Sentences with phrase «about being a parent in»

Despite having no children himself, the adviser calmed Metallo's fears about being a parent in academia: Other people have done it, the adviser told him, and you can, too.

In a particularly cringe - inducing exchange captured on film, Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo of the Bronx accuses Ms. Moskowitz of lying when the charter school leader talks about being a parent in Harlem (the neighborhood where she grew up, where she attended public school, and where she is raising her children, who attend the charter).

Not exact matches

And when I say procto - parents, I mean parents who are totally into minding their kids» and everyone else's business, but don't know the first thing about effective education, or how to build the kind of self - sufficient, self - starting students that we actually do need to compete in the global marketplace.

Once employees are hired at RFRK, they go through a comprehensive onboarding process in which they meet with the owners as a group for up to an hour to learn more about the company's inception — a story that involves two fed - up parents on a mission to give kids healthier food options.

In some ways the findings are incredibly intuitive — just think how baffled you were around age 16 when your parents got excited about new kitchen appliances or a Sunday morning spent reading the newspaper.

«If you are a parent or teacher looking to foster grit in kids, the first step is to let go of what you want for them, and watch for what they are passionate about.

In some cases, family firms should be thinking about «intergenerational partnerships,» which see parents and adult children sharing managerial authority for an extended period — perhaps as long as 10 or 15 years.

When I was brought up, if I ever said anything ill about someone, my parents would put me in front of a mirror and make me stand there for 10 minutes and say how badly it reflected on me.

I took my parents to In & Out for the first time and felt like such an insider when I told them about this «secret» that isn't really a secret because everyone wants to tell the next person about it.

Unless you're living in a society with arranged marriages, however, this is much more about your children's choices than anything you can do for them as a parent.

Instead, this is about one of the hottest debates in parenting circles: whether parents should encourage their kids to «suck it up» when they are hurt or suffer setbacks, or instead «run to their side.»

LinkedIn career expert Nicole Williams says entrepreneurs and individuals working in new fields such as social media or technology can especially benefit from inviting parents into their working lives, as their parents are most often confused about what their children working in these new fields do for a living.

Parents in wealthier homes are more likely to actively mediate their child's online activities — by talking about them, suggesting ways to use the Internet more safely, or joining in.

Our idea was that some parents might buy it for kids who were about to graduate from college and begin pursuing a job in software.

«They're all talking about the bounce, so right now everybody in this room has to like me at least a little bit,» Trump told the CEOs of Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Google's parent company, and other tech titans.

Ask any parent of a little kid about what it's like to get them up and out the door in the morning.

«Kids and their parents weren't connecting about this provocative topic, and they felt isolated from each other on both sides,» said Powell speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif. on Monday.

And like most children who were adopted in the 60's, everything about my biological parents, my genealogy and how I came to be adopted remain cloaked behind a veil of secrecy.

Parents worrying about their children probably won't be focused on keeping the company in shape through the disaster, says Freitag.

According to the Washington Post, Jones was initially optimistic when Trump announced he had reached a deal with Carrier's parent company, United Technologies (utx), to keep about 1,100 jobs in Indianapolis.

Christianson adds that he's heard horror stories about kids hitting their parents up for money or asking them to guarantee their mortgages later in life.

That was Mike Bezos» — Jeff Bezos» father — first reaction when Jeff Bezos called to tell his parents about his plans to launch Amazon in the mid-90s.

The decision has been ascribed to some combination of the persuasive powers of the president - elect, about $ 7 million in tax breaks from the state of Indiana, and implicit threats to the valuable business Carrier's parent company United Technologies, a major military contractor, conducts with the federal government.

Why Danish Parents (And Their Kids) Are Happier Than Americans 10 Kites That Will Distract Your Kid For Hours While You Actually Relax At The Beach Everything You Need To Know About Parenting In 12 Judd Apatow Quotes The 7 Parenting Podcasts You Should Be Listening To A Pro Dog Trainer On Introducing Kids To Dogs (And Dogs To Kids)

Students shouldn't borrow more in loans than they'll make in their first year of employment, said Jeff Selingo, author of «There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.»

«A really sweet Mama came up 2 [sic] me tonight at the grocery store and told me some nice words about how she gets strength from my parenting cause I'm not afraid to f — up in public,» Pink wrote.

In excerpts released from the book, Princess Caroline (his older sister) was candid about her relationship with her parents, specifically her mother who was film - star - turned - princess Grace Kelly.

I was actually happy when, in my mid-thirties, my parents revealed to me that as a child I had been diagnosed with ADHD, they simply never told me about it.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks suggests a title of particular interest to anyone working in tech (and parents): «This alarming book is about the generation born after 1995 who've grown up with cell phones, Instagram, and the rest.

(It's assumed he was talking about Alperovitch, who is a cofounder and was born in Moscow to Russian parents.)

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

What makes the strict rules these tech pioneers institute in their personal lives so alarming isn't the types of fears that drive them - nearly all parents worry about screen time these days - but the magnitude of that fear.

This is all very fascinating if you're an education professional or a parent, but does this science have anything to say about how to handle Millennials in a professional context?

Like most graduation speakers my main qualification would seem to be that I am one of the few people who are even more clueless about what is going on in your lives than your parents and your professors.

Actually, I was held after school, my parents were brought in, and I was reprimanded for not caring enough about microbiology.

The point of getting children interested in stocks early is to have parents instill a better way to think about money.

Two days after a mass shooting in an Orlando gay nightclub raised concerns about home - grown terrorism, a two - year - old boy visiting Disney's Grand Floridian Resort with his parents was snatched by an alligator while playing in the lagoon.

If you look more like the parent of someone about to go to the prom rather than the kid in the rented tux, are your chances of finding support for your entrepreneurial ambitions lessened?

Doug Lockwood, a financial planner at Hefty Wealth Partners in Auburn, Ind., says he is having many more conversations with clients lately about young people saving money — although mostly these involve affluent parents expressing their fears over how their grown children will get by in more trying times.

While most of us think about our time in 24 - hour blocks, Vanderkam thinks that «anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's church, a strategic thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.»

Pharmaprix, with about half the stores, has proven unable to leverage its parent's national dominance into a market lead in Quebec; though Pharmaprix stores are larger than Jean Coutu's, they have lower profit - per - square - foot ratios.

I realize summer vacation is still in full swing in many parts of the country and most parents have yet to think for a single second about back - to - school supplies.

In effect, Hemsley was talking about corporate parenting.

(Coogan was a child actor who in the 1930s earned over $ 4 million but only received about $ 2,000 of it; his parents took the rest.

I spoke to three successful CEO moms about what drew them to leadership; their parenting and business challenges; and their advice for the hundreds of thousands of women who are likely to start new businesses in 2014.

Well, the onus is on you, the parent, because you can't count on them learning about money matters in school, said Thomas Henske, a certified financial planner and partner at Lenox Advisors.

Beginning with a one - toddler action against smokers at his parents party at about age three, Shel Horowitz has been involved in environmental and social change movements his whole life.

Beginning with a one - toddler action against smokers at his parents» party at about age three, Shel has been involved in environmental and social change movements his whole life.

How much do kids tell their parents about what is happening in their digital lives?

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal is suing to break her agreement with the National Enquirer's parent company, American Media Inc., which gave McDougal $ 150,000 and a potential spot for some of her fitness columns in the tabloid in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump in 2006 and 2007.