Sentences with phrase «age children say»

More than half of parents of school - aged children say that 16 or more school days are dedicated to test activities each year and 44 percent believe this is «too high,» which is double the number who say it is «too low.»
Eight percent of respondents living with school - age children said that at least one of the children has been home schooled.
In a survey, Pet360 discovered that 20 percent of pet owners with school - age children said their pets showed signs of anxiety when everyone in the house went back to their normal routine at the end of the summer.

Not exact matches

From its search engine to YouTube and Chrome, expect versions for children aged 12 and under, a report says.
Laliberte, 55, has five children between the ages of seven and 18, but said that having them take over the Cirque was never really an option.
Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.
Though the number of companies expanding their paid parental leave benefits is rising, Sandberg acknowledged that it's less common for employees to get paid time off to care for sick loved ones, saying that the US needs public policies «that make it easier for people to care for their children and aging parents and for families to mourn and heal after loss.»
While the average age for a child to get his or her first mobile phone is 10, Gates said he made his children wait until they were 14 — much to their chagrin.
Younger people are also getting married later (27 is the median age for women) and having children later, according to Trulia, whose chief economist said these trends are likely to continue indefinitely.
«When we researched it, we discovered that 67 pounds of lunchtime trash is created by each school - age child each school year,» Claxton says.
While there's only a one - in - a-million chance of some random person being able to do this on your phone, Apple said Wednesday that the «statistical probability is different for twins and siblings that look like you and among children under the age of 13, because their distinct facial features may not have fully developed.»
Gordon L. Flett, a psychology professor at York University in Toronto, says more than 50 percent of today's Western school - aged children exhibit the perfectionist traits hinted at above.
Even as they near retirement age, a new report says parents are shouldering an increasingly large burden of their children's college expenses with warning signs that many are in debt over their heads.
Getting the shot can mean the difference between a mild illness and a hospital stay, Schuchat said, particularly for people at higher risk such as children and the aged.
Redick said sometime between the ages of 26 and 30, in between getting married and having children, he began to think more and more about life after the NBA.
«I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it,» said Mr. Gorman, who lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with his wife of more than 20 years, Penny, and their two college - age children.
The rules on the content that's allowed on television, particularly children's television, should extend to YouTube, which is soaking up more and more of young people's screen time, says Keen, author of the upcoming book How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age.
Shapiro started his career as a syndicated conservative columnist at the age of 17 but wrote a critique in February of Parkland activists like Hogg and Gonzalez, pointing out their youth and saying, «Children and teenagers are not fully rational actors.
We are proud to say that all children five (5) years of age and under can enter for free, just make sure to bring proof of age to the registration booth!
He declined to give a date for when the GOP would unveil their replacement plan, but he said it would cover individuals with preexisting conditions and allow children to stay on their parents» health insurance until age 26 — provisions Trump has praised.
NDP leader Andrea Horwath said the child - care plan will provide some relief to parents but leaves out an important age group — people with children under two and a half years old.
Nearly half of adult children past age 30 say their parents made no money mistakes, according to part two of Fidelity Investments Intra-Family Generational Finance Study.
«We aim to become a one - stop shopping platform for both pregnant mothers - to - be and mothers who have children of different ages,» Chen said.
«We trust highly trained educators to use their professional judgment to make decisions in the best interests of children, particularly given that this policy applies to children as young as five years of age,» Kenney said in a press conference on November 2.
Sandi Glausen, 40, mother of two children, aged 10 and 8, said she hadn't really thought about gun control before the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
Another reform, the easing up on China's one - child per couple policy, which officials now say has caused an accelerated aging of China's population.
(In such cases, O'Grady says he typically suggests setting up a trust that prohibits access to the funds until the child reaches a certain age or achieves specified goals.).
He said that at young age he «fell in love» with an ultrasound image of his unborn child.
She said she felt she had to get her son educated and protesting at a young age, because gays «are trying to get our children from the time they're in kindergarten... in the cradle even!»
A Christian charity has said the Government needs to «step up its game» when it comes to protecting children online from pornography, after a landmark report found the majority had watched it by the age of 16.
The Prison Reform Trust has said children in care in England and Wales aged 10 - 17 are five times more likely enter the criminal justice system than other children of their age.
Let's say for example that our society adopted the idea that children were not actually persons until they reached age 10.
Future children could be paraded through it by guides who say «Look children, as late as 2011, many people in America still believed in Middle Eastern Bronze Age mythology.
In its latest Cost of Children research, released annually, the bank said the figure rises to more than # 110,000 for those bringing up a child to the age of 11 in London; an increase of more than # 25,000.
Announcing the new system which will be introduced in October, David Cameron said: «we're going to help parents protect their children from some of the graphic content in online music videos by working with the British Board of Film Classification, Vevo and YouTube to plilot the age rating of these videos»
As I said many times to several MacGroupies after the Strange Fire conference, in which John MacArthur trashed anyone who's ever had a dream of Jesus without even examining it as Scripture commands us to do, «Did Satan stop traumatizing children past the Apostolic Age as well?»
They say the children are being given a chance to sing out their sorrow and anger, while also learning at an early age to protest against injustice.
Stephanie Davies Arai, a UK - based communication specialist who has worked with parents for over eighteen years, says that at around four to five years of age, children begin to classify and categorize everything around them.
I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackChildren Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackchildren, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackchildren the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»
For example, he said, it is absurd for a young celibate Catholic priest to conduct marriage counseling for a middle - aged couple with children.
She said: «It is clear that weaknesses in current legislation allow some organisations to teach school - aged children religious texts full - time... and avoid proper scrutiny.
Jesus said: «no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields — along with persecutions — and in the age to come eternal life» (Mark 10:29 - 30).
They tell children what they HAVE to believe, and children's brains at that young age can't help but believe what the adult says.
The age old problem of SELF often is manifest in a false identity such as; «we are children of Abraham» (therefore I am righteous), «I go to... «church»» (somehow this «church» makes you something) or «all you say we will do» (the people of Israel saying they in themself can meet God's standard), «I give to the church» (not personally meeting others needs), «I do this program or that program» (though you do not desire to glorify God but rather there is some intrinsic value in doing a program).
We begin to formally educate a child at the age of six, and twelve years later frequently find we have failed, not because school material is intrinsically difficult (the task of learning a new language is much more so, yet the child masters it in thee years); we find failure because we have ignored the fact that the developing personality has a natural sway, to and fro, which Whitehead says results in a «craving» to be continually refreshed by the experience of starting anew.
years pass and in so many millions of years pass the bible does not say just how many years past but it was the first earth age when Lucifer rebelled against God and took 1/3 of the children of God with him.
There seems to be some confusion in the responses between a right and a privilege, and I didn't say anything about the age of the child (ren).
Ann B said, on February 3rd, 2010 at 6:16 pm... someone very close to me, at the age of 40, started to remember the sexual abuse they had suffered as a child.
That being said, I think any good children's library must contain some of the works of Howard Pyle, a truly great writer and artist whose versions of Robin Hood and King Arthur are superiorly crafted and can be enjoyed by all ages.
Then you truly do not understand the true nature of God... He saw that none of us would be good enough to attain heaven (except little children who die at an early age) so He sent the only One who had never sinned, who even though he sweated blood and asked if there was any other way, but ultimately said,» not my will but Yours,» paid our way into Heaven.
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