Sentences with phrase «children in a cooperative»

Many states require divorcing parents to take a course (which usually is 4 to 8 hours of classroom time) in how to communicate and raise the children in a cooperative manner.

This Colorado parenting law (the «Parental Education» law) extols programs which 1) educate parents about the divorce process and its impact on adults and children, and 2) teach co-parenting skills and strategies so that parents may continue to parent their children in a cooperative manner.

Key ingredients of effective indicated programs include coaching young children in cooperative play and communication skills, and providing generalization activities in the classroom context.

Not exact matches

And if society comes together to help out those children, that should be a cooperative effort from ALL in society, not just the smokers.

For as we have stressed throughout this book, the purpose of prayer is to bring God's human child, now become adult in responsibility and thus asked to act in mature ways, into cooperative awareness of God, opened to his love and ready to act in love toward others.

Children compete fiercely with one another as they grow, but in a family that works, their competitive drives give way to cooperative ones so that a victory for one member of the family becomes a victory for all and a defeat for one is a defeat for all.

Research shows that if parents can have a warm, cooperative, co-parenting relationship, then that's going to be positive for the child's development,» says Sarah Schoppe - Sullivan, an associate professor in the Ohio State University department of human sciences.

From its gentle beginning in the Kindergarten and Lower School to a rigorous, yet cooperative, learning environment in the Upper Grades, a Sierra Waldorf School education is a gift that prepares children and young adults to embrace learning.

Parents of children in Houston ISD schools can look forward to some improvements in the school food this year, thanks to a cooperative effort between HISD / Aramark's Food Services and its recently formed Parent Advisory Committee.

Whether explaining how to roughhouse or «follow the giggles,» Lawrence Cohen, a psychologist specializing in children's play, play therapy, and parenting, offers ways to connect with kids in their world in order to help them be confident, cooperative, and connected.

Your child need to be cooperative and compliant to adult instructions and should be able to consistently follow parental instructions in a timely manner.

The twelve alternatives to time out presented in this book focus on problem solving and cooperative learning to give parents and children a chance to address behavior while maintaining a positive, respectful and connected relationship.

Consider a cooperative homeschool highschool (depending on your state's laws) in which several parents teach in their areas of expertise or experience, thereby sharing the work and helping all their children have the most qualified instructor available.

She directed The School, a non-profit parent cooperative preschool in Palo Alto, and later directed Neighborhood Infant Toddler Center for Palo Alto Community Child Care.

The child will definitely need to learn some skills to show more compliant, cooperative and friendly behaviors towards adults, and other authority figures, but it's also likely that the child will need to learn skills in getting along with and respecting peers as well.

Once the child understands that theparents is constantly in control they will be more cooperative.

Veronica has been involved in safety - related job functions and in the medical industry in Austin and surrounding areas for several years, being employed by an electric cooperative, where part of her role was teaching children electrical safety, and then being employed by a major urgent care facility.

If your child is generally cooperative, you are in good shape.

It's harder when you make naive assumptions that a photo of a smiling family means that their house is clean, the children are cooperative, and they don't eat Z Bars for dinner in the car every once in a while.

In fact, anthropologists have discovered that cooperative childrearing, or alloparenting — related and unrelated members of the same species that help care for and provide sustenance for the children of others — shaped human evolution.

They continue in a remarkably cooperative way to co-parent their children.

A father and grandfather, Herst regularly engages with parents in the form of Platonic dialogue — a cooperative Q - & - A approach meant to stimulate critical thinking — to yield logic - based solutions for raising happy children.

Would your child do better in a competitive or cooperative atmosphere?

In Horwood's long - range study that followed children from birth to 18 years or the completion of high school, breastfed children were rated as more cooperative and socially better students the longer they were breastfed.17 When drop - out rates were calculated, the rate was higher among children who had been bottle - fed and lowest among those who had been breastfed equal to or longer than eight months, even when data were adjusted for maternal demographics.

Mary Folsom (892-1263), licensed clinical professional counselor in Windham, who works with both adults and children, offers CO-Parent Counseling to parents who want or feel they need a neutral third party to help them establish a cooperative CO-parenting relationship.

As they grow older, the children can participate in more advanced cooperative tasks and chores, as well as fun activities, either together or with adult family members.

Shining light on these inward, unique talents of the heart (both in ourselves and in our children) could be integral in creating a more cooperative and compassionate society.

SHEDD JOINS MUSEUMS FOR ALL PROGRAM Shedd Aquarium is now a participating member in the Museums for All program, a cooperative initiative between IMLS and the Association of Children's Museums, to offer a signature access program that encourages families of all backgrounds to visit museums regularly and build lifelong museum habits.

Building a trusting, healthy relationship in these early years will not only provide your child with lifetime benefits, but it will set the foundation for a more cooperative, better - behaved child in the future.

Encourage your child to become involved in cooperative activities that foster a sense of teamwork and accomplishment.

«Charles C. Kirby, former USDA regional director for child nutrition in Atlanta, says he ran a Mississippi Education Department cooperative buying program from 1992 to 2001.

It can be very tempting to let your kids stay up late and sleep in — especially on weekends, when you want to do the same — but in the long run, sticking to the same schedule pays off by keeping your child more comfortable, and hence more cooperative.

In June 2012, CDC awarded a 3 - year cooperative agreement to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to assist 89 hospitals, mostly located in states that have lower breastfeeding rates and that serve low - income and minority women, with improving maternity care practices to support breastfeeding and to move toward the Baby - Friendly designatioIn June 2012, CDC awarded a 3 - year cooperative agreement to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to assist 89 hospitals, mostly located in states that have lower breastfeeding rates and that serve low - income and minority women, with improving maternity care practices to support breastfeeding and to move toward the Baby - Friendly designatioin states that have lower breastfeeding rates and that serve low - income and minority women, with improving maternity care practices to support breastfeeding and to move toward the Baby - Friendly designation.

«Based on this cooperative effort, I think we will arrive at a good solution for the students in Success Academy as well as the children in traditional public school buildings.

«It's going to take the cooperative efforts of the entire community to end childhood lead poisoning in the City of Utica and through this partnership with the UFD's Rental Registry Program we can «close the loop» on rental property owners who do not maintain their properties and are putting children at risk for lead poisoning,» Picente said.

«We were most interested in understanding how children's cognitions and emotions worked together to predict whether child - friend interactions were more cooperative and positive or more negative and conflictual,» says Nancy McElwain, a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at U of I.

Warneken, who did not participate in the new study, studies cooperative behavior in human children and nonhuman apes.

Dogs and children similarly outperformed chimps on cooperative communication tasks, and researchers observed similar patterns of variation in performance between individual dogs and between individual children.

Although this provides one of the first glimpses of cooperative understanding outside humanity — and raises the possibility that such abilities might have been present in our common ancestor more than six million years ago — it does not mean that chimpanzees can communicate about a shared goal, like human children.

Encouraging scientists, governments, and corporations to participate in cooperative programs that provide life - saving technologies to marginalized people (e.g., pharmaceutical companies working with human rights organizations to make AIDS drugs available to children in the developing world);

Since 1990, Cohn has been a leader in national pediatric cooperative clinical research groups, including serving as chair of the Pediatric Oncology Group Neuroblastoma Biology Committee, chair of the Children's Oncology Group (COG) Neuroblastoma Disease Committee, and director of the COG Neuroblastoma Tracking Center.

Long supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute and other philanthropic entities, Cole is an active clinical researcher having developed pediatric cancer clinical trial protocols in conjunction with the national cooperative organization Children's Oncology Group and other collaborators.

Dr. Cohn has held several leadership positions in national pediatric cooperative clinical research groups, including serving as chair of the Children's Oncology Group (COG) Neuroblastoma Disease Committee and she was a member of the COG Executive committee.

Twin Oaks Community Foods is a cooperative business run by the Twin Oaks Community, an income - sharing intentional community of 95 adults and 15 children living on 350 acres in rural central Virginia.

The OTS part was also not cooperative and I don't even OWN a strapless bra (oh my gosh the dog just burped in his sleep and it sounded like a child said «hi») so what was I even thinking??

Related but slightly different is the home - school cooperative, wherein a group of mothers (and sometimes fathers) pool their expertise, each teaching a subject she knows well to all the children in the group.

Children can develop their knowledge of THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD - and through guided whole - group discussion - their home / host country too, in a cooperative, communicative and interactive way, in part independently of the teacher.

After a dispiriting experience at the D.C. charter school, he moved back home in 2004, and that summer ran a summer program for children at his local food cooperative, telling parents that if they liked his approach, he'd homeschool them for free in the fall to test out his model.

What would American education look like if we had shunned IQ tests as a means of sorting children, used higher salaries to attract more able recruits to teaching, adapted the kind of engaging cooperative inquiry among both teachers and pupils that Dewey favored, and expected all children to do rigorous mathematics and science beginning in elementary school?

Ravitch sees Winnetka as one of a few public school systems that made intelligent adaptations of progressive methods — individualizing instruction, motivating children by tapping into their interests, developing cooperative group projects — in order to achieve the traditional aims of producing knowledgeable and skilled students.