Sentences with phrase «children struggling under»

Any parent who has witnessed his child struggle under the weight of an oversized school bag has probably wondered when those digital textbooks we keep hearing about are finally going to get here.

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The performance - reward system in the children's program started getting under my skin, and I realized that my struggles accepting God's love, of believing in my worth despite my failures, might have started there.

We know now that we will not get out from under the results of that struggle during our lives or during the lives of our children.

Listen, I'm not trying to throw my parents under the bus but the reality was that they were extremely busy and stressed raising 7 children, our growing up was chaotic and disruptive, and my school struggles were not met with unconditional love and support.

Rather than struggling to conform to an idealized concept of an all - powerful, all - giving mother while under threat of causing permanent damage to their children, Dally advocated for mothers increasing their self - knowledge.

As I healed my own relationship with my mother (a relationship I talk about in my book), and as I began to work with more and more families professionally, I realized that so many parents crumble under the pressure of being shamed, not knowing if they're doing this parenting thing right, and struggling to connect with themselves and their children.

Father and mother often lock horns in a bitter struggle to determine the conditions under which they can spend time with their children.

Her struggle with her younger child gives me an opportunity to point out that the way to take time for training with children under the age of six is to do tasks with them.

While children under 8 may not be able to reach the floor (and therefore will struggle with balance), the seat can be removed and the scooter can be used as a standing model.

I mostly work with children under 5, so redirection is a great way to turn what would be a power struggle into a smooth transition.

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Kent County Council, which has responsibility for a large proportion of all unaccompanied asylum - seeking children, is struggling under the increased pressure.

Michael Mulgrew, UFT President After more than a decade working under the Bush - era No Child Left Behind Act, we finally have a chance to reverse the law's misguided federal mandates that dictate how states evaluate teachers and address struggling schools.

«One in four working parents has been plunged into debt due to the crippling cost of childcare, a report warned yesterday... The poll of more than 4,000 working parents also found nearly two - thirds «can not afford not to work, but struggle to pay for childcare»... The average bill for sending a child under the age of two to a nursery for 25 hours a week is # 96, while a live - out nanny in central London costs about # 32,000 a year.»

VIOLENCE / GORE 6 - A woman swims into rough waves near rocks to rescue her dog that seems to be stuck in heavy undertow and we see the dog disappear under the water's surface, and the woman as well when her husband struggles to reach her; another man pulls the husband to the shore, but he goes back in and does not come back out leaving their young child crying on the beach (we see the baby again later in the dark and continuing to cry on the beach).

Under the wing of Jack Mindy (Sam Neill), Martin lodges at the home of Lucy (Frances O'Connor), who is grief - stricken after the disappearance of her husband, Jarrah and struggling to care for her two children, Sass and Bike.

Hathaway plays a struggling factory worker named Fantine, whose daughter Cosette (Isabelle Allen as a child, Seyfried as an adult) eventually comes under the care of Valjean — having previously been forced to work as a servant by the Thénardiers, who were entrusted to care for her by Fantine and treat her like their own daughter Éponine (Barks).

The cast, which includes Juliette Lewis, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch and Abigail Breslin and Chris Cooper gel together well — Julia Roberts as the eldest child Barbara flashes brilliance as she struggles with responsibility and sinks under the fear that she may be turning into her own mother.

City folk Henry (Jason Clarke) and Laura McAllan (Carey Mulligan) start a new life on a cotton farm in 1946, where Laura feels far from at home, struggling to raise two young children in an isolated shack under the eye of her racist father - in - law.

When an artistic high school senior, Oscar Madly (Connor Jessup) begins to fall for his pretty boy co-worker, Wilder (Aliocha Schneider), he struggles to cope with memories of a traumatic hate - crime he suppressed as a child, while simultaneously living under the roof of his homophobic father (Aaron Abrams).

David Simmonds, chair of the LGA's children and young people board, said that it was simply not fair that some struggling schools are burdened with a deficit when under council control, while others could become academies and leave town halls with the bill.

Minnesota moved its testing regimen from February to April in the wake of accountability standards, while Colorado legislators have proposed moving their testing window from March into April, with advocates suggesting that the increased time for instruction would make meeting performance requirements under No Child Left Behind more feasible for struggling schools.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Texas's school system «has really struggled» under Governor Rick Perry, a Republican candidate for president, and the state's substandard schools do a disservice to children.

It does not apply to children who simply struggle socially, unless they do so to a degree that they fall under IDEA's regulations and, as expected, their schoolwork is affected.

Now that states have the authority under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to determine how to improve struggling schools, many state chiefs are looking for a whole - child approach with deep community engagement to counter the more technical models required under the previous School Improvement Grants program.

The city struggles to retain middle - income families and those with older children, and some schools are overcrowded while others are under - enrolled.

After struggling for months to find a way for California schools to take advantage of the Obama No Child Left Behind waiver, state officials said Thursday they may have found a solution - petition relief under a separate, general federal waiver provision.

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At one end we struggle to engage parents who show little interest in their child's education and at the other, we can feel vulnerable and even under attack from the omnipresent eye of parents who demand high levels of involvement.

So this is the justification of the «impatient» reformers for disrupting and shutting down schools, dismissing whole staffs, and dislocating thousands of struggling poor children into other under - resourced buildings.

And while the struggle continues to make our public schools more equitable and just for every child, we must also celebrate and protect those aspects that are now under threat by privatization, disinvestment, and resegregation.

Six million children under the age of 18 attend public schools — including 600,000 in charter schools — while nearly 3 million students are enrolled in the state's storied higher education system, which is still struggling to recover from decades of underfunding.

And as Tim struggles with his complicated feelings for the father figures in his own life, he becomes one to the children under his care, adding yet another layer to the story.

But while you might believe taking out the loan was worthwhile since it meant ensuring your children were able to go to the school of their dreams, you might currently find yourself struggling under the high interest rate associated with the loans.

The above team made a game about «impotence» using a two - part graph that plotted (what they defined as) fertility and a progression through three - stages of emotional and physical arousal to try and explore how it might feel to struggle to conceive a child under the pressures that can build up in a family relationship over time.

Working predominantly under the sunlight of Pennsylvania and Maine with models who are most often her own three children, Madigan seeks to find «the essential truth in the teachings of nature; death and life as a continuum; the temporary nature of the body; and the struggle between human desire and spiritual evolution.»

40 % of U.S. households with children under the age of 18 would struggle financially if the primary income earner died

A lot of kinship carers are struggling financially, often taking on the care of a child at short notice, which puts them under incredible pressure.

Some parents who were maltreated in childhood may struggle in prioritizing their children's needs especially if they as parents are under stress.

As I healed my own relationship with my mother (a relationship I talk about in my book), and as I began to work with more and more families professionally, I realized that so many parents crumble under the pressure of being shamed, not knowing if they're doing this parenting thing right, and struggling to connect with themselves and their children.

I witnessed parents working as hard as they could for their children while also struggling under the burden of a relationship plagued with constant stress, fighting, and gridlock.