Sentences with phrase «directed at fathers»

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

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

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This stands in direct contrast to the Scriptures, the Fathers, and the saints, whose premise is that suffering is not something to be avoided at all costs — one can learn to live through it.

Although he sometimes speaks to the congregation, most of what he says is a direct address to God the Father, and in addressing Him, he occasionally, and rather impersonally, mentions the others present at the Mass as circumstantes, «those who are standing around.»

At one point in the evening, the following words are spoken (a close paraphrase, not direct quotation): «It was not our Fathers and our Mothers who were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt but we, all of us gathered here tonight, were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt.

One often finds that the Fathers of the early years of the Church are more direct and better at this than modern writers.

While the Special Commission convened by Pope Paul VI to look at the question of contraception in the modern world was not directed to consider whether the Church should or could change its teaching, the Commission decided on its own to take up that question and sent reports to the Holy Father that advocated that the Church permit married couples to use contraception.

At first I would have said no - but worship isn't about the space it is «the hearts affection and the mind's attention» as Jordan Fowler says - so I can worship anywhere, anytime, anyplace - as long as I am right with God and my focus is directed toward God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

During a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers that season, Grbac's father, Ivan, became so upset by the profanity that fans directed toward his son that he left his seat at halftime and angrily paced around Arrowhead until the game's conclusion.

On the latest episode of LaVar Ball speaks when he shouldn't, the outspoken father to UCLA standout and likely second overall draft pick Lonzo Ball made rude comments directed at FOX Sports reporter Kristine Leahy while on The Herd with Colin Cowherd on Wednesday.

The findings, presented at a conference in London co-hosted by the British Psychological Society and Fathers Direct, could have far - reaching policy implications.

«Here we show that fathers really do have a direct effect on kids, both in the short term and long term,» said Claire Vallotton, associate professor of child development at Michigan State University.

Duncan Fisher, Director of Fathers Direct, the national information centre on fatherhood, said: «The law is obviously not working at the moment as thousands of children are caught unnecessarily in court battles.

Fathers Direct project manager Kathy Jones supervised the research, with Sue Pollock, social work lecturer at the University of Bristol, acting as research consultant.

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

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

Specifically, for fathers, higher expectations about their children's educational level, and greater level / frequency of interest and direct involvement in children's learning, education and schools, are associated strongly with better educational outcomes for their children, including: • better exam / test / class results • higher level of educational qualification • greater progress at school • better attitudes towards school (e.g. enjoyment) • higher educational expectations • better behaviour at school (e.g. reduced risk of suspension or expulsion)(for discussion / review of all this research, see Goldman, 2005).

If you're looking for information and a support network that's directed just at father's this is a good website to visit.

Fathers Direct and the Newcastle Local Safeguarding Children Board in association with Children North East Fathers Plus are hosting a conference on Engaging Fathers on Friday 5 October 2007, at the Magpie Room, St James Park, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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.

Fathers in the intervention group showed significantly greater gains in direct interaction and support for learning activities with children at home than the comparison group of fathers, but only if the fathers were at least moderately involved in the pFathers in the intervention group showed significantly greater gains in direct interaction and support for learning activities with children at home than the comparison group of fathers, but only if the fathers were at least moderately involved in the pfathers, but only if the fathers were at least moderately involved in the pfathers were at least moderately involved in the program.

Skelos also said he would direct the county on how to spend $ 17 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds for post-superstorm Sandy flood mitigation, according to the wiretapped conversation played Tuesday at the federal corruption trial of Skelos and his father, Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre).

Prosecutors alleged that Dorego, an executive at Glenwood Management, directed a $ 20,000 check to the younger Skelos from title insurance work that he never did to curry favor with his father.

Mukhi compared Bonomo's testimony to that of Charles Dorego, a real estate executive at Glenwood Management, who told jurors that he felt pressured to direct work to Adam Skelos because he needed his father's support in the Legislature as several key pieces of real estate legislation were due to expire.

«Here we show that fathers really do have a direct effect on kids, both in the short term and long term,» said Claire Vallotton, associate professor of child development at Michigan State University.

He was one of the first physicians 16 years ago and youngest in the U.S. to become a Fellow of the Program in Integrative Medicine at University of Arizona (Class 2002) directed by Dr. Andrew Weil, the «father» of Integrative Medicine.

Born Robert Bradbury, he began appearing (at age 14) in semi-documentary nature shorts directed by his father, prolific silent director Robert North Bradbury; he later appeared in juvenile parts in some Westerns his father directed.

Mark Webber writes, directs and stars in this look at a widowed father's struggles to care for his two year - old son.

He studied art and cinema as a young adult, often spending a considerable amount of time on his father's movie sets, and honed his skills in his early twenties not in the arena of directing (as might be expected), but in that of painting.Danny Huston's directorial assignments began inconspicuously, at the age of 24, with the 1987 made - for - television comic fantasies Bigfoot and Mr. Corbett's Ghost (the second of which featured John Huston in the cast).

Signs point to her direct contact working in her former employ of the U.S. government (McGregor, The Men Who Stare at Goats), which leaves her stranded without knowing just whom she can trust other than her famed author father (Paxton, Thunderbirds).

But Lorene Scafaria, who wrote and directs «The Meddler,» has apparently hoped to do just that, to bring in an audience interested in seeing how she coped with her father's death, or rather how her mother dealt with her own husband's demise; her rising career as a scriptwriter, her mother's generous donation to a young friend to enable her to have a classy wedding ceremony, and her mom's volunteering at a hospital in L.A..

One of the films that didn't blow us away at Sundance, but offered a solid film full of jokes made just for cinephiles, was In a World... The film directed by actress Lake Bell follows a young female voice coach (Bell) as she joins the all - male race to land the white - hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase «In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talent.

Father James steps back out into his small Sligo parish a marked man and we see that there are no shortage of those who may wish him harm as, despite his determined decency, he's the target of bristling animosity - with the community's resentment and disappointment toward the church directed squarely at him.

The Paul Weitz - directed film centers on a young writer who takes a job at a homeless shelter and discovers his long - absent father seeking a bed.

Castelluccio played Channing Tatum's father in A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and received two awards — one for best dramatic directing and best dramatic ensemble headed by Robert Downey Jr., Chazz Palminteri and Rosario Dawson.

[5 stars] Get Out (03.07 / 02.24 / 03.17) Downsizing (10.13 / 12.22 / 01.19.18) The Florida Project (10.12 / 10.06 / 11.10) Colossal (04.18 / 04.07 / 05.19) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (10.15 / 11.10 / 01.12.18) The Girl with All the Gifts (07.26.16 / 02.24 / 09.23.16) A Ghost Story (08.08 / 07.07 / 08.11) Brigsby Bear (09.22 / 07.28 / 12.08) It Comes at Night (07.07 / 06.09 / 07.07) City of Ghosts (07.17 / 07.07 / 07.21) Paddington 2 (10.29 / 01.12.18 / 11.10) Human Flow (11.27 / 10.13 / 12.08) Kedi (01.03.18 / 02.10 / 06.30) The Shape of Water (10.10 / 12.08 / 02.16.18) First They Killed My Father (09.23 / 09.15 / 09.15) The Lego Batman Movie (02.04 / 02.10 / 02.10) Logan (02.17 / 03.03 / 03.01) War for the Planet of the Apes (06.21 / 07.14 / 07.11) Their Finest (10.13.16 / 04.07 / 04.21) Lady Macbeth (10.13.16 / 07.14 / 04.28) Dunkirk (07.17 / 07.21 / 07.21) Lost in Paris (Paris pieds nus)(06.16 / 06.16 / 11.24) Ingrid Goes West (08.28 / 08.11 / 11.17) The Death of Stalin (10.02 / 03.09.18 / 10.20) Call Me by Your Name (10.09 / 11.24 / 10.27) A United Kingdom (10.05.16 / 02.10 / 11.25.16) The Red Turtle (09.22.16 / 01.20 / TBA) Prevenge (10.12.16 / 03.24 / 02.10) La Soledad (08.16 / direct to VOD / 08.18) Last Flag Flying (10.07 / 11.03 / TBA) All This Panic (09.28.16 / 03.31 / 03.24) Letters from Baghdad (04.20 / 06.02 / 04.21) Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts (89th Academy Awards)(02.06 / 02.08 / direct to VOD)

Written by Bob Nelson (the first time Payne wasn't directly involved in writing a film he's directed), the comedic drama stars Bruce Dern (who won best actor at Cannes and is a shoo - in for his first Oscar nomination in over 35 years) and Will Forte (of «Saturday Night Live» fame, pulling off a largely dramatic role) as a father and son road tripping it from Montana to Nebraska to claim the alleged prize money the mentally deteriorating father thinks he's won.

Interview with Kam Williams Headline: Denzel on Directing, Acting, Fathering and Mentoring Denzel Washington stepped behind the camera for the second time to make The Great Debaters, an inspirational bio-pic about Professor Melvin Tolson, the debate coach at a small black college in the South, whose inexperienced team, in 1935, shocked the world by taking on some seasoned nationally - ranked competition.

Acknowledging that his own left - wing political agenda informed part of the film's narrative, Liman, whose father was an interrogator in the Iran - Contra trial, praises the perqs of studio filmmaking (while toning down the anti-Universal sentiments he expressed to the media last year), illustrates the importance of directing a French crew in their native tongue, laughs at how coveted the «f» word was by the actors (the film was allowed only one because of the PG - 13 rating), and so on.

The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter (2018, not rated), a comedy about a father - son bonding weekend starring Josh Brolin and Danny McBride, comes direct to Netflix from its world premiere at SXSW.

Angelina Jolie's wrenching drama, «First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers,» is her most accomplished directing to date and was well received at both festivals.

The other three productions, Baby Boom, Father of the Bride and its sequel, were directed by Meyers» husband and longtime collaborator, Charles Shyer, but this is Meyers first stab at fully writing and directing her own work.

Clark Gregg will direct from his screenplay the noir fable about a loser agent for young actors - and washed - up child star himself - who stumbles upon a brilliant 13 - year - old prodigy (played by newcomer Saxon Sharbino) and then tries to close the mega-deal that will make her a star while managing her drunk volatile father, the poaching attempts of a more successful nemesis and a growing awareness that his innocent young starlet may not be at all what she seems.

The Talent: This is the writing / directing debut of the film's helmer Randy Moore, with TV character actor Roy Abramsohn as the father at the center.

This year's contest proved its volatility at the December shortlist stage, when such critical faves as France's «BPM (Beats Per Minute)» and Cambodia's Angelina Jolie - directed «First They Killed My Father» failed to make -LSB-...]

And then there's this — Esther McGregor's post on Instagram back in January that seemed to be directed at her disappointment with her father who, in her case, in her home, quite rightly, would be the real «homewrecker», if that's the word we have to use.

The resentment harbored by the younger Bush isn't directed against Nixon's hobgoblin, the «East Coast elite,» but mostly at the elite's closest representative, his own father.

«Aloha» would also be echoed by Krasinski's second attempt at feature directing, playing a new father in «The Hollars.»

Whether it's as direct as a Māori Dennis the Menace — type kid (Julian Dennison) bonding with a reluctant white father (Sam Neill) in Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) or as abstract as the outsider experience of Wellington's long - standing vampire society delineated in What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Waititi's movies exist at the nexus of native and colonizer cultures, the dichotomy that forms the basis of modern postcolonial theory.

«Most of the improvements from the previous generation are from the tuning side, as the hardware side has stayed the same,» YuWun Chai, engineer at Infiniti and the father of the Direct Adaptive Steering system, told me.