Sentences with phrase «challenging as a new parent»

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As a new parent, Serena now faces a bigger challenge than demanding equal pay for black women.

Back in the warm summer days of July, New York magazine posted an article entitled, «All Joy and No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting», an examination of the current emotional and mental state of today's parents who were depicted as being harried, frustrated, and unfulfilled by the challenges of raising chParents Hate Parenting», an examination of the current emotional and mental state of today's parents who were depicted as being harried, frustrated, and unfulfilled by the challenges of raising chparents who were depicted as being harried, frustrated, and unfulfilled by the challenges of raising children.

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.

Also very important was the need to have food options close at hand; as new parents, we find keeping ourselves fed challenging even at home — so a decent restaurant on the property (with room service) was critical for us.

Having a new child introduces new challenges to the parents as a couple.

As parents with babies and toddlers, we are always looking for new tools to help us through the most challenging parts of our day.

As new parents, we'd faced challenges in finding baby groups, new friendships and support.

It's so important to find like - minded parents who can offer their «been there, done that» stories, emotional scaffolding, and specific suggestions for when you feel confused as to what to do about your child's behavior, or when you question whether this new thing you're trying, like positive discipline instead of spanking, for example, is going to work out in the long term, or how exactly to keep those family attachment bonds strong as your children grow, or how to move forward when your family encounters challenging life circumstances.

As homeschooling children reaches high school age, parents usually face some new educational challenges.

But, this transition into new parenthood is challenging for dads and partners, just as much as it is for moms and birthing parents.

For my new job working as a Parent Support Partner in our NICU... although it is emotionally challenging, I am thankful for the opportunity to help other parents see the light at the end of their long, miserable tunnel.

As a new parent, or perhaps a veteran parent, having the joy and pleasure of attending to the needs of a newborn child can sometimes get challenging.

Having a baby with colic is particularly challenging for new parents as babies cry for long periods and are difficult to settle.

Helping your baby fall asleep is one of the first challenges you'll face as a new parent.

As every new mom and dad knows, becoming a parent can present some terrifying challenges - but at Love To Dream ™ sleep is the one thing we've made simple.

But, as I found, while completing Rookie Mom Challenge # 7, go to a yoga class with the baby, there are places in this world made just for babies, and new parents should take advantage of -LSB-...]

Keeping a baby entertained and engaged while also safe can be a challenge, and since we believe that new parents have enough to deal with as it is, we have hunted down the 10 best portable baby swing options for you to have a look at.

Filled with knowledge, wisdom, and practical tools, Becoming Us ™ helps parents - to - be and new parents understand the normal challenges that parenthood presents during the perinatal (before, during and after birth) period and beyond, and offers strategies for working together as a duet.

By staying informed about each challenge as it comes, and being prepared to deal with all the trials and tribulations of parenting, you can come at each new situation from a place of informed preparedness and tackle it as you think is most appropriate.

That's why, at the toddle, we strive to give parents resources that can help them to make empowered decisions regarding how they raise their children and tackle these new challenges as they arise.

Of course, this will change over time, as children get older and parents face new challenges.

Education is a key component of preparation for the difficult decisions required of parents and is an ongoing process as each stage of growth and development brings new joys and challenges.

«The essential challenge for new parents is to be consistent with their children and to find common ground as they learn the parenting style that works best for their family.»

Finding the time and energy for sex as new parents is challenging enough.

As part of a new series on the challenges of parenting, I'm thrilled to bring a guest post to Foodlets today, written by Leigh Fickling.

Our goal as parents is to raise a person who can go out into the world and be comfortable in their own identity; a person who can take on challenges as they come because they know they can problem solve and try new things.

If you as a parent are very adaptable, jumping right into new situations and challenges, it might be difficult to understand why your child holds back from a fun activity, doesn't want to try new things, and may refuse to do something, despite your reassurances and observing that other kids are doing it.

Our new book Listen: Five Tools To Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges is out now in paperback, as an ebook and audio.

His words were echoed in the Commons by Schools Minister Nick Gibb who said: «We see a new and stronger role for local authorities emerging over the years as champions of parents and pupils, challenging rather than defending underperforming schools.»

As played by Julian Dennison, a 15 - year - old actor from New Zealand who starred in Taika Waititi's critically acclaimed Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Firefist gives Deadpool quite a parenting challenge and provides the audience with plenty of laughs.

The irony in the Ninth Circuit outcome is that the tax - credit mechanism, which Arizona adopted in order to avoid legal challenges, created a new pitfall; there is little doubt that a program that offered vouchers directly to parents instead would now be acceptable as a matter of federal law.

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

This heightens the challenges of navigating a doctoral program but I think there will be a lot of resource sharing among the new parent - students, as well as the advanced doctoral parent - students.»

Also, most children are using the internet as a tool to complete school projects and learn new things outside of the classroom, so it's challenging for parents and educators to have it both ways.

As yet another snowfall battered New England on the heels of the Patriots» Super Bowl victory, my Facebook feed featured messages from parents bemoaning another snow day — and, presumably, the challenges it posed to them for finding child care or keeping their kids occupied productively.

As schools across the country move toward implementing the Common Core State Standards, district officials face a major challenge: How do they make the new academic expectations understandable to parents?

32 The New Hampshire Supreme Court likewise rejected the standing of petitioners challenging the state's scholarship tax credit law, ruling that they could not demonstrate any harm.33 The following year, citing the decisions in Arizona and New Hampshire, the Alabama Supreme Court also held that a «tax credit to a parent or a corporation... can not be construed as an «appropriation»» but rather such funds retain their status as private funds until they enter the public treasury.34 That view seems to be the prevailing one in courts, so with the possible exception of Michigan, where the state constitution explicitly prohibits tax benefits for religious education, tax credits should survive scrutiny under such provisions.

The new tests that were administered may be more rigorous and demanding and more challenging but they still provide vital information to parents as to where their child falls in a given range of test scores.

As our school families are increasingly composed of Gen - X and millennial parents, administrators are dealing with new, challenging expectations when it comes to communication and customer service.

We see the challenges that this new model of leadership presents to staff, parents and students, how they are resolved and how, as a result, leadership can better meet the demands of improving teaching and learning.

In September last year, the messenger starting challenging its parent company in terms of popularity, as WhatsApp reached 900 million active monthly users after 100 million new people signed up to the service over the previous five months.

Active Parenting for Stepfamilies in 3 In just 3 sessions, this video - based program helps couples handle challenges as they build a new stepfamily.

Normal experiences such as relationship issues, parenting challenges, life transitions such as a new job, job loss, marriage, divorce, a new baby and entering or completing college can seem difficult to navigate.

The process of non-voluntary immigration, transitioning and acculturating to a new country may have a negative impact on the mental health of immigrants.1 — 3 Postmigration factors (eg, stress, lack of social capital, social isolation and loss of social network) as well as acculturation problems and experiences of discrimination in the host country affect the mental health of the parents and the children.4 5 Moreover, immigrant parents face challenges concerning their role and responsibilities as parents while adjusting to the host country, all of which tend to create stress in parenting.1 3 6 The mental health problems of parents have been reported to be a risk factor for children's behavioural problems and may negatively affect the parent — child attachment and their relationship.7 8 Studies have also shown that parents with mental health problems have a low perceived sense of competence in parenting and may lack the ability to employ positive parenting practises.9 10

In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.

These challenges may include but are not limited to the following: family life transitions, such as empty nest, bringing baby home, getting a new job, job loss, and caregiver stress as well as parent - child difficulties, blended - family concerns, grieving loss of loved one, chronic illness, and separation and divorce.

I collaborate with parents developing new skills using the STEP method as well as conduct workshops for couples with relational challenges.

This is especially true for families experiencing challenges parenting children with special needs, as well as new parents, young parents, or parents without a reliable support system.

«In Good Enough Parenting, John and Karen Louis put powerful new understandings and tools into parents» hands and show them, with an engaging blend of clarity, authority, warmth, openness and humility, exactly how to use these to transform the quiet day to day moments, common challenges and emotional crises of parenthood into opportunities to set their children on the path to flourishing as adults.

Although parenting quality inevitably adjusts, improves or declines as children mature and parents face new and different challenges, some level of stability in parenting style over long periods of time obtains.