Sentences with phrase «better than the average child»

Sure they do better than the average child «resisting» but they are not little adults with strong willpower or the ability to make decisions based on long - term consequences («I'm going to say no because this could make me overweight or lead to Type 2 Diabetes»).

In a conference in March sponsored by the investment firm Morgan Stanley, Mr. Packard said that «our kids are doing as well or better than the average child in a brick - and - mortar school.»

Not exact matches

There are plenty of people out there who have pretty positive self - assessments: Ninety percent of drivers think they have above average skills behind the wheel, an even higher percentage of college professors think they're better than average teachers, and, as we all know, every single child in Lake Wobegon is above average.

One perhaps could argue that the 17 average hours that parents spent with their children per week in 1985 could have been quality time and therefore just as good as, or even better than, the greater number of hours they spent together in 1965.

Other witnesses argued that, inasmuch as almost 25,000 married couples in France have been approved but wait an average of five years to be able to adopt because fewer than 5,000 adoptions take place each year, it is possible to provide every adoptable child with a father and a mother who will offer him or her the best chance of integrating into a new family.

Well - off kids have on average more access to books and other printed materials; just as important, their parents speak to them more than low - income parents speak to their children — by some estimates, far more — and the speech they use is more complex.

Part of the answer has to do with basic issues of health: Poor children, on average, eat less nutritious food than well - off children, and they get worse medical care.

• If one parent is better - educated than the other, some children may benefit from the better - educated parent undertaking more care: e.g. in Norway, girls (but not boys) have been found to do better at school when a father who was better educated than their mother took longer - than - average leave (Cools et al, 2011.)

Popular children were similar to average children, except that their peers perceived them as being better students than the average kids.

Centre manager Karen Keenan says assessments, including residential stays of an average of 12 weeks, make no assumptions about whether children are likely to be «better off» with mum, dad or both, but take a firm line that fathers are important: «We start from the point of view of the child, and over many years we've found that often it's the father, rather than the mother, who is the more competent or promising parent of the two.»

It has a better than average height and weight limits for rear facing which is tall enough to get children rear facing for up to 40 lbs limit without outgrowing the seat by height first.

Syrian children fare a little better than average but still, despite the well documented atrocities in their home country, only 39 % received asylum this year.

Parents in this part of the country are better educated and wealthier than the average American and can give their children more opportunity.

Children who eat fish at least once a week sleep better and have IQ scores that are 4 points higher, on average, than those who consume fish less frequently or not at all, according to new findings from the University of Pennsylvania published this week in Scientific Reports, a Nature journal.

But in case you're in any doubt a child learns new words at an average rate of more than 10 each day and may eventually build a vocabulary of 100 000 words, the best storytellers among -LSB-...]

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And those individuals will, on average, be better parents than if they had children as teenagers or early 20 - somethings, with few skills under their belts or job prospects on their horizons.

After reading the critics and examining many more studies than Klein names (some inevitably negative), I believe there is simply no doubt that under Klein's leadership, children attending public schools in New York City were, on average, being far better educated at the end of his eight years than they had been nine years before.

Wilshaw named 16 local authorities where less than 60 per cent of children attend good or outstanding schools and have below average «attainment and progress» at GCSE with 13 in the North and Midlands.

The newspapers are much more supportive of charter schools than of No Child Left Behind, with charters receiving an average score of 4.1 (meaning the papers are «somewhat supportive» on average), compared to 1.2 for NCLB (meaning the papers are slightly better than neutral on average).

A recent Public Policy Institute of California study shows that on average California school children did much better in 2015 - 16 than they did in 2014 - 15 on the Smarter Balanced assessments in English language arts and math.

The innovation charter schools allow in curriculum, structure, discipline, instruction, and operation could well help to reduce the frightful 30 percent average dropout rate in our public high schools, which is more than 50 percent for African - American, Latino and Native American children.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

«Not only are their educational outcomes better but, on the best available evidence - value - added scores - independent schools (on average) progress their children more during their school years than state schools.»

Of course, some children from impoverished backgrounds will outperform typical children from literate and secure backgrounds, but on average, the extent to which children come to school prepared to take advantage of what school has to offer is a more important predictor than what even the best school can do.

It was one of 16 where less than 60 per cent of children attend a good or outstanding secondary school and have lower than average attainment and progress at GCSE.

A child with an average teacher who comes from a literate, economically secure, and stable family environment will, on average, have better achievement than a child with a superior teacher but with none of these contextual advantages.

Sir Michael named 16 weak local authorities - where less than 60 % of children attend good or outstanding schools and have below average «attainment and progress» at GCSE - with 13 in the North and Midlands.

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantagesChildren whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantageschildren without these educationally relevant advantages.»

Rather they serve less needy children and when adjusting school aggregate performance measures for the children they serve, they achieve no better current outcomes on average than the schools they are slated to take over... The assumption that charter takeover can solve the ills of certain district schools is specious at best.»

The school says that generally the children taught by its students do much better than that, showing on average 1.3 years of growth in reading in a single year.

Throw in knee - and leg room that are no better than average and you end up with two rear seats (three in the Sportback) that are really best suited to children.

Content and Apps The key idea of the Vinci Tab is that its content is better for young children than your average app for an Android tablet or iPad.

Extremely strong: too much strength for the average person to control if you get one of the guarding types Can't take a lot of pressure in obedience work, it confuses them Dominant; the Newfoundlands are quite a bit different than the typical mastiffs ¦ not people aggressive, but still are very concerned with pack order, making them very watchful of children (in a good way).

- parents spent on average $ 131 on toys to life games over the last six months - almost 80 percent of families considered this a good investment - two thirds are planning to invest further - 70 percent of parents in the U.S. are familiar with Interactive Gaming Toys - 41 percent own more than one franchise - 77 percent said it was definitely or probably worth the investment - only 7 percent of families have abandoned play altogether - within households currently playing toys to life games, 52 percent indicate that adults are among those that play - among Nintendo amiibo - playing households with children, 21 % of parents say that only they are playing these games - with other franchises, less then 10 percent of adults play in the household - 22 percent of total character playtime is spent playing with the figurines as toys and not with a video game console - 40 percent of parents state that that their 13 - 17 year olds continue to play with characters like toys or action figures

Populated by foreigners passing through, high - tech commuters, and more dogs than children, the percentage of home - owners is well below the national average.

Mutual consent based on proper education and factual information (an average of three child - births per woman leads inevitably to population explosion, and that is a mathematical fact) is, I believe, from a humanitarian view, a much better option than activizing centralized population control measures or even highly inefrfective family planning programs.

The average child gets over illnesses better and more quickly than does an adult, so you would think they recover from a TBI better.

For example, according the HHS 2011 Poverty Guidelines, for a single adult with no spouse or children, he or she would have needed to average less than $ 10,890 in income to be eligible, as well as meeting the other requirements, such as a lack of recent health insurance, and other requirements by the individual state.

• want to protect everything — children, relationships, money, time and privacy • tend to be intelligent and educated, and have a higher than average emotional IQ • want a divorce that is «tailor - made» for their circumstances, not an «off - the - rack,» ill - fitting form used by everyone (and fitting no one very well) • want results more than revenge • want to be participants — not victims — in the dissolution of the marriage • want to assure themselves that nothing happens unless they agree to it • want control over the scheduling of events of divorce • want to retain some dignity through the process of divorce • want to end the relationship as positively as possible • see the big picture

For example, Early Head Start provides daily contact with low - income families through center - based programs or weekly contact through home - based programs.32 The Infant Health and Development Program provided an average of 67 home visits in children's first 3 years of life.33 In contrast, the average Healthy Steps family made 11 well - child visits and received less than 2 home visits within their child's first 2.5 years.

Moreover, research shows that even after one controls for a range of family background differences, children who grow up living in an intact household with both biological parents present seem to do better, on average, on a wide range of social indicators than do children who grow up in a single - parent household (McLanahan and Sandefur, 1994).

On average, women were doing more housework than their male partners before as well as after marriage; it is the arrival of children that increases the gap between them.

Similarly, while Alabama often scores well below the national average on the overall Kids Count rankings and has a higher rate of overall poverty, its rankings rise when examined by different races and ethnicities — and the disparities (differences in overall scores for white non-Hispanic children and African - American non-Hispanic children or Hispanic children) are much smaller than many northern states.

There was a clear effect of the duration of exposure to poor mental health for all of the child outcomes: those children exposed to repeated poor maternal mental health had poorer outcomes than those exposed «briefly» who, in turn, had poorer outcomes than those whose mothers were defined as having good or average mental health throughout.

Children whose mothers had good or average mental health throughout the survey period had better social, behavioural and emotional development than those whose mothers had brief mental health problems, and they in turn, had better development than those whose mothers had repeated mental health problems.

It is also about what is best for your children, since over 50 research studies from numerous countries show that children with shared parenting on average have much better lives than the millions of children in the sole custody of one parent.

This project challenged the stereotypical assumption (by non-Indigenous Australians) that the majority of Indigenous Australian children have well - developed or even above average movement skill development, based on their being more likely than non-Indigenous children to engage in regular physical activity and perform well in sport.

This study indicates that, on average, a two parent intact family is the best arrangement for children, and a shared parenting arrangement is better than a sole custody arrangement, i.e., a two - parent family is better even if parents are divorced.

Tennessee ranks higher (worse) than the national average on all ten indicators of child well - being.