Sentences with phrase «class of children growing»

We have a whole class of children growing up without fathers, and they are doing terribly.

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I grew up one of six children with working class parents in the Deep South.

The common wisdom of church developers at the time was simple: where there is a pool of white, middle - class, home - owning families with children, mainline churches are likely to grow, no matter what their theological orientation.

If you have friends over to your house for dinner, and you pull out some family videos about your children, are you going to show clips of all the times they misbehaved, threw fits, wrecked the car, got in fights, failed classes, came home drunk, and every other bad thing your children did while they were growing up?

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

Hill Tribers was born out of friendship and grew into informal meetings, ESL classes, children's activities, mentorship, education, support, and a gorgeous shop filled with hand - woven fashion and jewellery.

At the other end of the spectrum, children in middle - to - upper - class families grow up knowing that college, work, and a strong family are all desirable and attainable.

«Where there is a pool of white, middle - class, home - owning families - with - children on which to draw, mainline churches are likely to grow, no matter what their theological orientation.»

Having a court of law telling the masses that grew up with crosses in their class rooms and teach their children the same values that they were taught is not a short term change.

Growing up in Edison Park as the younger middle child of 4 sisters, she started taking drama classes at the Park District and immediately decided being onstage was the most fun ever.

Parents often feel lost at sea, themselves, when it comes to the best course for guiding and growing their children in the storm - tossed waves and murky waters of childhood behaviors, and many churches try to meet parent's needs by offering parenting books and classes.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

JULIE:... and then from teaching prenatal yoga, added in the postpartum exercise class with the moms and babies for the moms and babies and then in 2009 we opened up out first full center up in Roseville and that's where we started offering the added services of child birth classes, lactation services, um and grew from there into all the classes including the ones you teach!

And enrollment in gymlike classes, such as Gymboree and Playful Parenting, has grown nationwide, even though some health experts say that infant workouts, except for the time parent and child spend together, are of little or no value.

Besides, your child may end up meeting new people in his classes, and grow his circle of friends.

Rudolf Steiner believed that in order for children to grow into self - confident, authoritative adults, they must be exposed in childhood to the loving guidance of a respected authority, in this case the class teacher.

WHAT GREAT PARENTS DO: The small Book of BIG Parenting Ideas began as a workshop in local schools and soon grew into a class attended by thousands of parents at schools and organizations, including Habitot Children's Museum, University of California Berkeley, UCSF Benioff / Children's Hospital, and San Francisco Zen Center.

When Rosendale Elementary School was closed, two of her children attended a different school three years running, «all while the classes kept growing.»

To examine the developmental origins of civic engagement in children growing up in poverty, the researchers used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Class (ECLS - K), developed by the U.S. Department of Education.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

Our «Grow with Yoga» classes introduce children to the practice of Yoga in a fun and playful way.

Preschool Enrichment Programs: • Peter Cottontail Preschool & Daycare, Dover, NH • Joy of Learning Preschool, Berwick, ME • Bright Horizons at Timberland, Stratham, NH • Growing Places at Woodside, Dover, NH • Nurture & Nature Children's Center, Newfields, NH • The Shooting Stars Program, Scarborough, ME • Country Lane Nursery School, Arundel, ME • Stay & Play Early Learning Center, Dover, NH Private Group Classes at the Studio Private group classes can be scheduled as a one time event or as a series at our home studio in DovClasses at the Studio Private group classes can be scheduled as a one time event or as a series at our home studio in Dovclasses can be scheduled as a one time event or as a series at our home studio in Dover, NH.

In this class optimal health and plant - based nutrition expert Evita Ochel will address all of the different areas associated with the growing trend of veganism / vegetarianism when it comes to understanding and respecting the child's choices, and how to ensure they get the proper support and nutrition at any time of their journey.

In «DC,» Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline play an upper - middle - class couple going through a sort of empty - next syndrome now that their children are grown up and have moved away.

The youngest of two children raised by a single mother, she grew up taking acting classes, and at the age of 20, she left Canada to pursue a career as a model.

Against the warmth and sunshine of places such as Florida and fun tourist attractions like Disneyland, there is a growing rot swept deep beneath the middle - class where children are expected to become desensitised to poverty and cultural stagnation because they will never experience an alternative lifestyle.

While our education system alone can not solve the stubborn, tragic problem of persistent poverty and the growing gaps between working - class and college - educated Americans, there's much it can do for the children entrusted to it.

When I observed the classes, I loved the energy and enthusiasm of the teachers — all the children and grown ups were having a great time, and each class covered so many teaching points.

Steve Walker, director of children and families at Leeds City Council, said: «Our ambition is for Leeds to be the best city to live and grow up in for all its children and young people, and the council has invested # 45 million to ensure that children with social, emotional and mental health needs have access to world class learning provision.

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Historically, public education has played a key role in growing the middle class and ensuring that all children, regardless of their backgrounds, have an opportunity to achieve at high levels.

Geoff Barton, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said schools are now less able to give individual support to children, and are seeing class sizes grow.

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

They're among a small but growing number of young adults who think it's nothing less than bizarre to live in an incredibly diverse city — yet see many of their children's schools almost entirely segregated by race and class.

In a system with a growing number of English - language learners and children from low - income families, the new funding will steer more resources to high - needs schools, beef up math and literacy efforts, and add more than 300 teachers to help reduce class sizes.

«By creating new schools where they are needed most and helping all great schools to grow, we can give parents greater choice in looking at schools that are right for their family — and give children of all backgrounds access to a world - class education.»

Growing up with such high expectations was not easy but --- unlike the millions of children it was supposed to propel towards higher achievement — Common Core received a world - class education.

The eldest of four children, he grew up in a working - class environment, which has played a major role in his writing.

My mom grew up «working class» in London, in an upstairs flat in a terraced house, one of 6 children who lived.

Each year our popular summer program «How to be Safe around Dogs and Responsible Pet Care» has grown by word of mouth and many classes have over 100 children and parents in attendance.

It is good for kittens to grow up with another member of their own species, as they learn how to be normal cats through playing together — for the same reasons people take puppies to the park or dog classes to socialise with other puppies, and human children are taken to playgroups to mix with other children.

My wife retired early so she didn't miss out on the miracle years of the children growing up... She's my constant, my sailor girl that rocks everything from hoisting sails to the galley to our one room class.

The middle child of five, his favorite class growing up

Coming from a working - class family, Tom grew up in New Hampshire, the only child of a sheet metal mechanic and a secretary.

A growing number of disputed custody cases since 2006 have demonstrated that a mother, or a father, from all social classes, who cut off the child's contact with the other parent, not seldom in combination with allegations of abuse or psychiatric problems, easily can take control over the child and influence the child to reject the other parent without any objective reason — as the investigations made by the police or by consulting psychiatric records show.

A lot of couples even go through parenting classes just to make sure their children would grow up the way they want them to be.

As the fourth of six children growing up in an upper - middle - class London family, Bowlby, born in 1907, and his siblings were cared for by nurses on the top floor of the family's spacious home.

Thus, child and youth work in its infancy in Australia, alongside growing state education and social welfare institutions, was providing, in many instances, a way of keeping working - class youth under control and diverting their energies into less disruptive pursuits.

During the past 3 decades, a broad national consensus has emerged identifying poverty - related disparities in child development and school readiness as a critical public health problem.1, 2 Children growing up in poverty fall behind their middle - class peers in development from the time they say their first words, usually shortly after their first birthday.3 In a 2009 population - based analysis, 4 40 % of low - income eighth graders performed below the basic level for their age group in reading.

One out of five children in the world under the age of 6 lives in India — that's more than 165 million.1 Despite the country's rapidly growing middle class, only 40 percent of children attend preschool.