Sentences with phrase «love as a foster»

The more people willing to volunteer their time and love as a foster, the more cats and dogs we are able to save.

Molly is a mother to an active 11 year old son and has shared her home, family and love as a foster parent for over five years.

It's been the greatest way we've seen God show us how he loves us as we foster and show his love to another!

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I started working as a barre - tender at a local studio, and after a few weeks it started to dawn on me that I didn't just love the workout — I loved the community that Pure Barre fostered.

Whatever the case may be, it will be fostering the community and collaboration that enables the city we love to continue to grow and progress at speeds as fast as our internet.

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.

If the formal teaching of Humanae Vitae is indeed of Christ (as it itself claims, cf. para.s 4 & 6) and that, as we might expect, living in accord with it deepens the quality of married love, strengthens fidelity, brings male sexuality under control, significantly lessens the likelihood of marital breakdown and fosters a generally pro-life attitude then we have done a great disservice to generations of Catholics by failing to break the silence on it.

Might not cosmic pessimism with its sharp intuition of the perishability of life be quite as capable of fostering a genuine love of our natural environment as would any religious teleology?

So as a foster parent I would bring my children up firstly to LOVE everyone, regardless of their habits, sins and beliefs, and to know that despite sins, Jesus loves us and we are called to love others too and accept and welcome everyone without judgemLOVE everyone, regardless of their habits, sins and beliefs, and to know that despite sins, Jesus loves us and we are called to love others too and accept and welcome everyone without judgemlove others too and accept and welcome everyone without judgement.

Politics, he suggests, must be seen as a major instrument which, through persuasion (justice and love), fosters learning and innovation.

Annnd, if you love cute puppy pictures as much as I do, you have to meet our new foster pup, Lacey.

I love anything banana / maple flavored... reminds me of bananas foster, but as french toast:)

Whether it's small class size, a nurturing family environment or the ability for teachers to foster the love of learning, many families choose private school as a way to enhance the learning of their littlest family members.

As a teacher and as a Challenge Success coach, I believe that a love of learning is fostered best when students feel supported by their parents and their teacherAs a teacher and as a Challenge Success coach, I believe that a love of learning is fostered best when students feel supported by their parents and their teacheras a Challenge Success coach, I believe that a love of learning is fostered best when students feel supported by their parents and their teachers.

In addition, working together in the parenting trenches fosters a more intense relationship, and as couples discover new reasons to love each other, making love can also be a continual process of discovery and increasingly intense intimacy.

New England is so rich in history, and even as a child it fostered my love for historical fiction.

As a foster child, I was lucky to have been placed in a secure and loving home.

Most important is that the cat receives the same amount of affection and care as always and the baby grows up with a respect for kitty that will foster a safe and loving relationship.

Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's ®, established The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption ® in 1992 as a non-profit public charity with one primary goal: to help every child in foster care find a loving, permanent family.

Pray for all the foster children in care, that their first foster home is also their last foster home, as multiple placements rob children of stability and love which is required to build the self - esteem needed to grow into responsible, caring adults.

«Open adoption is fostering a positive and loving connection with my son's birth families so he has that choice as he matures.»

If an older child has received a degree of special treatment such as foster care or a especially assigned and paid for caretaker within the institutional setting, this may certainly facilitate a smoother transition to an American home but it is so very important that newly adoptive families understand that they are a very different experience to the older post-institutionalized child who may view them as objects of indiscriminant attachment or people who can be easily manipulated into giving all the things which they never had: food, clothing, toys, games, socialization and unconditional love in the absence of structure or consistency.

Playing for Keeps: Play that Keeps Love, Creativity, and Belonging First - Register now for API Live with international play expert Fred Donaldson Monday, January 23, 2012, at 9 pm EST / 6 pm PST join API Live to learn about Original Play and how we can understand it as parents for fostering self - esteem, transformation, security, welcoming, adaptation and many more qualities for our children's development and health.

When a child is placed in your home, as foster parents you are responsible for providing a loving, nurturing, healing environment, and partnering with a team of professionals working towards group goals.

Heaven forbid that children who have developed a love of learning rather than be told what to know and when, have been encouraged to use their curiosity rather than been told that it's not relevant to what they are learning, have been given the opportunity to try a variety of different experiences and skills rather than be told that there is no time / money / resources to do that, have been able to use and foster their talents rather than be told to sit still, be quiet and listen to something else instead and who are able to be independent thinkers, confident self - starters and able leaders rather than to «do as the curriculum says» to end up being employable!

Promote the parent as the child's first most important teacher for helping children not only acquire necessary academic skills and knowledge as well as teaching and sharing values, encouraging and supporting creativity and fostering curiosity and a love for learning.

As long as the experience is fun, you're fostering that love of readinAs long as the experience is fun, you're fostering that love of readinas the experience is fun, you're fostering that love of reading.

How can we use housework to foster that sense of significance and belonging in the family while still understanding that kids don't love it and wouldn't necessarily choose it as a preferred activity?

In the same vein, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has congratulated Nigerian Muslims as they join their counterparts worldwide to celebrate this year's Eid - el - Kabir festival, urging them to imbibe the values of sacrifice, love and continue to foster unity.

«An adoptive or foster family provides the warmth, strength, love, and acceptance that children need as they grow into adulthood.

At the center, they meditated daily using techniques designed to foster calm sustained attention on a chosen object and to generate aspirations such as compassion, loving - kindness, emphatic joy and equanimity among participants, for others and themselves.

Parents» psychological control involved such tactics as using guilt, withdrawing love, fostering anxiety, or other psychologically manipulative tactics aimed at controlling youths» motivations and behaviors.

Considering what they've each experienced as children, the love they fostered between each other which they then bestowed upon us is astounding.

She was not nearly as tolerant of adults we'd attempted to add to the pack, but always gentle and loving with the pups we'd fostered.

As more and more children in the UK are in desperate need of a loving home, we're always looking for more potential foster carers who share our passion for transforming young lives.

Crosby says, «Members love this option as it fosters creativity and fun while allowing them to express themselves more fully.»

There is a real need in the online dating space to foster love, intimacy as well as create ongoing engagement.

As more and more children in the UK are in desperate need of a loving home, we're always looking for more potential foster carers who share our passion for transforming young lives.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

An amnesiac orphan boy named Daryl (Oliver, The NeverEnding Story) is fostered by a loving, childless couple that adopts the young boy as their own until his proper parents are found.

Bryant narrates Dear Basketball, which describes a love of the game fostered as a 6 - year - old shooting rolled up tube socks at a plastic rim in his bedroom, a passion that continued after his body wore out.

Apatow, who deserves to be regarded as the preeminent figure in American comedy right now, has shown an uncanny knack for fostering bright young comic talent, and because he loves comics so much and is so fascinated by their process — the way John Cassavetes loved Method actors and their process — his productions tend to brim with scene - stealing supporting players, amusing non sequiturs, and running times (124 minutes in the case of The Five - Year Engagement) that few comedies in the history of moving pictures have shouldered without eventually buckling under.

So how can we as teachers foster close reading, overcome fear of the genre, and cultivate a love for poetic language without getting bogged down in lessons that feel like dissection labs?

In essence, Storybird is a complete suite of simple, straightforward and child - focused tools, each designed to help increase engagement, foster a love of reading, telling, and writing stories, and get students thinking of themselves as young authors.

Excellent continuous staff development, an inspirational and exciting curriculum that fosters a love of learning and the opportunity to work with more schools through the teaching school — these are all reasons why Broadford has continued to develop as a school and was the outstanding candidate for Primary School of the Year.

As increasing numbers of kids come to school wishing to take action, educators want to know how to teach in a way that fosters a love of nature and an understanding of the complexity and seriousness of these issues.

Our print rich environment fosters a love of the written and spoken word as well as, of story depth and development.

«As the country's largest bookseller, we are deeply committed to fostering literacy and a love of books and reading.

As a child, Ruth and her sister El, Cora's mother, were placed in foster care at The Love of Christ!

Through challenges and «Leaves» that you can unlock by reading and reviewing books, the site hopes to foster an even greater love of reading and inspire a new generation of readers to see it as something fun and rewarding.