Sentences with phrase «as children in the neighborhood»

A local policeman confronted the gallery owners to get it removed, «as children in the neighborhood might see the painting.»

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As they eagerly describe a young Alison staging plays in the family living room and leading neighborhood children on make - believe safaris, the subject of their recollections sits quietly, as though detached from a past that has little to do with who she is todaAs they eagerly describe a young Alison staging plays in the family living room and leading neighborhood children on make - believe safaris, the subject of their recollections sits quietly, as though detached from a past that has little to do with who she is todaas though detached from a past that has little to do with who she is today.

The pair famously pooled money from mowing lawns as children to buy a Super 8 video camera, and proceeded to remake movies they saw on TV with neighborhood children in the starring roles.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

As I turned the corner onto Plantation Drive — the street that would usually take us out of the neighborhood — what I saw startled me: a small black sedan, like a child's toy in the bathtub, bobbing up and down on the swollen waters that blocked our way out to safety.

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).

It strikes me as a dangerous exaggeration that may seem to justify a differentiation in the pedagogies and the social policies that are enacted or applied within such neighborhoods, with greater emphasis on rigid discipline than on the informality and intellectual expansiveness that are familiar in the better schools that educate the children of rich people.

To some observers, it appears to justify the routine sequestration of these children in the tightly segregated neighborhoods in which they dwell, because this sequestration makes it possible to localize the «special» services that are believed to be appropriate to children who are seen as being absolutely and entirely different from our own.

Suppose, as was the case, that some black parents preferred that their children remain in their neighborhood school, without regard to its racial make - up.

As they passed by the gun shop here in my neighborhood, the child asked, «Why is there a gun shop here when there aren't any animals to shoot?»

I hope «Christianity» is the right religion, if it is not then I have wasted a lot of time and money, or perhaps not, for if one lives up to the values, beliefs and principles of true Christianity that one would be one of the nicest people to live on Earth with and as a child of 6 I realized I did not like any of the people in my neighborhood very much, not much at all.

Whatever It Takes is a moving account of his commitment to giving Harlem's children access to the same dreams as children in New York's most privileged neighborhoods.»

A double stroller can keep multiple children safe and comfortable as you travel, fit in a bit of exercise, or walk through the neighborhood while running day to day errands.

In addition to losing a neighborhood park with mature trees, flowers and wildlife, we'll lose well - utilized facilities such as a children's playground, some tennis courts and a skating rink.

Thus, corporal punishment in a high crime neighborhood as part of a controlling parenting style is more likely to be part of the parents» efforts to assure their children's safety, and less a part of the parents» need for control and authority.

The Great Hope Family Center in the Little Village neighborhood provides food to about 100 families each month as well as meals for the 160 men, women and children who stay at its shelter.

«[A] moving account of... giving Harlems children access to the same dreams as children in New Yorks most privileged neighborhoods.»

As a result, in a neighborhood with an intense concentration of deep disadvantage, like Roseland, it is next to impossible for large numbers of children to get the kind of help they need to make it out of there and to make it to a really successful adulthood.

As I made my way back up the stairs, I could hear children laughing outside — a common sound in my neighborhood that's filled with kids and families.

In Paul Tough's first book, «Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,» he focused on the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97 - block area where Canada set about overhauling the neighborhood with comprehensive social programs, such as after - school activities and parenting classes, that extended beyond the classroom and reshaped the childhood experience.

As a result, you should encourage your child to cast a wide net and seek out friendships in their neighborhood, at school, on a team, through a club, and at church.

The couple, Robert and Mildred Tong, parents of three children, had paid $ 50 for the commemorative brick last October as part of a fundraising effort to help pay for new playground equipment in Senn Park in the Edgewater neighborhood.

Judges strongly favor keeping a child in an arrangement that the child is familiar with, such as allowing a child to remain in the same school or neighborhood.

A child hunger study released by the food depository last year identified Brighton Park as one of the area's most underserved neighborhoods in terms of food services available outside of school, Dolgan said.

While some of this population surge is due to Hasidim, the traditionally garbed community whose cultural practices often lead to large families of 10 or more children (and whose neighborhoods voted more heavily for John McCain in 2008 than the State of Utah), the larger Orthodox Jewish population is experiencing explosive growth in New York City as well.

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hungeIn less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hungein our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hungein the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

As the future congressman from this great district, I know Keith stands ready to deliver on the same fundamental issues he has fought for alongside me in the legislature — bringing more affordable housing to our neighborhoods, pushing through meaningful criminal justice reform and ensuring that all of our children have every chance to succeed with the promise of a first - rate education.

The mayor also touted his accomplishments such as the more than 70,000 children enrolled in full - day pre-kindergarten, Police Commissioner James O'Neill's neighborhood policing program and his push for more affordable housing, reminding the audience that the city needs to be inclusive of people of all socioeconomic statuses.

«As we work to transform our city, creating safer more vibrant neighborhoods, more jobs and better educational opportunities for our children, we are here to listen to what residents and business owners have to say about opportunities in their neighborhood,» Warren said in a news release.

HIs contributions to our neighborhood have included «securing financing through the State's Secured Hospital Revenue Bond Program so that Flushing Hospital Medical Center and Jamaica Hospital and Medical Center could modernize and expand; providing the Lifeline Center for Child Development with a permanent home; securing the financial support that has enabled the Bayside Historical Society to undertake its restoration of the Fort Totten Officers Club; creating the Colonial Farmhouse Restoration Society to operate the former Adriance Farm Site as the Queens Farm Museum and transferring 52 acres of surrounding land to New York City for permanent use as horticultural - agricultural parklands; and providing land for the Cross Island YMCA to expand, for the Hollis - Bellaire - Queens Village - Bellerose Little League to own their ball fields and for Catholic Charities of the Brooklyn - Queens Diocese to develop senior citizen housing in Bellerose.

Espaillat said that winning in Congress means that he will be able to provide «some level of relief for neighborhood and families that are facing eviction or having a tough time making ends meet,» such as the child care tax credit increase proposal he announced earlier this year, which he said will provide relief for working families.

Using survey data collected between 1997 and 2007 on 3,563 children, the researchers found that children seven - to 12 - years - old had significantly more serious behavior problems if they lived in neighborhoods that their parent rated as «poor» for raising children, compared to those living in the «excellent» neighborhoods.

«Programs and policies should address strategies for building supportive resident interactions in the neighborhoods, as well as nonphysical child discipline to help reduce maltreatment.»

Adversity is commonly defined as anything children perceive as a threat to their physical safety or that jeopardizes their family or social structure, including emotional, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, bullying by peers, violence at home, parental divorce, separation or death, parental substance abuse, living in a neighborhood with high crime rates, homelessness, discrimination, poverty and the loss of a relative or another loved one.

In the 1950s children played in the fog of DDT as trucks sprayed neighborhoods, but with the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, we learned it was toxiIn the 1950s children played in the fog of DDT as trucks sprayed neighborhoods, but with the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, we learned it was toxiin the fog of DDT as trucks sprayed neighborhoods, but with the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, we learned it was toxic.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquencAs evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquencas criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

In an HBM poster from the 2012 meeting, You and colleagues reported using a «connectivity degree» — computed by counting, for each voxel, the number of voxels meeting a correlation threshold of r > 0.25 inside (local) and outside (distant) its neighborhood defined as a sphere of 14 mm radius (Sepulcre et al., 2010)-- to find that degree of functional connectivity was higher in 7 — 13 - year - old children with ASD than TD children (You et al., 2012In an HBM poster from the 2012 meeting, You and colleagues reported using a «connectivity degree» — computed by counting, for each voxel, the number of voxels meeting a correlation threshold of r > 0.25 inside (local) and outside (distant) its neighborhood defined as a sphere of 14 mm radius (Sepulcre et al., 2010)-- to find that degree of functional connectivity was higher in 7 — 13 - year - old children with ASD than TD children (You et al., 2012in 7 — 13 - year - old children with ASD than TD children (You et al., 2012).

In fact, the only exercise I do involves briskly walking around my neighborhood as I push my child's stroller.

Tell you what, I'll write and direct a flick based off of a serial killer who poses as an ice cream man who's been abducting children and women and killing them in his torture home, only to be walking on the edge of being uncovered as two best friends move into the neighborhood with wait for it — an ice cream truck!

When next we see her, the woman is standing hesitantly on a street in North London in the neighborhood where everyone knew her as Ronit, the daughter and only child of the Rav, estranged from her father for years and returning for his funeral.

«Prisoners» was originally written as a story of two white families in a predominantly white neighborhood and their struggle, when their daughters go missing, to find their kidnapped children.

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education procesIn his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education procesin poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education procesin the education process.

But as Paul Tough writes in his book, Whatever It Takes, about Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone, Canada had something growing up that a lot of other kids in the neighborhood didn't: a mother with a couple years of college under her belt who realized that education doesn't only happen in school.

Yet the decision by a small number of children to opt out of neighborhood schools may adversely affect the academic and social environment in those schools, as the remaining children are likely to have less - involved families on average.

School boundaries were redrawn as contiguous neighborhood zones, and children who lived in each zone were guaranteed access to their neighborhood school.

During the past year, Bonnie Mackintosh has been conducting classroom - level observations and child assessments in community - based preschool programs throughout Boston's Circle of Promise and East Boston neighborhoods as part of an initiative to improve access to high - quality early childhood care and educational programs.

I think this commitment is represented well by HGSE faculty members, including some hired during my deanship, for example: Nancy Hill with her work on parenting and family socialization practices across ethnic, socio - economic, and neighborhood contexts; Meira Levinson with her work on civic and multicultural education; Natasha Warikoo with her work on race, immigration, inequality, and culture as they relate to education; and Hiro Yoshikawa with his work on the development of young children in immigrant families.

As Hopkinson points out, these are not neighborhood schools, and families need to win a lottery in order to enroll their children in them.

Third, many control group children may already have been attending a school other than one in their neighborhood as a result of expanded school choice policies, which also meant that children in the experimental group could stay in their original schools after their families moved.

Youngsters who grow up in poor neighborhoods don't have access to the same resources as children in more affluent communities.