Sentences with phrase «of kids in neighborhoods»

I've worked with a lot of kids in neighborhoods where violence was a daily reality - being tough and making people think you might hurt them, even if you actually didn't, was, for many of them, a vital survival technique.

All of the kids in our neighborhood are suddenly outside again, after being holed up away from the heat (or at the pool) for the summer, and they all run a muck between the various houses with the parents chatting nearby.

He was a St. Bernard / Great Dane cross who outweighed all of the kids in the neighborhood put together.

I think some of the kids in my neighborhood make more mowing lawns.

Not exact matches

Including investments in consumer companies he holds through Maveron, a venture capital firm he co-founded — and the tens of millions of dollars of equity he owns in Groupon (GRPN) as a director — his net worth is in the neighborhood of at least $ 2 billion, which isn't bad for a kid who grew up in the projects of Brooklyn, on the seventh floor at 1560 East 102nd St. Obama himself, according to Schultz, said he was «very aware of my personal story.»

In February, according to the BSO report released last week, a neighborhood kid reported Cruz had threatened on Instagram to shoot up the school and attached a photo of a small arsenal of firearms.

Many of the people had fond memories of parks that used to be in the area and were really passionate about why having a big, quality space for kids to play was so important to them, the neighborhood and their kids» futures.

We live in a neighborhood full of kids.

There are families in my neighborhood who have relocated here with their kids, and one thing they tell me is that they want their kids to grow up knowing that not everything is okay in this world — that racism exists, that injustice exists, that just because someone smells doesn't mean we have to be afraid of them, and so on.

Thus, if a minister today is not in process of being ousted, is regarded by at least many of his people as a wonderful Christian, a helpful preacher, a diligent pastor, and so on, he may rest content in this kind of status even though privately he is disturbed at all the kids who drop out of church school, at the inattentiveness of the church to its neighborhood, at the virtual neglect of older people, and at the bourgeois aroma that infects everything.

African - American churches that serve impoverished urban areas argue compellingly that many kids in their neighborhoods are left out of the «digital revolution» because they do not have home computers.

I'd read Yvonne Thornton's Ditchdigger's Daughters, and if that dad in a crime - ridden neighborhood could produce highly educated children by forcing them to practice music, then surely music lessons could help my suburban kids stay out of trouble.

Probably because I have the best memories of trudging around in my snowy neighborhood as a kid with all of my best friends, collecting pillowcases full of candy.

I grew up in one of those half - rural half - suburban towns where everyone in the neighborhood is friendly and you may have a pack of at least five neighborhood kids descend upon your house at any given moment.

«I'm hearing from a couple of my players that there's this tall Russian kid in the neighborhood,» says Hal (Hotsy) Reinfeld, the George Washington High basketball coach, «but they tell me he's kind of clumsy.

Usually I fault the parents a bit more than the kids but one time some little shitty girl in our neighborhood who spent all of last year playing with my kids decided that now she's grown as an 8 year old and she started bullying the shit out of my son.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

And it looks as if their scores will be truly impressive — almost indistinguishable from those of middle - class kids living in better neighborhoods.

He was taking a big chunk of Harlem — twenty - four blocks, back then — and he was planning to address every problem that was holding back poor kids in that neighborhood, from their families to their schools to their community.

His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle - class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child - rearing practices of their parents.

Well moving on is sometimes a hard matter for kids who may have grown a big group of friends, for instance 2 years ago when I had to go under a similar situation, one of my kids who as a consequence of me introducing him to a k 12 homeschool curriculum, had grow a good group of friends around the neighborhood, when time came for us to move on he did not want to move on and let behind his friends, so we had to explain him a lot about what we were doing and promise to bring him back so that he could keep in contact with his friends!

If it's a cold night in Chicago, pack the kids in the car and take a grand tour of local neighborhoods with the best holiday lights.

That's one of the drawbacks, I think — not in this particular school, because the only food - related thing is a once - a-week relationship with a neighborhood bakery to bring in pizza if the kids want to buy it, and I can breathe through that.

The event is part of the National Wildlife Federation's «Be Out There» movement, which takes place in backyards, neighborhoods and local parks across the country and encourages kids and their families to get outdoors and connect with nature.

There is also research that shows that kids who are more civically engaged are more likely to vote as adults, and that engagement can also be a method of reducing violence in neighborhoods.

His theory is that in a low - income, high - crime neighborhood, if you offer social and educational supports to just a few of the kids who live there, their participation will always seem a bit oddball, and they won't have much of an effect on their peers.

And it's a story that you hear every once in awhile, of one kid from a really poor family in a bad neighborhood succeeding.

We moved back to the place that I grew up; my kid's are growing up in the neighborhood I did, going to the same school, some of the same teacher's.

Matt Guncheon, 22, a North Park senior who has played softball with neighborhood kids in the park, said, «I'm as supportive of the athletic teams as anyone.

I just think of all the kids running around our neighborhood elementary school every day and wow... one in 100 is a lot of kids I know.

There, an idea germinated in the fertile minds of a dozen or so neighborhood kids hired by the Chicago Botanic Garden to tend the crops.

But this year I have an actual house in a midwestern neighborhood full of kids, and it's unseasonably warm for October, so I anticipate getting actual trick - or - treaters this year.

His premise is that kids in neighborhoods like Harlem face so many disadvantages — poorly run schools, poorly educated parents, dangerous streets — that it doesn't make sense to tackle just one or two of those problems and ignore the rest.

The goal is to provide positive alternatives for the kids in these ethnically, economically diverse neighborhoods, in safe havens away from the dangers of crime, gangs and drugs.

Make several candy corn bags filled with candy for the kids in the neighborhood, by painting cotton bags with a bright yellow and orange stripe to make it look like a piece of candy corn.

At the end of the day and once they finish their homework, have your kids had any time to themselves to just play with friends in the neighborhood or do other things they want?

I've heard of several other kids who stopped nursing down of their own accord somewhere in the 10 -12-month neighborhood, but I'm wondering if this is common.

I was one of those kids back in the 70's running around until dusk with the other kids in the neighborhood.

We currently live in Northern Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C., in a quiet neighborhood within walking distance of great schools, a playground, a swimming pool and lots of families with kids that enjoy playing outdoors.

Feeling safe in their neighborhoods, and confident in their children's abilities to take care of themselves, many parents give their kids free range of neighborhood streets and parks.

• Perhaps kids living in dangerous, disadvantaged neighborhoods are less likely to run afoul of authority figures — in and out of school — when they are taught unquestioning obedience.

Kids love the being in control of a fast moving vehicle, whether it's racing with their friends or just rocketing around the neighborhood.

I have gone into my own kids» public school lunch room, in a relatively affluent neighborhood in central Houston, btw, and have seen (and photographed) poorly prepared food — items that are still frozen, items like green vegetables that are grossly overcooked, to the point of almost being brown, etc..

Lunch Line follows six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago as they set out to fix school lunch — and end up at the White House.

If you don't live in a diverse neighborhood and your child doesn't go to a school with kids of other races, surround her with children's books and artwork featuring people of different races.

So not only are the rules of the game screwed up, but in low - income neighborhoods, foodservice directors are fighting an uphill battle of child preferences because of what they kids are eating at home.

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I had spent the morning at an elementary school in an affluent neighborhood outside of Syracuse teaching kids in summer school.

I've had a few neighborhood kids I've had to enforce that rule with at my house, or else they'd eat through a week's worth of our snacks in a day or two.

The Safe Summer Program aims to address these alarming statistics by using positive reinforcement to get all neighborhood kids into the habit of wearing their helmets for safe biking, in - line skating, or riding a skateboard or scooter.