Sentences with phrase «of neighborhood children»

There may be a relationship between the spanking of children, the type of neighborhood the children live in and the likelihood of a report of abuse or neglect to Child... Read more →

A small percentage of neighborhood children can put the kitten in «harm's way».

The next paragraph in the flyer is titled «Hundreds of neighborhood children are going to alternative education programs in other parts of the city.»

Her clientele consists mostly of neighborhood children, who pay fifty - cents (as well as great adoration) for her professional services.

Not exact matches

If your product is household cleaning services, why call a random neighborhood where you have no knowledge of income levels, the number of household wage earners or the number of children?

As they eagerly describe a young Alison staging plays in the family living room and leading neighborhood children on make - believe safaris, the subject of their recollections sits quietly, as though detached from a past that has little to do with who she is today.

I'm in that neighborhood several times a month and know that there are lots of children in the area that will benefit from the new structure.

On September 9, 2016, dozens upon dozens of neighborhood volunteers will transform the area into a place that children will spend hours playing.

It's a chance for a neighborhood to be on the ground floor - literally, of the planning stages of a new playground that will be bigger and meet the demands of more children and encourage the timeless art of children, running, climbing, moving and playing.

I've addressed the importance of geographic mobility in supporting income mobility from the perspective of providing parents options for better neighborhoods in which to raise their children.

Drawing on the work of New York University sociologist Patrick Sharkey, Richard Florida wrote that 70 percent of black residents in America's poorest and and most segregated neighborhoods «are the children and grandchildren of those who lived in similar neighborhoods 40 years ago.»

The community - built playground at Parque Agua Santa will not only provide thousands of children with a safe place to play, but also engage the residents with the city of Puebla, AMA Mexico, Parques de Mexico and families from surrounding neighborhoods in a transformative partnership to improve the entire community.

Busing of school children to promote racial balance in classrooms removes children from their neighborhood schools and destroys a sense of community.

Professor DiIulio again: «It is reasonable to suppose that by doubling or tripling the number of officers on regular duty in and around drug - infested, crime - torn neighborhoods, and by deploying them in accordance with the precepts of community policing, the streets and sidewalks of even the most blighted inner city could be made safe enough for children to play and adults to stroll.»

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).

Walk around the neighborhood with them, giving them that sense of parental security and safety that is so important for children to have.

Before you head overseas to be a father to children in other parts of the world, look around your neighborhood and community today to find who needs a father.

Rosa Arnold runs the church's four - day - a-week preschool for about 55 3 - to 5 - year - old neighborhood children free of charge.

One of the reasons children in Gaza were dying is that Palestinian terrorists deliberately put them at risk by locating their rocket launchers next to schools and residential neighborhoods.

What about the parents who never had children, and didn't have the money to adopt, and didn't qualify for foster care, but still took care of needy children in their neighborhood?

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.

We children had no previous experience of white neighborhoods.

Where we live, most of the children who come to our door are neighborhood children, accompanied by parents.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

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.

But somewhere out there is the «least» person in this neighborhood of the Kingdom — someone entering the Kingdom like a child or a slave, with NO authority.

Children are dragged out of their neighborhoods.

Within a week of moving into a new neighborhood, she has taken fresh - baked loaves of bread and cookies to our neighbors and has had hour - long conversations with all of them, learning about their dogs, their jobs, and their children.

From Town & Village, a neighborhood newspaper here, in a story about the New York Theatre Ballet: The company, which has reparatory seasons and revivals of long - lost chamber masterpieces, is also well known for its hour - long adaptations for children.

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.

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.

We are now paying the price of that blind and irresponsible folly — in a drug war that we are not winning, in burgeoning crime that has made city neighborhoods uninhabitable, in teenage pregnancies and «children having children,» in rampant abortions, swelling welfare roles, sexually transmitted diseases, self - indulgent neglect of community good, and countless ruined lives.

On the street where I live there is also a Negro physician and his fine family, and it is an attractive sight to see these children playing with the white children of the neighborhood.

Unemployment in the South Bronx was at 45 percent; of the 1,900 to 2,000 children enrolled at Morris High School, only about 65 graduated each year; and, many of the children were afflicted with asthma, something Kozol associated with the neighborhood's incinerators for discarded medical supplies.

Describing the difference between the play of male and female children in the black community where she developed, Johnson says: the boys in the neighborhood had this game with rope... tug - o» - war..

The self - emptying Christ has freed Alyosha to empty his own ego, to live and act in joyful obedience to God, and thus to be bound in unbreakable solidarity with his father and brothers, with his friends and enemies, and (not least of all) with the miserable children of his neighborhood.

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.

Dressing up in a child - sized bunad for Syttende Mai parades in the Scandinavian - rich neighborhood of Ballard, eating the traditional feasts my grandparents would serve us on holidays, listening to the heavy and melodic accent that wove its way through my relatives» speech — this was my upbringing and I loved it.

Key Concept: Children will become acquainted with the landscape characteristics of their play space, their neighborhood and their classroom in order to better relate to the Belize landscape.

Applebee's will also bring the tradition of helping the neighborhood to Hawaii by sponsoring a month of fundraising activities for Make - A-Wish ® Hawaii, which grants wishes for children diagnosed with life - threatening medical conditions.

The only spectators are a handful of girl friends, wives and children who cheer on their heroes and after the games join them for dinner at the neighborhood pizza parlor.

When he started his neighborhood course, he said, not a child on the block - knew kick - the - can, mother - may - I or crack - the - whip, and most were shaky on the rules of hide - and - seek.

From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.

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.

This weekend has lots of fun in store: Music and dance exploration for preschoolers at the Duraleigh Road Community Library in Raleigh, Christmas tree - lighting ceremonies in lots of Triangle towns, breakfast with Santa in Durham, a bird - watching hike in Raleigh, an art market in Raleigh's Boylan Heights neighborhood and pay - what - you - can admission day at Kidzu Children's Museum in Chapel Hill.