Sentences with phrase «kinds of schools parents»

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There are effective and less effective schools in all kinds of communities,» he reminds parents.

It throws a spotlight on some of our most sensitive issues: what kind of parents we are, what kind of schools we have, what kind of health care is available to us.

Since primary responsibility for nurturing children rests with the Family, parents should be able to choose the kind of school they want for their children.

Millions of parents are stuck buying whatever Disney coughs up, because every other kid at school has Lion King or whatever other kind of merchandise.

The foregoing principles of parent - child relationships — concern by the parents for the needs of the child and the obligation of the child to obey the parents, within the context of intelligent and benevolent authority — are the foundation for the right kind of education not only in homes but also in schools, which are established to aid and complete the family in its educative task.

She will teach there for 23 years while her own children move on through older Sunday school, on through grade school and high school and college, marriages and divorces and bankruptcies, through all kinds of things — she will be here still, teaching the youngest children «Jesus Loves Me» while their parents attend early service.

Essentially, this is a set of sexual Geneva conventions: You never knew it, but not only do you have the right to minimal standards of treatment if you ever become a prisoner of war, but when you were five, you had the right to learn at school all kinds of things about what some people like to do in bed, and if your parents thought that really they'd rather you didn't hear about that stuff at school, or at least not yet, they were... well, they were violating your rights.

As a parent, I want my children to be exposed to strong convictions in school, including those that I do not share — not to be bored into a kind of moral indifference.

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

Elizabeth felt the sting of the latter when she tried to set up a boarding school for boys, with the help of a kind Episcopalian pastor — who didn't hold her Catholicism against her — only to have parents angrily withdraw their sons, once they discovered Elizabeth was a Catholic.

A spokesman said «It was a kind of sex education lesson but by untrained inspectors without the consent of parents or the school,» In a sane world this would be an entirely reasonably response: in what other situation could a complete stranger approach a group of young children and ask them about same sex attraction?

Chase had a cookie walk fundraiser with his school where each parent makes about 60 cookies to add to a room full of tables filled with every kind of cookie one could imagine.

In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learning.

Getting an active child to sit down for a meal of any kind, much less a well - balanced, made - from - scratch meal with the entire family, as he rushes off to or home from school, sports practices or games, or other activities that cram virtually every nook and cranny of a child's day, has become virtually impossible for many families, especially those headed by single parents.

Unfortunately, she is typical of a breed of teenagers who have become so focused — by their parents, their schools, the culture, their peers and themselves on gaming the system, cheating when necessary and believing that money and material goods are the foundation of a life well - lived — that they have little opportunity to develop the kinds of ideas that used to be typical of teenagers.

My fear is that the new series will focus even more on JO's party line that the schools are «the bad guys» and «getting away with murder», which really does not promote any kind of constructive dialog between parents and their school nutrition director.

Research confirms that all kinds of positive outcomes result from autonomy - supportive parenting: Teens learn better and do better in school, they are more engaged, and they persist harder if the face of difficulty.

Having done this kind of work myself for many years in San Francisco, I can vouch for how frustrating it can be, and yet, as a parent or guardian who really wants to make a difference in nutrition and health for an enormous number of children, there is really no better opportunity than serving on your local school nutrition parent advisory council.

Just as with the seemingly impossible smoking areas of flights long gone, parents traveling with children of a certain age would be forced to sit with their own kind in what would become a veritable nursery school at 32,000 feet.

I'm asked a lot about rules that I have or ideas that would apply to every kind of situation, what's the golden rule for parenting, and my belief is that in an emergency or in hiring a nanny, choosing a babysitter or choosing a school, I won't be there with you, so it makes no difference what rules I give you, they might not apply, they might be out of context.

Current labeling laws, if left unchanged, would better ensure that parents know exactly what kind of flavored milk their children are consuming at school.

I will turn a blind eye to what others choose to feed their kids on an individual basis, but if there is some policy at the school that demands that what another parent sends must be served to my child, then there needs to be some kind of standard to which those offerings are held.

Maybe because I'm a pretty uninspired school - lunch - packer, I've always been fascinated by parents who make beautiful bento lunches for their children - you know, the kind with adorable characters molded out of rice, foods cut into perfect shapes, and... [Continue reading]

I'm a 1st grade public school teacher and you wouldn't believe the kinds of things parents put in their teacher request / placement forms.

I know many of us parents say, «If I could be a fly on the wall of their classroom...» While it would be kind of silly to see one of us sitting in an elementary school desk or hiding under our college student's dorm room bed, there are plenty of ways that our kids can «take us with them» to school, or at least the most important advice we can give them.

Waldorf Academy Biography In 1986 a small group of parents in the downtown area of Toronto came together inspired by a vision of a new kind of school for their children — a Waldorf school.

The district also infuriated scores of parents when it shuttered all 54 of its full - day school - based programs in June — the kind of extended preschool program the district said last year it wanted to beef up.

That includes providing intellectual stimulation, talking about school, being available to answer homework questions, and other kinds of attention that can be given even if you're not the room parent.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

From her first visit to Hollinsclough through to the slow and steady way in which we were allowed to introduce her back into school, all staff were nothing but understanding, kind and considerate of us as parents and of her as a child.

(see it it isn't just the Tea Party, and all kinds of people read your blog, so be careful, you need everyone on board with the school lunch reform and TP people are parents too.)

However, from my personal experience and from what I've heard from many parents in different school districts, it's not uncommon for food service to balk at changes of any kind.

Mayim Bialik, best know for her roles as «Blossom» and «Amy» in the Big Bang Theory, who holds a PH.D if Neuroscience and is the recent author of «Beyond the Sling», mentioned that while in graduate school studying the hormones of human attachment as part of her thesis, she started seeing the results of these kinds of parenting choices.

As co-chair of my school district's student nutrition committee for the past 8 years, I get exactly the same kind of feedback from parents and other advocates — some demand farm - to - school, some want only organic, some want to ban HFCS, etc. — and few understand the USDA regs which govern the meal program, or the limits of what can be accomplished on the inadequate government reimbursement.

Okay I'm kind of an old fashioned guy and don't mind a bit of candy for me or my kids, but the whole point should be on keeping it reasonable, ice creams ok, but to bribe kids with it is lame, but if a parent does not want they're kid eating this stuff couldn't you just teach your kid not to, or send a note to school saying you want your kid not to have these things?

Psychologists who have studied attachment have found that when human kids have that same kind of licking and grooming - style bonding with their parents, especially in the first year of life, it gives them all sorts of psychological strength, confidence [and] character that, when they reach school age and even into adulthood, will make a huge difference in how well they do.»

As children reach school age, their parents could expect to see more subtle kinds of aggression such as sulking, pouting, and whining.

This wasn't the kind of summer school you attended because you didn't want to repeat 2nd grade; it was the kind that your parents paid for you to attend to give you an enriching summertime experience.

Children deserve and are entitled to this education regardless of the kind of school they have had chosen for them, or of the religion of their parents, so it's absolutely right both that SRE should be compulsory in all schools and that no child should miss out on it by being opted out.

That means making sure parents can choose the option that works for their children, no matter what they do for a living and no matter what kind of public school they prefer.

The government promised to provide all children with «access to the kind of education only the rich can afford» when it launched the policy of allowing parents to set up schools free from local authority control.

They say the model will provide the kind of support - access to health care, after - school programs, educational opportunities for parents - that will enable students from low - income backgrounds to be more successful.

These new schools have been set up by idealistic people who are determined to give parents the kind of choice that only the rich can currently afford.The first 24 free schools are enormously popular and I expect this second wave to be equally successful.

Throughout the grammar schools debate there has been an underlying suspicion from many that the Eton - educated Tory leader is denying others the kind of elite education that grammar schools traditionally provided poorer parents.

Lisa DeCamp, M.D., M.S.P.H., assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study's senior author, noted that although parental surveys of this kind have weaknesses in terms of parent responses reflecting the breadth of traumas children may be exposed to, the findings, published in the Oct. issue of the journal Pediatrics, offer new insight into potentially higher childhood resiliency among immigrant families supported by strong community networks and a strong sense of cultural identity.

«The study is relevant for parents choosing what schools to enroll their children in, and for school districts in deciding what kinds of schools to offer,» says one of the study's authors, Angeline Lillard, of the University of Virginia, USA.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

I've heard the joke that allergy moms are better investigators than the FBI; calling manufacturers, retailers, other parents, schools, playgroups, and all kinds of places to gain intel on what goes into products, and educating others about allergies.

The movie tells the interwoven tales of close to a dozen suburban parents and high - schoolers, united by the common themes of sex, alienation, and the Internet — a kind of techno - misanthropic Love Actually.

Possibly the last of their kind, moving from town to town and still working out some serious parent - child issues (not the least of which is their approach to handling their prey) Gemma Arterton literally vamps it up, putting on a prostitute pose to seduce lowlives and cops, while her daughter, plays more school girl, a more subtle and melancholic performance by Saoirse Ronan.