Sentences with phrase «neighborhood children as»

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Over the years, this neighborhood has been home to such notable people as Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Graham Bell, John F. Kennedy, and Julia Child.

The pair famously pooled money from mowing lawns as children to buy a Super 8 video camera, and proceeded to remake movies they saw on TV with neighborhood children in the starring roles.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well - educated teachers and a sound educational program.»

As I turned the corner onto Plantation Drive — the street that would usually take us out of the neighborhood — what I saw startled me: a small black sedan, like a child's toy in the bathtub, bobbing up and down on the swollen waters that blocked our way out to safety.

After all, as she admits, what happened in the garden didn't happen to other children in the neighborhood but only to her — «only me, me in my family, me in my family when I'm seven going on eight, me in my family when I have reached the age of reason...» (emphasis mine).

Not only because it is Afro - Americans themselves, especially men, who now inflict these wounds upon themselves — through the ways they betray those who love them and bear their progeny, through the ways they bring up or abandon their children, through the ways they relate, or fail to relate, to each other, through the values and attitudes they cherish and the ones they choose to spurn, through their comforting ethnic myths about their neighborhoods, through their self - indulgences, denials and deceits — but because only they as individual men and women can find the antidote to heal themselves.

It strikes me as a dangerous exaggeration that may seem to justify a differentiation in the pedagogies and the social policies that are enacted or applied within such neighborhoods, with greater emphasis on rigid discipline than on the informality and intellectual expansiveness that are familiar in the better schools that educate the children of rich people.

To some observers, it appears to justify the routine sequestration of these children in the tightly segregated neighborhoods in which they dwell, because this sequestration makes it possible to localize the «special» services that are believed to be appropriate to children who are seen as being absolutely and entirely different from our own.

Suppose, as was the case, that some black parents preferred that their children remain in their neighborhood school, without regard to its racial make - up.

Most parents, black or white, were reluctant to send their children out of their neighborhoods to attend distant schools, especially when those schools were perceived, often correctly, as educationally inferior or even physically unsafe.

As they passed by the gun shop here in my neighborhood, the child asked, «Why is there a gun shop here when there aren't any animals to shoot?»

I hope «Christianity» is the right religion, if it is not then I have wasted a lot of time and money, or perhaps not, for if one lives up to the values, beliefs and principles of true Christianity that one would be one of the nicest people to live on Earth with and as a child of 6 I realized I did not like any of the people in my neighborhood very much, not much at all.

A native of New Orleans» impoverished lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, Luter was the third of five children raised by a divorced mother who worked as a seamstress and a surgical scrub assistant, according to Thom Rainier, president and CEO of the Nashville, Tennessee - based LifeWay Christian Resources and a friend of Luter's.

Having entrusted a comely child to be brought up by a certain presbyter, John returned after many years only to find that the boy had turned delinquent and, as the leader of bandits, was harassing the neighborhood.

As their children graduated from high school and went to college or started working, as parents aged and retired, the neighborhood changeAs their children graduated from high school and went to college or started working, as parents aged and retired, the neighborhood changeas parents aged and retired, the neighborhood changed.

Whatever It Takes is a moving account of his commitment to giving Harlem's children access to the same dreams as children in New York's most privileged neighborhoods.»

Have you ever noticed that the children seem to have just as much fun at a neighborhood park as at a far - away, expensive and hard to plan vacation?

A double stroller can keep multiple children safe and comfortable as you travel, fit in a bit of exercise, or walk through the neighborhood while running day to day errands.

In addition to losing a neighborhood park with mature trees, flowers and wildlife, we'll lose well - utilized facilities such as a children's playground, some tennis courts and a skating rink.

Kimbrell: I grew up the middle child with an older and younger brother; we were all active and athletic as youngsters and always seemed to have a house / yard full of the local neighborhood kids around.

Thus, corporal punishment in a high crime neighborhood as part of a controlling parenting style is more likely to be part of the parents» efforts to assure their children's safety, and less a part of the parents» need for control and authority.

The apparent «marriage effect» may actually be an income effect, reflecting the benefits of having more money for children's development, such as better nutrition, better schools, and safer neighborhoods.

The Great Hope Family Center in the Little Village neighborhood provides food to about 100 families each month as well as meals for the 160 men, women and children who stay at its shelter.

And as Safe Routes to School points out, active commuting helps both parents and children «build a sense of neighborhood.»

«[A] moving account of... giving Harlems children access to the same dreams as children in New Yorks most privileged neighborhoods.»

As a result, in a neighborhood with an intense concentration of deep disadvantage, like Roseland, it is next to impossible for large numbers of children to get the kind of help they need to make it out of there and to make it to a really successful adulthood.

As I made my way back up the stairs, I could hear children laughing outside — a common sound in my neighborhood that's filled with kids and families.

In Paul Tough's first book, «Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,» he focused on the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97 - block area where Canada set about overhauling the neighborhood with comprehensive social programs, such as after - school activities and parenting classes, that extended beyond the classroom and reshaped the childhood experience.

The Gold Coast and Lincoln Park neighborhoods are home to at least 13 playlots and playgrounds, according to the Park District, as well as a few «tot lots» for very young children.

As a result, you should encourage your child to cast a wide net and seek out friendships in their neighborhood, at school, on a team, through a club, and at church.

The couple, Robert and Mildred Tong, parents of three children, had paid $ 50 for the commemorative brick last October as part of a fundraising effort to help pay for new playground equipment in Senn Park in the Edgewater neighborhood.

Judges strongly favor keeping a child in an arrangement that the child is familiar with, such as allowing a child to remain in the same school or neighborhood.

Organize a beach clean - up or neighborhood yard sale, donating the benefits of the proceeds to a charity your children can relate to such as an animal adoption agency.

Think of this investment as a way to enjoy the outdoors, spend time with your child, and an opportunity for him to socialize with his neighborhood friends.

No matter how busy your child may be (or how busy you may be) it's important to make time for outdoor adventures, such as nature walks, a walk around the neighborhood, or exploring your local or state parks.

CWLA develops and disseminates the Standards of Excellence for Child Welfare Services as benchmarks for high - quality services that protect children and youth and strengthen families and neighborhoods.

The forum, which included a keynote address by author and former New York Times magazine editor Paul Tough (pictured left), explored the The Harlem Children's Zone approach to inner city education, as well as addressed the recent plans by the Obama administration to offer new funding to replicate twenty «Promise Neighborhoods» throughout the country.

A child hunger study released by the food depository last year identified Brighton Park as one of the area's most underserved neighborhoods in terms of food services available outside of school, Dolgan said.

A baby carrier enables you to wear your baby as you vacuum and mop the floors, do the laundry, wash dishes, prepare meals, interact with your other children, grocery shop, walk around the store, neighborhood or hiking trails.

For children, nightmares could be related to events such as starting school, moving to a new neighborhood, or living through a family divorce or remarriage.

While some of this population surge is due to Hasidim, the traditionally garbed community whose cultural practices often lead to large families of 10 or more children (and whose neighborhoods voted more heavily for John McCain in 2008 than the State of Utah), the larger Orthodox Jewish population is experiencing explosive growth in New York City as well.

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

As the future congressman from this great district, I know Keith stands ready to deliver on the same fundamental issues he has fought for alongside me in the legislature — bringing more affordable housing to our neighborhoods, pushing through meaningful criminal justice reform and ensuring that all of our children have every chance to succeed with the promise of a first - rate education.

The Buffalo Billion investigation has not prevented Ciminelli Real Estate Corp. from getting the chance to transform an Elmwood Village neighborhood that is losing Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo as its anchor institution.

«Our facility and the thousands of children who use this sports and fitness center yearly should not be used as human shields to block the garbage trucks» asthma - causing carcinogenic fumes from the rest of the neighborhood.

The spotlight was, instead, trained on local families and children that would stand to lose nearly half of the neighborhoods» after - school programs — if the Mayor's executive budget, as proposed, is passed.

The mayor also touted his accomplishments such as the more than 70,000 children enrolled in full - day pre-kindergarten, Police Commissioner James O'Neill's neighborhood policing program and his push for more affordable housing, reminding the audience that the city needs to be inclusive of people of all socioeconomic statuses.

«As we work to transform our city, creating safer more vibrant neighborhoods, more jobs and better educational opportunities for our children, we are here to listen to what residents and business owners have to say about opportunities in their neighborhood,» Warren said in a news release.