Sentences with phrase «when family efforts»

When family efforts at weight loss have broken down these programmes are the only alternative since pre-pubertal children, unlike adults, can't be given drug or bariatric surgical solutions.

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Some crowdfunding entrepreneurs boast that they'll «shout from the rooftops» about their company and promote their fundraising efforts far and wide, but later, when asked how many friends and family members they went to for support, their response is, «Oh, I don't feel comfortable approaching my own contacts.»

When airlines and airports make even a passing effort to improve travel for families — give them their own spaces to wait for planes, give them seats where they can use bassinets, etc. etc. — the chance that the baby / child will be able to 1 / nap successfully 2 / get out their toddler energy 3 / not have to restrain themselves from something they don't understand — goes up astronomically.

The photo of the Gersten family today is a testament to the heroic efforts Czeslaw Polziec's family made to maintain humanity when society gave in to the inhumane.

When you set out to rescue a family member, God causes your efforts to rescue others as well.

The U.S. Catholic bishops warned that a decrease in support for families would undermine efforts to prevent abortions, and indeed the abortion rate did not decrease again until 2000, when it dropped to 16.

It will be healed when man discovers that his loves in sex, family, nation, work and art participate in the working of a reality which lends final significance to his broken efforts and which in forgiveness and mercy can restore his shattered spirit.

I never intended to challenge the church when my wife and I pursued in vitro fertilization in an effort to expand our family after a decade of unsuccessful infertility treatments.

That's the very reason why Gajar ka Halwa is made on special occasions when all friends and family gather together and you can make this grand sweet dish with little effort from everyone!

When the league sent glamour shots of selected players to Playboy.com before the season, it risked alienating its core fans (read: families with young girls) in an effort to woo hormone - addled males.

Harbaugh on @MikeAndMike about discipline: When you're part of the family, it becomes a team effort

Founded in 1989, Center Families programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play DaysFamilies programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Daysfamilies; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.).

Our children deserve our superior effort at understanding what is in their best interest, especially when feelings and struggles are intense, as they often are in the transition to a remarried family constellation.

Children are often placed in foster parents» homes when the state determines that it would be unsafe for them to remain with their birth families — despite efforts to rehabilitate their parents from the problem that caused them to lose custody.

When the style of disagreements undermines the other parent's efforts, or the intensity is extreme and creates strong family worry or tensions, then the clues are there that parents need to deal with the situation.

Does your jaw drop when you see the effort and expense that some families dedicate to their kids» birthday parties?

This is the wish that I have for all my children — that I can be a bridge during their early years in cultivating a relationship with their birth families (by making the effort to stay in lots of contact, keeping promises, etc.) so that when they are older (is 5 considered older?

Yes, last Saturday was the Great Cloth Diaper Change, when thousands of families all over the world took part in a mass effort to break the world record (set last year, at 5,026 participants) for the most cloth diapers changed at one time.

If that is really the justification — the enoromous costs incurred by families and a society when a child is poisoned — than our efforts are better spent addressing the much more significant cause of childhood lead poisoning — older housing and buildings coated with lead paint.

When he knows the benefits of breastfeeding, the potential problems, and the real solutions, breastfeeding becomes a family choice and a team effort.

Working together as a family, asking a friend to join you in volunteer efforts, or doing it as a group activity for Scouts, church, etc. keeps kids motivated and interested when they have company.

I could not have done it without the best partner — my precious baby girl — who put in the effort and cooperation; the support of my family, especially my mother, for her skills and friendship, and my husband, for his understanding and support (even when he didn't quite understand).

When he announced the endorsement, the union's president, Bruce Both, said Meng had «pledged her support for our Union's effort to hold Walmart accountable for reckless corporate policies that effect the worker families, small business owners, and women that live in the 6th Congressional,» adding: «Our Union believes that Grace will help unify an ethnically diverse community around the most pressing issue facing our Unions membership: keeping New York City Walmart free.»

«In the more than 30 years since Carlos Cardona has lived in this country, he has built a family and given back to his community, including in the aftermath of 9/11, when he assisted with ground zero recovery efforts at the expense of his own health,» Governor Cuomo said in an emailed statement.

Off - topic questions included efforts at combating sex trafficking on Roosevelt Avenue, reports of criminal charges against a defunct arm of the Working Families Party, whether the mayor will veto proposed bills criminalizing police use of chokeholds and requiring police to advise people of a right to refuse before asking to search them, whether the mayor plans to see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when they visit New York, whether his message is getting lost in critical news coverage and his view of the Astoria Cove development deal.

When it was certain Cuomo would pull off the Working Families Party backing late Saturday, Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins called for disgruntled liberals to join his effort.

For this reason, we make a sincere effort to eat meals (especially breakfast and dinner) as a family when at all possible and to make this an enjoyable time.

If u want to check whether it is really or not overtraining, more popular are muscles, leg pains when walking up the stairs (legs like wool, you can not produce the maximum strength), morning heart rate (some more beats if it is 1 or 2 stage of overtraining or less when advanced), need for salt / carbs, foggy brain, headaches after more effort / tiring day, disturbed relations with family / friends, sleepiness (everyday) after meals, insomnia, mornings fatigue, or simply — take something heavier and exercise it, and if you'll feel shooting in the joints, weakness of the ligaments and muscles, you can be sure that you are overtrained.

Monochrome styling is also perfect for any travel wear be either for business trip or family fun, as it always required less efforts and effect is enhanced when space in your luggage may be at a premium.

My mom asked why I bother putting in so much effort into getting ready when I am just going out with the family.

Focus on their family and friends also When you are a building a life together, real romance is making effort to build meaningful relationships with the people most important to your partner.

When the burglar is revealed to be Christian (Devon Graye), the white male scion of a wealthy family, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore sheds any remaining effort to conceal its political bleeding heart.

Cinema has long given us the image of the submissive and powerless slave when the truth is that there was a constant effort to suppress such uprisings with violent, unimaginable consequences including castrations, cutting off limbs, killing family members.

Screenwriter Beatrix Christian (adapting Raymond Carver's story «So Much Water So Close to Home») is officially lost when she starts concentrating on Claire's efforts to make contact with the victim's family.

The Plot: In this deeply personal documentary effort, Sarah Polley interviews various friends and family members in order to capture a better understanding of her mother who passed away when she was very young.

After a year that saw relative disappointments when compared to past efforts from comedy luminaries like Christopher Guest («Family Tree») and Gervais («Derek»), «Hello Ladies» is the exception in that it not only seems likely to satisfy critical fans of its star / director but could create legions of new ones.

The positive message behind Mercy Streets is good for the entire family, but it seems like wasted effort when the vessel for the message isn't entirely appropriate for all audiences.

When a school makes the decision to actively engage its diverse community of families, the benefits far outweigh the effort.

When woven throughout these areas, funding also is provided for leadership; information systems / technology; efforts to capitalize on diversity; and family, neighborhood, and community development programming.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

There was a time — which now seems distant — when most people assumed that students» performance in school was largely determined by their own efforts and by the circumstances and support of their family, not by their teachers.

She grew up in Seattle when social justice issues made regular headlines and her family was part of activist efforts through the faith community to re-settle Hmong and Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s.

Because of the many studies that show increases in student achievement when parents and other caregivers actively participate in their children's education, schools are making a concerted effort to encourage greater family involvement (Delors, 1996; Ramirez, 1999; Wentworth, 2006).

These become a safety net that flexes through good times and bad to support individual pupils, families and communities, but also a trampoline that magnifies the outcome when pupils make an effort.

Then their efforts kicked into higher gear in 2014 when P.S. 123 became part of New York City's broad efforts to turn around dozens of low - performing schools by injecting them with a range of health, social - emotional, and academic support services for students and their families.

For example, when teachers and families work together to build students» growth mindsets — the perception that students can achieve their goals through effort, not innate ability — students thrive.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

While there were no legal consequences to my absenteeism for myself, or my family, there was also little, if any effort by Metro Public Schools to determine why I stopped attending classes or intervene when I dropped out.

While teachers» families generally supported these efforts, they sometimes saw nerdlike behavior as excessive, especially when it came into conflict with family obligations.

But unless your book is a vanity effort, intended only for family and close friends, you may want to seriously rethink the idea that «good enough» is truly good enough when it comes to editing.