Sentences with phrase «few children at this age»

Few children at this age play with peers but most seek out interaction with adults in the classroom.

Not exact matches

Even if these fundamentalist were right about how few will be going to heaven (which they aren't), at very, very, very least, the % going to heaven would be 20 % minimum (since children up to the age of reconning go straight to heaven).

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

Both kids (and despite the legal distinction that they are of majority age, they are still kids at that age, especially considering that both have been traumatized by the loss of their sister a few years ago) felt abandoned, and have had barely any contact with their mother in the five months that she's been gone (their mother has initiated no contact with our children, one of whom still lives with me and commutes to college, while the other is a college freshman, but who comes here during vacations).

There's a few jumps in logic there — children (at what age?)

In urban SEA, women are getting married at later ages and are having fewer children.

At the same time, many children this age will still need cuddles and comfort, and will want to be «babied» from time to time — a pattern parents can expect to see to varying degrees in the next few years.

Feinberg et al (under review) and Feinberg and Kan (2008) have found that when the couple are supported to develop positive «co-parenting», mothers are less depressed, boys exhibit fewer «externalising» behaviour problems at ages three and seven, and children of both sexes and at both these ages, exhibit fewer «internalizing» problems.

Not all kids are ready at the same age, so it's important to watch your child for signs of readiness, such as stopping an activity for a few seconds or clutching his or her diaper.

Baby grunting while nursing is common and can occur at any age of your child, from a few weeks to several months.

For babies with an allergy to cow's milk but not soy milk, there are quite a few soy - based formulas that will help your child until they are at the age of weaning.

If you do have a few guests their mums and dads should be welcome to stay as at this age children will often not separate from their parent

I have discussed quite a few ideas for the very young child already, but I wanted to touch on a few ideas for the young preschool aged child who is already adept at the skills discussed previously and will soon be ready to begin writing and reading.

It's important to lay down a few rules at a young age so that the child learns what is considered acceptable and what isn't.

So whether you have an older child already, or you're planning another baby in the next few years, with a combination of the alpha car seat and one of phil & teds ® Inline ™ strollers you can feel safe in the knowledge that you'll be able to pop your baby onto the pushchair in their alpha while your older child — up to the age of five — rides in the tandem seat at the same time.

«Until a few months ago, the Refugee Council had a presence at Oakington, offering much needed support and advice to detainees, and ensuring those that shouldn't be there - including children who had been age disputed, torture victims and those with mental health problems, were released as soon as possible.

Although extensive research exists on bilingualism, few studies have taken accents into account when looking at early word recognition in monolingualism, and van Heugten says none have explored the issue of accents in children younger than 18 months, the age when they traditionally develop the ability to recognize pronunciation differences that can occur across identical words.

Children from low - income families are at substantial risk in terms of their social - emotional and academic skills at school entry, with fewer than half considered ready for school at age 5.

Among children under the age of 5 — the group at the highest risk of severe disease and death from malaria — there were 16 % fewer cases in the villages that received ivermectin at 3 - week intervals.

A recent study conducted by researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has found that preschool age children are consuming more calories and fewer fruits, vegetables and milk outside of child care centers than what is recommended by the USDA's Child and Adult Care Food Program Children's Hospital Medical Center has found that preschool age children are consuming more calories and fewer fruits, vegetables and milk outside of child care centers than what is recommended by the USDA's Child and Adult Care Food Program children are consuming more calories and fewer fruits, vegetables and milk outside of child care centers than what is recommended by the USDA's Child and Adult Care Food Program (CAchild care centers than what is recommended by the USDA's Child and Adult Care Food Program (CAChild and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).

Compared to youngsters who stayed at home until they started school, babies who attended large - group child care before age 2 1/2 came down with more respiratory bugs and ear infections during their early preschool years (before 3 1/2), but fewer respiratory and ear infections once they started elementary school.

Based on Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel (though it departs from the original story in quite a few places), Ender's Game is set in a future where a bug - like alien race has attacked the Earth, and talented children are selected at an early age to train for battle through a series of war games.

No fewer than 26 % percent of respondents living with school - age children have used an alternative to traditional public schools at some point in those children's education.

As reflected by the recent controversy of child pornography involving under - aged students in at least 70 public and private schools throughout Australia, the increased rate at which the use, and misuse, of technology in schools has generated a multitude of new legal issues surrounding the use of social and other digital media that most could not have anticipated a few short years ago.

Teachers and administrators who work with children from low - income families say one reason teachers struggle to help these students improve reading comprehension is that deficits start at such a young age: in the 1980s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley found that by the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

Individual achievement tests give many grade levels of questions, but only a few questions, well selected to differentiate levels of ability, at each level; they compare the child to a nationally normed «average» of children of the child's age;

«This is a practical, prevention - oriented approach to make sure that by age 10, virtually all children will be able to read, write, and do math and science at levels of excellence now achieved by only a few,» said Carnegie Corporation President David Hamburg in announcing the release of this report.

At primary level the definition will apply to those schools who for the first 2 years have seen fewer than 85 % of children achieving level 4, the secondary - ready standard, in reading, writing and maths, and which have also seen below - average proportions of pupils making expected progress between age 7 and age 11, followed by a year below a «coasting» level set against the new accountability regime which will see children being expected to achieve a new higher expected standard and schools being measured against a new measure of progress.

About one in five school - aged children speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has more than doubled in the past few decades.

Perhaps your child had testing at an early age, for school entrance or gifted program entrance, and was then retested a few years later.

My own children were huge middle - grade readers, just like I was at their age, and they had some more choices, but I was disappointed to realize that, at least a few years ago — my son is 15 now — there weren't that many more choices than I had.

There are a few restrictions at this age for depth and supervision in the water, as there should be for safety reasons, but by the time the child has reached ten - years old, the child can dive with her parents down to a depth of 12 metres or 40 feet.

The relationship will change but in most cases the former couples will see each other at least once a week and will have quite a few issues to communicate about as their child (ren) age.

A mindfulness program for 522 young people aged 12 — 16 in 12 secondary schools found that rates of acceptability were high and the children who participated in the intervention reported fewer depressive symptoms and lower stress and had greater well - being at 3 - month follow - up (Kuyken et al 2013).

The findings of this review are at once both heartening and bleak: based on the review, fewer than one half of children identified with early externalising problems continued to show these problems at later ages — a finding at some variance with the common notion that early aggressive problems portray a picture of uniformly grim long term consequences.

Let's view some examples from the Disney collection of animated movies, since exposure to these films at an impressionable young age is a rite of passage that few children in the United States escape.

Evaluation results demonstrated both enhanced quality of care and promotion of more - favorable parenting practices related to perceptions of children's behavior at 30 to 33 months, discipline at 30 to 33 months, and health care seeking at 2 to 4 months and 30 to 33 months.4 — 7 In addition, HS reduced income disparities in the use of preventive services and enhanced parents» satisfaction with care at 30 to 33 months.8 Using observational data and a longitudinal sample, Caughy et al9 reported that participation in HS was associated with positive child development outcomes, including greater attachment and fewer child behavior problems when children were 34 to 37 months of age.

The major results indicated that children who had been classified as high reactive infants at 4 months of age, compared with infants classified as low reactive, (a) were more vulnerable to the development of anxious symptoms at age 7 years, (b) were more subdued in their interactions with a female examiner, (c) made fewer errors on a task requiring inhibition of a reflex, and (d) were more reflective.

A recent investigation from the UK Millennium Cohort Study found that a variety of parenting, home learning, and early education factors explained a small portion of the socioeconomic status (SES) gradients in children's cognitive ability by age 5.2 Although some US studies have examined selected factors at different stages of childhood, 24 — 27 few have had comprehensive data to examine the socioeconomic distribution of a wide variety of risk and protective factors across early childhood and their role as potential independent mediators of the SES gradients in cognitive ability at kindergarten entry.

Rather fewer meet the diagnostic criteria for research, which for the oppositional defiant type of conduct disorder seen in younger children require at least four specific behaviours to be present.7 The early onset pattern — typically beginning at the age of 2 or 3 years — is associated with comorbid psychopathology such as hyperactivity and emotional problems, language disorders, neuropsychological deficits such as poor attention and lower IQ, high heritability, 8 and lifelong antisocial behaviour.9 In contrast, teenage onset antisocial behaviour is not associated with other disorders or neuropsychological deficits, is more environmentally determined than inherited, and tends not to persist into adulthood.9

Preschool classrooms in Massachusetts» public schools currently serve fewer than 20 percent of preschool - aged children and these public preschool teachers are required to hold at least a bachelor's degree.

Notably, early problems with language development was one of the few factors significantly associated with peer problems; 23 % of children who were reported to have language difficulties at age 2 had peer problem scores in the borderline or abnormal range at school entry compared with 14 % of those with no language difficulties.

Despite a 9.7 percent growth in the overall population, the number of households with children under age 18 has remained at 38 million since 2000 — that's fewer than the number of households with dogs (which stands at 43 million).