Sentences with phrase «not positive role models»

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Rabbi David Novak writes that he can not recall a single rabbinic source that considers Samson a positive role model.

Surely, Rabbi Soloveichik knows that traditional Jewish commentators sometimes invoke scriptural characters as negative, not positive, role models.

They just don't want to debase it by using it as a cheaper alternative to seeing a movie, or (for boys) as a way of asserting machismo in the absence of positive male role models, or (for girls) as a desperate ploy to hold on to a boyfriend — or any of the other sad, dead — end abuses of sex that become common whenever a society sheds its «repressed Victorianism.»

Not only will you be helping your toddler develop his large motor skills, but you'll be acting as a positive role model.

«I try to be a positive role model and set good examples in hopes that someone - like my little brother, Brian - will follow them,» Chester, 18, said Saturday, «because there aren't (many) positive role models in this community.

There is a world of difference between having friends that build a girl's self - esteem and have positive male role models in their own lives and having friends that don't bring those traits to the table.

For parents who have themselves experienced abuse, it can be very difficult to feel confident about doing things differently than their parents because they didn't have positive role models.

Don't forget to be a positive role model.

I may not have a good role model for positive discipline, and I do want good examples of what works without shaming or hurting my kids.

A parent who is unfailingly kind and courteous, well mannered, who doesn't show negative behavior like smoking or excessive drinking, road rage and poorly controlled anger, will be a positive role model for a child.

Although it's been a few years since she breastfed her own babies, because she has had breast implants, many mothers look to her as a positive breastfeeding role model due to the fact that she is proof that implants do not necessarily mean breast feeding is impossible.

They see employment not just as a route out of poverty but also as a means of creating self - esteem and providing a positive role model for their children.

The home secretary insisted you «can not overstate» the importance of positive role models, including fathers, youth workers and church leaders.

Health and fitness is certainly not a chore but a way of life:) I would love to be a positive role model towards women striving to achieve their health and fitness goals!!

If you're saying... «ALL my friends are married or in relationships» or «I have NO positive role models, no one gets me... they keep telling me to settle and I DO N'T want to settle»... you're in the right place.

Swank's brutally raw performance was not uplifting enough for many women critics who seem to need their heroines to always be empowered, positive role models (blech, how boring).

Casting Emma Watson as a self - rescuing future princess was obvious — being both cute and damnably clever is her M.O. — as was casting Josh Gad as slightly sinister comic relief LeFou, but Luke Evans reportedly sought the role of Gaston, not exactly a positive role - model like his recent Hobbit and Dracula characters.

I am not championing here only «positive» role models.

Therefore, it's of crucial importance to «provide positive role models of women in the sciences and men in the humanities, both in history and today...» so that students do not feel that they are socially obligated to fit in any particular gender role.

«In my own time at school I don't remember hearing anything positive about LGBT people so I felt owed it to my teenage self to be the role model who was missing from my own education,» he said.

Even when fathers — and other male role models — do not share a home with their children, their active involvement can have a lasting and positive impact.

From participation in cooperative learning activities, students with emotional disorders can (1) learn from positive role models how to control emotions and behave appropriately in group settings; (2) develop sensitivity to the needs of others and understand people «as individuals rather than as stereotypical members of a particular group»; 14 (3) increase their ability for self - direction; (4) increase their interest in learning; and (5) gain an increase in self - esteem.15 Likewise, students who are not disabled are given the opportunity to become more understanding and accepting of students who are emotionally behaviorally disordered.

Terry Grier, the superintendent in Houston, who held the same position in Guilford County, says his other principals would complain about the hurdles their students faced — poverty, gangs, and a lack of positive role models — but not Ferebee.

If we don't have positive role models and a constructive value system for them, they will adopt negative models and the destructive system.

If Gifted Students Are Not Placed in Some Classes, Won't Those Classes Lack Positive Role Models for Academic and Social Leadership?

This novel is terrifically entertaining, so delicious in its personalities, settings, and language that you might not notice at first how nourishing it is - packed with positive thinking and sterling character traits... Girls are likely to appreciate Penelope as a role model, a Victorian Girl Scout leading them on.

While providing stable homes with positive role models for adopted children is a legitimate goal, the statute prohibiting unmarried cohabiting couples from adopting does not further that goal.

Senior lawyers in Australia complain that the younger ones do not want to work as hard as they should, and young lawyers complain that they receive insufficient training and mentoring from partners and see few partners who are positive role models.

They will be asked to enter comments about any aspect of a child's educational, physical and emotional well - being, including whether or not they consider the parents are providing positive role models or if children are doing badly at school.

The hardest thing I have found is teaching myself to be a positive parent when I haven't had the role models in my life.

This is not a «positive effect of fatherhood,» and is meaningless in that regard without adding first the unwarranted assumption that there is something important about the father being the child's role model, rather than his mother, a beloved uncle, or someone else.

Skilled divorce mediators recognize that this centrality of constructive communication not only facilitates resolution of financial issues during the divorce but also opens the way for the mediator to serve as a role model for positive co-parenting both during and after divorce.

While there are positive role models to imitate, there are also negatve role models that illuminate what should not be doing.

She says our society isn't preparing individuals for relationships as it did a century ago, when manners were taught in tight - knit communities by positive role models.

Positive male foster carers provide a role model which is not just stereotypically beneficial for a male child or young person but also female young people and children.

Studies show that children who are mentored have a better chance of graduating from high school, have a lower risk of drug use, gain improved interpersonal communication skills, and have higher self - esteem.3 Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Ozarks provides mentoring opportunities that connect caring adults with children who may not have a positive adult role model in their life.