Sentences with phrase «higher than your average children»

Each kit is priced a little higher than your average children's medical kit at $ 49.95, but the quality far supasses any kits my children have had in the past.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, for the average entrepreneur, the odds of their child getting into Harvard are significantly higher than the odds they will ever receive a venture capital investment.

There are plenty of people out there who have pretty positive self - assessments: Ninety percent of drivers think they have above average skills behind the wheel, an even higher percentage of college professors think they're better than average teachers, and, as we all know, every single child in Lake Wobegon is above average.

MORMONS WO N'T TELL YOU that the state of Utah, which is predominately Mormon, has a higher than the national average of wife - beating, child abuse, and teenage suicide.

They found that children and adolescents had higher average daily consumption of such foods than adults, potentially posing a health risk.

- This country's near total absence of regulations on advertising to children; according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the average child sees more than 20,000 commercials each year, often for high - fat, high - sugar and high - salt snacks and foods.

These school districts, which serve more than 10 percent of the nation's school children, charge an average of $ 1.80 for an elementary school meal and $ 2.14 for a high school meal.

Indeed, recent studies have found that children fed mother's milk as babies have higher IQs, on average, than those fed formula.

If you think your child's anxiety is higher than average, keep a record of when and how she expresses anxiety.

She's all for combating hunger, but Chicago's child obesity rate is 28 percent, that's 1.5 times higher than the national average, and offering extra food to kids who already ate at home is bound to make that worse.

Today, the average age at which American children complete potty training is higher than at any time in history: 36 months for girls and 38 months for boys.

Parents who work in low - wage jobs can face real difficulties affording quality child care — in 2013, the average cost of full - time care for an infant at a child care center was about $ 10,000 per year — higher than the average cost of in - state tuition at a public 4 - year college - and much higher in some locations.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

When you take into account the fact that today's women caregivers are part of the Sandwich Generation, both raising their children and caring for their parents (or, for us, their grandparents), it's not surprising that the depression rates in caregivers is also higher than that of the average population.

One in three children in North Carolina experiences food insecurity, which is higher than the national average.

As a registered nurse and the injury prevention coordinator for Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Winkler teaches safe sleep practices in East St. Louis, an area plagued by a higher than average infant mortality.

Gifted children will use higher than average language skills.

Children are the most vulnerable in emergencies — child mortality can soar from 2 to 70 times higher than average due to diarrhoea, respiratory illness and malnutrition.

And the child poverty rate in Syracuse and Fulton are significantly higher than the state average.

The percentage of children six and under testing positive for high lead levels is more than twice the state average, excluding NYC, according to the report.

In countries like Nigeria, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Afghanistan, women are still averaging more than 5 children per family, while many high - income nations in Western Europe and elsewhere are having fewer than 2 children per woman.

Unexpectedly, the investigators found that the rate of growth of children in the short - term high - dose strategy group was about 0.23 centimeters per year less than the rate for children in the low - dose strategy group, even though the high - dose treatments were given only about two weeks per year on average.

Mercury levels were lower in the children, but still excessive — four to eight times higher than the average U.S. child.

The children born with high birthweight at term were more likely to be obese by kindergarten than their average - weight counterparts.

On average, more than 9,400 children were treated each year for an injury associated with a high chair or booster seat, equaling one child every hour nationally.

Children who eat fish at least once a week sleep better and have IQ scores that are 4 points higher, on average, than those who consume fish less frequently or not at all, according to new findings from the University of Pennsylvania published this week in Scientific Reports, a Nature journal.

Participants in the study tend to have higher - than - average levels of education, both spouses have jobs and both spouses report their intention to keep working after the child is born.

Those with the highest exposures scored on average 5.3 points lower on a short - term memory test, and 2.7 points lower on an IQ test, than children with the lowest exposures.

Children in Quebec, on average, scored at least five points higher than peers in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Manitoba.

When the researchers asked adults to rate the children's productions for how much they looked like English words, they found that the adults gave higher ratings, on average, to the productions of older prephonological spellers than to the productions of younger prephonological spellers.

Muslim children on average gave the highest rankings and sought harsher punishments than either their Christian or secular counterparts.

New research suggests that men raised in countries with higher average lifespans and lower child mortality more strongly prefer women with softer features than do men raised in less healthy nations.

In a study published today, scientists at deCODE genetics use genomic and genealogical data from across the population of Iceland over many decades to show that people who carry sequence variations linked to higher levels of education have fewer children than average...

In addition, children with higher - than - average levels of the most commonly detected byproduct — found in roughly 6 in 10 kids — were nearly twice as likely to have ADHD.

Growing children / teens, pregnant / breastfeeding women, people with traumatic injuries or severe infections, and people eating a low - carbohydrate diet have higher protein requirements than the average person.

In this beachside town, 52 % of singles definitely want to have children — a far higher percentage than the national average of 39 %!

Leading the pack is North Battleford, where 53 % of singles say that they definitely want to have children - a far higher percentage than the national «yes» average of 38.5 %.

The new pricing structure means state - funded schools benefit from a 15 % discount and those with a higher than average number of children receiving free school meals will be eligible for 60 % off the standard rate.

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

It revealed that: «On average children who had undertaken the fieldwork activity achieved higher literacy scores than children that did not.»

Research published by the Children's Food Trust in 2012 suggests that in schools with greater a higher proportion of paid - for lunches the incidence of obesity is significantly lower, and that these lunches typically contain fewer calories than packed lunches (395 kcal as opposed to 450 on average).

Amid reports that overweight pupils underperform academically — data obtained from at least six studies by Scottish PHD student Anne Martin show that children who are obese at 11 achieve lower than average marks in maths, science and English at 16 — and findings that there is a higher incidence of serious childhood obesity in London than New York, figures like the London Health Commission's Lord Darzi are claiming that the issue is «at breaking point.»

The Country Trust raises funds to ensure that farm visits are offered at no charge to schools with a higher than average percentage of children eligible for Free School Meals (and therefore Pupil Premium).

[14] All participating schools generally must have a percentage of children from low - income families that is higher than the LEA's average or 35 percent, whichever is lower.

«When exclusion rates are higher, average scores tend to be higher than if more children were tested,» said Larry Feinberg, assistant director for reporting and analysis for the National Assessment Governing Board, an independent body that sets policy for NAEP.

The upshot, per the article, is that «children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.»

Children in between, who read 15 — 29 minutes per day, will encounter an average of 5.7 million words — less than half of the high - reading group but nearly four times that of the low - reading group.1

The innovation charter schools allow in curriculum, structure, discipline, instruction, and operation could well help to reduce the frightful 30 percent average dropout rate in our public high schools, which is more than 50 percent for African - American, Latino and Native American children.

Among racial groups, black and Hispanic children had absenteeism rates higher than the state average.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»