Sentences with phrase «of individual children do»

Now, an independent study of the Bay Area's five middle schools operated by KIPP (the Knowledge Is Power Program) concludes that its intense focus on the academic and social success of each individual child does have measurable benefits beyond what traditional schools have achieved - usually.

Not exact matches

One of the things I've done in my work is kind of show the hypocrisy of progressive people who say they believe in inequality, but when it comes to their individual choices about where they're going to live and where they're going to send their children, they make very different decisions, and I just didn't want to do that.

The Additional Child Tax Credit is designed for lower income individuals who were unable to take advantage of the full Child Tax Credit because they did not owe enough tax.

While the Franklin Templeton College Savings Trends Survey revealed 21 % of those with children and 14 % of all individuals said they would or did retire later to finance a college education, the Franklin Templeton 2016 Retirement Income Strategies and Expectations (RISE) Survey2 revealed delaying retirement is a common strategy that comes with a couple of pitfalls:

«All Hands is the only nonprofit doing mucking and gutting of individual homes... They are first helping homes belonging to elderly, homes with children and first responders» homes.»

Atheism doesn't create children that are bad or unhealthy, incorrect parenting and the images of society create a misguided individual.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

The children of light who do not take sufficient cognizance of the expansive character of man's freedom whereby an individual's or a group's self - interest may take the form of inordinate or unreasonable claims, believe that our impulses are manageable and amenable to rational control.

Start believing that you are a child of God, with the real work of God to do — which, whatever the details boil down to in any individual case, is above all else, to love.

Mohammad claimed «individual evidence» too, as did Joseph Smith, David Koresh, Jim Jones, and oodles of other delusional people who murder their children or others because «God» «spoke» to them.

But beyond all that the discriminating amongst us have discerned the appearance of new attitudes towards the whole business of religion: that it is strictly an option; that it is a purely individual decision; that there is no reason why the children of believing parents should be considered potential members of religious communions; that religion may be useful, but truth doesn't apply to this category; and so on.

That said, I am of the mind that breastfeeding, caring for one's own child and other matters of family and home are for the most part the responsibility of individual families and do not really require all this «support» many call for.

For the average child (keeping in mind individual kids may be exceptions to these guidelines), an acceptable amount of homework per night is as follows: — Elementary school: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and family time.

And there are a number of other unknowns For example: • We do not know what impact the changes would have in individual families.: • There is no firm evidence that the overall impact would be detrimental to children or mothers.; • We do not know whether current measures for protecting children and adults from harm are sufficiently effective in families where both parents already have PR.

How does your school support the social - emotional needs of the individual child?

Then this child comes along (or two or three), each an individual with various emotional needs that may not coincide with the way you like to do things and you «re supposed to respect all of these needs?

The cold turkey method of weaning doesn't usually work for babies, but since every baby is an individual, you may be surprised by your child and find that this method works perfectly for him or her.

Other well - meaning moms may try to talk you out of it and may even tell you that you're doing something wrong, but remember that you and your child are individuals with needs that may differ from those of other people you know.

Women who choose to become surrogates do so out of a sincere compassion to help a couple or individual have a child.

I'm going to assume that you're doing what you can to get the best and most sleep possible for everyone in your family (by figuring out how best to help your individual child sleep and then taking care of your own sleep needs as best you can).

I give these readers my best advice, of course, but lately I've been yearning to show them the bigger picture: how these problems came to be, who benefits from the status quo (even as our kids lose out), and what we — both as individuals and as a society — could be doing to make a real difference in the lives and health of all American children.

Dr. Murray Kappelman, professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of Maryland Medical School, suggests that potential parents make sure they've done most of the things they wanted to do as individuals and as a couple before adding a child to the mix.

«Patty is the epitome of an ordinary individual doing extraordinary things for the children and families of Hammond, Indiana,» said School City of Hammond Director of Food and Nutrition Services Christine Clarahan.

In addition, parents can help by doing the following: don't allow children have long blocks of screen time, but help them select individual programs.

When I attended the BOND conference in April I was really inspired, not only by the speakers but, by all of the individual work done by all of the folks in the industry, from educators to brand reps.. This industry is making big strides to change the way people view early infant development and creating lasting bonds between caregivers and their children.

The team's previous research found that 21 percent of individuals seeking human milk online did so for a child with a pre-existing medical condition.

If parents have joint physical custody of three children all at different stages of development, an iron clad schedule, of who has the children when, does not allow for the needs of the individual children.

It does not say that your child needs to be in diapers or pull - ups or even underwear to attend daycare, so any policies to this effect will be those of the individual care center or dayhome.

No study has shown, however, that the goals for separateness and independence (or happiness, for that matter) are obtained in the individual by, among other things, separate sleeping arrangements for parents and children, nor do any studies demonstrate negative consequences for children or parents who choose to cosleep for ideological or emotional purposes, except when cosleeping is part of a larger psychologically disordered set of family relationships or when cosleeping occurs under dangerous social or physical circumstances.

The courts should have to look at the individual circumstances of each case, paying attention to things like: which parent does the caretaking (or both), the temperament of the child, apparent bond of the child to each parent, and anything else that may be relevant and rule in a way that would be least disruptive to the child.

At the time I did want everyone to find a solution to their individual problems, but I realize now that what those mothers found was freedom to work it out for themselves, a place where they could see other mothers working it out for themselves, different ways of coping and reliable information offered in a friendly, accepting way, where children and their mothers really mattered.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Each child is an individual and each family has its own way of doing things.

And they are clamouring that person who is saying that their children should be given quality education, who is saying that their children should be guaranteed a better future, who is saying there should be better housing for every individual, who is saying that our community should not be flooded... When he was Commissioner for Environment, we did not experience the kind of flooding that we experience today.

He said each agency must act in the interests of the individual child, but stressed: «If we take the view as a society that we should not discriminate against people who are homosexual, you can not give exclusions for people on the grounds that their religion or their race says we don't agree with that.»

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

The proposed reforms address many of the problems CPS workers face in doing their jobs and stiffen penalties for those who abuse children or abuse the CPS reporting system by filing false claims against individuals.

Republican leaders did not speak, though some individual GOP members said they voted no because taxpayers should not finance college aid for the children of undocumented immigrants, and that they are already eligible for lower in - state rates at public universities.

«We [have] heard countless stories of New Yorkers empowered through the program, including teenagers who did not previously have access to ID, immigrant mothers who can now enter school buildings and participate in their child's school with confidence, and transgender individuals who can self - designate their gender for the first - time,» said Nisha Agarwal, Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs.

The Catholic Relief Services» (CRS's) Afghanistan program she works for is largely comprised of unmarried individuals living in Afghanistan, and its security protocol does not allow children.

It is possible of course that clever individuals choose other ways of getting on in the world than through education, but the fact remains that many children in British and Swedish schools do not appear to fulfil their academic potential.

Still, this does not necessarily mean that VR is unsafe for children and never can be, she said, adding that VR's safety varies according to the device, type of content and time spent using it, as well as on the individual child using it.

«This means that doctors and families need to understand what we know and what we don't yet know about medical cannabis in order to make the best decision for the health of the individual child.»

Identification of a specific learning disability is based on determination of the following Individual with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA): The child does not achieve commensurate with his / her age and ability levels in one or more of the seven areas (oral expression, listening comprehension, written expression, basic reading skill, reading comprehension, mathematical calculations or mathematical reasoning) when provided with learning experiences appropriate for the child's age and ability levels.

In 2012 Facoetti's team asked 82 children in preschool to do a variety of tasks, such as a visual search, characterizing their individual strengths for visual attention.

An individual's age also plays an important role in synthesising vitamin D from UV radiation, because the older one gets the less able one becomes to produce vitamin D: middle - aged adults have 66 % of the potential children have to do this.

«Besides greater investment in child care and lower self - confidence than men, along with discrimination by men towards women — which by the way is present by 3 years of age — women don't obtain the same level of support as men do from [higher ranked] same - sex individuals.»

Of course, my reports did not hinge on child 11, or on any individual case.

Dare I say, if you asked the caretakers or parents of these special, lesser developed babies, children, or now grown individuals if they ever regretted keeping their child, or if given the chance, would they do things differently; you might be the one regretting you ever asked, let alone, thought the question.

Among children, the incidence of skipping — percent of individuals who are up, but don't eat or drink anything in the morning — increases as childrenage with 13 - to -17-year-olds having the highest incidence (14 percent) of skipping.