Sentences with phrase «be as a parenting team»

As great as you two might be as a parenting team, some of that awesomeness goes out the window if you can't be supportive of them outside of their parenting duties as well.

Not exact matches

As any good parenting team will tell you, a united front is best for everyone in establishing respect and boundaries.

Though it started as a secret project within Google in 2009, the self - driving car team is now housed in X, the «moonshot» lab of parent company Alphabet.

As I saw with my parents, who were happily married for 39 years, couples who tackle life's inevitable ups and downs with a true team mentality have a much better chance of going the distance.

Nowadays, being on the field as the team's statistician is an especially welcome respite from a parent's worst nightmare.

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

New team member Claire Musters joins Sam and Justin on the podcast as we debate how parents should treat Halloween, ask «Is it time to pray for Revival again?»

It's been a fun season getting to know all of the parents, watching the girls come together as a team, and being initiated into the club volleyball scene.

Along the way, her boosterish writing made her sound almost as if she were a team parent.

I am — so my parents told me — a small part Native American, and my wife is part Native American as well; I thought and still think the demand to change the team name was silly.

It was fun recently, explaining this scenario to St. Mary's parents as well as Rams» head coach Tom Gonsalves, who like most girls coaches doesn't have the time to follow any boys teams.

The team is made up of the Foster Parent (s), a YAS Family Counselor, the child and his / her family, the county social worker and other community resource professionals (as needed) for the child.

Does playing for the right team, club or high school guarantee getting recruited for college is a question all parents of elite athletes end up facing sometime along the way as their children continue their growth as athletes.

And, finally, because prevailing attitudes towards concussion symptom reporting and reporting behavior are deeply entrenched in our sports culture, we encourage, as Step Five, that coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors, and parents continue working over the course of the sports season to create and maintain an environment in which athletes feel safe in immediately reporting concussion symptoms (both their own and their teammates) by sharing and reinforcing positive messages about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting via social media, by maintaining open lines of communication and an ongoing dialog about concussion safety among and between and among coaches, athletes, medical staff and parents.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

Overall, it can indeed be challenging and disheartening for a parent to have a child who does not easily or happily leave each day for school because of their sensitivity or adaptability to a formal classroom setting; you'll feel better if you and your child's teacher can work together as a team.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Add in the possibility that sideline personnel responsible for monitoring athletes for signs of concussion, such as team doctors and athletic trainers, or coaches and parent volunteers, may be away from the sideline attending to other injured athletes when a player sustains a high force blow, or, even if they are watching the field / court / rink, may miss significant impacts because they occur away from the play, and one can see why better concussion detection methods are needed.

My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.

I thought I'd share what we've learned in the brief time that we've officially been «not quite outnumbered but each have full hands» parents of two (and as second timers on «Team Green» — surprise gender!).

The Parenting Chaos blog is a unique blog run by a team of superstar women who either have backgrounds in child education or have worked with children who have sensory challenges, such as autism.

These new products are curated and added by our in - the - know team of baby experts, as well as by other parents like you.

So it's not surprise that such as special team led us to a special family like our Intended Parents.»

But even within some marriages and in many divorces, she notes, «too many children grow up without parents who work as a team for the benefit of their children» — they are just not good co-parents.

These days, it seems many hockey parents and players consider what used to be the traditional off - season, when kids played outdoors and changed sports until the next winter season, as the real season, because it is the time of year when AAA all - star teams are formed and tournaments are played, weekend after weekend.

The focus of the workshops is support for «team parenting» — mums» and dads» capacity to work well together as parents, rather than pulling in different directions or assuming one of them (usually the mother) needs to take responsibility for doing and / or organising the caring.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

As a team parent, I had the honor of being at least twice on the snack rotation for my son's Little League team.

Some parenting practice is framed as an us vs. them, a red team against the blue team, a this - way - wins - over-that-way or this - group - is - better - than - that - group issue.

Landon has been a part of the Enlightened Mama team since August 2015, joining right after completing her DONA Birth Doula training with Alpha Mama, Liz Lull, and is currently the Enlightened Mama Business Manager, as well as facilitating our Community Parent Groups and Doula Happy Hours.

Each time, Alec and I worked as a team to cover the travel - parenting duties, so I didn't get to fly solo until my second son was born.

Before baby comes is the time to really look into Attachment Parenting International «s First Principle of Parenting — when you can think clearly and begin to look at some of your childhood wounds, identify areas that may be difficult as you raise your own children, share your insights with your partner and become a team as you enter the uncharted waters of parenthood.

These are by far the most expensive teams in youth sports as parents must cover travel expenses, tournament fees, coaches» salaries, and so on.

By keeping similar rules at each house and using the same discipline, your kids will realize that even though their parents aren't together, they'll still work as a team.

As a youth sports parent are you too concerned about how your child's performance will affect the team and what others are saying about your youngster?

Lauren is serving as Attachment Parenting International «s Communications Team Coordinator and volunteers with API of Huntsville - Madison.

Whether they play on the same team, compete as opponents or play different sports, each child will seek their parents» attention and want to be recognized as the better athlete.

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As youth sports parents it's important to guide and encourage young athletes and let them enjoy that special experience of being part of a team — no matter what their contribution.

I am worried about balancing my role as parent to my daughter with my role as her coach, as well as the coach of all the other kids on the team.

I think the issue of this post, compared to what you are saying is: ««tag team» their parenting so that they pay as little as possible in daycare for three - year - old Cole and 19 - month - old Bailey.»

Disciplining children — and parenting in general — is a job that needs to be handled as a team, with both parents working together to do what's best for their child.

She'll have her own support team (her significant other, friends, and / or family), as well as the intended parent (s), and our team here at Circle (consisting of program coordinators and social workers).

As the pioneer in concussion education for sports parents, MomsTeam and I are thrilled to have Impakt on our team as we continue to dedicate our efforts to do everything possible to keep the kids of America playing sports as safe as science, technology and equipment make possible.&raquAs the pioneer in concussion education for sports parents, MomsTeam and I are thrilled to have Impakt on our team as we continue to dedicate our efforts to do everything possible to keep the kids of America playing sports as safe as science, technology and equipment make possible.&raquas we continue to dedicate our efforts to do everything possible to keep the kids of America playing sports as safe as science, technology and equipment make possible.&raquas safe as science, technology and equipment make possible.&raquas science, technology and equipment make possible.»

Perhaps it is because the author is a journalist, not someone like me, whose business it is to offer practical advice to sports parents on how not to get, as I put it in Home Team Advantage, «sucked into the crazy vortex of competitive youth sports.»

Even if they don't like each other, or disagree on many issues, divorced parents still have to work together as a team as far as their children are concerned.

If you're convinced that the team's goals will work to the detriment of your child, it's your duty as a parent to see that your special needs child gets the education that he deserves.

As one of the very first Prenatal Yoga Instructors in Chicago, Jenny and her team of Sweet Pea's trained teachers hold space in these classes for sharing, childbirth and parenting education, ensuring all classes are accessible and therapeutic for all stages of pregnancy and level of skill.

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Being part of a team of parents was as close as I came, to that point, of being captain of my field hockey team, and it was a great feeling to know we all made a huge difference in the lives of so many kids who would not have been as safe without our Being part of a team of parents was as close as I came, to that point, of being captain of my field hockey team, and it was a great feeling to know we all made a huge difference in the lives of so many kids who would not have been as safe without our being captain of my field hockey team, and it was a great feeling to know we all made a huge difference in the lives of so many kids who would not have been as safe without our help.