Sentences with phrase «better sibling care»

Over time, the initial focus on better sibling care broadened to include the power of children to influence their own age group, their family and community.

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What the unmarried don't have, however, are the legal and financial perks and protections married couples, hetero and now same - sex, get — even if we are rising kids, too, or caring for elderly parents or a disabled sibling or lover (and the best person to follow and read on this is Bella DePaulo).

And life happens as well — vacations, older siblings, plans with friends and family, errands you need to take care of, and other factors will all come into play in your daily life with your baby.

Emotional support, breastfeeding guidance, tips on physical comfort measures, practical household help (such as laundry, tidying, meal preparation and sibling care) as well as teaching parents basic soothing techniques and infant care are all part of a postpartum doula's care.

Shanell Mouland writes for Huffington Post as well as her own blog, which is dedicated to telling stories of the care and raising of her autistic daughter, Kate, and her super sibling, Grace.

For the most part, my kids care about the well - being of their siblings, they problem - solve through their squabbles, and they look out for each other.

Enhanced Mobility - Helps Moms and Dads better care for older siblings.

But instead of support these issues we should take very good care of our parenting issues and teach our kids about good things about sibling and prepare them for the good.

When infants are premature or ill and admission to the NICU is required, the consequent likely (though not inevitable) separation of mother and babies, the possibility of long periods of hospitalisation, the mother being discharged home before the babies, her need for rest and recovery, the need to care for older siblings, long periods of pumping, staggered infant discharge and the involvement of many other caregivers can make establishing a good milk supply and initiating breastfeeding very challenging (Bennington 2011; Gromada 1998; Multiple Births Foundation 2011).

The residential treatment program provides intensive, temporary out - of - home care and therapeutic services for children and their families, as well as transitional shelter care for girls with a focus on sibling sets.

Still, exceptions exist for when removing a child from foster care would go against that child's best interest — in these cases, especially when a child is living with another relative or adult sibling, the child may be left in foster care until a proper adoption can be arranged.

Following directions about cleaning up after meals, doing household chores, taking care of pets, and being good role models for younger siblings helps keep the daily life at home on a more - or-less even keel.

Longer intervals between births bring health benefits to the mother and the child, allow more time and resources for care of the child and siblings, and contribute to the economic well - being of the household.

And if you don't care about the whole «paleo» thing, try these pumpkin protein pancakes, they're like the more normal sibling to these pumpkin paleo pancakes and hella good too!

At its heart, Everything Here Is Beautiful is a book about the relationship between two sisters — one who struggles with mental illness, and the other who cares for her sibling and wants her to be well, but also wants to freely live her own life.

Refuge (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama about a youngster (Krysten Ritter) who does her best to care for herself and her siblings after they're all abandoned by their parents.

With this film, he and co-screenwriters Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman (who also co-stars in the picture) concentrate on that mysterious link between siblings — those people who know us better than we'd ever care to admit.

They exchange their own expertise in the care of sick or dying children and in dealing with extended families, well siblings, friends, schools, employers, and the community.

Evie was returned back into our care because she and her new canine siblings didn't mesh as well as her adopted family would have hoped.

She quickly found the perfect home where she is receiving all the medical care she needs as well as some spoiling from her new siblings.

GREGORIA PHOEBE RANGEL HAD it good, growing up, in everything except perhaps for her middle name: caring parents; comfortable suburban life; three siblings, an older brother and a younger brother and sister; support for whatever artistic, athletic, or intellectual aptitude she displayed.

The parents and siblings of injured children may also have claims for loss of companionship, as well as any time taken off from work to care for a child.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Infants also form «meaningful attachments» to their siblings, grandparents, and others who might care for them as well.

As well as showing larger unfavorable effects on school performance and receipt of special educational services than did the full sample, program group adolescents with younger siblings were more likely than their control group counterparts to be suspended or expelled from and to drop out of school - perhaps because they were also more likely to provide care for their siblings.

Although the Department has transferred the provision of out - of - home care to non-government agencies, we are recruiting carers who can offer immediate («emergency») and short term care as well as carers for Aboriginal children, children with a disability and sibling groups.

The content of the sessions is as follows: session 1 consists of a parent interview, session 2 features additional assessment (e.g., parent - child observation; child interview), session 3 introduces core change strategies (responding to good behaviour, responding to misbehaviour), session 4 functions as a review of strategies, session 5 introduces advanced strategies (e.g., managing sibling conflict, high - risk situations), session 6 is another review, sessions 7 and 8 focus on parent care, and session 9 is a module for review and relapse prevention.

«Evidence shows that many children raised by a grandparent, aunt, uncle or sibling end up in a loving, caring and stable home, providing the best outcome for that child, local authorities, the government and society.»

The aim of this amendment is to require local authorities to allow children in care contact with their siblings as well as their parents / others with parental responsibility.

5.2 New Sub-clause 7 (6): Sibling contact The aim of this amendment is to require local authorities to allow children in care contact with their siblings as well as their parents / others with parental responsibility.

Downloads and Links: Siblings In Best Settings Program Resource Family Handbook A Guide To Post Adoption Resources: English Spanish Subsidized Adoption Program Brochure: English Spanish Adoption Registry Brochure: English Spanish Recruitment Materials: English Spanish Homes for Siblings: English / Spanish Homes for Teens: English / Spanish Foster Care Tuition - Scholarship Program

These findings have important implications for adult siblings who are confronting the need for parent care as well as practitioners working with later - life families.

This strongly suggests that more needs to be done to find suitable adopters to care for those children whose needs are well known and all too familiar — children with complex health needs or disabilities, children from minority ethnic, cultural, religious and language backgrounds, older children and sibling groups.

Comment: Female older siblings are far more likely than male older siblings to be given child care responsibilities while young; teenage girls are far more likely than teenage boys to hold childcare and babysitting jobs; new mothers are far more likely to have prepared for parenthood by reading pregnancy - to - parenting articles and books as well as talking with (and spending social time with) primary caregiving women friends and relatives and their children; the ever - present months - long pregnancy itself initiates mothers into a mindset of habitual constant awareness of child - whereabouts; and various biological and hormonal factors make mothers more responsive to routine infant cues (other than severe distress cries.)