Sentences with phrase «directed at a parent»

The harsh language in my post is not directed at a parent who chooses formula or who has to use formula.

The Committee directs the Secretary to issue minimum national standards to address the ongoing issue of shaming school children for unpaid school lunch fees, including standards that protect children from public embarrassment; that require all communications about unpaid school lunch fees be directed at the parent or guardian, not the child; and that schools take additional steps to determine if families falling behind in their school lunch fees are in fact eligible for free or reduced - price school meals.

The «mommy wars», which are really directed at all parents, are the stuff of both legend and...

The sons and daughters of earlier generations of immigrants are hearing the same racist insults that were once directed at their parents.

«The intensified begging behaviour was a cry for help directed at the parent birds that was clearly successful.»

To accomplish that, the report provides eight «communication strategies» directed at parents and communities.

Parent PLUS and private student loans are two products that often broker questions from students and parents alike.The Parent PLUS LoanThe PLUS loan is a federal program directed at parents instead of students.

My colleagues and I have focused our research program on parent support of vulnerable groups and have found, through the use of randomized control trials, that systematic interventions directed at parenting behaviours improve parental contingency in low - income parents and in adolescent mothers.12, 13 Similarly, we have found that systematic intervention on family problem - solving behaviour, what Trivette and Dunst call participatory help - giving practice, also improves contingency of parent - child interactions.14

(Platt, 1979) A study of parent and teacher education programs directed at parents and teachers of students with maladaptive behavior that implemented Positive Discipline tools showed a statistically significant improvement in the behavior of students in the program schools when compared to control schools.

They are directed at parents and reflect an increasing recognition that aspects of parenting such as boundary setting, positive discipline and warm and affectionate relationships are key in the prevention of behaviour problems [9].

Not exact matches

The portable products to date are mostly improvements on the classic Life Alert «I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging and gaining traction in the marketplace.

Generally, direct loans to undergraduate students are offered at the lowest rates, while PLUS loans to parents and graduate students are offered at higher student loan rates.

Finally, while parents at elite schools only have one vote, cutting their subsidy would feel like a direct attack, and really motivate them to work against the NDP, either through donating to the UCP or helping out with their campaign.

Thus, the explicit moral lessons may be directed more at adult viewers — particularly parents — than at children.

There, at table, one has direct access to the parent.

Thousands of Australian sheep were available for private purchase at a facility directly connected to LSS's parent company — in direct contravention of Australian regulations.

So parents and teachers all want what Helen wants; i.e. for Helen to keep being Helen and to get better and better at directing herself through the world as a self - possessed, socially competent, life - long learner.

-LSB-...] by identifying their real origins; by practicing mindful breathing and mindfulness meditation and playful, joyful parenting; by directing our real and righteous anger about our pain at the appropriate -LSB-...]

And the CIO and the non-CIO advice is usually directed at them, not at the parents of the 80 % of children who fall more in the range of «normal» temperament.

Rather than using rewards or punishments to cajole or direct behavior, Kohn suggests we put the relationship at the center of parenting to attend the larger aim of meeting a child's basic need to feel loved unconditionally.

Pay attention: Instead of dropping their kids off for practice, parents should stick around if they can; they should encourage their kids to report inappropriate behavior by teammates or coaches - whether it is «locker room talk» demeaning of women or girls, or anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant comments or behavior - regardless of whether it is directed at a teammate or not, and made to feel safe in doing so; they should pay attention to a coach's behavior at practices and games to make sure they are not participating in or tolerating bullying, teasing or abuse of any kind.

At the center, we're involved in training of mental health professionals and parent educators and direct service to parents where we provide groups focusing on helping parents to develop reflective and mindful ways and approaches to parenting.

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

Home schooled children get a lot of one - on - one communication time with at least one adult, with the parent that is teaching them (it has been pointed out by John Holt, that most children in schools don't even get 15 minutes of direct one - on - one teaching time per week).

At this point, his «parent - directed feeding» method advises looking to the schedule and to your baby's hunger cues to know when to feed — but your baby's hunger cues take precedence.

I had no idea that there were «parenting styles» (with names even... attachment parenting... parent directed... child directed...)-- so, when a friend of mine showed up at my baby shower with the gift of a Dr. Sears book, and the advice that she and her husband agreed to «not make ourselves crazy with a bunch of books» and to adhere to only one, it seemed so reasonable to me.

Now the Society, thanks to a Parenting Fund grant, is working with Fathers Direct on a booklet about Muslim fatherhood, is able to develop this website section and helped Fathers Direct plan and prepare the Forum on Muslim Fatherhood held at the 2005 «Working with Fathers» conference.

Mother's Heart Support Group Sacramento 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month 5:30 p.m. — 7 p.m. Sutter Women's and Children's Center 2825 Capitol Avenue, 1st floor lobby, Sacramento (signs will direct you to the meeting room) Please contact Sutter Parent Education at 916-887-4037 for more information.

To any parents who may be considering exploring Camp Kesem — there are still slots available at select camps across the country this summer — Abi's mother, Jennifer, has some pretty direct advice: Sign up.

Evidence dating back to at least the 1930s linking troubled marriages and child behaviour problems led to the hypothesis that while some of the association between marital processes and child functioning is direct and unmediated via parenting, 31 some of it derives from the effect of marriage on parenting.6, 32,33,34

Belonging to a community bound by common aims, i.e. providing support and information for families whose children are being educated outside school, upholding the freedom for parents to choose to take direct responsibility for the education of their children, and promoting knowledge, understanding and acceptance of education otherwise than at school.

And until that education is available, it's important for school staff and school nurses to be educated on food allergies and to ensure the allergic children have epinephrine at school, and that the parents are directed to nationally recognized food allergy organizations for information and facts.

«Trust me, grandparents have forgotten what's it like to be new parents, so it's important that you be very direct with family and friends, and think of it as an education about what the baby, the mom, and dad need to be at their best.

If so, parents must hear the truth about this recycled, manipulated, fantasy - based safety program directed at hiding the truth about the dangers of tackle football for children.

This invaluable resource will help you: - sleep better tonight in under ten minutes with the Quick Start guide - and sleep safer every night with the Safe Sleep Seven - sort out the fact and fiction of bedsharing and SIDS - learn about normal sleep at every age and stage, from newborn to new parent - direct your baby toward longer sleep when he's ready - tailor your approach to your baby's temperament - uncover the hidden costs of sleep training and «controlled crying» techniques - navigate naps at home and during daycare - handle criticism from family, friends, and health professionals - enjoy stories and tips from mothers like you - make the soundest sleep decisions for your family and your life

While not specifically directed at fathers, PBS Parents has a ton of helpful information on parenting.

«This is the largest randomized trial of any behavioral intervention in children with autism spectrum disorder, and it shows that parent training works,» notes Lawrence Scahill, MSN, PhD, professor of pediatrics at Marcus and Emory School of Medicine, who directed the study.

As for technique, parents were given three choices: a child - oriented approach, described as waiting for the child to show signs of readiness before initiating training and then letting the child direct the toilet training process; a parent - oriented approach, described as starting training when the parent was ready and then bringing the child to the toilet at regular, defined intervals, or a combination of the two.

Also at 11 a.m., Brooklynites with developmental disabilities, their parents and caregivers, a bipartisan delegation of state legislators and community leaders rally to urge Cuomo and the state Legislature to ensure that direct support professionals receive a living wage, St. Francis College, 182 Remsen St., Brooklyn.

At 1 p.m., New Yorkers with developmental disabilities, their parents and caregivers and a bipartisan delegation of state legislators rally to urge Cuomo and the state Legislature to accelerate the process and ensure that direct support professionals receive the living wage they are entitled to, state Capitol, second floor, Albany.

Faced with a potential sit - in at the board room, the Buffalo School Board last night agreed to a direct meeting next Wednesday with the District Parent Coordinating Council.

Shannon de l'Etoile, a professor of music therapy at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, cites a theory that infant - directed songs evolved out of the need for «hands - free parenting.»

They are directed at policy - makers and local authorities, who are able to undertake actions but they can also support construction companies, school staff, children and their parents in their aim to make our schools healthier.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The teacher - directed part of the day lasts only a few hours; many children then apply their reading and arithmetic skills to church activities or to helping their parents at work.

«Another key benefit of having two principals at Vista Square is that staff, parents, and children have increased accessibility, allowing for more direct contact with the administration,» added Bayer.

Alicia, Clearly, the Title I funds are directed at low performing schools... but, our opinion is that we can affect the performance of ALL schools by using our funds to provide parent training and professional development opporunities for staff about strategies that will ultimaeley improve learning opportunities for all students.

After Wagner was beaten by several students, his parents filed an official complaint noting that new Title IX guidelines prohibited sexual harassment directed at gay and lesbian students.

While school choice does have a history in rural states — since 1869, Vermont has allowed parents to select a nearby school for their student to attend at the expense of their own town through a «tuitioning» program — few states have encouraged the direct creation of rural, publicly funded schools of choice.

Capping tuition at the amount of the voucher or ESA allocation reduces parents» direct financial responsibility, which is essential to maintaining parental control over «what, where, and by whom their children are taught.»