Sentences with phrase «of middle class parents»

This contrasts with the view that interest in parenting programmes is predominantly a phenomenon of middle class parents who do not have children with behaviour problems.

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Working out of his parents» middle - class home, he would offer to sell a piece of software on one site before it was in his possession.

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

A benefit for middle - class parents Extending parental leave would mostly address middle - income earners, says Alisa Fulshtinsky, creator and chief administrator of Toronto Mommies.

Family - Friendly Tax Reform - This plan would save thousands of dollars for working - class and middle - class parents and cut taxes on investment income.

«The idea (promoted by politicians of both the left and the right) that Baby Boomers and Generation Xers are falling from the middle class in great bunches, even trailing behind the living standard of their parents, is, in aggregate, complete rubbish.

After 30 years of experience in the field, I am seeing for the first time in the past decade forms of neglect in educated, middle - class parents....

It is parochial to suppose that ambition is limited to parents of the middle class, in suburbia, and in the United States.

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

Ask yourself, what middle - class parent in America today supposes that her authority over the crucial details of her child's life is nothing more than a revocable delegation from New Mexico or the feds?

Continue reading «Meditation of a Middle - Aged, (Upper) Middle - Class, White, Liberal, Protestant Parent»

Young people who, as adults, merely retain the same level of upper - middle - class success that their parents have can regard themselves as standing still or coasting on the momentum acquired by their forebears.

As recently as the 1950s the parents of today's middle - class baby boomers had the benefit of welfare supports like the GI Bill, government - protected union activity, and various checks on corporate greed as they provided a stable economic foundation for the family.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

It may sound silly, but I feel guilty because I was born in the United States of America to white, middle - class Christian parents, a fact that — through no merit of my own — has provided me with a more comfortable and privileged existence than most people in this world.

This is methodologically wise, for the situation of middle - class divorced parents is significantly different from «that of the average never - married young mother.

I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..

Kalsu was white and the only child of middle - class parents — city - bred, college - educated, married, a father, devoutly Catholic.

Her parents, middle - class Dubliners proud of the accomplishments of all four of their children, are modest and kindhearted.

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.

I have spoken in many of the wealthiest enclaves in this country but I have also spoken to parents who are squarely middle or working class.

As part of her research, Brown interviewed 140 mostly white, middle - class mothers in the Minneapolis area about their cultural ideas of mothering, how they cope with their «life load,» and how they really parent.

The maternal parenting styles of both the Kyoiku mama and the soccer mom are almost exclusively related to the middle class.

Middle and upper middle class parents are more likely to adopt what she calls a «Concerted cultivation «style of parenting, while working class parents adopt «natural growth» parenting sMiddle and upper middle class parents are more likely to adopt what she calls a «Concerted cultivation «style of parenting, while working class parents adopt «natural growth» parenting smiddle class parents are more likely to adopt what she calls a «Concerted cultivation «style of parenting, while working class parents adopt «natural growth» parenting styles.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

It is, by and large, the middle class parents who have the time and the sense of entitlement required to vocally demand changes and improvements to the program.

The Zion teenager comes from a comfortable middle - class home; she says her parents, an engineer and a teacher, are caring and supportive; and her life has been absent any of the trauma or serious misfortune that sometimes shapes a reformer.

The point wasn't to learn about nutrition, but rather about language — how to fill an everyday shopping trip with the kind of nonstop chatter that has become second nature to most upper - middle - class parents, full of questions about numbers and colors and letters and names.

Mothers who try to live up to the new parenting standards of the professional middle class seem to have few options: They can overwork themselves, or they can leave the workforce.

It seems to me that a lot of the excitement around noncognitive skills comes from middle class and upper - middle class parents who want to know how their children can be as successful as possible in an ever more competitive world.

Media and Middle Class Moms: Images and Realities of Work and Family by Lara J. Descartes and Conrad Kottak raises questions about the extent to which parents, as well as their parenting style, are affected by the media.

These include Whisconier Middle and Brookfield High School Support Services Staff, as well as the Prince of Peace Preschool Staff in Brookfield, while offering parenting classes in Brookfield and surrounding towns.

She believes many schools have become a mere diversion from the academic agenda of middle - class parents — who want their children trained OUTSIDE the classroom by people better than «just teachers.»

Heron's 1994 study of middle class English children found children who never slept in their parents bed tended to be harder to control, less happy, exhibited a greater number of tantrums and were more fearful than children who always slept in their parents bed.

We could say that this is a typical white, middle class concern — something that the author shares with a lot of worried middle class parents.

Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.

Children of middle - class and two - parent families were more likely to be affected negatively than those from working - class or single - parent families, according to the research.

Well, if Dad hadn't been in the middle of my parenting class, he said he would have said, «If you listened to me the first time, I wouldn't have to yell at you.»

In 1 study34 of 320 middle - class parents who used spanking for discipline, 85 % reported feeling «moderate to high anger, remorse, or agitation» while spanking their children.

The sentiment is commendable, except that a voluntary scheme would see only the usual suspects attending — the kids who do Duke of Edinburgh, the white middle - class children whose parents are obsessed with how things look on their Ucas form.

And his call to cut spending by 20 percent — I would use examples of how that would impact middle class families, parents, what it would do to schools — I would make Carl defend all that.»

Exams and interviews to test children's aptitude would measure intelligence and gauge potential — doing whatever possible to avoid the sorts of tests that reward either extensive coaching or the confidence and eloquence that more middle class children are more likely to receive from their parents.

«My parents both worked full - time and seized every opportunity America provided to pull our family up into the middle class, but that dream is now out of reach for far too many people.

Similarly, though Michael Gove once talked of challenging the «sharp elbowed middle class parents» in school admissions, though many expect the Tory backbenchers to see that off.

However, last night Mr Salter said he feared that giving more power to schools and parents would benefit the middle classes at the expense of those on lower incomes.

Born in New York City to wealthy upper - middle class English parents, Johnson was educated at the European School of Brussels, Ashdown House School, and Eton College.

The scheme's critics argued that Specialist Schools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgrounds.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

And I have been clear that I will work with any group of Senators who have real economic development and jobs - encouragement ideas, who plan to bring substantial tax relief to the people who elected me, who have compassion for the poor and respect for the middle class, who support the improvement of public education and a plan to ease the burden of tuition - paying parents across New York.»

In a country where the majority of senior national, and even local, politicians are middle - class, middle - aged men, any attempt to make it easier for women and single - parents to get involved in politics can only be a good thing.