Sentences with phrase «major challenges of parenting»

Getting your child to talk and share with you is one of the major challenges of parenting.

Not exact matches

The women interviewed in Hoddinott's study concur: «First - time parents in particular can find the lack of time for activities unrelated to baby and «me time» a major challenge for which they are not prepared.

Here's one major challenge to motherhood that no one likes to talk about: What exactly are you supposed to do after the birth of your first kid if you and your partner realize you have completely different parenting styles?

«Today is World Sight Day and Brien Holden Vision Institute is calling on the world — from governments and health agencies, to civil society, parents and schools — to protect the eye health of every child and adult and meet this major public health challenge of our time,» said Professor Kovin Naidoo, Acting CEO, Brien Holden Vision Institute.

While recognizing that public education continues to face major challenges and problems that must be addressed, Representative Ziobron has become an advocate for parents who wish to opt their children out of the Common Core tests and for policies that support, not undermine, the role of parents, teachers, and local citizens in how their local schools should be run.

Across this continuum of outcome possibilities, current caregivers — be they birth parents, foster parents, or adoptive parents — are almost certain to face major challenges in appropriately responding to the child's mental and physical health needs.

Having vast experience working with families (in preschools, as a postpartum doula, and as a nanny), a major aspect of my practice involves helping parents develop positive and practical parenting tools, educating parents about how to support their children with attention or behavior problems, and assisting families in navigating through challenging transitions.»

Since 1987, Life Counseling Services has provided support in areas of divorce recovery, parenting challenges, marriage counseling, Christian faith - based counseling, substance abuse, and programs for major depression.

Parental alienation is indeed one of the major issues divorced parents are facing and according to the experts, it is often very challenging to control the influence of an alienating parent on a child.

Keeping cool at such times can be a major challenge when every instinct is telling you to regain control of the situation and quash the coup d'état, as it were... This is where the authoritative parent needs to be firm but loving, and gently uphold the boundaries you have set, allowing the consequences to follow.

During a time of transition when parents are dealing with legal, financial, social and psychological stresses, making major decisions that are in children's best interests is challenging.

Divorce is one of the most common major transitions in children's lives, with ultimately 40 percent of all children experiencing the divorce of their parents.1 With Little Children, Big Challenges: Divorce, Sesame Workshop has created much - needed resources for families with young children (ages 2 — 8) as they encounter the tough transitions that come with divorce.

One of the major advantages of the Collaborative Process is to build upon the strengths and cooperation of the parents so they can become more aware of the challenges their child faces in divorce; prioritize those challenges, and then share their commonly held value of their child's well - being to work together to meet the needs of their child.

Preventive medicine and health screening are a major focus of our practice, along with proposing solutions to the challenges parents face in raising a child in today's environment.

The counselor becomes a teacher as well as therapist, advising the child and his or her caregivers about the course of recovery, challenging both at each major developmental stage - from starting school, to the teen years, dating, self - sufficiency, and parenting.