Sentences with phrase «among young children at»

This discussion centers on intervention efforts that may reduce parenting stress and enhance school belonging among young children at risk of engaging in delinquent behaviors.

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The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

These children, especially the younger among them, need the care of their mother at home».

Among the great joys that will occupy our minds with family and friends celebrating the coming of the God - child, we will all bear significant sadness in our hearts for the families agonizing over the loss young children at Sandy Hook.

Developing relationships of trust, openness and reverence among colleagues, with the young child always at the centre of our vision, is the starting point for educating in freedom and toward freedom.

However, lessons were learned from these early programmes and in 2004, the Texas Fragile Families initiative reported an increase in child support orders / paternity establishment among its participants (with a «dose» effect — the longer the young father was involved in the programme, the more likely he was to establish paternity / pay child support); and employment rates up from 50 % at the start of the programme to almost 70 % at six months and 80 % at one year (Romo et al, 2004).

Among teens and younger children, disordered eating has reached «epidemic levels,» according to researchers at the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders.

Or at least try harder in lowering the amount of fatalities and serious injuries among young children?

Being afraid at night is common among children, especially younger children who are still developing emotional coping skills.

Education is needed, change in policies at the local level are needed, the level of homelessness among families with young children needs to decline, but in the meantime there are families who don't have the option (the laudromats near us are pretty clear in this policy as are the daycares, and I had more than one funny look from guests when they saw me putting diapers into the washing machine, I imagine the reaction in shared housing is more difficult to battle.)

There are several possible causes for speech delays in young children: neurological causes, behavioural difficulties, and lack of access to appropriate stimuli are among them, and multiple factors could be at play.

Even at a young age, children can help find thing in the grocery store, wash vegetables, set the table, and «toss» a salad, among other things.

Pregnant women and young children, among others (e.g., adults 65 years of age and older, people with certain medical conditions) are at high risk of developing flu - related complications.

Spitting is especially common among younger children with autism, Dr. Matthew Siegel, a clinical investigator at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, points out on the website, Autism Speaks.

In June 1971 the editors of Oz magazine went on trial at the Old Bailey for, among other things, conspiring to «corrupt the morals of young children and other young persons» by producing an «obscene article».

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Melanoma, the potentially deadly skin cancer, has increased by 250 percent among U.S. children and young adults since the 1970s, researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute recently reported.

A different study, published April 13 in Scientific Reports, looked at handheld digital device use among young children and its relationship to sleep.

«Fireworks - related burns requiring hospital stays skyrocket among kids: Loosening US laws that let people buy pyrotechnics at younger ages is tied to increased incidence and severity of fireworks - related burns in children.»

«Homicide is a leading cause of death in U.S. adolescents and young adults, especially among African Americans, but the factors influencing violence are complex,» said corresponding author Alison J. Culyba, M.D., M.P.H., an adolescent medicine specialist and epidemiologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

The overwhelming medical evidence finds that most vaccine side effects among newborns and young children are mild — swelling, redness and a small, hard lump at the site of the injection — and typically pass within a couple of days.

Young children's understanding of others» false beliefs is at the heart of a debate among psychologists trying to explain years of inconsistent findings.

Influenza vaccine coverage overall is low among young children and those in need of two doses in a given season are at particular risk, with less than half of those who receive the first dose returning to receive the second needed doses.

Autism and related disorders — referred to as autism spectrum disorders — occurred at a rate of six in 10,000 among the children of the younger fathers and 32 in 10,000 among the children of the older fathers.

A recent study by Paul Armstrong at the Department of Health, Western Australia, and colleagues reported that the rate of febrile convulsions among young children was 3.3 per 1000 doses, 200 times that reported in a U.S. influenza vaccine safety study.

Overall, the lowest proportion of children (80 %) having at least one local adverse event was observed in the 10 µg group among the younger children aged 1 — 2 years.

Among their many philanthropic efforts, Stan established a fund to help support young bone marrow transplant patients at Levine Children's Hospital in Charlotte.

«Eating in the absence of hunger is associated with being overweight among older children, but this is the first time we've seen this link in children as young as toddlerhood,» says senior author Julie C. Lumeng, M.D., a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hchildren, but this is the first time we've seen this link in children as young as toddlerhood,» says senior author Julie C. Lumeng, M.D., a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hchildren as young as toddlerhood,» says senior author Julie C. Lumeng, M.D., a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's HChildren's Hospital.

At the same time, child - bearing and cohabitation are rising dramatically among young people.

At the same time, young children may fear some of the survival - of - the - fittest comedy and the depiction of two human skeletons found among the wreckage of a plane.

KW: Harriet Pakula Teweles asks: Since our country does not have the kind of state system we see in «Mao's Last Dancer,» a bio-pic set in China where children are recruited at an early age and trained at state expense, how can we find our talented young artists, especially among the youth whose parents can't afford private lessons?

With the increasing popularity of social media, especially among teenagers, researchers at the University of Hertfordshire are concerned that social networking sites may already be playing an active role in promoting novel psychoactive substances (NPS), otherwise known as legal highs, to children as young as 12 *.

And yet schools, on average, appear to help reduce inequality, at least among young children,» writes Professor Heather Hill.

Can we encourage more planning and less drifting among young adults and perhaps bring back marriage, or at least a long - term committed relationship, as the standard precursor to bearing and raising children in the U.S.?

In Milwaukee, a neighborhood health center asked a chemistry class at Milwaukee Trade and Technical to help it tackle awareness of lead - paint poisoning among young children.

Think Physics is a collaborative cradle to career project, which uses physics in a creative and holistic way to inspire children, young people, their parents and teachers to increase the uptake of physics and STEM related subjects at A-level in the North East, especially among girls and other under - represented groups.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

Many of his studies took him into controversial territory, including his investigation of whether incentives increase academic achievement (in most cases, no), and his investigation with Steven Levitt of whether there are systematic racial differences in mental ability among young children (no, when they're under the age of 1; yes, as they get older, hinting at the importance of environmental differences).

Among them are deleterious effects on children of unregulated and often substandard childcare; [9] lost productivity for employers due to parents missing work to handle gaps in childcare or to care for a sick child; [10] lost wages and reduced retirement benefits for parents who have to drop out of the labor market to provide at - home care for their young children; [11] a substantial downward pressure on the wages of childcare workers with effects on the quality and stability of the childcare workforce; [12] and lost opportunities for further education, [13] college savings, and other investments that working parents could make in themselves and their children but can not afford because they are spending most or all of their disposable income on childcare.

Among KIPP teachers, it says, there are «young parents who leave at 5 p.m. to pick up their children from daycare, part - time teachers who job share, and teachers who continue to work past 5 p.m.» It says 53 percent of KIPP teachers are white and 47 percent are African American, Hispanic or Asian American.

Posters encourage regular attendance at Simon Elementary School in the District, a city that has enormous truancy rates, even among young children.

In the year ending in January 2012, the American Association of Publishers reported that e-book sales had risen more than 49.4 % in the adult books category, 475.1 % in the children's and young adult category, and 150.7 % in the religious publications category.5 We at the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reported that ownership of e-book readers among adults age 18 and older had nearly doubled from 10 % of the population to 19 % over the holiday gift - giving season at the end of 2011, and ownership of tablet computers had surged a similar amount.6 In the final week of 2011 the e-book version of 42 of the top - selling 50 books on USA Today's best - seller book list was outselling the paper version of the same book.7

And, Nielsen's Nowell let us know, children are starting to read ebooks at younger ages, the trend being that the devices glowing - up more among the 4 - to 5 - year - olds.

In your critical essay you can talk about the violence in general, violence towards children, violence among young people, violence at school, and about any other type of violence.

Alongside our veterinary programme, SPANA Mali delivers a children's education programme at our centre, designed to foster empathy for animals among young people.

Young people, adults and children come together on these beaches where the sounds of drums accompany a pleasant conversation among friends, a celebration, a great meal or a calming walk on the beach with the waves lapping at your feet.

The young artist is also steadfast in her support of charitable organizations, among them Avalon, New Jersey's Helen L. Diller Vacation Home for Blind Children; last night saw de Forest take part in a special painting session at the Ocean Galleries, where she worked together with students to create a piece of artwork to be donated to the Diller Home.

Parenting support programs have been shown to have positive effects among families with young infants at high psychosocial risk.20 - 25 Our results suggest a benefit from the universal provision of parenting and child development support services to an unselected sample of families with health coverage, who ranged from the affluent and employed to those at greater socioeconomic and psychosocial risk.

Despite availability, screening tools for identifying young children at risk are underutilized, partly due to limited awareness among pediatricians, parents and educators.

Domestic violence among the low income couples who would be targeted for the healthy marriage initiative is very rare.In fact, only 2 percent experience domestic violence.Critics of the healthy marriage initiative often cite statistics showing that a high percent of middle - aged welfare mothers have suffered domestic violence at some point in the past.These figures are irrelevant for two reasons.First, the healthy marriage initiative will focus on younger women around the time of a child's birth, not older mothers with a long history of welfare dependence.The domestic violence rates are very different for these two groups.Second, the fact a woman has experienced domestic violence in the past does not mean she is experiencing violence in a current relationship, or that most prior relationships have involved violence.

As part of its work, Early Years and the Peace Initiatives Institute created a programme aimed at children aged 3 - 4 years old that seeks to increase awareness of diversity and difference issues among young children, early childhood practitioners and parents.