Sentences with phrase «by school age»

Postnatal depression, particularly in disadvantaged communities, has been shown to be associated with impairments in the child's growth, 36 and his / her social, emotional, and cognitive development.37 By school age, children of women who suffer postnatal depression are at risk for showing externalising and internalising behavioural problems, and they have lower social skills and academic achievement.38 A key way in which maternal depression affects children's development is by disrupting the mother - infant relationship as well as routine parenting functions, 37 and two studies have shown that HIV infection is associated with similar disturbances in mother - child interactions.13, 39 Currently, no studies in the HIV literature have examined maternal psychosocial functioning in relation to mother - child interactions or child development.

By school age, children become more flexible and are better at regulating their own emotions and actions.

By school age, you're paying $ 1,465 annually and a pre-teen is setting you back $ 1,835 per year.

The «summer slide» is the two + months of academic knowledge lost by school age children during summer vacation.

Experience and clinical research have shown that by school age, a flattened head is no longer a social or cosmetic problem.

There are certain school items that you can count on being needed by any school age child.

Not exact matches

Thank God I'm just a grandparent these days, without school - aged kids who are trapped in an increasingly bizarre and irrational world run by adults - mostly parents and otherwise unemployable administrators — where the rules, the procedures and the approved behaviors vary daily and the changes come so rapidly and abruptly that the characters in Alice in Wonderland would be totally jealous.

The number of applications for university places this year has fallen by 25.4 per cent in Western Australia, as a result of the change 12 years ago in the school starting age.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

We'll talk below about two studies involving school - age children, both led by Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University.

However, the distortion of the debate by Trump and other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing infrastructure needs, such as aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional economic impact.

«When we researched it, we discovered that 67 pounds of lunchtime trash is created by each school - age child each school year,» Claxton says.

Mayer left school at the age of 12 and stepped into the role of breadwinner at a young age, supporting his parents and four siblings by, among other things, collecting heavy scrap metal for resale during brutally cold Canadian winters in New Brunswick.

In keeping with McArdle family tradition, I was duly dispatched at the tender age of 8 by my stoic father and weeping mother to a British boarding school, there to learn independence and gentlemanly conduct in a setting unchanged since the glory days of the Empire.

Former New York City Board of Education chancellor Rudy Crew, worried that the Internet age was passing by too many kids in his urban districts, provided the B - schoolers with three beta - test schools and agreed to join the duo's previously nonexistent board of advisers.

She was so inspired by her experience that she started Kode With Karlie, a scholarship competition that sends girls age 13 - 18 to the school.

Chen, who came to the United States at age 17 to study at a boarding school, says he is not daunted by the skepticism about BlackBerry's ability to bounce back from its myriad problems.

China's Communist Party is a merciless meritocracy... if you're in Chinese leadership, you made it there by scoring high on a long series of exams, starting at age twelve — which means you haven't met a stupid person since you were in junior high school.

The Knowledge Society (TKS), founded by tech entrepreneurs Nadeem (Next 36, 2011) and Navid Nathoo, is a first - of - its - kind after - school innovation program for students aged 13 to 17, which the...

«Whether it was the use of hotels instead of supportive care to house youth like Alex Gervais, or the heartbreaking story of Paige Gauthier whose belongings were dropped off in a black garbage bag at her last known school when she aged out, Mary Ellen gave British Columbians a window into the stories of children and youth being failed by the Christy Clark government.

But this year's appearance will be the first since Trump told lawmakers not to fear the NRA in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting and floated some responses opposed by the organization, including raising the legal age to buy certain firearms to 21.

Bertolini, who was described by the dean of his business school alma mater as a «New Age CEO,» expansively described the Humana deal last year to Aetna workers.

The Basic level is almost the only level used by the banks for assessment of a four - person family (two adults and two school - age children), it estimates household expenses (including everything apart from rent / mortgage debt costs) of $ 32,400 per year.

By age 19, she had saved enough for airfare to London, where she began studying English at secretarial school — this was the first step on Zhang's fast climb to billionaire - dom.

On Wednesday, as high school students from DC, Maryland, and Virginia protested in front of the US Capitol and the White House, Sen. Jeff Flake (R - AZ) announced he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) were working on a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle Association).

The survey, commissioned by the Be Real Campaign, found that just over one in four (26 %) of the secondary age youngsters questioned said their appearance is one of the biggest worries about going back to school.

The precedent for blending a scholarly reading of Tocqueville with personal narrative was set by Poulos's graduate school mentor, Joshua Mitchell, in his Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age (2013).

When Rebekah Gonzalez was elementary - school - age, her mother, Toni, read aloud Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes.

Some high schools have begun teaching family planning by bringing in teen - age mothers to talk about the responsibilities of caring for a baby.

Matters came to crisis point a year ago when the last government's Children, Schools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageSchools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the age of 15.

It has now been published in three volumes by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht: (1) First Light: The Formation of Harvard College in 1636 and Evolution of a Republic of Letters in Cambridge; (2) The «Augustan Age»: Religion in the University, the Foundations of a Learned Ministry and the Development of the Divinity School; and (3) Calm Rising Through Change and Through Storm: The Contours of Religion and Commitment in an Age of Upheaval and Globalization.

Every fall, I and several hundred of my high school - aged peers would gather in the auditorium of the local Baptist church and watch the play unfold: Characters Joe and Jane and Mike and Michelle are on their way home from prom when their car gets struck by a drunk driver.

By the time the average theological student begins to think about a religious profession (at age 24.6 years), the average medical student is already in medical school and the average law student has taken the LSAT exams.

For instance, a hypothetical public high school teacher who advanced New Age ideas and attitudes under a neutral or secular wrapping would be far less vulnerable to legal challenge than would be a teacher who spoke of God by name or who expounded on the biblical foundations of Western thought.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Mintz does not refer at all to research by developmental psychologists such as Jay Belsky of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe of the University of Minnesota; nor does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute of Child Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade school.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

Classrooms full of age - appropriate equipment often have been established for use by the congregation's Sunday church school and are underutilized during the rest of the week.

We begin to formally educate a child at the age of six, and twelve years later frequently find we have failed, not because school material is intrinsically difficult (the task of learning a new language is much more so, yet the child masters it in thee years); we find failure because we have ignored the fact that the developing personality has a natural sway, to and fro, which Whitehead says results in a «craving» to be continually refreshed by the experience of starting anew.

Ought we to be surprised that black youths isolated from the labor market, marginalized by decrepit urban schools, devalued by alienating ideals of beauty and targeted by an unprecedented drug invasion exhibit high rates of crime and teen - age pregnancy?

The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.

At the age of fifteen, he became a pupil in a school at Niesky, which was run by Moravian brethren.

In schools, norms of modesty, comportment, and academic honesty are replaced by widespread activities of lawlessness and cheating (along with the rise of forms of surveillance of youth), while in the fraught realm of coming - of - age, courtship norms are replaced by hookups and utilitarian sexual encounters.

They had some excuse for their view; theirs was the age of the «evangelical united front» for social reform, and the stubborn resistance of Catholics could be seen as a short - term result of their foreignness Unfortunately, the common beliefs and values on which the «common school» rested have been dissolved away by the acids of modernity.

The report envisions a Europe where the damage wrought by internet porn and skanky Abercrombie ads is repaired by school - based «compulsory, age - appropriate and gender - sensitive sexuality and relationship education, provided in a mixed - sex setting, for all children and adolescents.»

With my two brothers, I was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth, and though I turned against the school, leaving at the age of sixteen, I did not doubt, and have never doubted, the truth of the Catholic religion.

Place2Be has argued that mental health services in schools are critical as half of mental health problems in adults start by the age of 14.

Visualize a city with a network of growth groups in each neighborhood available to people of all ages and sponsored by schools, churches, and community agencies as well as corporations unions, professional associations, and fraternal groups.

Kingdom of the Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens Princeton University Press, 238 pages, $ 24.95 A recent government report documents a remarkable growth in the number of school - aged children now being educated at home and provides reassuring....

Over the age of 85 2 Home Schooled 3 Lives in the bible belt (oh, we know that already by his handle).