Sentences with phrase «meet parents where»

I think it would just be really important for providers to really meet parents where they are, to really listen and learn about both the successes and challenges parents are having with their children.

She likes to «meet parents where they're at,» either teaching them how to use a carrier they already own, or showing people what they can use if they're new to the whole concept.

Help us meet parents where they are, by bringing Challenge Success into your community.

I learned so much about meeting parents where they are and giving them evidence - based information about what children need for optimal development — that nevertheless often runs counter to the cultural norm.

Cooling Down Yourh Classroom Carla Tantillo, Founder, Mindful Practices - Cooling Down the Classroom Community Schools 101: The who, what, when, where, and WHY of community schools Anya Tanyavutti, Manager, Metropolitan Family Services Kevin Curtin, Principal, Peoria School District 150 - PowerPoint Presentation - Garfield Elementary - Garfield Elementary School Partners Meeting Parents Where They Are: One community's unique approach to ensuring parents have access to the information and services they need Julie Lonteen, Peoria School District 150 Tranforming the High School Culture to Breed Success for All Students Tony Majors, Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, Metro Nashville Public Schools Gini Pupo - Walker, Director of Family Involvement and Community Services, Metro Nashville Public Schools - Powerpoint Presentation Trust Amount District Administrators, School Teams, and Community Members Drives the Community School Model Dr. Diane Hensley, Director of Community Schools, Tulsa Public Schools Dr. Kathy Dodd, Director Elementary Education, Union Public Schools Jan Creveling, Director, Tulsa Area Community School & Senior Planner for Community Service Council - PowerPoint Presentation The Great at 8 Initiative: How community schools can create linkages to early childhood Madelyn James, Director of the Great at 8 Initiative, Voices for Illinois Children If You Build They Will Come?

Not exact matches

Victor's family immigrated to the U.S. in 1973, when Victor was 7, eventually settling in East Providence, R.I., where his parents made ends meet with manufacturing jobs.

«If present public expenditures on schooling were made available to parents [through a voucher] regardless of where they send their children, a wide variety of schools would spring up to meet the demand,» writes Milton Friedman in Capitalism and Freedom.

After the shooting, Ryan Gutierrez, 18, a senior, walked the two miles from the school to a 7 - Eleven in Coral Springs — the nearest spot where his parents could meet him.

From the earliest weeks of life, when an infant is taught to control hunger in order to meet the sleeping needs of parents and to fit into a social pattern in which people do not eat during the night; through babyhood, where etiquette skills include learning conventional greetings such as morning kisses and waving bye - bye; to toddler training in such concepts as sharing toys with a guest, refraining from hitting, and expressing gratitude for presents, manners are used to establish a basis for other virtues.

Maybe we'll talk about Naples and Riadoso, that one field somewhere in the middle of Kansas where we had a picnic after I met your parents, oh, and the Silverthorne Village Inn on the winter nights of Colorado when we sneaked out of the communal condo and stayed up all night, talking, over terrible coffee.

For example, there is the parent who, at the end of each day, asks her children, «Where did God meet you today?»

Much more promising is the appearance here and there of day - care centers at the parents» workplace, and day care provided by parishes and temples where it serves the triple purpose of providing meaningful work for members of the community (especially older people), meeting a pressing need of the community's young couples, and beginning the religious education of the community's children.

oh i forgot that cain kills adam and gets exiled to the land of NOD east of eden where he met / knew his wife and she bore him kids... how the f - is that possible if its just you, your parents and your dead brother??? o and one more question, if the great flood which covered the earth happened, and Noah saved ALL the animals of the world then why does the bible very clearly describe the animals that would not be making the voyage, as if another one of gods creature wasn't good enough, but i thought this «god» was all knownig and never makes a mistake!

My parents got to share the experience in several visits to New York and, most dramatically, in a trip to Rome at the turn of the millennium, where they joined me at a grand reunion of the Krakow seminar alumni — and where, just eight months after entering the Church, in the Clementine room off St. Peter's Basilica, they got to meet the Holy Father.

Well for me, my love for Alicante is because it's the city where my parents met and got married, but that was decades ago.

When Padilla gets a breather during games, he communicates with his parents in the stands in sign language, telling them where to meet him afterward.

The regulations are due to come into force on 1 December 2014, and the options to use the new Shared Parental Leave rights will apply for parents who meet the eligibility criteria, where a baby is due to be born on or after 5 April 2015, or for children who are placed for adoption on or after that date.

MomsTeam's General Safety Center will continue to provide the latest information on general youth sports injury topics and a forum where everyone with a stake in injury prevention and treatment, including parents, athletes, coaches, officials, administrators, clinicians, and sports safety equipment manufacturers - can meet to exchange ideas and information and share concerns.

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Parenting is where the two meet.

The LAL explores these reflections with the applicant in order to assist in any areas where additional skills, knowledge or comfort may be helpful in representing the principles of API, helping parents and / or leading meetings.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

We look forward to seeing you and your family at one of our meetings, where you will meet interesting people and learn the latest about attachment parenting techniques and ideas.

I went to every meeting that they have had at the school, including a PTO meeting where I was one of only 2 parents who didn't actually have a child who attended school there yet.

While the wealth disparity in this country is increasingly shocking, here is what has surprised me most: regardless of where I am, and whom I'm speaking to, change — in our value system, in the way we parent, in what we expect from our children — has been consistently met with a combination of interest, appreciation, apprehension and resistance.

Instead, try a coaching and teaching parenting style wherein you meet your child where he is and coach him forward to better behavior, one step at a time.

Therefore we strive to have our meet - ups be a place where differences in philosophies, beliefs, opinions, and parenting styles are welcomed and respected.

Click here to see a sample of the full - color, glossy, and information - packed handout that would be great for your next Support Group meeting, parenting conference, or to give out anywhere local where families frequently visit.

From the notes, four repeating themes emerged: meet moms where they are - listen, listen, listen; stories are extremely influential; realistic preparation and planning that includes mom's support network; empower parents so that they know when and where to go for support.

A dance between parent and child, where everyone's voices are heard, and everyone's needs are met.

Tucker shared, «through my work, I've met too many parents who want to parent without yelling, shaming, or overpowering their children, but they just don't know where to begin or how to discipline without punishment.»

Katie's new book, The Happy Kid Handbook is an amazing tool for parents to learn how to meet their kids where they are at, temperamentally.

Fiona Audy, Alberta, Canada Photo: Anna Bondarieva A school for pregnant and parenting teens where breastfeeding is on the «timetable» Supporting teen breastfeeding Once a month, for the past eight years, at a school for pregnant and parenting teens in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada there has been a La Leche League meeting.

This event, where parents visit their child's school shortly after school starts in the fall, is a chance to tour the classroom and meet the teacher as well as other parents.

Before Web 2.0, discussion forums and listservs were the places where hopeful adoptive families and expectant parents hung out or met.

One of the biggest complaints heard from single moms and dads is, «Where do I meet other single parents?»

Research found that the children from two - parent homes where fathers participated in activities (such as school meetings; parent - teacher conferences; school or child care activities or events; or volunteerism) were more likely to receive higher grades, participate in extracurricular activities, and be happier in a child care or school setting.

I asked her recently to write up a few things about what it was like breastfeeding at a time where even less women breastfed than today and there was no internet, no Google to search things up, no information except the odd parenting book or La Leche League meeting.

that you were able to meet Tessa where she was instead of letting your own feelings about her comment disable your parenting skills.

But so much of that is parents reading our kids properly — knowing where their true interests will be met, while gently guiding them to try something new.

Ideally, they will hold a parent meeting at the start of the season where they go over their team rules, provide a schedule of practices and games and give out information about the best way you can contact them with any questions throughout the season.

In addition to child - oriented activities and educational seminars on parenting topics, Parents Who Care sponsors once - a-month meetings just for the moms, where they discuss topics such as planning a romantic getaway weekend with your spouse, «some of the issues on Oprah, «or getting together to «go swimming without the kids, «Kronon says.

Become a state or international Chapter where parents go to meet those who can help them navigate the local laws regarding child support, visitation, custody, legal and relationship matters.

I started going to mother - and - baby groups, La Leche League meetings and other breastfeeding support groups, sling - meets, anything really where babies were, hoping to find like - minded mothers who shared our way of parenting.

As a parent I'm thankful for the option of online learning to meet our kids where they are and propel them in the way they need to the next steps of learning.

Where storage is concerned, Kolcraft meets the needs of both child and parents.

It is wonderful to have friends you've never even met, resources and further reading so you can inform your own best parenting advice, a place to ask questions, and a place to read answers to questions you didn't even realize you had, and to have a forum where you can give back and share about your own experiences.

The main reason we use to term «breathing» is exactly what you said — we try to meet kids where they are with their knowledge and many kids (and their parents) ask the question «how does a plant breathe?»

Creative work that has taken my inner convictions and presented them through colour and natural materials (Beneath the Rowan Tree) to the wider world where they have met a hunger and a need in other parents longing to offer their children alternatives.

I just can't imagine an educator putting that in front of an eight grader ever,» said one parent at the school board meeting where the puzzle was addressed.