Sentences with phrase «mostly up to the parent»

Once those decisions are made, enrollment in virtual schools is mostly up to parents.

The proper age for a bank account is mostly up to the parent.

Not exact matches

The portable products to date are mostly improvements on the classic Life Alert «I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging and gaining traction in the marketplace.

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

«My parents were struggling to keep it together, and I never wanted to do anything to hurt them or to bring up the pain of it all, so I mostly kept quiet.»

After speaking up for this game on the Premier Christianity blog, I had a massive amount of positive feedback, mostly from parents who wanted to understand the game.

I remember nights when one of my parents (mostly my dad) had to wake up at 2 - 3 am, head to the grocery store and wait in line until morning hoping there will be enough milk and bread to buy some for us.

kacey, the reason men view sex and think the the right way to have sex nowadays then they did in your grandmas day or even mine (im 41) is because guys grow up now with porn being their teacher.its everywere compared to say 15 years ago.its a shame parents do nt teach their kids (mostly boys) that porn is not how you treat a woman, and it not how real sex is between a couple.

Sometimes I think that parenting back in ancient times must have been simultaneously harder and easier than it is now, mostly because there was a prescribed way to do things back then; no debate over organic veggies, screen time, or how fucked up your kid was going to turn out if you put them on a naughty step.

New York, NY About Blog Bash & Co. is a place for us to share some of our family adventures, styles we like, and tips and tricks we've picked up along the way... mostly through trial and lots of error, but that's parenting.

Welcome to the People's Park «marriage market,» where thousands of adults — mostly aging parents — come daily to scan the sea of personal ads, meet with matchmakers and chat up other parents eager to find a partner for their overworked, unwed children.

New York, NY About Blog Bash & Co. is a place for us to share some of our family adventures, styles we like, and tips and tricks we've picked up along the way... mostly through trial and lots of error, but that's parenting.

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 Muppeup, 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 MuppeUp 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.

Raised but hardly nurtured by a chain - smoking waitress (Allison Janney, a viper in Tootsie glasses and a mushroom - cap haircut), Tonya steadily clawed her way up the junior ranks, thanks mostly to pure willpower and the proxy parenting of a coach (Julianne Nicholson) who tried her best to steer her wild - card charge.

«It's mostly an opportunity to meet new families and a chance for «old - timers» to catch up, and the PTA uses the occasion to recruit parents for various committees and activities.»

Ms. Moskowitz, a former city councilwoman who recently announced she would not run for mayor in 2017, was speaking at New York Law School, part of their CityLaw breakfast series, and gave what was mostly a typical Success Academy stump speech: save for an introduction that was more of a defense against recent lawsuits and media stories, and for a conclusion that saw parents of former Success students livening up the typically staid CityLaw audience to demand apologies or answers from Ms. Moskowitz.

Although we didn't come up with any neat and tidy answers to our original inquiry question about the best classroom placement for Mam - speaking students, we realized that the work of supporting our newcomer families is mostly about relationship building, listening, and education — education that can flow both ways, between the school and the parents.

Parents both signed up children in activities where they would be surrounded by mostly lower class black children and sought out other middle class to upper - middle class black families to have dinners and birthday parties with (Pugh, 2009).

Although this review concentrates mostly on Acura's safety enhancements and IIHS honors, I need to remind all consumers that parent Honda becomes the first manufacturer to include a rear - view back up camera as standard on every car it builds, from tiny Honda Fit to the acclaimed SUV Honda Highlander.

New York, NY About Blog Bash & Co. is a place for us to share some of our family adventures, styles we like, and tips and tricks we've picked up along the way... mostly through trial and lots of error, but that's parenting.

Mostly it is a female being bred to a male who is owned by a friend and then the profits are split... The chances of these puppies being spayed or neutered before leaving their parents is incredibly small, so most of the puppies will end up having litters of their own... and the vicious circle continues...

New York, NY About Blog Bash & Co. is a place for us to share some of our family adventures, styles we like, and tips and tricks we've picked up along the way... mostly through trial and lots of error, but that's parenting.

I got to admit, I love this sort of stuff and honestly a bit jealous, mostly because my parents weren't so hip about the «vidya gaming» growing up.

New York, NY About Blog Bash & Co. is a place for us to share some of our family adventures, styles we like, and tips and tricks we've picked up along the way... mostly through trial and lots of error, but that's parenting.

Well, before I came out here, I tried to do as much research as I could because I wanted to prepare myself but I suppose it was just mostly talking to just parents as much as I could, they were quite curious to know where I came from, I found out that a couple of parents actually worked within local organisations at the language centre and I sort of yeah just started asking her offering to come around and volunteer, like find out little events that I could help out with and join up to and yeah sort of just going out and just really asking and continuing to ask cos a lot of things, you know not need to do the first time but you keep asking and they quite happy to have you back.

When things get messed up in our heads, it's mostly because we have ideas about «how parenting should be» or «how our child ought to behave.

In state after state, country after country, when shared parenting legislation comes before a house or senate committee, those lining up to speak against it are mostly family attorneys.

Separated parents more often have psychological problems and poor economy than co-living parents and may have had relationship problems and conflicts also before the separation.4, 42 Such factors directly affect children's psychological health and symptom load1, 43 and could be important for how families arrange custody and children's housing after the split - up.1, 9 In this study, children living with only one parent reported the least satisfaction with their relationships to their parents, followed by those living mostly with one parent.