Sentences with phrase «when schools and parents»

When schools and parents and carers work together, children find it easier to understand what is expected from them and are better able to manage.

Not exact matches

Parents can schedule screen time around school, dinner, and chores, and even reward their kids with extra time when they deserve it.

Old and new sit comfortably side by side in Querétaro: when parents pick up their kids when school's over, at 1:30 p.m., they'll also pick up freshly made tortillas for comida, the afternoon meal.

Just as blockbusters are put out en masse during the summer months to reach out - of - school teenagers and young adults, videogames are traditionally released during the winter holiday season — when parents are more apt to spend $ 60 on a new game or up to $ 300 for a new system.

It's that time of the year again, when kids drag their parents along the different store aisles to check off school supplies, clothing and electronics on their list of back - to - school items.

She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

When a lone gunman killed 26 at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, parents were told to go home after waiting in a firehouse near the school, and state troopers later knocked on their doors to officially inform them of their kids» deaths.

And all over this country, parents are scared to death of what might happen when they send their kids to school.

«They are struggling to support children in a school system Christy Clark tore down, struggling to support their parents at a time when Liberals have left 9 in 10 residential care facilities understaffed, and struggling to make ends meet when we have the slowest wage growth in the country and the highest cost of living.

but if your parents told you, from the day you were brought home from the hospital, that the Bible was the literal truth, and everyone — EVERYONE around you continually reinforced that belief — in school, at home, at your friends» houses, and you were in that 24/7/365 from the day you were born, you can start to see — and have sympathy — for these people when other people appear to be attacking their core conditional belief system.

Matters came to crisis point a year ago when the last government's Children, Schools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageSchools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the age of 15.

knew a kid when i was young, got molested, the parents and the school made it out to sound like it was the kids fault.

Critics complain that modern mothers go to work and leave their kids with sitters or in nursery schools; and when they're home, parents plunk kids down in front of the TV.

When the members of the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, a small community near Harrisburg, required students to read a short statement concerning intelligent design before studying ninth - grade biology, they met stiff resistance from some parents and teachers.

If you want to educate the citizens about Islamic culture, perhaps you could use these days as teaching tools and head down to the schools and clear up some misconceptions people have — like the Jewish parents and Islamic parents did when I was a child.

Essentially, this is a set of sexual Geneva conventions: You never knew it, but not only do you have the right to minimal standards of treatment if you ever become a prisoner of war, but when you were five, you had the right to learn at school all kinds of things about what some people like to do in bed, and if your parents thought that really they'd rather you didn't hear about that stuff at school, or at least not yet, they were... well, they were violating your rights.

And the children, when they climbed down from the trees and hurried home, were ordered by their frightened parents never to speak of what they had seen — at school, with friends, in shops, anywheAnd the children, when they climbed down from the trees and hurried home, were ordered by their frightened parents never to speak of what they had seen — at school, with friends, in shops, anywheand hurried home, were ordered by their frightened parents never to speak of what they had seen — at school, with friends, in shops, anywhere.

Born in China to missionary parents (her father was a University of Chicago Ph.D. botanist and theologian), Henrietta was in Toronto teaching high school when she met the tenor.

Parents who continue to teach their children this are inevitably going to confuse the heck out of their children when they have to take more advanced science courses in high school and college.

For example, when working with children in the grammar school period and with their parents, it is important to understand the general growth issues and needs that are typical of the particular life stages of the children and of their parents.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interesParents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interesparents know and do well and are interested in.

Their parents kept them on lockdown through high school and when they got to (a very strict, fundie) school they ran wild.

When German kids go to high school and college, alcohol isn't a big deal to them because they have been «trained» so to speak by their parents for many years beforehand.

Hence Rabbit's constant remembrance of things past: his fading stardom as a high school basketball hero in Mt. Judge, Pennsylvania; his youthful marriage to the store - clerk Janice Springer; their many sexual felicities and infidelities; the deaths that each so horribly caused in their own house; their moral enmeshment in the lives of their friends and families, especially their elderly parents and their own son Nelson; Rabbit's jobs as a typesetter and car dealer, and now Janice's belated career in real estate; their financial prosperity during the boom of the «70s when they bought vacation homes in Florida and the Poconos; now their fear of economic ruin amidst the coming Depression.

Children of single - parent families are far more likely even when they are not poor to do badly in school, get in trouble with the law, have poor mental and physical health, and have marital difficulties later in life.

My low point came on the day I had to fill in for the absent teacher of the Sunday school class for the teen - agers» parents, a bunch of grown - ups who were powerful, outspoken and of a very different persuasion than I when it came to politics and religion.

I expect this will back fire horribly when the parents are forced to purchase insurance on the open market for their children and hideous expense, or move their children to a different school and enrollment plummets.

During the media interviews I took part in last November when the Government announced the Children, Schools and Families Bill, my position was repeatedly attacked on the basis that parents don't like talking to their children about sex, so schoolSchools and Families Bill, my position was repeatedly attacked on the basis that parents don't like talking to their children about sex, so schoolsschools must.

I wondered when we would know better how to help children more widely in schools and homes to understand their feelings, and when we would be able to help parents understand theirs, so that the boys and girls now growing up might know not only about tanks and bullets but about the most powerful of all weapons for both good and evil — the human feelings that propel us, if we do not understand them, into hating in place of loving, into killing instead of creation.

«From the age 13 I was in a one parent family, so I grew up knowing what it's like when there isn't enough money, and there isn't enough to have school uniforms and sometimes school uniforms that fit.»

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

When young people grow up in a more or less homogeneous society, where parents, religious leaders, and schools all confidently communicate traditional values, they may rebel to some extent, but they are also likely to assimilate much of the tradition.

As I sat and listened, her story came out about her parents dying when she was a young child and being sent to boarding school where she was sexually abused by girls there.

when i was in middle school and all i wanted was to be a grungy pre-teen, my parents (usually my trooper mom) would take me down to the broadway location of UO in nyc just so i could spend my allowance on waffle henleys, flannels, and painter jeans - but that's another story!

So when I went out with an elementary school friend and her parents to a different Chinese restaurant and Mushroom Chow Yoke wasn't on the menu, I chose the dish that I thought had the coolest name.

Too bad NYC has banned bake sales in public schools, especially when they can really be a great way to raise money and get kids and parents into the kitchen.

When Cameron, a middle school girl in rural Montana in the mid-90s, kisses her best girl friend the night that her parents die in a car crash, those two events - her secret shame and her parents» death - become so inextricably linked in her head and her heart that she must spend the next half a decade - and perhaps longer - trying to pull them apart.

«He snows you with stories about the school and everything,» says Dave Quarrie, a senior goaltender, «and when he gets talking to your parents it's all over.

When you write about high school and youth sports for a living, you cross paths with a ton of parents.

It's amazing the number of things you never have to consider before becoming a parent — breastfeed or formula feed; cloth diapers or disposables; vaccinations; when to start solids; organic vs. conventional foods; public school, private school or homeschool; and, of course, if you are having a boy — whether or not to circumcise.

We believe that when parents learn together about the importance of a balanced life, communities become stronger, families prioritize well - being, and kids are healthier and more engaged in school.

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 Days, etc.).

When parents feel that they are micromanaging the school and care environments in order to maintain stability for their child, a higher level of support and intervention may be needed.

Kids want to please their parents and fit in with the cultures of their schools; when the main message is that value is a function of performance, then performance is the most important goal.

When poor children grow up in an environment marked by stable, responsive parenting; by schools that make them feel a sense of belonging and purpose; and by classroom teachers who challenge and support them, they thrive, and their opportunities for a successful life increase exponentially.

In her opinion piece, Hubbard encouraged parents to «communicate the value of school as a place to learn and explore, especially when grades are not perfect.»

Remember when you presented your parents with drawings and paintings from elementary school?

When it comes to scoliosis, Illinois no longer requires schools to conduct routine checks on students, leaving it up to parents and doctors to check.

It also sets off a bureaucratic chain of events which backs up the message that fathers can treat parenting as optional, as health visitors talk to mothers rather than fathers, children centres build their services around what they perceive to be mothers» (rather than families») needs, schools fail to record contact details of fathers and, when a young person ends up in court for misbehaviour, magistrates hand down parenting orders to mothers rather than fathers, even when the father is resident in the household and present in the courtroom.

Communities often feel a sense of pride when their local school makes the list, and parents may believe that their child's attendance at one of the ranked schools will help with college admissions and / or future jobs and careers.