Sentences with phrase «child practices in schools»

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«No child's life should be put at risk because a parent, school, or healthcare provider can not afford a simple, life - saving device because of a drug - maker's anti-competitive practices,» said Schneiderman in a statement.

Those who speak out against abortion and family practice and at the same time support cuts in education, school lunch funding, decry reasonable control of weapons and other programs that help children can not call themselves Christians.

You can't mention your god in schools because christians in particular have a very, very nasty habit of not just mentioning it, but of trying to ram it forcibly down the throats of the unwilling, and giving them the power of the state and an innocent audience of children to practice this forced indoctrination on has never worked out well in the past.

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

It is not fair, for example, to compel a child being raised by a gay couple to attend a school in which the teachers say homosexual practice is sin.

Nor is it fair to compel a child from a home that embraces historic Christian sexual norms to attend a school in which the teachers portray homosexual practice or open marriage as just one of many equally acceptable lifestyle options.

When danger of street violence prevented Arieh Klausner from sending Amos to the school attended by the professors» children, he chose an Orthodox religious institution» not because he wished to initiate his son in religious practice, but because of animus against the alternative socialist orientation.

She's a busy mom, planning birthday parties this month for her two oldest children, Ella and Nate, as well as ferrying everyone in the SUV to school, and to practices for soccer and baseball.

Israeli children as a matter of policy remain with the same classmates from kindergarten through high school, and go into the army together and usually remain there together in the same unit (some experts ascribe the disproportionate military effectiveness of Israel's army to this practice).

Back in 2015, a survey commissioned by ITV revealed that 12 per cent of parents of primary school aged children admitted to having pretended to practice a faith in which they did not believe to get their child into a desirable faith school.

It can be hard to juggle school, work, soccer practice, football practice, dance, piano lessons, and whatever else your children may be involved in.

Children ages 10 to 14 participate in PPI's «twinning» program, in which Jews and Arabs at first practice regularly in their home communities, then combine into mixed teams under two coaches (one Arab and one Jewish) and meet weekly throughout the school year.

She has served in several board leadership positions, and through navigating the private, independent, and charter school experiences of her own five children, has gained valuable insights into the diversity of school policy and practice.

I read all the time about mal - practice in hospitals, incect cases in churches or schools, not even speaking about how our education system fails in a basic thing like teaching all of our children to read (you do your research and find out the number or illiteracy in this country).

Although most school - age children who suck their thumbs do so in private (they become aware that thumbsucking is not an accepted practice), there is a small percentage of children who continue sucking during the day.

It's about what children need in order to thrive — especially children growing up in difficult circumstances — and what kind of practices and policies, in the home and at school, will provide them with the best possible chance at success.

His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle - class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child - rearing practices of their parents.

Each year, our 60 faculty and staff members work with more than 6 intern teachers, 25 student teachers, researchers, and visitors to perform the major functions associated to Laboratory Schools: the development of innovative practices in education, research, the preparation of new teachers, professional development for practicing teachers, and the education of children using best established principles of education.

Talk to your child's school about keeping homework in line with best practices — the reason most kids don't get enough sleep is because they are struggling to complete homework after a long day.

«We will however make available information on best practice and «what works» for improving the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and I am clear that a valuable use of the premium would be schools investing in ways to encourage parents, including of course fathers, to engage in the education of their children.»

You could start by having your child set up a special homework station somewhere in the new house, and practicing the walk from home to school.

Volume XIV, Number 2 The Social Mission of Waldorf School Communities — Christopher Schaefer Identity and Governance — Jon McAlice Changing Old Habits: Exploring New Models for Professional Development — Thomas Patteson and Laura Birdsall Developing Coherence: Meditative Practice in Waldorf School College of Teacher — Kevin Avison Teachers» Self - Development as a Mirror of Children's Incarnation: Part II — Renate Long - Breipohl Social - Emotional Education and Waldorf Education — David S. Mitchell Television in, and the World's of, Today's Children — Richard House Russia's History, Culture, and the Thrust Toward High - Stakes Testing: Reflections on a Recent Visit — David S. Mitchell Da Valdorvuskii!

What we'd like to see with the passage of the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act is a concerted effort by schools — whether at the state or local level — to find the best practices that work for their system, their resources, and the type of programs they already have in place.

The Department developed the Action Guide for Child Care Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies (2010) to help local and community child care, early education and after school programs establish and implement policies and practices that encourage healthy lifestyles in chilChild Care Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies (2010) to help local and community child care, early education and after school programs establish and implement policies and practices that encourage healthy lifestyles in chilchild care, early education and after school programs establish and implement policies and practices that encourage healthy lifestyles in children.

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You have kids in school now that go straight from school to practice sometimes several times a week that have had their caloric intake cut via smaller portions at the school lunch to avoid giving too many calories to a sedentary child and I think that's the wrong approach.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participatinIn the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participatinIn the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participatinin the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participatinin USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participatinin which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participatinin a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

Now that school is back in session, it's important to observe safety practices before sending your children on their way.

Add up how much time your children spend in school, sleeping, in daycare, with babysitters, at sports practices, in music lessons, etc. and look at how much or little time is left over.

My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at school cafeterias are great when outside of school many are seeing and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before: classrooms, athletic practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods and more.

«Mommy will still buy food and make dinner for you» and «Daddy will still take you to school in the mornings and to sports practices on the weekends» as these kind of concrete events are what mark a child's world as predictable and understandable.

Steiner agreed but set four conditions, each of which went against common practice of the day: 1) that the school be open to all children; 2) that it be coeducational; 3) that it be a unified twelve - year school; 4) that the teachers, those individuals actually in contact with the children, have primary control of the school, with minimum interference from the state or from economic sources.

Parent trainer Zweiback recommends that children role - play «school» at home with dolls and stuffed animals as a nonthreatening way to practice being in the classroom.

As I reported in two stories in the New York Times this spring, lunch shaming is the practice of singling out children in the cafeteria over school meal debt by offering them alternate cold meals such as a cheese sandwich, marking them with a wrist band or hand stamp, or, in rare cases, requiring them to do chores in exchange for a meal.

It's a practice I never expected to contend with when my children first entered public school, and it's what eventually led me to pound out in frustration my 2012 «Food In the Classroom Manifesto.&raquin frustration my 2012 «Food In the Classroom Manifesto.&raquIn the Classroom Manifesto.»

While I feel I've made a lot of strides nationally on The Lunch Tray by bringing these issues to the fore and assisting readers around the country at their children's schools, at my own son's elementary school my principal has declined to make any modifications to practices like birthday cupcakes in the classroom.

In addition, you can minimize days missed by practicing healthy living, making sure your child gets a flu shot, and reminding your tween to practice good hygiene at school, such as washing his or her hands frequently, etc..

For those unfamiliar with the term, «lunch shaming» refers to practices in the cafeteria that single out children with school meal debt, such as making the child wear a special wrist band, stamping the child's arm or hand, throwing the child's meal away in front of peers, or even making a child do chores, like wiping down tables, in exchange for a meal.

Whether you send the snack in yourself or if it is provided by the school, you may want to practice with your child some table - time skills such as putting a straw into a juice box, opening a plastic container or zippered bag and wiping her mouth and hands with a napkin while she eats.

When education self - interest groups defend practices that get in the way of improving schools for the sake of children, then I am absolutely opposed to them.

As for Diaz - Tello, who has graduated from law school since the birth of her child, she's now working in her own legal practice and with groups like the National Advocates for Pregnant Women to educate moms about what they're going into when they enter the delivery room.

Think of the responsibilities you're still taking on for your tween - like watching the clock in the mornings or before practices, reminding about homework, keeping school papers organized - and find tools that will shift those responsibilities onto your child.

Instead of having a to - do list that includes the laundry, dishes, cooking, picking up the kids from school and running two children in opposite directions simultaneously to soccer practice and dance lessons, you have a nanny to step in and take charge of the tasks you can't do as a human who can't be in two places at once.

Earlier this year, a burst of national press covered that practice, in which students are publicly implicated when their parents can't or won't pay school meal bills, sometimes by throwing away a child's hot lunch or distributing meal bills in class.

This annual analysis looks at school breakfast participation and policies in 75 large school districts across the country to evaluate successful practices in reaching more low - income children with school breakfast.

If you decide to include children in your practice or volunteer at a local school, be prepared for giggles and silliness.

In addition, two studies using stratified random sampling found that a high - quality home visiting program positively impacted school readiness through better parenting practices, increased reading to children at home, and a greater likelihood of enrollment in preschool programIn addition, two studies using stratified random sampling found that a high - quality home visiting program positively impacted school readiness through better parenting practices, increased reading to children at home, and a greater likelihood of enrollment in preschool programin preschool programs.

Regarding child development and school readiness outcomes, more recent studies show promise in impacting these outcomes indirectly through promoting positive parenting practices and home supports for early learning.

Provides health - care professionals — including pediatricians, family practice providers, hospital nurses, school nurses, urgent care clinicians, and other health - care professionals — with an overview of the field of child welfare and suggests ways that health - care professionals and child welfare workers can work together to promote better outcomes for children and families involved with child welfare, including children in foster care.

Have your child practice carrying their medication with them when not in school to determine the level of responsibility that they exhibit.