Sentences with phrase «conflict has on their children»

Moreover, research indicates that successful conflict resolution (i.e., «behaviors that regulate, reduce, or terminate conflicts,» Davies & Cummings, 1994) decreases the adverse impact family conflict has on children.

My clients include individuals, couples, and separated parents who are focused on minimizing the impact their conflict has on their children.

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UNICEF has taken a more serious approach to getting their followers involved on Snapchat by sharing images that raise awareness of the plight of 800,000 children who have been forced to leave their Nigerian homes because of ongoing conflict between Boko Haram and military forces.

Christian charity World Vision UK's #BearsOnStairs campaign displayed 700 donated second - hand and new soft toys to highlight the devastating effect the conflict in South Sudan is having on the nation's children.

In the current Israeli - Palestinian conflict, pictures of terrorized children and suicide bombings have appeared on our computer screens.

A psychiatrist who studied the effects of the school desegregation conflict on children in the Deep South reports: «I have been struck by how clearly young Negro children foresee the bleak future of their lives.

I would therefore hope that future Catholic SRE programmes would develop a three-fold strategy to this important aspect of Christian Education: A vision of human sexuality founded on the teaching of the Church, a means to help children combat the conflicting messages of modern society and a recognition of the need for healing in many of those under their care.

Often, families have to reconcile conflicting priorities as they answer these questions (for example, a great sports opportunity may impinge on other family needs, or the needs of the parents are at odds with the desires of the child), which is why dilemmas around youth sports are so prevalent.

Research With the premise that science isn't perfect, but it's the best guide we've got, Zero to Five draws on scientific research and studies from experts such as Dimitri Christakis (screen time), Diana Baumrind (parenting styles), Adele Diamond (neuroscience and executive function), Carol Dweck (growth mindset), Alison Gopnik (child psychology), John Gottman (marriage and conflict resolution), Megan McClelland (executive function), Patricia Kuhl (language acquisition and brain development), Ellyn Satter (feeding children), Dan Siegel (emotions), Paul Torrance (creative thinking), Grover Whitehurst (literacy and reading comprehension), and more.

It's not surprising that a parent - child relationship that's often filled with conflict or neglect would have a negative effect on kids» emotional or mental health; but did you know that parenting style may also have an impact on a child's physical health?

Conflict with fathers, fathers» negativity and fathers» harsh or neglectful parenting are strongly associated with children's externalising behaviour, and fathers» harsh parenting has a stronger effect than mothers» on children's aggression.

• However, in this same study, the parents» functioning with each other (e.g. their hostility, overt conflict etc.) also had a direct effect on their young children, predicting «externalizing» difficulties (e.g. aggression, «bad behaviour» etc.)(Cowan et al, 1994).

Today's families have been overwhelmed with conflicting advice on how to get the sleep they and their child so desperately need.

«We have asked the Lancet to review the effectiveness of its conflicts of interest policy, given that two lead authors of its series on Maternal and Child Nutrition, published in June 2013, declared that they are members of Nestle's Creating Shared Value Advisory Committee.

IBFAN has expressed concern over the conflict of interest among lead authors of the Lancet child survival series as it has an important influence on health policies.

This has also raised question about the effectiveness of the conflict of interest policy of the medical journal Lancet, given that two of the lead authors of its series on Maternal and Child Nutrition were members of Nestle's Creating Shared Value Advisory Committee.

A better environment would include better access to healthy food, restrictions on advertising to children and plain old health education to help parents weed through conflicting messages in order to make the best choices.

I decided that I would not yell at my children for an entire year, work on my attitude and the way I handled conflict in my family.

Although there are numerous conflicting opinions on the issue of breastfeeding during pregnancy, no research has ever found an increased risk of miscarriage in women who continue breastfeeding an older child during pregnancy.

In support of this commitment to children, the CRC has established a set of social goals based on program utilization of the Both Parents Approach model to help highly conflicted parents involved in marital discourse, custody disputes, parental alienation, and relational inexperience better cooperate and collaborate in the best interests of their children following break - up of the family.

Everyone has an opinion, and you're likely to get conflicting advice on everything from how to swaddle to when baby should nap to whether sleep training is a form of child abuse or an absolute necessity.

There is evidence that shared parenting actually reduces conflict between divorced parents — which has a beneficial impact on children into adulthood.

But our culture does have its leftovers from previous generations» perspectives on relationship, and those leftovers are most often seen — not in the news of mass killings that we are increasingly seeing — but more in our homes, behind closed doors, when conflict arises between couples and between parents and children.

There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that marijuana use doesn't have a negative impact on a child's development, but studies have conflicting results.

This clarification was necessitated when our Global Council, on behalf of IBFAN, had to take a strategic decision whether or not and under what conditions IBFAN should participate in two new initiatives by UNICEF and WHO, WHO NetCode, and the UNICEF Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative, both receiving funding from the BMGF, which has direct links and gets its returns from the baby food industry and also engages with entities such as the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) that create situations of risk of conflicts of Interest in infant and young child feeding.

In this section we've collected our best information on how to talk to children about a divorce, how to support them during the transition, and how to protect them from conflict during custody battles.

These may seem like little aspects in a greater picture, but for your own wellbeing and especially your children, on - going conflict can have a huge impact.

Focus on Solutions — When your children are in the middle of a conflict — simply interrupt by saying, «I have faith in you to come up with a solution.

Even though you might feel that grandparents somehow go in conflict with your ideas on how to parent your child, there is no denying the fact that they love their grandchildand do everything within their power to ensure that the child has a wonderful time.

While shame, as a normal emotion, is felt from time to time by everyone — being the result of conflicting interactions within a social group — it generally doesn't have long - lasting effects on a child's self - worth as long as the child is able to lean on a supportive, unconditionally loving parent to help him process his feelings.

This doesn't mean that they necessarily agree on everything or even like one another, but they do show respect to each other in front of their children, and they've learned how to communicate in ways that minimize conflict.

Breastfeeding is a lifeline for infants and young children in emergencies, has zero environmental impact, and States have a human rights obligation to ensure that mothers are enabled to make an informed decision on infant feeding, free of conflicts of interests.

On the family level the typical conflict between mother - in - law abd her child's spouse is in its essence a struggle for power... Social clubs, fraternities, faculties, and business organizations are scenes of continuous struggle of power between groups that either want to keep what power they already have or seek to attain new power... «of the gods we know.»

Rahami had a history of conflict with the mother of a child they had together and was constantly in arrears on child support, according to court papers.

A Coalition Civil Society Organisations on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Nigeria has accused the United Nations Children's Education Fund, UNICEF, and other International organization...

Based on their answers, researchers rated whether the children interpreted ambiguous acts as hostile or non-hostile and whether they would escalate a conflict into aggression.

The team's conclusion: «Chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic, also against civilians, including children, on a relatively large scale.

There is more information about the blood tests on The American Celiac Disease Alliance website: http://americanceliac.org/celiac-disease/diagnosi… which might be of more help to you, but as a mom who went through similar conflicting test results with both of my children, I would advise that you watch this very closely, especially if you are not prepared to put her on a gluten - free diet before a definitive diagnosis.

He's still writing and ignoring almost everything else, which results in vacillating responses from his wife Lauren (Julia Stiles), depending on whether or not there's conflict from some other character in the story at the moment (She's mad at him when the plot starts to get stale, and she desperately wants to have his child when he's otherwise distracted by other things).

A lack of focus on the marginalized has left the poorest five times less likely to complete a full cycle of primary education than the richest and over a third of out of school children living in conflict affected zones.

Research into the effects of video games on the academic performance of children has produced conflicting findings, with experts disagreeing over the potential benefits.

In my classes I often have 2 or 3 children sitting with me on the floor while I try to engage them in figuring out some conflict in their own thinking.

«Watching videos of children explaining what living in a zone of conflict means on a day to day basis, developed a deep empathy for the impact global events have for the people living within them.

Every day we and our children have real - time opportunities to share our thinking while engaging with one another — whether it's how to welcome new neighbors on the block, explain our attitudes toward immigration policies debated in Congress, or provide background and context to our children as a 24/7 news cycle presents nonstop updates and images of global conflicts.

But it would declare as «out of bounds» all arguments that are based on other considerations, including: a) personal political ambitions; b) the retention or acquisition of power or authority for its own sake; c) a commitment to a broken status quo out of an abstract fear of change; d) personality conflicts; and e) other institutional interests, including those of the Newark Teachers Union, when inconsistent with the interests of children.

When federal policy conflicts with a solid body of evidence, one would expect our state education officials, those charged with safeguarding the educational rights and welfare of our children, to provide guidance on sound testing policy.

In fact, No Child Left Behind, with its emphasis on standards and hard data, has placed national policy in direct conflict with the prevailing approach of many colleges, where the John Dewey tradition of progressive education holds sway, marked by a deep antipathy toward testing.

«Teachers unions have too often made plain that their interests» conflict with those of our children, and today we are seeing one of the clearest examples yet,» he said in a statement on Monday.

They found that (a) teachers reported having more conflictual relationships with children exhibiting repeated impulsive behavior and (b) greater levels of conflict perceived by the teacher were associated with decreases in school engagement on the part of the child, as well as reduced academic competence in 1st grade.

While many school districts and libraries have a policy honoring parents» wishes that their own children be given alternate assignments for class readings that conflict with their morals or religious beliefs, in far too many instances schools cave in to parental outrage and simply remove a book from class reading lists; when the angry mob gets loud enough or politicians up for re-election on the «family values» ticket need to make some noise, they've even resorted to pulling the access to the book, removing it from school and public libraries and classroom borrow shelves.