Sentences with phrase «models for the children living»

Other groups acknowledged included The Children's Guild, for their commitment to being positive role models for the children living in residential care at Five Acres and the La Canada Junior Women's Club, who, over the last 45 years has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local organizations, including Five Acres.

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Like so many other Christian writers, Chrysostom painstakingly outlines the specific obligations of parents to their children — reading the Bible to them, praying with them and acting as models of the Christian life for them.

Close family members are the biggest role models for children to set an example for healthy living according to new research from the British Nutrition Foundation.

It's one thing to talk about modeling a balanced life and setting reasonable goals for your child.

But the story, based on the lives of William Moulton Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman, his wife, Elizabeth, and his — and their — live - in lover, Olive Byrne, could actually be a model for single women today who can't find a marriageable man and who want children.

For one, children have an extended family of nonparental adults who care for them, often serve as role models and trusted confidantes, and remain in their lives even if they are no longer romantically involved with the child's mother or fathFor one, children have an extended family of nonparental adults who care for them, often serve as role models and trusted confidantes, and remain in their lives even if they are no longer romantically involved with the child's mother or fathfor them, often serve as role models and trusted confidantes, and remain in their lives even if they are no longer romantically involved with the child's mother or father.

I really resonated with your opinion that you are trying to be a positive role model for your children, by living a full - life, using your brain, and standing up for what you believe in.

The intention to live your day as a model for what your children will do to and for this world.

They should get involved in every facet of their child's life, provide an exemplary model, and they should look for and act on teachable moments.

If as parents, we model sensitivity, empathy and harmony, our children will carry themselves through life, and react in the same manner when they encounter conflicts and adversities — for these are the tools we have been giving them.

I love Nest; their approach to children's play and general living is intuitive and they have such a lovely sensibility and model for existing in the world.

This is difficult in a stressed out culture and parents that are themselves obviously very stressed out, but it's an extremely important thing to model for your child the skills of managing your own life successfully.

This movement is characterized by men who will fulfill a commitment to live out five fundamentals: Research at NCF identified three keys for dads to carry out with their own children: Loving, Coaching, and Modeling.

And more than that, keep on being the best commercial of all by living out Championship Fathering by loving, coaching and modeling for your kids, encouraging another child outside your family, and enlisting more dads to join the team.

Finding teachable moments models a life of continued intellectual inquiry and development for your child.

Class - teachers feel SHARE FOR DADS raises the profile of fathers in the school, gives children positive male role models, and shows them fathers can be an important part of their school lives, and that fathers are connected to the school.

You are still a role model for your child and have influence in his life.

For instance, at this moment you're tired and frustrated, but your end goals are to stay positively connected to your child and to model emotional regulation, because that helps your child to self - regulate — right now, and for the rest of his liFor instance, at this moment you're tired and frustrated, but your end goals are to stay positively connected to your child and to model emotional regulation, because that helps your child to self - regulate — right now, and for the rest of his lifor the rest of his life.

Specifically, what home visiting program models show the greatest promise for improving pregnancy outcomes, reducing child abuse and neglect, and improving parents» life - course and children's social and emotional development?

And how I wish I had the wisdom to model this kind of communication for my children as we were dealing with sibling rivalry and other normal challenges of family life.

If we can be calm as a child tests out what the boundary and line in the sand actually is, then we are modeling for our child how to handle this in their own lives.

Modeling this for children supports strong communication skills and emotional intelligence, both of which contribute to healthy interactions and relationships throughout their lives.

Capricorns are all about life lessons and teachable moments, these mommas pride themselves on being excellent role models for their children and presenting them with powerful examples of exemplary people to look up to.

If you have an older child, you can encourage them to help also, this sets up a good model of what life will be like for them as working parents.

Creating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle that you stick to beyond the birth will also make you a model of healthy living for your child, helping him / her to avoid obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other conditions for a lifetime.

The attachment bond that a person had with his or her primary attachment figure — usually the mother — as a child is that person's model for how any relationship should work for the rest of that person's life.

We have to be good role models for our children in order for them to develop healthy, eating behaviors for life.

Nannies could provide stability for the child who gets to have a regular role model in their life.

«Although well intentioned, the last Government received very little for their money in terms of social mobility and a reduction in the gap between the rich and the poor, and they have further fuelled a culture of benefit dependency in which children grow up seeing parents and grandparents who have never worked as their role models, in which people are better off living apart than living together, and in which there is no incentive to work because of the fear of becoming worse off.

Biden was «clearly moved» that Cuomo traveled to Dover for the service, during which Delaware governor Jack Markell said Beau Biden, a former Delaware attorney general, «lived a life that is a model for us all» and made the state's children «safer for generations to come.»

Finally, they examined whether having grandparents on hand to care for children might validate living into old age, and they developed the first mathematical genetic model to describe this idea.

In desperation, she takes a job as a nude webcam model for an adult entertainment outfit that caters to German men, then quickly decides that life in her town is unbearable, and ultimately leaves her child with her mother, heading west to search for a better life.

Where teachers and headteachers have a different vision — including more music, more outdoor activity, bilingual lessons, a longer school day, all - through education or using different models of teaching — the policy allows them to realise their ambitions and change children's lives for the better.

Meyers: Our goals include providing a media venue where people from all walks of life can have their voices heard in a safe, commercial - free, child - friendly environment; promoting positive role models; empowering young people to realize their own potential to effect positive change in the world; bridging the digital divide and continuing to enrich this digital media archive with inspiring stories from around the globe; enlisting support from foundations, grants, and government agencies, corporations, and individuals so that this global learning project can continue to grow and provide a freely - accessible, online multi-media resource to educators and students around the world for decades to come.

First and most obvious, we've organized the entire, massive K — 12 system around an age - based, grade - level, 180 - days - per - year calendar; around mostly self - contained and generally low - tech classrooms; and around a pedagogical model centered on a single teacher teaching a uniform curriculum to twenty to thirty children for a prescribed amount of time each day, children who don't have much in common except that they're more or less the same age and (usually) live in pretty much the same community.

We live in an age where «the end justifies the means» has become the mantra of far too many adults who are role models for children.

Former Children's Commissioner for England, Sir Al Aynsley Green also gave a memorable keynote which highlighted the importance of looking at international models, revealing how activity is being incorporated into children's lives in countries such as Canada and Children's Commissioner for England, Sir Al Aynsley Green also gave a memorable keynote which highlighted the importance of looking at international models, revealing how activity is being incorporated into children's lives in countries such as Canada and children's lives in countries such as Canada and Finland.

Frank Stasio also speaks with Ulcca Joshi Hansen, associate director of national outreach and community building with Education Reimagined, a non-profit initiative of Convergence that works to accelerate the growth and impact of the learner - centered education movement in the United States, about the range of nontraditional school models, the educational mindset they reflect and how they prepare children for work and life.

One of the most important questions is whether New Orleans can stand as a national model for those seeking to transform the education — and therefore the life outcomes — of low - income children of color.

If you are a teacher there, please post on how your low salary is allowing you to afford to live in CT, but if you turn to one as an administrator, please post as to how the corporate model is to turn children into numbers for the sake of contracts and bonuses.

Otherwise, we risk squandering the great potential charters have to transform not only the lives of children in their care but also provide models for how all public education can improve.

In 1988, Princeton student Wendy Kopp wrote a thesis arguing for a national teacher corps, modeled on the Peace Corps — the archetype of liberal volunteerism — that «would mobilize some of the most passionate, dedicated members of my generation to change the fact that where a child is born in the United States largely determines his or her chances in life.»

Together with our schools and partners, we create and implement innovative, data - driven models for early childhood education, to prepare children for success in school, work, and life.

PCHP, an evidence - based early literacy, parenting, and school readiness model, is committed to closing the achievement gap by providing low - income families the skills and materials they need to prepare their children for school and life success.

Although there is evidence pointing to positive gains from both, and there are some indications that no - excuses charters might have an edge, the magnitude and duration of each model's supposed advantages — especially for poor children's employment, earnings, and general life outcomes — remain to be seen.

We will build a model of public education for children and their families that begins at birth and creates success in school, college and life.

«What is happening in Warren and Youngstown — integrating a research - based SEL program for students with an evidence - based model of transformational professional development for the adults in children's lives — is key to ensuring long - term sustainability and expansion of this work,» said Linda Lantieri, founding board member of CASEL, who is helping to lead this effort with CASEL.

The two toyed with the idea of a project modeled on the Harlem Children's Zone, a nonprofit organization that has garnered national attention for providing educational resources and other forms of support to low - income families living in Harlem, New York.

Since 1965, Head Start - the premier model for providing the whole child an opportunity for success in school and in life - has served more than 31 million children and their families.

It's those who spend their own money on books and supplies, come early and stay late comparing lesson plans, who devote their lives to our next generation and serve as role models for the children who need one most because you believe that's what makes the extra difference.