Sentences with phrase «children do after school»

Boom Time for After - School Programs What older children do after school when parents are working has been, and is, a knotty problem that government and private sources are working hard to solve.

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High school students and parents who had just buried their friends and children asked agonizing questions to lawmakers, ones often repeated after mass tragedies: Why did this happen, and what can be done to prevent it?

The federal government did nothing after 6 - and 7 - year - olds were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman killed 20 children, six adults, and himself in 2012.

That doesn't count dozens of suicides, accidents and after - school assaults that have also exposed children to gunfire.

A number of parents threatened the school with legal action over the summer after their children were prevented from beginning their second year of A-levels because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

A woman in a University of California professional school urged women, «Don't have children until after tenure.

Many expect their «grown» children to find suitable work and marry after high school or college as they did.

We are actively doing our part as FT partners in the Breedekloof, having not only build two after - school computer and day care centers for the laborers» children but also by recently acquiring a nearby farm which is 100 % FT (all shares belong to the FT partners / laborers).

My 3 children aren't allowed to graze on food all day long, but they do come home from after - school sports dying of hunger -LRB-!).

It's like finding out your middle school child is doing drugs and having sex with various partners, after attending Catholic school.

One of the most enduring images we all have is that of George Bush as the leader of the free world sitting, clueless about what to do next, in a nursery school reading stories to children for 15 minutes after being told that planes had been flown into the Twin Towers.

«La Liga is against child slavery and trafficking of minors but this has nothing to do with coming to play football at the schools of Real Madrid, Barcelona or Atletico, because it is undoubtable that there they are well looked after,» he added.

I learned her after school care provider did not have enough seatbelts for all of the children she was picking up (mine, her 4 and one other).

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.

If you take your child with you to the market after school, don't deprive her of a snack.

If your child wants to discuss Making a Murderer they're free to do so before or after school.

After doing that for seven years, Iris returned to Argentina and opened a children's program that focused on music and arts and crafts as well as teaching music at several schools.

Many experts believe that if your child waits to play on a select team until sixth grade or later, and waits until high school to specialize in a single sport, he is likely to be better adjusted and happier, have a more balanced identity, and less likely to be better adjusted and happier, have a more balanced, and less likely to have an identity crises when his competitive sports career ends, as it is likely to do after high school.

Except that feeling can come from other experiences that have nothing to do with oven - fresh homemade cookies, which, in fact, may be impossible to provide because both parents may be working and the child may be in after - school care.

Hoefle gives a great example when she talks about how a mom's desire to greet her children with fresh - from - the - oven homemade cookies after school, just like her mother did for her when she was young, wasn't shared by her partner.

He may not send his children to the public schools in LA, but after what I saw yesterday I don't blame him.

Many times, when families switch to home schooling after their children are in school, they do so because of a major problem, that has had a very negative impact on their child.

Schools don't succeed with all children, after all.

As your child gets older, they make more decisions and about more complex things, a five year old can make five decisions in a day, what to wear to school (if they don't have a uniform), what to have in his sandwiches, which friend to have home after school, whether to wash or dry the dishes, for example.

For example, if your child's grades are failing, you can establish a daily structure where he has no access to electronics or favorite toys from after school until the work is done.

I only had one child myself, so I didn't face this challenge with mine, but I provided lunch and after school care for a year for two boys.

Ingredients: • 1 ripe banana • 1/8 tsp cinnamon • 1/8 tsp cloves • 1 tsp flax oil • Drizzle agave (please note: do not substitute the agave with honey until after 18 mo of age due to the risk of botulism in young babies) Instructions: • Place peeled banana in a bowl and smash with the back of a fork • Add spices, flax oil and agave • Mix well • Place in microwave for 20 seconds • Serve warm Click here to see how to use this recipe for older children as a delicious, warm and healthy after school snack.

With absolutely ZERO clue in 1999 that I would be doing this — shortly after moving to Austin in 2003, I began volunteering for a charter school for under - served children in Austin, most with African American and Latino heritage.

You can also set up play dates after school so that your child can do homework with his friends and play with them after the work is done.

After school, let your child buzz around doing kids stuff, then set a certain time for them to come inside, offer a light snack letting them its now time for them to settle, suggest watching some T V, or reading a book, or maybe sit and chat while you prepare the family meal.

After spending hours researching backdrops, purchasing outfits, wrangling children, and finally snapping that perfect back - to - school picture, someone else will undoubtedly do the same thing in a way that blows my lame - ass picture out of the water.

Here are a few tips to help you ensure your children stay sun safe while on the playground or doing after - school outdoor sports or activities.

Our children don't need Nintendos, computers, after school activities, ballet lessons, play groups and soccer practice nearly as much as they need US.

They don't know what my child had for breakfast, what I have planned for an after - school snack, and what we're having for dinner.

We visited in November just after a very busy half term, we were completely exhausted and in desperate need of a break with the children where we didn't have to think about work or school.

Even at after - school soccer, an adult is telling your child what to do, just like in school.

Providers of drop - in child care, such as child care in health clubs, churches, recreational center programs, or before or after school care operate by school districts and do not need licenses.

In planning its budgets, the park district does not keep count on how many children attend its free after - school activities, raising questions about whether tax money is spent efficiently.

While we still have a lot of work to do in terms of reducing schools» reliance on highly processed foods, children dependent on the federal lunch and breakfast programs (as well as after - school snack and even school supper programs) can and do have access to nutritionally balanced meals each and every school day (and throughout the summer where summer meals are offered.)

29 percent of children aged 13 - 17 report that they worry about getting into a good college and deciding what to do after high school, while only 5 percent of parents of 13 - 17 year - olds believe this is a source of stress for their child.

-- Coming up in Part 2 of this series: * How does a child transition to a traditional school after being at a Montessori school?

Now I'm not endorsing that both get power careers and leave the child completely unattended, but I have contact with plenty of stay home moms as my child attends a very affluent private school and many of those stay at home moms don't do squat after the kids are dropped off other than yoga.

I am all too aware that there are reasons why children can't accommodate homework into their after - school routine, and reasons why parents don't make their kids do homework if, or when, it's assigned.

When both parents work, children often don't go home directly after school.

Conventionally schooling our children would also have a huge impact on our holidays, since you can not just take your children out of school whenever you feel like it (now doesn't that just seem odd to you, they're your children, after all), now we are on a one month every five months schedule, if we were schooling, we'd have to adapt to school holidays

If you don't pay the fine after 28 days you may be prosecuted for your child's absence from school.

Does this sound familiar: You are excited to pick up your baby / toddler / children from daycare / preschool / school or return home after the babysitter / nanny / grandparents have been watching your kiddos.

I do make those points in the Times piece — evidence of how my own understanding of school food and children's larger food environments has matured and depeened after six years of mulling over the subject.

To be clear, if a child has six hours available after school and extracurriculars (say from 4 pm to 10 pm), and need to do 30 minutes of homework along with spending say another 15 - 20 minutes getting a head start on something due in the near future, and can't get that done, then yes, time management skills would be helpful.

Had hoped it would help with school aged children that I look after but it didn't cover that age group.