Sentences with phrase «get their children to school on»

Some parents are unable (for various reasons) to get their children to school on time for the free breakfast, which is also severely limited in choice, so these children face true hunger every day.

Efforts to improve attendance can benefit from an extra shift of adults mentoring at - risk students, knocking on doors and helping families get their children to school on time every day.

But all necessarily rely on parents» getting their children to school on time and checking homework, and most require parents to sign a contract pledging to meet these requirements.

Not exact matches

In my previous job, I remember front section editors asking me to report on a story about children in Ontario supposedly getting sick from the Wi - Fi in their schools.

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

• In an article on the anxieties of wealthy New York parents trying to get their small children into elite preschools, a New York Times reporter writes of standing outside one of the sought - after public schools, which happens to be one of four public schools recently the subject of a sex - abuse scandal.

Those feelings may even carry on until your wife gets diagnosed with cancer, or your child is infected with lime disease and can't get out of bed to attend school, or anything else.

World Vision released a report on Thursday that revealed that 67 per cent of displaced children in southern Syria suffer violence at school and that nine in ten children were getting no support in school to deal with their emotional trauma and social isolation.

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

They still occassionally suffer from violent attacks upon them — like other children in this country unfortunately do when at school — but they are allowed to live as they please — and probably would have no trouble getting a passport and yes — they might have that they are a quaker on their headstones — but if they were a christian quaker — they could say that too.

They create schools for their «intelligent» children to attend, they pay for test preparation programs and tutors, they spend countless hours volunteering in their children's schools, they raise extraordinary amounts of money for these schools, and they call on their vast network of friends and relatives to get their children into preschools and magnet schools and universities.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

Parental choice in general, and Catholic schools in particular, got a big boost when Mayor Giuliani of New York took Cardinal O'Connor up on his long - standing offer to accept a thousand of the poorest and most problem - ridden children in the public schools, those performing in the bottom five percentile.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

Even individuals, when they do such planning as budgeting for their financial needs, work in order to place meals on their tables, decide where to send children to school or do shopping in order to get the value for their money et cetera, they are involved in politics.

This child will be the one who has to grow up with the name, deal with being picked on in school over the name, for the name showing up on resumes, and being judged by that resume before even getting an interview, etc.... A parent should have the right to name their child, but to a limit.

Getting children involved in the making of food is an enjoyable way to bond after a busy day or week of school, not to mention a pleasurable way to get hands on and have fun and just relax in the kitchen.

when i lived with my grandparents school let out before they got off work i went to an after school center where i received tutoring for my homework or i played with other kids in similar situations on occasion this place would take us on field trips one such field trip was to the local roller skating rink i was not a klutzy child, not more than the usual actually, i was quite coordinated at sports but put round wheels on my shoes and it was a mess i fell on my ass more times than i was standing and no lie the next day i could not poop

About the only way to escape it is to get out of the valley by going up to the mountains and go skiing, which our family doesn't do, or go on a trip, which is hard to do with snowy roads and children in school, so mostly I stay home and make comfort foods to drown my inversion woes.

Maybe children won't benefit any less if they stay in their local communities, but when they get to the high school level and know what sport they want to concentrate on, then they should travel to national tournaments in hopes of being seen by college scouts.

For example, when I wrote my free Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom and, more recently, when I researched my Civil Eats story on sugary school breakfasts, it was surprisingly hard to find reliable added - sugar recommendations for children.

I was lucky enough to get my hands on a manuscript of the book a few months ago and I can attest to the fact that it's bursting with information, stories, studies and more to guide parents in helping to improve their children's school food environment.

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much more.

If your child has started school, you should try and get to know the subjects he is taking as well as check his homework on a daily basis.

When your child deals with her teachers in school or gets her first job and has these skills to fall back on, it will really go a long way.

If your child is getting below - average grades in school, yells when you ask him to do homework, seldom comes home on time and has lied about where he was, or has even become verbally abusive or intimidating when you tried to give him a consequence, he is going to need more limits and checking - up on to ensure his safety.

They post ideas and activities for everyone from babies to school age children including series on Gardening, Organising, the Love books, After school club but also my favourite a lot of ideas for getting your toddlers out and about and connecting with nature.

With strict dietary guidelines that dictate what's on the lunch menu at Glen Ellyn's Community Consolidated School District 89, getting parents to buy lunch for their child when the selection is whole - grain pasta or broccoli with fat - free ranch dressing is proving to be a challenge.

I work 40 + hours a week so I don't have time once I get off, cook dinner, make sure school stuff is seen and complete, bath time, book time and cuddle to work out or do anything outside of focus my all on my child.

Instead of getting your child's teachers presents at the end of the school year, walk in on that first day of the new school year with a gift to the entire school.

Christie - Mizell began the research thinking that mothers» work hours — since mothers overwhelmingly are the ones to care for and monitor children — would be more likely to have an impact on whether children exhibited bullying behavior such as being cruel to others, being disobedient at school, hanging around kids who get in trouble, having a very strong temper and not being sorry for misbehaving.

So far I have freaked out about doubling the amount of children in our house, where the babies are going to sleep, cloth diapering, starting completely over with baby clothes instead of trying to sort through what would be usable, nursing two babies at the same time, buying a bigger house, how I'm going to drive four kids around (thank God we just replaced my husband's car in January with a full size SUV with a usable third row), traveling with four kids, what happens if my husband has to start traveling for work, getting the big kids to and from school with two babies in tow, how the big kids are going to feel once there are two new babies in the house, how I»M going to feel with two more babies in the house, and so on and so forth.

So instead of worrying about DeVos, we really should be focusing on: (1) Congressional Republicans, who've already shown great enthusiasm for weakening the nutrition standards for school meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition proschool meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition proSchool Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition programs.

During an appearance on Great Day Houston I shared a few ideas with host Debra Duncan on how to get your children emotionally prepared for the upcoming school year.

De-registering a child from school — what to do if your child is in school Getting started — what to expect in the first months of home educating Different styles — These will depend on your personality and preferences Mailing list information — links to home educators» online mailing lists General links — links to general sites about home education Local group sites — links to mailing lists or sites related to British home educators» groups GCSE guide — how can home educators take GCSEs if they wish to?

In related news: a survey of full - time working mothers and mommy bloggers conducted by a thermometer maker found that when their children got sick, 33 % of moms pretended to be sick so they could stay home with their child, 62 % of them called on parents or in - laws for child care, 57 % of them took unpaid leave to care for their child, and a distressing 34 % of them took the kid to school or day care anyway — where they could infect your child.

With the insights of anthroposophy, gleaned through a daily look at child development focusing on your class's age group, you will get to know the first grader as he or she crosses the bridge into elementary school.

The support, encouragement, and advocacy you provide your child when they begin to struggle in school can make a huge difference in your child being able to get back on track.

At the other extreme are the striving children of well - off parents who feel pressure to perform on grades and to stack up extracurricular credentials to get in to elite schools.

Once he got a little bit older to figure out how could I continue to breastfeed a very busy male child when I had another child so again baby wearing definitely helped in those situations and now that I have my third child and I'm home schooling and everything the support of my sons father he is super supportive, he is like «ok well while you are nursing I will talk to the children for a minute» or you know, I'll tie him on and he will nurse while I'm teaching my elder two children so the more children I have the more complicated it becomes.

If we are seriously worried about kids getting their vitamins as is commonly heard as a reason on why to give them flavored milk, all the schools need to do is offer 100 % vitamin enriched Juice for the children.

Anthony Choice: Yall be so worried bout petty stuff yall make situations worst... This man put a ring on the finger of my childs mother, picks her up from the school bus daily on top of other things while im not there, and was willing to go to the daddy daughter dance if i couldnt make it... my daughter loves him so he gets my respect and appreciation...

If nothing else, the right backpack is sure to get your child excited to hop on that school bus.

Get to know who all your child's friends are and who she socialized with at school, and suss out whether or not each friend is a good, supportive, empathetic, and kind person, or a toxic friend who you do not like and who could be a bad influence on your child.

So, if you are getting ready to prepare a child for school, don't stress over whether or not they can read or write (although I will say, it is VERY helpful if they are already comfortable using a pencil and writing some letters — that is certainly one area I lament not working more with him on) but do make sure they know how to wait their turn, follow directions, and interact with other children.

The staff at the grade school didn't take her allergy very seriously though until a child died the next county over and then my child had a serious reaction to candy a teacher gave out at the end of the day as the kids were getting on the bus.

If you are trying to be a savvy shopper, getting the best prices on school supplies while ensuring your child has what they need, and maybe even a few fun or special items, you need a complete strategy rather than just buying from the school supply list that comes out during the last months of the old school year.

Solution: While you can't make your child believe that back - to - school has the same perks as summer, you can make the start of school enticing by reminding him of all the things that back - to - school time offers, such as seeing his friends again, doing fun activities in school, getting to go on school trips, and doing other activities he loves to do in school (fun games in gym class or recess, making arts and crafts, singing or dancing or playing musical instruments, and more).

As you get ready to send your children back to school, it may be fine to hold off on shopping for school clothes.

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