Sentences with phrase «like taking a child to school»

Just like taking a child to school, bring your dog to training class Monday through Friday each week and our trainers will work with them to improve their obedience and overall behavior.

Not exact matches

Although I would like to take you to task over your assertions over school funding and the your contention that you have had children, I'll restrain myself.

People were buying things like crazy, where did all the money go... we take a look at the leadership's homes, their cars, the schools they sent their children to and where they went on vacation.

Hopefully, like a child standing up to a school - yard bully or a stranger reigning in some spoiled, poorly acting child in a public venue, Americans can stand up and take their country back.

Like many of the children, she's alert to times when other children are too fragile to sustain the give - and - take of repartee; and when, as often happens at the after - school, one of the younger children suddenly begins to cry, or seems to be right at the precipice of tears, she switches gears almost immediately.

During the media interviews I took part in last November when the Government announced the Children, Schools and Families Bill, my position was repeatedly attacked on the basis that parents don't like talking to their children about sex, so schooChildren, Schools and Families Bill, my position was repeatedly attacked on the basis that parents don't like talking to their children about sex, so schoolSchools and Families Bill, my position was repeatedly attacked on the basis that parents don't like talking to their children about sex, so schoochildren about sex, so schoolsschools must.

Today I am enjoying things that I could not do when playing for a club like spending more time in the morning with my father, visiting my friends, my family members, taking my children to school and picking them up» Diego Milito said.

Last week when I picked up my 3.5 year old son Julian from preschool, his teacher Miss G mentioned that she'd like to take the four children in the program on a field trip to the zoo or children's museum the following week to celebrate the last day of school.

When you visit a school like WHEELS or Polaris, it is hard not to feel hopeful, not just for the prospects of the students there, but for the possibility that a new approach to educating low - income children, rooted in the science of adversity, might be taking hold more broadly.

So before we ever see federal funding levels adequate to finance «real food,» «clean label» meals like those in this Minnesota district, it's going to take a truly seismic shift in how our nation thinks generally about food and the feeding of its school children.

But there's many things that we can do to help with that process: (1) I tend to like something that we call «blind pick - up in drop box» so that if one parent takes a child to school, and it's their transition day, the other parent picks the child up from school.

I'm also trying to forget that when I said to him school probably doesn't like children taking in Pokemon cards he said.

The one above was pretty empty when I took this picture, because the school hadn't opened yet, but I imagine it is now full of papers, envelopes, stickers, writing utensils and the like that will make children want to write.

As a tween, though, your child has more autonomy, or the ability to take charge of many of her own responsibilities, like due dates for school projects and when she needs to leave for sports practice.

Doing things outside of school — like playing soccer or taking a pottery class — is another great opportunity for your child to make friends.

If your child is approaching 14 and wants to take several GCSEs, you may want to consider a couple of years in a local school if you can find one which you like.

The links include information on how to start a garden at your child's school or take on garden themed projects like a dandelion salad.

But if you notice a sudden, inexplicable change in behavior — more anxiety, withdrawal, changes in appetite, or an insistence on changing certain habits, like taking the bus home from school — it's important to let your child's teacher and school administration know.

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.

While a before - school meal might seem like a more logical solution (potential stigma aside), children who rely on school buses can't take advantage of it, and families struggling with poverty face many barriers to participation, including getting to school on time, let alone early.

Conventionally schooling our children would also have a huge impact on our holidays, since you can not just take your children out of school whenever you feel like it (now doesn't that just seem odd to you, they're your children, after all), now we are on a one month every five months schedule, if we were schooling, we'd have to adapt to school holidays

Cooking real food for school children shouldn't have to be like the Peace Corps, where one takes a vow of poverty because the spiritual benefits of helping the poor make up for the lack of financial compensation.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

But as we take on the daunting task of changing children's ingrained eating habits, habits that are reinforced in the media and sometimes at home, we need to be prepared for more attention - grabbing headlines like this one telling us that kids «just won't eat» healthier school food.

For instance, an American - English speaking parent might call the yellow vehicle that takes children to school a «bus,» while the pronunciation of the same word by an Irish - English speaking parent might sound more like «boss.»

(NaturalHealth365) According to the «Vaccinate All Children Act of 2015» (H.R. 2232), the United States federal government wants to take away all religious and philosophical exemptions or, in order words, require every school age child to get vaccinated — whether you like it or not.

Here's hoping that the growing number of stories in the news about real babies and real children and real people affected by exposure, factually or potentially — like that father of a child with cancer who recently asked his California school district to ban non-immunized students — will start making those who've taken a stand against vaccines reconsider.

Working full time, going to school, staying active and healthy, having children, traveling, cooking (or what I like to call mastering the perfect take out order) and cleaning, is just part of our normal days.

This alarming horror film, a brilliant debut for Australian director Jennifer Kent, is as hard to shake as its title character whether you take it as a straightforward monster film, a mental illness or grief allegory, or get hung up on its minefield of taboos (mothers who don't much like their children / over-medication of children / weapons in schools).

If Green ultimately takes too much pride in his hipster references (however nostalgic I got seeing the 2001-esque United Artists logo that used to scare the bejesus out of me as a child, it's self - conscious whims like these that make Undertow sometimes feel superficially invested), the presence of the generally indifferent Bell has a neutralizing effect on Green's tendency towards the pedantic, and the director's championing of old - school values — his dislike of ADR, his fondness for found locations — once again inspires lonely but hearty cries of solidarity.

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Each page takes the child step - by - step through different worry scenarios, such as falling out with a friend, getting in trouble at school, or feeling like no one is listening to them.

These quirky characters can help with ideas to Play games in Early Years, create activities and challenges for the outdoors and forest school, spark ideas for writing stories in key stage 1 and 2, make rhymes, match to meet and develop curriculum outcomes, learning about «ourselves», likes, dislikes and much more, take it the way you and your children wish to meet their learning needs!

Bowers's students spent a morning planting trees in a city park, and they made and distributed several hundred bookmarks that list steps even children can take to protect the environment — things like turning off the lights or taking the school bus instead of getting a ride from Mom or Dad.

The London 2012 Olympics helped to nudge the other side of the simple equation, «eat less and move more», and it has taken initiatives like the Stirling Primary School Daily Mile to underline the mental, social and physical gain of getting children motivated to exercise more.

The first ever Share a Pencil Day takes place today, 17th May 2017 when 25,000 pupils in a range of schools up and down the country are being asked to share a pencil for a single lesson, an afternoon or the whole day to experience what learning is really like for many children across the globe.

Taking JayJo to School When Kim Gosselin's young sons were diagnosed with asthma and diabetes, she started JayJo Publishing — named for her two sons — and published Taking Asthma to School and Taking Diabetes to School and more than a dozen other books to help children understand what it is like to live with chronic illnesses.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) takes a more comprehensive approach to assessing school quality than the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), moving beyond NCLB's focus on annual test performance to also consider factors like student academic growth, graduation rates, and rates of proficiency for English language learners.

Any experience like this that extends learning beyond the classroom, whilst motivating children to take the leading role, is very powerful for child personal development as well as strengthening ties between school and community.»

If you're a parent like me, at the start of each school year you eagerly learn all about the course content your child will study, the enrichment opportunities available, the field trips your child will take, and the school supplies your child will need as you brace yourself for that evening's trip to Staples.

But when it comes to parent - teacher conferences, President Obama is just like every other working parent, forced to take off from work in the middle of the day to travel to his children's school.

Much like public schools, charter schools are open to all students, do not charge tuition, and do not require your child to take an entrance exam.

If you're already looking ahead and know what college you or your child would one day like to apply to, our high school schedule planners take into account the college admission requirements of any schools you may be considering.

As we have Ofsted Inspectors around, I would also like to pay tribute to the head teacher of the virtual school for the immense amount of work that she and her team have undertaken to ensure no child taken into care is permanently excluded by a school.

``... while Hartford's public school students, parents, teachers and school administrators are crippled by the Common Core, the Common Core SBAC testing scam and Connecticut's unfair teacher evaluation system, Luke Bronin's child is attending a school that DOES N'T adhere to the Common Core SYSTEM, doesn't force children to take the unfair Common Core SBAC testing program and treats their school teachers like the education professionals that they are.»

So, broadening that accountability to culture and climate of a school, taking into account whether kids are safe, assessing non-cognitive skills like grit and resilience — when you look at all of these in total and ask a district to pay attention to the whole child, and the school responds to what each child needs, it will amount to better preparedness for college and career.

Success looks like kids who are extremely well - prepared for secondary school with a very clear understanding of what it takes to go to college, and parents who understand what their children need to get to college and can be strong advocates for them.

I am ready to lead the charge that takes the «education reform» debate back into the hands of teachers, not billionaires who have never sent their children to public schools or know what it is like to be a public - school teacher.

As a parent writing to President Obama explained, in a letter posted at the Washington Post blog of Valerie Strauss, «We have something very important in common: daughters in the seventh grade... Like my daughter Eva, Sasha appears to be a funny, smart, loving girl... There is, however, one important difference between them: Sasha attends private school, while Eva goes to public school... Sasha does not have to take Washington's standardized test, the D.C. CAS, which means you don't get a parent's - eye view of the annual high - stakes tests taken by most of America's children.»

But the most - interesting piece came not from either Haimson or the generally stellar Carey or Noguera (whose idea of treating schools like hospitals is a good one, even if he can't get the rest of his ideas right), but from Thomas B. Fordham Institute education czar Mike Petrilli, who once again tried to defend the idea of rolling back No Child's powerful Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions (even if the approach taken by the administration is none to his liking).