Sentences with phrase «giving children and parents»

These nationwide programs strengthen communities and neighborhoods by giving children and parents the support they need while laying the foundation for better health, education, and economic self - sufficiency for the entire family.
The agreement marks a turning point for elementary and secondary education by giving children and parents the resources and power to supplement classroom learning through enhanced digital content at home.
Longfield was launching a new «Digital 5 A Day» campaign, which is based on the NHS's evidence - based «Five steps to better mental wellbeing» and aims to give children and parents easy to follow, practical steps to achieve a healthy and balanced «digital diet».
«We are always looking to give children and parents opportunities to read together, and these Sesame Street NOOK Books provide families a vibrant new way to explore books and encourage a love of reading.»
«We aim to reach children everywhere and our Sesame Street collection gives children and parents opportunities to read together, engage with favorite Sesame Street friends and learn wherever they may go with their Kobo device.»
And let's face it — letting children have a modest amount of age - appropriate screen time (TV, movies, video games, computer) can give both children and parents a much - needed break after constant activities and socializing.

Not exact matches

... Parents know that half of college graduates are unemployed, underemployed or have given up on their search entirely and they want to prepare their children for their future,» says Dan Schawbel, founder of Millennial Branding.
Parents of the new crop of digital natives are struggling to manage what their children watch, listen to and play, creating strong demand for better tools to regulate how much time and money children spend online — and giving developers whose apps have robust controls an edge in the hyper - competitive business of digital entertainment for kids.
«A significant expansion of the Child Tax Credit will help parents have more money at a time in their lives when they need it the most and give them the flexibility to make the best choices regarding their families» care,» Ivanka said in a statement late last month.
Specifically, the NRA's extremism makes many reasonable Americans, including, importantly, NRA members, seem like gun nuts who don't give a damn about the mass slaughter of children, teachers, and parents.
Forrest cited the harm caused by drugs, and the testimony of two parents who gave victim impact statements in court about how they had lost their children to Silk Road - related overdoses.
While parents don't want children to have to borrow for college, no bank is going to give a loan to a 75 - year - old who has run out of savings and needs food, medicine and electricity.
He declined to give a date for when the GOP would unveil their replacement plan, but he said it would cover individuals with preexisting conditions and allow children to stay on their parents» health insurance until age 26 — provisions Trump has praised.
Given raging hormones and the developmental need to question and reject authority, 16 - year - olds can truly test the parent - child bond.
Charles: Right, I think that's a huge demographic question that I haven't seen any really good statistics on because of course most of the boomers are still in their late 50s or 60s, early 70s and they're not yet to the point where the older generation like the boomer parents, the so - called silent generation, which has sold their houses or given them to their offspring, their adult children.
Amazon adds parental controls and kid's content to Echo speakers With privacy concerns rising, the new controls could give parents peace of mindAmazon has introduced an update that will give parents greater control over their children's activities on Echo speaker devices.
Tax tip: The children of older individuals could combine the annual gift exclusion ($ 14,000 in 2016 and 2017) with this capital gains break and give appreciated long - term assets to their older parents.
Specifically, parents pass along information to their children, and thus knowledge is preserved, accµmulates over time, and gives its possessors a compet ¡ tive edge over rival tribes.
Why exclude same - sex parent - child marriages, as long as both parties are adults and give their consent?
We follow a parenting / educational philosophy called radical unschooling which is very much based on gentle parenting and allowing your children the freedom to work out what their interests are and giving them freedom to learn in a connection partnership with their parents.
Then in 2015 Mr Page gave an interview to the BBC about freedom of religion where he reiterated his original position, saying: «My responsibility as a magistrate, as I saw it, was to do what I considered best for the child, and my feeling was therefore that it would be better if it was a man and woman who were the adopted parents
The only king of kings is the creator of everything between the heavens and the earth, the master of the day of judgement, the one who does not have parents, wife, or children, the one who does not get sick, forget, the one who forgives and punishes, and the one who creates life and take life away, the creator of Adam from the mud in the earth can create anything by just saying, «Be and it becomes», the Creator who gives live and takes life also created Jesus without needing the help of a man, and th owner of everything between the earth and heavens, is Allaah / God.
A better one would be that the parents DO give in to their child's desire, knowing full well what will happen when they do and then punish the child by locking them in a closet for several years.
To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.
They have given their whole hearts to helping parents raise wholehearted children for Christ with faith, grace, love, and joy.
I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackChildren Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackchildren, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackchildren the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»
But he also has his rights in regard to married couples - which means that, in marrying, a man and a woman also take on special duties towards God: duties to marry so as to create a home, duties to accept generously the children God wishes to give them, 6 duties to maintain a united marriage and a united home that will both keep the spouses engaged in the task of learning to love, and help the children grow in the reflection of their parents» and of God's love.
When asked if dads should get the same time off as mothers after the birth of their child he replied: «I don't see why not, a child has two parents often and actually to give them both equal rights is a good thing.
3 Generous, life - giving spousal love is the antidote to hedonism and immaturity: parents gladly give up frivolous pursuits and selfishness for the intensely more meaningful work of loving and educating their children.
My parents, hoping to find acceptance for themselves and their children as Americans, gave up much of the Germanness that had defined them in the secure ethnic enclaves in which they grew up.
The Bible makes two things clear: God has considered giving up on the human race, but decided not to give up; and, as such he is committed to saving us, much the same way a loving parent is committed to a child, who has lost their way.
Parents in favored groups can give unusual educational advantages to their children and thus continue the privilege pattern from generation to generation.
Furthermore, while an intact family composed of two parents of the opposite sex and their biological child or children may provide the best standard family unit in society (and should, therefore, be given support), we would be naive and cruel to dismiss the possibility that differently configured families (e.g., families with single parents or homosexual parents or adopted children) may produce family situations that are as good as, or, in some cases, better than, those of families that fit the standard.
The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst passions; and, thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, can not but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.3
Since there are so many couples (infertile or not) who would like to adopt, and since there are so many thousands of children needing adoptive parents, surely it serves the better part of wisdom to give our attention to making adoption a more viable option.
She said: «We don't want to take the responsibility from the parents but I think it is important for our children to learn other ideologies and other viewpoints, but given also freedom to explore and challenge those viewpoints if need be.»
There are a lot of studies giving strong evidence that children of same - sex parents grow up well - adjusted and healthy.
It is for this reason that parents should be given the right to send their children to schools of their choice, provided certain minimal standards of safety and competency are satisfied, and should not be required to utilize state educational facilities.
(Together (November, 1963), p. 30) Programs such as these can give moral support and guidance to the parents of a handicapped child.
Sodomy, teen pregnancy, more taxes more money to the undeserved, more give aways, more restrictions on personal freedoms, kids taken from parents, parents told they cant punish thier children and the state steps in, country leaders that cant do sh.
All parents know that the time will come when the external supports which they have built up around their children will fall away and the particular admonitions which they have given will be forgotten.
Healthy self - respect and respect for others is the best protection a parent can give a child against undesirable or premature sexual experimentation.
In this activity of procreation and care for children the self - regarding and self - serving ways of the parents are to a large degree transformed into acts of self - giving and self - sacrifice.
Parents properly give innumerable satisfactions to each other and to their children, and children likewise please their pParents properly give innumerable satisfactions to each other and to their children, and children likewise please their parentsparents.
The way in which any child will differ from its parents will generally be small (such as eye color, height etc.) but, given enough time and enough generations, and provided some external element is selectively favoring specific traits, such as acute eyesight, the differences will add up.
The President's plan would broaden the eligibility requirements of a current policy that grants deferred action to immigrants who came into the country illegally as children (expanding it to reach about 300,000 new individuals), and, most significantly, would also give the same protection to immigrant parents who have children born in the U.S..
It was not about giving parents to a child who had none, but was about giving honor and inheritance to a child who had done something good for the family.
It's in faithfulness that we parent our children, that we build our marriages with love, that we serve the people whom God has given to us, that we show up in our communities with joy and service.
When she was asked about this she said that her parents had had a little Catholic child, and that this was absolutely part of her, and that she wasn't now going to give up thatidentity.
An era when many parents turned their children over to subminimum - wage workers by day, and told them stories like The Giving Tree during «quality time» at night.
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