Sentences with phrase «as white parents»

Many schools are already nearly completely black and Hispanic, as white parents have chosen charter schools and private schools to educate their children.»

«Once a school becomes «too black,» it becomes almost all black as white parents avoid it.»

Not exact matches

I live in Canada now, but I gave birth to both of my kids in the United States, and from the vantage point of the Great White North, I can tell you that parents here view the standard three - month American leave as unfathomable and a two - week leave as downright barbaric.

Perhaps the most important part of that strategy relies on Target resolving its distribution woes and stocking shelves this August with everything a parent or kid could want on a back - to - school list, as well as those special items they can't find at other stores (Shaun White's collection of skate shoes and apparel, for instance).

While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

At Star of David, Alyssa's parents gave emotional speeches about their daughter as the group of mourners, clad in white shirts and blue jeans, reflected on her life.

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

One might think that our white, upper - middle - class, nothing - but - the - best youngsters would respond positively to such concepts as «fairness» and «egalitarianism» — but apparently the best lesson we parents taught them was how to say No.

Rabbi Maurice Davis of White Plains, New York, points out that the present generation of Jewish young people, those born here in the «60s, is the first one that can not reasonably expect to surpass its parents» achievements, as those parents did their parents».

Denene Millner's posts about parenting black boys as a black mother did far more to wake me up to realities of racial injustice in this country than my subscription to The New York Times, and Kristen Howerton's «Rage Against the Minivan» blog introduced me to the concept of white privilege in a way that made sense and inspired change.

He had full white hair and trim features; one imagined him as a sweet - faced, athletic lad 60 years ago when he was growing up in the Punjab, the son of missionary parents, and when he joined the mission himself in 1944.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

The Obama administration announced its first round of grants from a new fund aimed at helping pregnant women and parenting teens on Wednesday, a move the White House framed as part of its «common ground» approach to abortion.

Most parents, black or white, were reluctant to send their children out of their neighborhoods to attend distant schools, especially when those schools were perceived, often correctly, as educationally inferior or even physically unsafe.

She is not Black American - although slaves were brought over to the leeward islands during the trans - Atlantic Slave Trade - Her parents are Haitian Immigrants - She was brought up to admire Whites and their culture - She does not see herself as a American Black Woman - She claims that she is beyond that... Her husband is White and all of her friends are White - Please look up her bio - Google it!

The nativity story was read aloud by my friend with carols sung at the appropriate places, and all went like clockwork until it came time for the arrival of the angels of the heavenly host as represented by the children of the congregation, who were robed in white and scattered throughout the pews with their parents.

What if a racist white named their child Nword (as the first name) and hater (as the middle name) would you feel that is the parents right?

This would be in the form of written material (off - line and on - line), a telephone helpline (ParentlinePlus is already promoted to parents around birth registration) and access to face - to - face support locally (e.g. as part of the relationship support infrastructure proposed elsewhere in the White Paper).

As part of her research, Brown interviewed 140 mostly white, middle - class mothers in the Minneapolis area about their cultural ideas of mothering, how they cope with their «life load,» and how they really parent.

she is a committed attachment parenting advocate, and she exhausted every avenue — took him to doctors, co-slept, didn't co-sleep, slept with him on a futon on the floor, changed her bedding & blinds & diet, bought a slew of white noise generators, etc. the lack of sleep was affecting her marriage & her own mental health, as you can imagine.

To help your older child avoid a late - night wake up courtesy of their sibling's screams, or even noise from a sleep talking sibling, caregivers use a little white noise as suggested in Parents.

Hmmm... I think by «American parenting», they might mean American upper - middle - class - and - probably - white - and urban - as - well, parenting.

Additionally, as one of the most comprehensive surveys of Hispanic parents» attitudes concerning online safety, the study indicates that Hispanic children are highly engaged with technology (69 % of Hispanic parents say their child has three or more devices that connect to the Internet, compared to 55 % of white parents who say that about their child.

Many parents have found that baking soda can help ward off odor, as can lavender oil, melaleuca oil in the wash, or white vinegar during the rinse cycle.

You can easily see how a less food - savvy parent might conclude that feeding a child Mango Cremes is actually a net positive, the same as offering fruit, when of course a Mango Creme is, in the end, a highly processed, white flour cookie with 8 grams of fat and 11 grams of sugar per serving.

As a parent, your instinct is to charge in on a white horse and slay those dragons.

As we grow into this parenting gig it seems that there are no black and white answers as I originally thought.As we grow into this parenting gig it seems that there are no black and white answers as I originally thought.as I originally thought...

In addition to flavoring regular white milk with Nesquik Chocolate Powder or Hershey's Chocolate Syrup, other parents use products such as Ovaltine and Carnation Instant Breakfast Powder Drink Mix.

And she says cloth diapers, unlike the plain white plastic so many parents use, are a fashion accessory as well as a healthy, economical, environmentally friendly choice.

As a coach who has been working with separated parents for 20 + years, I believe the unchartered waters of coparenting (like many things) aren't so black and white.

And it's worth noting that, findings aside, Papsin is not a fan of white - noise machines — he sees them as a symptom of modern parenting gone bad.

Among white evangelical Protestants, 69 % say it's better for children if a parent is at home to focus on the family, and 26 % say children are just as well off when their parents work outside the home.

Something else that takes most parents by surprise is that baby girls often have a white vaginal discharge following birth, as well as one or two days of blood streaks.

The Lightening Bug Sleep Clock (Free) app for Android has more than 200 white noise sounds that parents can mix and loop, as well as an alarm clock for moms and dads.

For me, as a white American who is overcoming historical trauma placed on generations of white American mothers who were discouraged from breastfeeding and Attachment Parenting, breastfeeding is a statement: that I, as the mother, know what was best for me and my children.

While I still believe in attachment theory and consider myself to be an attachment parent, through my experiences with our babies I have come to realize that this issue, as with most of life's issues, is not black and white.

Others wonder where the children raised by white parents will find social acceptance as adults.

While many parents use music, sleep scientist say that simple white noise can be just as effective.

There are a number of reasons for this, but one particularly striking figure is that a quarter of American parents still put their babies to sleep on their stomachs, a percentage that rises to half among African - Americans; black babies die of SIDS twice as often as white babies.)

Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump's friendship has suffered as their parents battle it out for the White House in 2016.

«James White,» an indie exercise in macho posturing disguised as a tale of grief, reminds us that losing one's parents is psychically debilitating.

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered a semi-apology Monday for tweeting a story that cast Upper West Side parents opposed to a school desegregation plan as little more than wealthy white racists.

Perhaps unfairly so, for as photographer Stephen Green - Armytage shows in this weird and wonderful book, the pigeon is not only a creature of grace and beauty but also, to quote the writer T. H. White, «a kind of Quaker..., a dutiful child, a constant lover, and a wise parent.»

The authors suggest that wealthy black parents are less able to transfer wealth to their kids than their white counterparts, perhaps, due in part to having fewer liquid assets such as stocks, bonds and savings, which can be passed down more easily to the next generation.

«White parents may be avoiding school districts where black and Latino children live because they use racial composition as a proxy for quality of a school and a neighborhood,» she said.

San Diego Zoo Global has decided to take on the enormous task of using cryopreserved tissue for cross-species cloning to revive the Northern White Rhino, with southern white rhinos as the surrogate parWhite Rhino, with southern white rhinos as the surrogate parwhite rhinos as the surrogate parents.

I wanted to add a perspective that I have found really helpful in my struggle with these parenting decisions: While vaccination is so often presented as a starkly black and white topic, there is a rather large grey zone.

What a lucky boy he is to have you as his parent, who knows that white bread with butter and ham just can't be healthy....