that I learned from my mom as a child (and that was later reinforced in multiple psychology classes) is to tell a child what you want them to do rather than what not to do.

Multiple - method assessments included delinquency as measured by teacher reports and official arrest records, parenting skills measured by observations of parent - child interactions, and deviant peer association as reported by boys in the intervention group.

42 U.S. Code § 13001b (a) Establishment of regional children's advocacy program The Administrator, in coordination with the Director and with the Director of the Office of Victims of Crime, shall establish a children's advocacy program to --(1) focus attention on child victims by assisting communities in developing child - focused, community - oriented, facility - based programs designed to improve the resources available to children and families; (2) provide support for nonoffending family members; (2) Grant recipients A grant recipient under this section shall --(A) assist communities --(i) in developing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary response to child abuse that is designed to meet the needs of child victims and their families; (iii) in preventing or reducing trauma to children caused by multiple contacts with community professionals; (iv) in providing families with needed services and assisting them in regaining maximum functioning; Where: — «families» is always defined as «nonoffending» in the system and making the system «all powerful» and parents and children in to lifetime «victims» to be exploited.

Uses a reflective process of gentle inquiry to explore the internal experiences of the infant, child, parent and fellow practitioners as appropriate to increase awareness, keep the multiple perspectives in mind and consider alternative approaches to the work