Sentences with phrase «efforts by the parents»

Whilst most parents do whatever they can to warn their children about the dangers of smoking, there's no denying the statistics — almost one in every four high school seniors today are smokers, despite all the efforts by parents, the government, and healthcare services to warn them of the consequences of taking up this habit.

Despite exhaustive efforts by parents, some infants are just plain miserable!

In Boulder, the extra money to pay for kitchen upgrades and staff training to enable scratch cooking is coming from massive fundraising efforts by parents, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And what about the wasted food and efforts by the parents who prepared these lunches?

You note that efforts by parents, teachers, policymakers and opinion leaders are needed for boys and girls to realize their full potential.

The press conference is being organized to announce efforts by the parents of the community school's students in advance of an expected vote by the Hartford Board of Education on the proposal.

«Wisconsin Jobs Now will continue to support efforts by parents and educators to establish real community schools and will fight back vigorously against any attempt to appoint another Takeover Czar or expand the failed takeover legislation.

● School hours are shifting in all grades, following a lengthy effort by parent advocates to create a schedule that would give high school students more sleep.

Washington — Statement of AFT President Randi Weingarten on the growing privacy and security concerns regarding inBloom's database and other data collection efforts by parents, teachers and others.

These questions were compiled through a collaborative effort by parents, educational consultants, teachers, professors from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Charlotte, and staff from the Exceptional Children's Assistance Center.

The appointment may be terminated if further efforts by the Parenting Coordinator would be contrary to the best interests of the child; the child has reached the age of majority; or the child no longer lives with a party.

While it shouldn't be too surprising that there are people who deny PA (people deny moon landings, Elvis Presley's death, and the Holocaust, etc.), it should be unacceptable that continued PA denials by a vocal minority of professionals, who ignore overwhelming international evidence, facilitate the widespread and unrestrained alienation efforts by parents which continue to cause significant damage to adults and children.

The parenting plan form is very detailed and will require a sincere effort by both parents for the agreement to be reached.

In this, a court examines the motivation of the relocating parent, the impact of the move on the visitation schedule and the efforts by the parents to rework it, and impact of the move on the child's life and routines.

Anti-smoking socialisation effects were measured on the parent survey in the following categories: (1) parental self efficacy regarding smoking prevention; (2) parental self disclosure of smoking history and experience with addiction; (3) parental explication of negative consequences for initiation of smoking; (4) parental reinforcement of child's abstinence; (5) effort by parent to counter pro-smoking influence from media; (6) effort by parent to counter pro-smoking influence from peers; (7) parental monitoring of smoking initiation by children and friends; (8) parental effort to reduce child's exposure to tobacco smoke in the home; (9) parental action to establish social contracts against smoking with children.

For some children who have severe temperamental difficulties (eg, irritability, high activity, poor attachment), oppositional behavior and conduct problems occur despite good efforts by parents to work with the child.

Often the risks (both physical and emotional) to the child of on - going efforts by their parents at co-parenting are too great.

In this study, we examined how adolescents compare monitoring efforts by their parents to those of a «good parent» standard and assessed the impact of these comparisons on adolescent self - disclosure and risk behavior and their perceptions of their parents» monitoring knowledge.

Not exact matches

That and the ESPN app represent the latest efforts by Disney, parent company of ESPN, to target «cord cutters» or «cord nevers,» those customers who primarily use mobile devices and computers to consume media.

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

The psychologist in charge hid, by actually misreporting, the news that the boy, despite the efforts of his parents to treat him and raise him as a girl, had constantly challenged their treatment of him, ultimately found out about the deception, and restored himself as a male.

Repeated efforts are made to regulate sexual behavior by punitive measures, such as the «squeal» regulation that would require a medical facility to inform parents when an underage girl seeks medical help if she is pregnant or if she wants to obtain contraceptives.

After the parents spent their entire savings and remortgaged there house in repeated efforts to save their daughter from the evils of drugs, which lead to many other horrible life styles, including prostitution, she was finally murdered by her supplier / pimp.

These efforts range from writing divorce - centered children's novels to producing greeting cards that absent parents can send their offspring (more brave new market opportunities) to advising children to become patient parent figures to adults preoccupied by their divorces and by new romantic relationships.

Marking the first time the restaurants, owned by Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp., and St. Jude partnered on a national giving campaign, the effort far exceeded initial goals thanks to the generous support of the restaurants» guests, stakeholders and parent company.

On a related note to pre-schooler drama, I am currently reading One More Time... by Amy McCready in an effort to change the way we discipline and parent in general.

I had been taught by my parents to be honest, and I always make a conscious effort not to separate one part of my life from another.»

When are we going to getting mad at the companies that set out to sabotage our efforts, by buying our personal information from maternity and baby stores and sending us free formula and coupons, that buy ad space from every baby, pregnancy and parenting website, that sell cans of their formula for $ 20 + and contain less than 25 cents worth of ingredients and for selling formula contaminated with bug parts.

While much of what the speakers at the N.F.L. / USA Football luncheon I attended last week in New York City was concussions and football safety advice MomsTEAM has been giving parents for years, what impressed me the most was what we were told about the ongoing efforts by the league and its youth football partner to improve health and safety for football players from the pros down to the youth level, a topic which takes up more of N.F.L. commissioner Roger Goodell's time than any other.

At this point, it will take patience, understanding and a joint effort by both the child and her parents to eliminate the prolonged habit.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

When kids receive gifts, they feel loved by their parents, don't get us wrong, it's not the gifts that could make them happy actually but the effort and the person behind it.

Sadly, many parents put a lot of effort into getting a diagnosis for their acting - out children by going from therapist to therapist, but often they don't get enough information on how to become more effective parents themselves, regardless of the diagnosis.

We knew our parents worked hard to put that food in front of us and we wouldn't think of dishonoring that effort by turning our noses up at it.

Over time, the parents become more and more frustrated and feel rejected by the infant who resists virtually all their efforts to love him.

Frustrated by what they see as the «damned - if - you - do, damned - if - you - don «t» nature of traditional bumpers, some of these parents have turned to alternative products, such as mesh crib bumpers or crib slat pads, in an effort to find a safe solution.

I'm not sure a poll of federal taxpayers and parents would find the time and effort spent by these employees on the journal article — which I personally viewed purely as a form of reputational damage control — to be a worthy use of these funds when other aspects of our meal program are in clear need of improvement.

Last week, the committee extended the efforts to the larger Pleasanton community by launching a book club for parents at the Pleasanton Public Library.

Rudd «Roots Parents Rudd «Roots Parents supports the grassroots efforts of parent advocates by offering valuable information on how to fight for healthy changes in their children's schools.

The analysis also compared children who were raised by adoptive mothers to children who were raised by their biological mothers in an effort to tease out the influence of genetics and parenting styles on any link between prenatal smoking and behavior.

The woman in the picture can argue that this wasn't an effort to shame FFers, but when she on her own page she is encouraging parents to make (dangerous) homemade formula and ignorantly criticising the ingredients in commercial brand formula as «scary», it is obvious that she is lying and holds a negative view on commercial brand formula, and by extension the parents who purchase it and feed their children this «scary» substance.

Try to support her by allowing her to spend as much time as she needs to with the baby, by encouraging her in her parenting efforts, and supporting her as she pumps milk to feed to your baby.

Created by the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, Rudd «Roots was designed not only to help parents navigate the complex world of school food but also to link grassroots efforts around the country.

You can also show support for their efforts by asking them about any challenges they continue to face in implementing a healthy meal program — and how parents can help.

In spite of its critical importance as the cornerstone of child health and survival, aggressive and inappropriate marketing of breast - milk substitutes, and other food products that compete with breastfeeding, continues to mislead parents and undermine efforts by Member States to protect and support children's rights to health and ensure sound objective information.

That and the airlines» efforts to continue to nickel - and - dime passengers — the latest by Spirit Airlines, which announced it will now charge for carry - on bags, though diaper bags are excluded — is reason enough, parents tell me, to avoid air travel.

Because authoritative parents are warm, responsive and autonomy - supportive as well as power - assertive, their children are motivated to restore family harmony by complying or else by constructively dissenting in an effort to change their parent's mid rather than to defiantly or evasively disobey.

Some parents respond by doing the task themselves, while others resort to yelling or nagging in an effort to gain compliance.

Normal separation anxiety is manageable by a joint effort between parents and caregivers, with setting a routine as the most critical component to success.

The proposed voluntary principles are designed to encourage stronger and more meaningful self - regulation by the food industry and to support parents» efforts to get their kids to eat healthier foods.