Sentences with phrase «aged children in your neighborhood»

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Each April, yard signs spring up in all the affluent neighborhoods in town, proclaiming support for an event aimed at children ages ten through fourteen.

After all, as she admits, what happened in the garden didn't happen to other children in the neighborhood but only to her — «only me, me in my family, me in my family when I'm seven going on eight, me in my family when I have reached the age of reason...» (emphasis mine).

Growing up I was the neighborhood babysitter; watching anywhere from 2 - 5 children at a time ranging in age from 2 years old to a 14 - year - old with Aspergers.

The reader - driven awards program, in its third year, recognizes the best parenting brands, products, and neighborhood services and resources for families with children ages 0 - 10.

She actively teaches the Ruhi children's class material developed by the Ruhi Institute, and has developed a supplemental curriculum for children ages 0 - 2 and ages 3 - 5 which has been very successful in her work at the neighborhood - level building community with families.

«We took an informal head count, and there are 179 children under the age of 12 in our neighborhood,» she said.

«You go back to him because he gets right to the point,» said Donnelly, a schoolteacher who lives in the South Shore neighborhood and has three children, ages 21, 6 and 16 months.

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

The researchers adjusted their findings for race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty, education and how urban the neighborhood the children lived in was.

I'm a white, able - bodied, heterosexual, educated, employed, English - speaking, fully - cognitive, physically and emotionally healthy Canadian of child - bearing age living in a safe neighborhood.

With (really) offbeat humor, the story centers on man - child «Clinton» (Fran Kranz) who still lives with his mother «Edie» (Blythe Danner) at age thirty - something, lazily watches television in a dirty robe, and fights with neighborhood kids over action figures at his own makeshift yard sale.

Forty - eight percent of all adults — and 50 percent of parents of school - aged children — living in a neighborhood with at least one charter school were aware of that fact.

The children being tested, ages 6 months to 3 years, are from low - income neighborhoods in Tacoma and Yakima, said Lew Kittle, a project manager for the state health department's office of toxic substances.

Nearly 80 percent of parents of school - aged children support allowing parents to choose which public schools their child should attend and more than 70 percent of parents surveyed favor having a charter school open in their neighborhood.

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

As a start - up public charter school sponsored by the SC Public Charter School District, LLCS will serve school - aged children living in rural West Ashley, surrounding communities, and neighboring counties, and as such, have a potential student body reflective of the demographic character of the region thus bringing back the neighborhood school concept.

The last study investigates the differential effects of neighborhoods on disparities in children's behavioral school - readiness outcomes using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS)-- a rich longitudinal data that follows nearly 5,000 children between birth and nine years of age.

Charter school seats are concentrated near downtown while more impoverished neighborhoods with more school aged children have fewer schools — requiring those seeking choice to travel significant distances in a city of 140 square miles.

Jones» debut is a sensitively written coming - of - age story, set against the backdrop of Atlanta's African - American neighborhoods in 1979, where black children were being murdered by an infamous serial killer.

In the case of a YA novel or children's book, look around for be age - appropriate relatives, neighborhood kids, or the children of your friends — or perhaps you know a teacher or librarian who would be willing to read some or all of it aloud to students and collect feedback.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Based on prior empirical and theoretical work, this study investigated the following hypotheses: (1) maternal exposure to IPV will be associated with higher odds of obesity at age 5 years in their children; (2) maternal exposure to IPV will be associated with feeding practices and behaviors that elevate risk for childhood obesity; and (3) maternal perception of lower neighborhood safety will increase the effect of IPV on childhood obesity risk.

The Little Folks School, Inc. is a small independent Nursery School located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, this unique program serves 40 children, ages two and a half through age five.

Across all U.S. neighborhoods, the percentage of children < 18 years of age exposed to neighborhood disadvantage is far lower than in Chicago.

The path from positive engagement to teacher reports of child conduct problems was only significant for those living in the higher risk neighborhoods, with a marginally significant trend for the entire indirect effect from the FCU to changes in positive engagement to school - age child conduct problems.

The MSUE - SCP will target parents of children (ages 2 - 8) in two neighborhoods, identified as Flint Wards, who were exposed to high lead levels due to the Flint water crisis.

The independent variables consisted of the participants» prospective reports of their (a) relationships with their parents during adolescence, (b) depressive mood and drug use (adolescence to adulthood), (c) relationship with their oldest child between the ages of 6 — 13, and (d) perceptions of neighborhood crime and deterioration (in adulthood).

These include: school quality, housing costs, crime rates, income levels, the age, size and style of homes, the density of buildings, rental areas versus owner occupied, the proportion of families with children, educational attainment, languages spoken, types of careers of those living in the neighborhood, economic trends, demographic trends, crime trends and forecasts, crime risk by crime type, home price appreciation and HPA forecasts, unemployment trends, and many, many more.

Keep in mind that school quality is an important predictor of neighborhood quality, which is important for all tenants, even those who don't have school - age children yet.

If you have school - age children, visit schools in neighborhoods you're considering.