Sentences with phrase «as skeptical parents»

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As a first time mom who has chosen to use AP principles and peaceful parenting techniques, I've been a bit skeptical of this whole non-violent parenting technique.

As for parents who want to give probiotics to their healthy kids as part of a «prevention strategy» — the same way you'd give a multivitamin — Merenstein is skepticaAs for parents who want to give probiotics to their healthy kids as part of a «prevention strategy» — the same way you'd give a multivitamin — Merenstein is skepticaas part of a «prevention strategy» — the same way you'd give a multivitamin — Merenstein is skeptical.

She wanted to act — but as a compromise with her parents, who were skeptical of a career in the arts, she majored in economics on a scholarship at Brandeis University.

A reserved outsider whose childhood is marked by battling parents and (eventually) an absentee dad, Cathleen finds comfort and peace in Catholicism as a teenager; she tells her worldly, skeptical mother, Nora (Julianne Nicholson), that she's fallen in love with Jesus.

But more and more parents who are skeptical of that research are turning to groups such as the National Vaccine Information Center, in Vienna, Virginia, which continues to explore possible hazards of vaccines and educates people to make their own decisions.

Parents, initially skeptical about school reform efforts, or accustomed to thinking of them as concessions aimed largely at luring parochial and private school students back into a low - income, black - majority system, flocked to the new schools, even lining up in pre-dawn hours to assure a child's admission.

Three decades of experimentation with school choice demonstrate that making it work requires careful attention to such tasks as ensuring that parents have good information about school quality and suitable transportation — responsibilities that skeptical local bureaucrats may dodge.

The Connecticut Parents Union, on the other hand, is as fierce a foe of the AFT and the NEA as they come; but its president (and Dropout Nation Contributing Editor) Gwen Samuel is skeptical of the propensity of some reformers to be as disdainful as traditionalists about the role families (especially those from poor and minority households) should play in education decision - making.

As a taxpayer and parent with a child in the school system, I'm skeptical that the right mechanisms, meaning those that can not be corrupted, could be put in place to monitor private entities operating public school systems.

Researchers and many top preschool programs are focusing on one solution as a way of getting pre-K attendance up: Home visits at the beginning of the year, before kids start missing and before parents have a chance to feel skeptical about the school.

«As incumbent members of the local school board, and survivors of four years of attacks by the national charter school and voucher movement, we are skeptical of organizations that appear to promote vouchers or unabated charter school growth at the expense of students, parents, teachers, and taxpayers,» the letter stated.

Parents mainly see the tablet as an educational tool (and they can be skeptical, but minds are changing).

Bitter college professors, ignorant (but loving) parents, and skeptical art business folks like to push the idea that making a living as an artist is too hard, or that it doesn't pay.

He has penned a few articles for Skeptical Inquirer, whose parent Center for Skeptical Inquiry recently added him as a Scientific and Technical Consultant.