Sentences with phrase «middle children tend»

According to the research, middle children tend to be relationship - orientated, agreeable, open - minded, free - thinking and rebellious.

Not exact matches

I admit I took a short nap in the middle (and stopped a zillion times to tend to children).

We have ample gardens which the children tend to, spacious playing fields, an outdoor amphitheater, designated science space for the middle school grades and much more.

Eggs and meat are expensive in poorer areas of the Middle East, but there is also a belief that animal protein putrefies in young children's stomachs, so it tends to be avoided.

Specifically, both babies and young children might tend to develop more middle ear infections than little ones who don't use pacifiers.

Heron's 1994 study of middle class English children found children who never slept in their parents bed tended to be harder to control, less happy, exhibited a greater number of tantrums and were more fearful than children who always slept in their parents bed.

If your child tends to wet the bed, often has a leaky diaper, or gets up to go potty in the middle of the night, it is a good idea to limit liquids of all kinds after dinner time.

This is an important consideration when looking for a pediatrician as many parents tend to panic if the child has a high fever in the middle of the night, or in case of asthma attacks.

Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.

You may not want to call your child George, Thomas or William but these tend to make good solid middle name options.

As part of the study, researchers conducted interviews with mothers of infants from the Athens community, including 12 from the Athens branch of Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, which serves low - income mothers, and nine from Full Bloom Pregnancy and Early Parenting Center, which tends to serve middle income, highly educated mothers, Anderson said.

Funds are distributed to providers and families through mechanisms such as federally funded Head Start programs, public pre-kindergarten programs that are funded primarily by states or local jurisdictions, and state Child Care Assistance Programs, which tend to target resources to low - income families, as well as tax preferences that benefit middle - and upper - income families.

However, those families who do have the material resources associated with middle - class status tend to invest in their children's education at similar or higher levels than their white counterparts,» says Merolla.

Being a mentor for at - risk elementary and middle school children for the last three years, I've noticed that they tend to have the same difficulties I...

Lots of research talks about what happens in the first few years of a kid's life and how poor children don't get the support and input — things as simple as language or as complicated as an outlook on life, self - esteem, and how you interact with institutions — that middle - class kids tend to get.

Much prior research has focused on children from middle - to upper - class families, who in general tend to outpace those from low - income families in the rate at which their vocabulary size expands.

For middle - class and affluent children, this kind of constant monitoring, advising, and problem - solving tends to be baked into their lives, whether through aggressive helicopter parenting or simply having friends and family members who've been to college and are neither awed by the process nor intimidated by pitfalls.

At a panel convened last week by the Public School Forum of N.C., a research and advocacy group in Raleigh, Tulbert was one of several principals at low - performing schools — many of them teeming with low - income children — who described how their children tend to arrive lagging behind their middle - class and upper - class peers.

As for cultural diversity, research has shown that schools that do the best job of educating low - income students tend to favor a traditional curriculum, strict discipline, and a paternalistic environment, whereas typical middle - class schools tend to be less structured and more child - centric.

In all of these studies, American children tend to rank at the middle or bottom of the pack.

However, while the most common forms of family engagement (such as encouraging parents to attend school events, serve as classroom volunteers, and participate on fund - raising committees) tend to line up well with middle - class child - rearing practices and family resources (Lareau, 2003), they can be less accessible to families who have recently arrived in the United States, or whose child - rearing practices differ from those of school leaders.

Because public school teaching, leadership, and governance tend to reflect white middle - class norms, educators may not be aware of the variety of child - rearing practices that exist in their school communities.

Black middle class families in wealthy black neighborhoods tend to give their children whatever is within their means in order to guarantee their future middle class status.

There is a conversation mirror so the driver can keep in contact with rear seat - mounted kiddies and there is that nifty middle seat of the middle row that slides forward to allow parents in the front to tend to a small person in a child seat.

Even for teenagers, judges tend to be adverse to putting the child in the middle.

In the end the biggest losers tend to be the children because they are put in the middle of their parents» fight.

Upper - middle - class men tend to live in partnership and have year - long discussions on the timing of the first birth, while few working - class men are involved in gendered negotiations regarding children because few have stable relationships.