Sentences with phrase «n't engage parents»

For example, if they can't engage parents, then they should engage students.

«The root causes are that we reach our children too late, that we don't keep them in school long enough each day, that we don't make sure that the very best teachers stay in the teaching profession, that we don't engage our parents in a systematic way to help uplift their children,» he said.

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Anything that sends the message — explicitly or implicitly — that parents aren't to be penalized will go a long way to keeping bright female employees engaged.

I was tempted at first to give maybe a 10 point list of advice for parents going through deconstruction in front of their kids... things like let them see the books you read and answer their curiosities about them; teach your kids how to think, not how to believe; tell them everything you're going through and let them deal with what it means for them; ask them what they believe and listen objectively and engage in conversation about it; openly share your struggles with what you're going through with the church and let them process it themselves, and so on.

This is not to denigrate the many excellent teachers, parents, priests and youth workers involved in young people's lives; we are merely recognising a fact of the cultural battle in which we are engaged.

The texts flowed, The Persons related by Consanguinity and Affinity who are Forbidden to marry by Scripture (1522), The Estate of Marriage (1522), An Exhortation to the Knights of the Teutonic Order that they lay aside False Chastity and assume True Wedlock (1523), That Parents should neither compel nor hinder the Marriage of their Children and That Children should not become engaged without their Parents» Consent (1524).

It's good for children not always to be at the center of their parents» attention; to learn, at times, to engage and entertain themselves.

It may be that part of what produces positive results in health - based interventions like the Nurse - Family Partnership, or read - with - your - kids programs, or even the Jamaican experiment, is that they involve home visitors urging parents to play and read and talk more with their infants — to engage in more serve - and - return moments, in other words — and those up - close parental interactions may have the effect of promoting secure attachment, even if attachment was not the intended target of the intervention.

But in between those two extremes is a category called chronic understimulation, in which parents just don't interact very often with their children in an engaged, face - to - face, serve - and - return way, ignoring their cries or attempts at conversation, parking them in front of a screen for hours at a time.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

The current legal framework for PR — how PR is acquired by fathers, how PR affects their legal status, how agencies should engage with those fathers who have PR and those who don't — is poorly understood, by both parents and services.

Not all married parents offer «engaged parenting» — marriage alone doesn't make anyone a better parent.

One boy recently broke down in the office telling me his parents don't engage with him on the things they used to enjoy and talk about, like getting outside to play one - on - one basketball in the driveway or talk about a cool new video game.

Needless to say, Reno is not hurting for content: coaches, parents, and students engage in a lot of abusive behavior.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

It leads parents into attending and prolonging arguments in which they don't need to engage.

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These include, most importantly, a duty on maternity staff and registrars to engage with both parents on the subject of the father's birth registration — and are likely to draw all fathers (not only unmarried fathers) into ante-natal services on a formal basis (at the moment, no - one has to speak to the father or speak about him, or record his name).

However, if we expect that from our children ALL of the time — where even though we are «with them» we aren't really mentally «with them» — they lack the kind of engaged parenting that helps them to feel important and truly connected to us.

The authors ultimately believe it's not dinner per se that matters so much, but the amount of time parents engage meaningfully with their children, and mealtimes are just one setting where such interaction can take place.

This seems simple enough, but many parents do not actively engage in their child's life.

Do you think your partner is too strict, not engaged enough, or inconsistent when it comes to parenting?

In fact, one of the things that we grieve in our adoption is that our children's birth parents have not been able to be very engaged.

Parents can not avoid their children; they have to be engaged with their children as much as they can.

Don't be that sister, cousin, or parent who stares blankly at a child with special needs and wonders how to engage with them.

As parents, we engage in nighttime parenting because we know that our children don't stop needing our care at sunset.

As parents, we need to try and keep our kids engaged so that these pursuits do not take over their lives.

The results of the study won't surprise any parent who's engaged in veggie - sneaking at home: up to a point, kids didn't detect the recipe change but once the amount of added pureé passed a certain threshold, kids started rejecting the entreé.

Yes, there are exceptions, and, yes, parents also engage their children in ways that are not specifically gendered.

Researchers found that most controlling parents are unable to read their child's mood or engage in open two - way communication so that, for instance, during the car ride back home after a game, she wouldn't want to speak with the parent and didn't want any feedback.

It used to be believed that babies didn't interact but they do engage their parents.

Ask your child questions about school «The real key is communication,» says Guy Strickland, author of Bad Teachers: The Essential Guide for Concerned Parents, even with a preschooler who can't engage in long conversations about school.

Psychologists say that in most cases teens refuse to get engaged into communication because they are afraid their parents won't understand them or that they will be judged or reprimanded.

In fact, the law is clear that we will not clog the courts with charges against parents who swat a child's backside but the law is still giving parents permission to engage in a negative form of child punishment instead of positive discipline.

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You may choose to discuss the reasons behind your parenting choices with other parents who sincerely want to hear what you have to say (even if they ultimately disagree); you may also choose not to engage in a fruitless discussion with someone whose sole motivation is to convince you to change your mind.

Starting in the 1970s, however, a few state courts upheld custody rights for transgender, gay, and lesbian parents, though some still required that they not live with a partner or engage in «homosexual activities.»

Coincidentally, many parents are baffled that the crying child they left at the door that morning is now happily engaged in play and will sometimes now cry because they don't want to leave day care!

This idea, and other parenting techniques I wouldn't normally engage in, are a lot more tempting precisely because what I'm doing now doesn't appear to be working.

There's probably not a parent out there who's not familiar with the challenging behaviors kids can sometimes engage in as they mature, learn how to control their impulses, and test boundaries.

Only 15 % of parents report that their pediatrician discusses media use with them.3 Families should be encouraged to provide supervised independent play for infants and young children during times at which a parent can not sit down and engage in play with the child.

Experts advise parents not to avoid difficult topics, but instead engage their children to help them make sense of scary events.

In those pages, I experience a connection to a community of parents that I don't get to engage with nearly enough on a face - to - face basis.

Had I spent their toddler years forcing foods on them and engaging in coercive or punitive mealtime parenting, the damage to our relationship, not to mention their health, could have been disastrous.

I engage the child and his or her caregivers in activities that help to facilitate the bond that grows between a parent and child during those early years to repair the bond that wasn't created during those early years.

Parents are warned not to allow the toddler to roam and engage in activities of his own choosing.

His parents talk to him about why stealing is wrong, but are supportive and encourage him not to engage in such behavior again.

«Our findings suggest that parents who engage in these networks are taking precautions to make sure their children don't get sick and that's not something we knew before this study.

In many cases, the expected child outcomes do not materialize; parents with authoritative styles will have children who are defiant or who engage in delinquent behavior, while parents with permissive styles will have children who are self - confident and academically successful.

This great book is basically two works for the price of one, providing not only an engaging fiction story for your child; but a cognitive behavioral guide for parents to use with their children to alleviate feelings of anxiety as well.