Sentences with phrase «class parents growing»

Robinson's memoir, A Game of Character, documents the lessons he learned from his working - class parents growing up on Chicago's South Side, and how he's applied them in life and in basketball.

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

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.

No parent wants their son to grow up as the class pervert or their daughter to be thought an «easy lay».

My low point came on the day I had to fill in for the absent teacher of the Sunday school class for the teen - agers» parents, a bunch of grown - ups who were powerful, outspoken and of a very different persuasion than I when it came to politics and religion.

i grew up in a time where i was the only uncircumcised male in my class, and i had several females in my class make rude comments, but i learned very early on from my parents that the REASONS why i was left intact, and that was very important to me.

IS 318 was in South Williamsburg, near the border of Bedford - Stuyvesant — its most famous graduate was the rapper Jay - Z, who grew up in the nearby Marcy housing project — and the team reflected the student body; the students» families were mostly from the struggling working class, and the majority of their parents were employed but not college educated.

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.

Thacker decries the changes he witnessed in the past 30 years in college admissions — more AP and honors classes, growing checklists of pro-forma service engagements, and ever - greater stress experienced by students and fomented by parents and admissions officers.

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.

As babies grow, take advantage of drop - off classes and other Little Gym events, like Duplo Building workshops and Friday night Parent Survival Nights.

The next few years were difficult financially and, although enrollment grew steadily and a new class was added each year, the school was heavily in debt and the faculty and Board constantly juggled cash flow crisis with parents lending the school additional monies.

In 2001 he spearheaded production of the Active Parenting Today online parenting class, which has now grown to include five differentParenting Today online parenting class, which has now grown to include five differentparenting class, which has now grown to include five different courses.

At the same time, the Ezzos prepared a parenting curriculum entitled «Growing Kids God's Way» that many churches (seemingly many evangelical churches) began to purchase and offer as parenting classes in their own local churches.

They formed Growing Families International with the help and support of several other couples and developed a full line of parenting curricula for church - based classes, including Preparation for Parenting and Growing Kids Gparenting curricula for church - based classes, including Preparation for Parenting and Growing Kids GParenting and Growing Kids God's Way.

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 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 parents at schools and organizations, including Habitot Children's Museum, University of California Berkeley, UCSF Benioff / Children's Hospital, and San Francisco Zen Center.

Sign up for classes to help parents, siblings and grandparents get ready for a growing family — from childbirth preparation, to prenatal yoga and breastfeeding seminars.

Tony shared his personal story with the union of how he grew up with working class parents who were both AFL / CIO union members and over his 30 years of working experience, he's had the opportunity and pleasure of working with CWA union contractors and members.

«However, I believe this is the only reasonable way to address growing property taxes, and the class size issue, which truly does matter to parents.»

He grew up in Park Slope as the son of middle class Jewish parents — his father a lawyer and mother a public school teacher.

He grew up in Japan, attending an English - speaking school and taking Japanese language classes, an extra task in childhood that, as his parents predicted, he now appreciates.

I grew up in urban India in a middle class family, the daughter of two hard - working professional parents, both physicians.

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.

In my late 20s I made a conscious choice to seek out people who supported what I value, like being in the outdoors, taking fun group - exercise classes, eating healthy food, traveling, being silly, having meaningful conversations about relationships, growing old, reading good books, parenting, and all the other things that fill me up.

As you grew, you were frustrated by so many things - stacking your blocks, separating from your parents, connecting sounds with letters, learning to wait your turn to play on the swings, solving for «x» in algebra class, writing your first college term paper, and writing your last paper - for some of you it was your dissertation.

The Harlem Children's Zone has since grown into a ninety - seven - block community - service project that includes Promise Academy charter schools, social services, parenting classes, and early - childhood - development and after - school programs.

By contrast, Hunter students coming from backgrounds similar to hers, «growing up in Chinatown with working - class parents,» were much more reluctant to participate.

Additionally, the space might be used for maker activities outside of class time, such as clubs (like Young Makers groups) or parent groups, as makerspaces grow into popular community hubs.

Parents and carers stay in our classes and this is key to their confidence growing plus children then not only get used to engaging with other children but other adults, as well.

Her working - class, first - generation parents grew up in immigrant families from Mexico and Nicaragua.

With more resources at their disposal than their parents or grandparents had, blue - collar, middle - class families — often Catholic — were able to leave the cities for homes in America's growing suburbs.

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Many of these individuals are white, middle - class kids who grew up in white - flight - created suburbia, but are choosing to return to the neighborhoods that their parents and grandparents left decades before.

«I see frustration and bitterness among parents growing by leaps and bounds,» said Leonie Haimson, a mother who runs Class Size Matters, an advocacy group in New York City that pushes for reduced testing and smaller class sClass Size Matters, an advocacy group in New York City that pushes for reduced testing and smaller class sclass sizes.

CEJ has called on the NYC Department of Education to ensure that school and district staff represent the diversity of the district's population, provide classes, curricula and resources designated to celebrate that diversity, cultivate a positive, culturally responsive culture in schools and champion increased parent engagement efforts that are culturally responsive and promote collaborative efforts to help students grow.

«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.»

In All Fall Down, Weiner tackles a growing epidemic in our society: middle - and upper - class suburban parents who abuse prescription medication to cope with their overworked and overstressed lifestyles.

There weren't even any creative writing classes at all where I grew up in South Carolina, or even in college, the college that I went to, so I had to kind of self - teach, and my parents, of course, I think they were thinking, «How are you going to make...» I mean, they were very supportive, but they were like, «How are you going make a living out of doing this?»

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.

Basha was born in Israel to Iraqi parents, she grew up in Montreal and Los Angeles and attended New York University, Concordia University (Studio Art and Art History) and graduated from Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies» inaugural class of 1996.

Born Roberto Antonia Sebastian Matta Echaurren in Santiago, Chile, to Basque parents, he grows up in an upper middle class family.

Growing up on the Wirral from a working class background both Leckey's parents worked for Littlewood in the days where brand name retails store's dominated consumer culture.

I think it's much simpler: my grandmother, who grew up in the Depression to immigrant parents and moved up to a comfortable middle - class life, had experienced the American Dream firsthand.

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.

On Wednesday, June 21, 2017, more than 150 teachers, education workers, parents, and other concerned community members rallied on the steps of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) office to call on Board officials and Trustees to address the growing concern of inequitable Full - Day Kindergarten (FDK) class sizes.

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 youngest children participate in TYO classes, their mothers will also receive training in parenting skills to support their children as they learn and grow.

Much research shows that the authoritative and flexible parenting style is optimal for the white, middle - class child from a nuclear family, but the same may not be true for other children growing up in other circumstances and situations.

In these online parenting classes, Lisa makes the growing field of neuroscience accessible and relevant to parents of all backgrounds.