Sentences with phrase «for middle child»

Despite DeSoto County's reputation as also being one of Mississippi's best school systems, the elementary school Powell's children attended wasn't cutting it, especially for her middle child and only son, Nicholas, who had struggled with reading and fitting in socially.

It's shocking, really, the amount of moolah I have dropped on Little Sister... perhaps already anticipating and overcompensating for Middle Child syndrome?)

For our middle child I actually can't really remember what we did.

Not exact matches

And it's one that provides health insurance for some nine million low - to middle - income children.

Unlike Americans, however, residents of New Zealand enjoy the protection of a robust welfare state including a public health system, 18 weeks of subsidized parental leave and benefits for middle - and low - income families with young children.

For the first time in the United States, middle class, Caucasian children may not live as long as their parents.

With skills honed for conflict resolution (or outright avoidance), high empathy, a more realistic view of what it takes to succeed, and even a better grasp of how to listen and work in a team, middle children are a better match because they already «get» the flat structure of families.

She grew up poor on New York's Lower East Side, the middle child of a single mother who washed and ironed clothes for money.

«If it becomes important that either low - or middle - income families benefit significantly and directly from the tax bill in order for it to move forward then I think the child tax credit is going to be a big player in seeing that that happens,» Maag said.

«At the same time as they have these massive tax cuts for the richest people in the country they actually increase taxes for a lot of working and middle class people, and so I think they see the child tax credit as a way to try to address that,» Marr said.

We made it clear we need to make significant investments in infrastructure and middle - class families, so we talked about reducing the tax rate for middle - class families and increasing the child tax benefit to deal with the rising costs and anxieties.

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

«At the time, people looked at our plan for more generous and means - tested child benefits, tax increases for the rich and tax cuts for the middle class as a bit of a curiosity,» he said, according to a copy of his remarks.

In order to ensure the legislation has a middle class tax cut, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act offers a $ 300 credit for every non-child dependent (plus a $ 600 boost to the child tax credit).

In what apparently is the latest incident in a campaign to push children toward becoming LGBT - rights activists, a teacher has instructed a middle - school student to sign up for «recurring text messages» associated with an LGBT «Day of Silence» campaign.

There is no benefit at all from income splitting for single parents, or for two parent families in which both earners are in the same tax bracket, including the middle and bottom income tax brackets; these families with children under 18 represent over half of all families that are the apparent target of the scheme, according to the Broadbent Institute study, The Big Split.

They are more likely middle - aged immigrants buying a second property as a retirement investment or home for their children.

«Middle Child Syndrome» is a psychological label for the empirical observation that middle children often do not receive as much parental attention as first and last - born sibMiddle Child Syndrome» is a psychological label for the empirical observation that middle children often do not receive as much parental attention as first and last - born sibmiddle children often do not receive as much parental attention as first and last - born siblings.

Labouring the point she quips: «For example, you could target executive women under the age of 30 with no children, in middle management but who are seeking a promotion.»

Other work - from - home ideas include catering services for birthday parties, small weddings and anniversaries; a babysitting service, which may require licensing from local health and child welfare services; a pet - sitting service, which may require approvals from your landlord and potentially your neighbors; and tutoring services for middle and high - school students.

Chang — who said upper - middle - class investors are buying smaller apartments for themselves or their children — said that his Beijing contacts expect investment to pick up now that the Communist Party's 19th Congress is in the rearview mirror.

Family - friendly tax reform would cut taxes on workers in the two middle quartiles and for many families with minor children in the top quartile.

It is not uncommon for middle - and upper - class Americans to seek out diverse neighborhoods and to worry aloud that their children are not encountering enough people from other races.

And the people of the Middle East often looked upon the meaning of the name of a child as a prediction or prophecy for what kind of person that child would grow up to be.

The story of Frodo, Sam, Gandalf, Aragorn, and all the others involved in the struggle for Middle Earth proved to be a lifegiving metaphor of this child's own struggle to find a place in God's story.

I shouldn't have been so surprised to recognize God when I gloated over sleeping children or nursed through cluster feeds or washed soiled sheets in the middle of the night or clapped until my fingers tingled over Christmas carols in school gyms or read aloud childish stories printed on construction paper or welcomed friends for sleepovers.

Women, men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers, landless peasants, communities suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.

When I was young, middle class parents wished for their children a more comfortable and successful life, but one in continuity with the broad middle class consensus.

The modern child is very alert mentally, and among the middle classes especially, very sophisticated and adult for his age.

For example, he said, it is absurd for a young celibate Catholic priest to conduct marriage counseling for a middle - aged couple with childrFor example, he said, it is absurd for a young celibate Catholic priest to conduct marriage counseling for a middle - aged couple with childrfor a young celibate Catholic priest to conduct marriage counseling for a middle - aged couple with childrfor a middle - aged couple with children.

Preemptive Love Coalition has been on the ground in the Middle East for years providing families with emergency food and medicine, and the tools to start over through capital, job opportunities, and even life saving heart surgeries for children.

But the numbers are there and so far over 750,000 children have been killed in the middle east because of evangelical wars for Israel and oil.

The middle classes, for their part, «are realizing that their dreams of upward mobility for themselves and their children will not be realized, and they find few if any political options which challenge them.

How ironic that such a peaceful mantra would actually serve to cause even more grief and suffering (let me point at the middle east for example, KKK, slavery in the U.S. (to some extent), Holocaust and other forms of religious persecution, and finally the manipulation of peasants to fill up the coffers of child molesting Popes... which makes modern politicians of this day look like a Saint).

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

Frank Riessman, The Culturally Deprived Child [New York: Harper, 1962]-RRB- This is why middle - class talk therapies are inadequate and why the poor may not do well in middle - class - oriented school systems which emphasize verbal skills, abstract reasoning, and knowledge for knowledge's sake.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

As we toured the stateof - the - art youth facility, he explained how the play areas are themed around specific Bible stories — there's even a stream of water which, at the touch of a button, divides down the middle in Red Sea style, for children to pass through.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

They worry that they won't be able to sustain a middle - class lifestyle or meet middle - class expectations for their children's education or their own retirement years.

Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo's focus — at least in this profile — is on the white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline churches.

Market herself as a fallen child, work her youth for as long as she can, make some money and some «fallen» cred within Christian circles and, after they've been praying a long time for her to return and she drifts into middle age eclipsed by younger singers, return humbled, but stronger than ever.

Marriage enrichment groups for parents of young children; for parents of adolescents (middle marrieds); and for empty nest marriages.

The Sunday School was started to provide Christian nurture and knowledge of the Bible for poor children who lacked the advantages of middle - class family life.

The popular media content pitched to our children as kid stuff derives from the over-sexualized, violent, bad dreams of the middle - aged who seek only to neutralize their longing for the innocence of childhood.

For another, as most of her middle - aged informants make clear, the type of father involvement allowed by the doctrine of separate spheres was too thin (and often too authoritarian) to contribute very positively to the development of children and wives, even though it underwrote men's own masculine status as breadwinners.

As a child who grew up in middle class America chasing the «American dream» — success has long been a deep - seated idol for me.

This scientific fact offers a metaphor for the mother who sits bolt upright in her bed in the middle of the night, «knowing» something has happened to her child.

For what I have just described are in fact the very questions that many of California's middle and high school children may now be asked to answer, unless they or their parents choose to opt out.

For true democracy, the Middle East need the Bible, 80 % -100 % literacy rate, equal rights of women and children with those of men, freedom of worship for all infidels and religious freedom for all Muslims (ability to change religion, etFor true democracy, the Middle East need the Bible, 80 % -100 % literacy rate, equal rights of women and children with those of men, freedom of worship for all infidels and religious freedom for all Muslims (ability to change religion, etfor all infidels and religious freedom for all Muslims (ability to change religion, etfor all Muslims (ability to change religion, etc).