Sentences with phrase «families of school age children»

She also provides developmental psychology services to families through the First Steps program and supports families of school age children through her own private practice, Kids Source, Inc..

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The Basic level is almost the only level used by the banks for assessment of a four - person family (two adults and two school - age children), it estimates household expenses (including everything apart from rent / mortgage debt costs) of $ 32,400 per year.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

Matters came to crisis point a year ago when the last government's Children, Schools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the agChildren, Schools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageSchools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the agchildren from inappropriate SRE lessons from the age of 15.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

During the post-war period children of school age were in «the family pew» with their parents.

According to non-profit advocacy group Families Fighting Flu, a particularly onerous flu season like this one can result in as many as 30 percent of school - aged children getting sick.

Services are provided until the child reaches at least three years of age, but families may continue until the child enter school at age five.

Depending on your location or child's age, there is a Waldorf School in reach of your family.

If your school - age child has had to deal with the loss of a loved one, whether it's the death of a grandparent, another family member, or even a pet, she may show grief in many different ways.

For example, school - age children and teenagers benefit from sit - down meals of nutritious foods over which family members discuss the happenings of the day or play a game.

Each family can decide what «babysitting» means for a school - age child: One family might want their 9 - year - old to be in charge of reading or playing games with a younger sibling while a grown - up is nearby, while another family might decide it's okay to leave 10 - year - old with a 7 - year - old sibling while the parent runs to the store for a few minutes.

Positive Discipline is designed to work for children and teens of all ages in both family and school settings.

Rebecca has experience working with children and families in home settings and schools, and has extensive practice working with people of all ages who have survived significant emotional and physical trauma.

We encourage all of families at our school to follow an age - appropriate approach to use of media, in a belief that guarding a young child's acute senses and impressionable mind is essential to the healthy growth of each individual student.

«Vanfraussen, Ponjaert - Kristoffersen and Brewaeys (2002) compared school - aged children from 24 intentional lesbian - mother households with children from 24 heterosexual - parent families and found no differences in the rates of teasing between the two groups.»

Has other risk factors, including multiple births, exposure to tobacco smoke, exposure to school - aged children, or a family history of asthma

Try our picks for the best books for your baby, toddler, preschooler and school - age child about the true meaning of Easter, the Easter bunny and lots of family traditions!

«Rain or Shine is a lovely children's book that I have just started reading to my school aged adoptees and their families, as a way to open the topic of extended families, in a non-threatening way.

For those families with multiple school aged children, what sounds like a small price increase can serve as a tipping point, driving them out of the school meal programs at the very moment that these programs are working to meet proposed standards for more whole grains, fresh produce and healthier entrees.

Michigan: Custody is awarded based on the best interests of the child, based on the following factors: moral character and prudence of the parents; physical, emotional, mental, religious and social needs of the child; capability and desire of each parent to meet the child's emotional, educational, and other needs; preference of the child, if the child is of sufficient age and maturity; the love and affection and other emotional ties existing between the child and each parent; the length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory environment and the desirability of maintaining continuity; the desire and ability of each parent to allow an open and loving frequent relationship between the child and other parent; the child's adjustment to his / her home, school, and community; the mental and physical health of all parties; permanence of the family unit of the proposed custodial home; any evidence of domestic violence; and other factors.

These extra members of the family usually disappear by age 7, as your child becomes immersed in the very real - life world of school.

At an annual cost of $ 410 million, the Family Tax Relief Rebate provides $ 350 to households with children under age 17 and annual income between $ 40,000 and $ 300,000; the Property Tax Freeze Rebate provides an amount equal to the annual increase in property taxes to homeowners earning less than $ 500,000 in tax cap - compliant local governments and school districts and costs $ 783 million annually.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of children of school age experienced bullying in 20Children, Schools and Families what percentage of children of school age experienced bullying in 20children of school age experienced bullying in 2007 - 08.

The Library's Summer Reading 2013 initiative is geared toward school - age children and their families, offering a combination of fun and exciting programs, incentives, and a variety of special events to encourage reading during the summer months.

What was once one of the best school systems in New York State is now facing declining enrollment as the number of young families with school - age children declines.

The married father of four school - age children, Wilson recently told the News that he continues to wrestle with the idea of being away from his family during the campaign and his first year in office if he wins.

Universal child care that starts as early as age one improves language skills for young children, especially those from low - income families, according to a study of Norway's child care system by a team of researchers led by Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Eric Dearing.

«These findings provide strong support for Family Based Interpersonal Psychotherapy as an effective treatment for depression in children between the ages of 7 - 12,» said Laura J. Dietz, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and principal investigator of the study.

For this study, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine randomly assigned 42 preadolescents (ages 7 - 12) with depression to one of two therapy conditions: FB - IPT, an intervention that included parents in the child's treatment and focused on improving family and peer relationships, or to child - centered therapy (CCT), a supportive therapy for children.

Children from low - income families are at substantial risk in terms of their social - emotional and academic skills at school entry, with fewer than half considered ready for school at age 5.

The study found that Washington families with two adults, a preschooler and a school - aged child saw the costs of meeting their most basic requirements jump as much as 72 percent between 2001 and 2014, depending on where they live.

• A Seattle family with two adults, a preschooler and a school - age child needs to make $ 65,716 annually — the equivalent of more than three full - time minimum wage jobs — to cover costs.

The researchers collected information on the children from administrative records, schools and families, from birth through 35 years of age.

• For a family with a single parent, a preschooler and a school - age child, Seattle was the third - most - expensive city of 14 nationwide, after San Francisco and San Diego.

«Child - parent dietary resemblance in the U.S. is relatively weak, and varies by nutrients and food groups and by the types of parent - child dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human NutriChild - parent dietary resemblance in the U.S. is relatively weak, and varies by nutrients and food groups and by the types of parent - child dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrichild dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition.

Family Science Night (FSN) is a curriculum in which middle - school - aged children and their families explore the importance of STEM in our daily lives by engaging in activities that make these concepts more practical and approachable.

Figure 2 shows the results of our efforts to explain the amount of schooling children completed through five factors: family structure, mother's age at child's birth, mother's years of education, the number of siblings, and parental income.

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play prChildren responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play prchildren and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play prchildren of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

We find that, while statistically significant, the strength of the relationship between living with a single - parent family and educational attainment is comparable to the relationships for family size and the age of the mother at the time of the child's birth and weaker than the relationship for maternal schooling.

Throughout our analyses, we adjust for three other family characteristics that may separately influence a child's educational attainment: mother's age at the child's birth, level of schooling the mother had completed when the child was 14 years old, and number of siblings born to the child's mother.

Our analysis finds that for children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years reduces the annual incidence of poverty in adulthood by 6.1 percentage points.

This increased residential segregation was driven mostly by families with school - age children (Owens 2015), a simple reflection that quality of local schooling options is a key driver of segregation.

Kim Gosselin: The primary audience for JayJo's current list of books is elementary - aged children and their families, teachers, and school nurses.

Today, Greenville has 22 parent educators who conduct monthly home visits with 40 families who have who have children ranging from infancy to age three, according to Rhonda Corley of the School District of Greenville County.

The qualification has been designed specifically for schools, to help them improve the standards of e-safety amongst staff and young people, and follows a 2010 report2 by Ofsted that recommends that schools should: • audit the training needs of all staff and provide training to improve their knowledge of and expertise in the safe and appropriate use of new technologies • work closely with all families to help them ensure that their children use new technologies safely and responsibly both at home and at school • provide an age - related, comprehensive curriculum for e-safety which enables pupils to become safe and responsible users of new technologies.

We use Census and school location data to estimate the percentage of families with school - age children that have different kinds of elementary schools within one, two, five, or ten miles (as the crow flies) from the center of their Census block group (which we loosely refer to as their «home» in the remainder of this report).

As a baseline, we note that 96 percent of all families with school - age children have at least one traditional public school within five miles of home (appendix figure 1).

The Senate version of HR 4210 would give families a $ 300 tax credit for each child under the age of 16; create an income - contingent, direct - loan program; make the interest on student loans tax deductible, and allow deductions for the full appreciated value of property donated to charitable organizations, a provision that is important to colleges and private schools.