Sentences with phrase «engage children earlier»

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We engage your adult children with our financial consultants to provide early financial planning and preparation for beneficiary and future trustee roles.

Gary Bauer, undersecretary of education and chairman of a White House task force on the American family, has been quoted as saying that his group's goal is «to tell children [that premarital sex] is wrong and explain why it's bad for them — not to teach them so much about sex that they can engage in it in early adolescence.»

In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learning.

Where early years settings and schools are pro-active in their approach to engaging fathers they see a significant increase in the numbers of fathers involved in the life of the setting / school — both in supporting children's learning and in governance.

A parliamentary inquiry into parenting and social mobility has called on the next government to do more to encourage the UK's early years services to engage with men — and to fund a national reading campaign for dads and children.

FI Training: Working with Fathers in Early Years and Children's Centres Option A: Standard A 2 - day training course to help managers, front - line workers and volunteers in Children's Centres and other early years settings: • develop the confidence, knowledge and skills to work effectively with fathers • explore and develop strategies to engage with fathers • think about how to create a «whole team» approach to engaging fathers • plan needs - led approaches to engaging with and supporting fathers • consider how to use networks to support fatEarly Years and Children's Centres Option A: Standard A 2 - day training course to help managers, front - line workers and volunteers in Children's Centres and other early years settings: • develop the confidence, knowledge and skills to work effectively with fathers • explore and develop strategies to engage with fathers • think about how to create a «whole team» approach to engaging fathers • plan needs - led approaches to engaging with and supporting fathers • consider how to use networks to support fatearly years settings: • develop the confidence, knowledge and skills to work effectively with fathers • explore and develop strategies to engage with fathers • think about how to create a «whole team» approach to engaging fathers • plan needs - led approaches to engaging with and supporting fathers • consider how to use networks to support fathers.

Program P («P» for «Padre» in Spanish and «Pai» in Portuguese, meaning «Father») provides concrete strategies for engaging men in active caregiving from their partner's pregnancy through their child's early years.

And Bringing fathers in, our own freely downloadable topic sheets, backed by research summaries, are designed to help professionals support infant mental health and early child development, through engaging with both fathers and mothers.

Fortunately, there's a great way that parents can engage their children at the earliest ages, and strengthen the parent - child bond.

This program is a three - year initiative that partners with Early Head Start, Head Start and Kansas Early Head Start locations statewide to engage fathers and father figures with children.

The competencies needed for a successful, purposeful, and joyful life in the 21st century are best cultivated through an education that fully meets and engages the developmental needs of children, which are fundamentally different in early childhood, elementary school, middle school, and high school — in other words, «the right thing at the right time.»

Owned and operated in midcoast Maine by Sarah Baldwin, an experienced Waldorf early childhood teacher, Bella Luna Toys offers personal customer service as well as a magical collection of natural toys, art supplies and craft kits to nourish a child's senses and engage the imagination.»

From Pritzker Playspace where infants and toddlers engage in sensory exploration to engineering feats in Skyline to the full realm of expression in the Artabounds Studio, Chicago Children's Museum translates the science of early learning into groundbreaking and transformative educational exhibits and programs.

Sensory bins are wonderful for engaging in hands - on, creative play with children from infancy through early - elementary ages.

In a study that followed children throughout early childhood, toddlers who engaged in mutually responsive, positive interactions with their mothers had more developed consciences when they reach school age.

A fun way to engage your child in learning the alphabet including letter sounds and recognition of letter shapes, as well as working on building early vocabulary.

They include Alpha - Mania (pre-literacy and early reading), Mini Masters (art), and Munchkinetics (movement) and are designed to engage our children in a learning process that encourages self - expression, creativity, coordination and most importantly, fun!

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

This training provides social workers, therapists, educators, parent involvement coordinators, early education providers, and child development specialists, with useful concepts and practical skills to better engage, equip, and support dads in staying involved in children's lives.

A well - established body of research confirms that when men are active and positively engaged in their children's lives early, they play a key role in their child's growth and development.

Findings from the rapidly growing science of early childhood and early brain development show the positive, lifelong impact fathers can have by being engaged early in their children's lives.

I engage the child and his or her caregivers in activities that help to facilitate the bond that grows between a parent and child during those early years to repair the bond that wasn't created during those early years.

Fathers who become involved in school settings early in their children's lives are more likely to stay engaged later, which increases student achievement.

Hubs provide family support services such as parenting education, health education, and employment readiness activities; connect pregnant women and parents to center - based and home visiting programs; conduct outreach to child care providers to engage them in professional development opportunities; and work with families to ease transitions as children move from early childhood programs to school.

Home visiting programs can be an avenue to engage fathers in children's lives early on, but doing so requires both changes in program culture, as well as great sensitivity to family situations.

«When fathers become engaged early, they are more likely to stay involved through the child's life,» he said.

The more difficult a child is at an early age, the less likely the mother is to engage with them.

Findings from the rapidly growing science of early childhood and early brain development show the positive, lifelong impact fathers can have by being positively engaged early in their children's lives.

Select six to eight Communities of Concentrated High Need (CCHN) to engage in a local planning process to increase the number and percentage of children with high needs enrolled in high - quality early learning and development programs.

In partnership with the Boston Children's Museum, Massachusetts expanded resources to parents and communities by engaging 56 museums and 119 libraries across the state to provide STEM, early literacy, and school readiness activities to children and fChildren's Museum, Massachusetts expanded resources to parents and communities by engaging 56 museums and 119 libraries across the state to provide STEM, early literacy, and school readiness activities to children and fchildren and families.

Beyond the payroll tax and charitable donation programs, Cuomo offered up ideas to reduce traffic congestion in New York City, expand availability of flu vaccines for children, impose restrictions on sex offenders, provide funding for an early voting program, ban synthetic marijuana sales and target physicians who engage in medical misconduct.

This early childhood period is a time when kids begin developing knowledge and skills for science, she said, adding that preschool children have the capacity to engage in and learn from scientific thinking.

The scientists have identified priority areas for future study, including how to optimize linkage of HIV - positive infants into early treatment, improve models for retention and adherence of children receiving antiretrovirals, and prioritize locally driven research questions and processes that engage end users throughout.

«It is possible that, earlier in our evolutionary history, being active in the evening hours increased the opportunities to engage in social and mating activities, when adults were less burdened by work or child - rearing.»

For these reasons, the Vitamix Foundation is partnering with early learning programs and other organizations to engage parents, teachers, and children in laying the foundation for a healthy lifestyle through plant - based whole foods.

Nurturing from a loving parent or caregiver in the early years supports healthy brain development that forms the foundation for success later at school and in life - and one of the best ways of engaging with young children is through looking at books together.

Catering for around 20 children between the ages of two and four years old, we offer an engaging, broad and balanced early year's curriculum based on the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum Frequency about 1 post per early year's curriculum based on the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum Frequency about 1 post per Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum Frequency about 1 post per week.

By the time Stiller's character engages in a slapping fight with a pair of monkeys, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian has incontrovertibly established itself as an endeavor designed to appeal solely to small children - which is undoubtedly a shame, given the strength of the cast and the promise of the movie's early scenes.

Surely, if children became engaged with sport at an earlier age, we could easily curb this crisis.

Children currently in the Early Years setting, are the ones who will be pursuing these careers in the future, so it's important to engage them in STEM as early as possible, particularly when experts are predicting the shortEarly Years setting, are the ones who will be pursuing these careers in the future, so it's important to engage them in STEM as early as possible, particularly when experts are predicting the shortearly as possible, particularly when experts are predicting the shortfall.

The development of these capacities in young children depends on the capabilities of their caregivers to engage in age - appropriate interactions, model and support the early development of self - regulation and executive functioning skills, and provide a stable, secure environment.

(2) To create and support an initial network of selected states and community - based sites that are both motivated and prepared to engage in an interactive process of «Innovation by Design» through piloting creative, new policies and practices, as well as contributing to active, cross-site learning that will be supported by the Early Childhood Innovation Partnership (ECIP) based at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

«Prop boxes enable children to act out what they know, cement their concepts, practice skills in a meaningful context, and learn with and from other children who also are engaged with the materials,» says Ann Barbour, a professor of early childhood education and the co-author of Prop Box Play: 50 Themes to Inspire Dramatic Play.

Children need to be engaged in a teaching system for early literacy skills as soon as they enter school.

For many children, the transition from the last period of early childhood education to the start of primary school is their first experience of a big culture change — in the people surrounding them, the ways in which they interact, their number of peers, the types of activities they are engaged in, and their physical surroundings.

It is therefore vitally important for children to engage in play from an early age.

Specifically, this project has two key elements: (1) a one - day convening (12/12/14) that forges relationships among stakeholders in Hampden County's early education field with influential leaders and experts from across the nation, where they engage in mutual learning and dialogue around the goal of strengthening individual and organization capacities to advance early learning for all; and (2) a multi-pronged communication strategy, rooted in the convening and designed to provide guidance around the field's most pressing needs, with a particular focus on strengthening the quality of Pre-K for at - risk children, like many of those growing up Hampden County.

Often school teachers don't know the children have already been engaged in in early childhood centres and early childhood centres don't really know where the children are going when they go up to school in terms of what they'll be doing, the resources available and those sorts of things.

A deep understanding of financing strategies and a willingness to engage in finance reform is necessary to ensure all children have access to high quality early care and education.

Present, Engaged & Accounted For: The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades, National Center for Children in Poverty: September 2008.