Sentences with phrase «like foster children»

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But, like learning to tie their shoes or to ride a bike, when it comes to fostering your children's entrepreneurial spirit, they'll need a guiding nudge here and there from you.

But like the previous year, Wendy's will donate 85 % of tag purchases to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, an organization that helps foster children to find permanent homes.

He does not discuss the practical implications of his reform for foster care, adoption, child - custody suits, and the like.

Fear of it is used to perpetuate a status quo where men hold power and women stay in their place, to foster the notion that women are like children who need to be protected by male - dominated laws and institutions.

Bethany Christian Services works in eight states to assist refugee families with services like language training and transportation, and also places unaccompanied children in foster homes.

At the adoption hearing, the presiding judge honored Patricia by expressing his hope that one day loving couples like Ann Marie and Patricia will enjoy the legal right to share in the adoption of foster children who desperately need stable, nurturing families.

When a child is removed from his / her parents» home by the police, foster homes like ours get calls at all hours of the day or night by the foster care agency asking if we can take in a child.

He would probably look less like the wannabe social media celebrity hustling hard for people's recognition and approval and more like the woman who bakes bread for her ailing neighbor, or fosters children in obscurity.

ABC uses home visits from coaches like Margarita to encourage parents and foster parents to connect more, and more sensitively, with the young children in their care.

Parents speak candidly about their experiences with international and domestic adoption, foster care, donor insemination, using a surrogate, parenting with an ex, coming out after being in a straight marriage and what it is like to raise their children in their part of the world.

Like most children in foster care, Julianna was born into difficult circumstances.

Dear Wants To Help: If you would like to mentor a foster child, call 1-888-432-6368, which is sponsored by «Children Uniting Nations.»

I'm sure I sound a little crazy when I say that but honestly after potty training my own five boys and one daughter, three of my 6 foster kids and helping over 3000 parents potty train their children in three days or less, I feel like I know pretty much everything there is to know about potty training.

If the child was 5 years old at adoption, I'm guessing she was adopted from foster care, like my kids.

There may be stipulations attached to such contact, like foster parents being asked to also befriending the child on Facebook in order to monitor online activity with the birth family.

We use a family meeting right when new foster children first enter our home, but we also like to try to hold family meetings weekly.

I hope if I do foster another child of an age where s / he is still of breast feeding or bottle age a woman like her comes up to me to correct me.

Whether a child likes to tug one around or not, dolls that interact with baby foster laughter, imagination, fine - motor skills, and role - play.

thank you for adopting; as i mentioned before it is of personal importance to me, so i always like to hear about generous parents adopting / fostering children.

I feel like a have found my «special» skill, I can now help parents do something which is instinctual and nurturing and that what fosters the amazing bond between parent and child»

Like what you might expect in a progressive school, children will be given high - quality Waldorf education, where they will be encouraged to foster intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth.

We'd read about it in the context of adoption and foster care, which we'd considered, and it seemed like a great way to raise healthy, confident children.

But we also love fostering self esteem in children, and teaching them that being thoughtful and creative and smart, and relying on their intellect to succeed is more important than what they are wearing or what their body looks like or how stylish their clothes are.

We work with parents across North America looking for help with things like establishing healthy sleep patterns, potty training their child, implementing positive discipline strategies, transitioning into daycare and schooling, dealing with picky eating, fostering giftedness, and so many more issues.

To us, AP Principles just seem like no - brainers: go to your child when he cries — he needs you, breastfeed your baby — it's food that's literally made for him, sleep with your child — because you are a parent at night too, use positive discipline to teach your child — negativity punishes, hold and wear your baby — it fosters bonding and security, etc..

Winter can be one of the most memorable times of the year for kids, and winter crafts for kids like these are the perfect way to foster a love for winter weather in children at even a young age.

«The collaborations that the Wyss Institute enables and nurtures between disparate fields, like mechanical engineering and molecular biology, foster new approaches to old problems that can lead to truly paradigm - shifting results,» says Donald Ingber, M.D. Ph.D., the Founding Director of the Wyss Institute and the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, who is also a Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

While the social worker can say, «Treat her like she's your own child,» a foster child is not your own.

Adoption fairs, where foster children and prospective parents mingle, are like speed dating.

Instead of an orphanage, she lives in a foster home / child services scam run by Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz, who at least looks like she's having fun most of the time) with a bevy of other unfortunates.

Nine - year - old Blithe (Landry Bender) is a foul - mouthed would - be debutante; Slater (Max Records) is a pill - popping 13 - year - old with unspecified anxiety disorders; Rodrigo (Kevin Hernandez) is a foster child from Mexico who carries cherry bombs in his pants and likes to blow things up.

«At LEGO Education, we believe the skills fostered through fun, developmental programmes like those we create with FIRST will teach our children that anyone can release their potential to innovate,» said Esben Stærk Jørgensen, president of LEGO Education.

His welcoming project — which resulted in a series of strategies schools can use to ease transitions — is an antidote to that invisibility, and it provides tools schools can use to help orient other highly mobile student populations, like homeless children, foster children, or immigrants.

«At LEGO Education, we believe the skills fostered through fun, developmental programs like those we create with FIRST will teach our children that anyone can release their potential to innovate,» said Esben Stærk Jørgensen, president of LEGO Education.

valuable alternatives to existing options for the students they serve, particularly those charter schools focused on serving traditionally under - served groups of students like English Language Learners, foster children or children living in temporary housing.»

He wrote at the time that charter schools can provide «valuable alternatives to existing options for the students they serve, particularly those charter schools focused on serving traditionally under - served groups of students like English Language Learners, foster children or children living in temporary housing.»

In Arizona, adopted children are eligible for education savings accounts, and children in foster care are eligible for private school scholarships (like homeless children, children in the foster care system also appear in crime and prison statistics at higher rates than their peers from intact families).

A foster child with a tragic past, her family has become the two boys she looks after like a mother: six - year - old Benny, who's diabetic and in a wheelchair, and young teen Owen, an emotionally scarred foster - home runaway.

I'm a relatively new foster mom (we've only had one placement, and it is headed toward adoption) but with the opioid epidemic raging, more and more children are facing traumatic upbringings like Wavy and will challenge society's norms as they grown up in scary circumstances.

After their time in the practice houses, the babies were returned to their orphanages and adopted like any other children, or put into foster care.

When El, thirteen years older than Ruth, is freed and leaves the home, Ruth, aged five, quickly forges a close sibling - like bond with fellow foster child Nat.

Because all our foster dogs live with our volunteers, you will get an accurate assessment of the dog's energy level, personality, likes and dislikes, behavior with children, cats and other dogs, and more.

Simone's foster family says she is a real sweetheart, she likes children and gets along great with cats and other dogs.

Dogs feel safe and secure when they're part of a family and have an established role, and transitioning between multiple homes requires a constant adaptation to changing environments and social structure, just like a child repeatedly changing foster homes.

Foster4Paws are pet foster parents and very much like child foster parents.

Shadow loves giving kisses and taking treats from children and thrives on playing with other dogs, like the lively male Lab brother in her foster home.

I have a wonderful foster family with other dogs and children and I love them, but I would really like most of all, is to have my own...

He is in foster with another dog he likes and a 12 year old child.

[Editor's Note: If you'd like to have your children experience a pet's pregnancy and birth, consider taking in a pregnant foster pet from a local shelter — you won't be adding to the pet overpopulation problem, the shelter will often cover some or all of the medical care and it will help your family place the litter into good homes when the offspring is of age.

If Americans are not well - enough informed to successfully tackle issues like climate change, Otto contends that seeing political leaders directly address the issues will foster greater public interest in the topics, help Americans distinguish scientific finding from rhetoric, and encourage our children to devote their education to the subject.