Sentences with phrase «of troubled children»

Last year, Shafer expanded her efforts on behalf of these troubled children.

: Understanding and responding to the challenging behavior of troubled children and youth.

By revisiting the perspectives that were elaborated by Redl and his colleagues in an earlier decade, and in the context of more recent thinking about their programmatic implications (including the possibility of increased family involvement, e.g., Aldgate, 1987; Carman & Small, 1988), we can recapture our own excitement and, thus, reinvigorate our capacity to serve the developmental needs of troubled children and youth effectively.

Establishing appropriate mental health intervention of troubled children and adults of any age is another positive step.

Charter schools do not bring on equality; in fact they EXACERBATE INEQUALITY, as they tend to skim off the higher - performing students, leaving the regular public schools with a greater concentration of troubled children.

Starting as a teacher and chess coach at Vaux Middle School and through his years as principal at several traditional public and charter schools, Thomas - EL has transformed the attitudes and strategies of school staff, parents, and members of the community to help hundreds of troubled children not only graduate from high school but go on to earn higher degrees from major colleges and universities.

Our main analysis examines the impact of troubled children on their peers.

It's a beautiful moment in the middle of an ugly film that tries to make jokes out of boobs and sexual positions; out of Vaughn's package in yoga pants; out of troubled children needing their father to come home already.

However, Bowlby noticed that most of the troubled children in his care were «affectionless» and had experienced disrupted or even absent caregiving.

(9) Many of the problems of troubled children and adolescents, which bring families to therapy, stem from the unfulfilling, one - down position of their mothers and the emotionally distant, high - pressure life - styles of their success - driven fathers.

The authors share their experience as parents and family counselors, as the base for this book designed to give help and encouragement to the parents of troubled children.

The objective of a practice termed «Play Therapy» might seem self - explanatory: lifting the spirits of a troubled child by allowing them to do something they enjoy.

Not exact matches

The troubling amount of sugar American children take in on a daily basis is.

The documents, which Fortune has not seen directly, were entered into evidence by a defense attorney in the troubled prosecution of a California doctor accused of possessing child pornography.

Even more troubling was the fact that nearly half of respondents with children that could actually benefit from the plan drew blanks.

If by «advantages» you mean things like children always staying out of trouble, sickness never hammering away in our lives, or financial troubles staying away, then you're right.

Maybe when you were naming your kids, there was a name you thought was good, but when you mentioned it to your spouse, they were reminded of a kid they had trouble with back in grade school, and so could never name their child that.

If the mother of his children was indeed so troubled, surely the man of Gods response is to help her.

An example of God's love is like a child who rebels against his parent, gets into trouble, the parent again shows love for the child, the child then realizes how much the parent loves him / her and then tries to be a better person.

Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.

It is really troubling to me that, despite the number of new orphans the earthquake produced, Haiti is still clinging to it's archaic rules about couples needing to be married for 10 years, and to have no biological children, and be over 30 years old, in order to adopt.»

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

The anger will cause trouble only if they are not aware of it or if they do not deal with it directly in conversation with their own or the child's counselor.

For the latest is precisely the holy, Christian Catholic faith which we have received as children, and which we have preserved in our life, perhaps even through many troubles and difficulties, our active Catholic faith of which we shall have to give an account before God; and this faith, of course, remains the same.

They even remember Scriptures, learned in childhood, which on troubled days come up out of the garnered treasures of their recollection to comfort them: «The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want,» or in a happy mistranslation by a little child, «The Lord is my shepherd; that's all I want.»

The most troubling aspect of Tracy Morgan's remarks is the bodily harm he said he'd inflict on his own child if he were to be seen acting in an effeminate manner.

Such children are disadvantaged whatever the income of their parents and whether their trouble is defined as mental illness or something else.

Since the treatment facilities for troubled children are, everywhere, woefully inadequate, the report will no doubt recommend the creation of many others.

Tracy has chosen a path of trouble, and In a world of busy adults struggling to shepherd their own children through the difficult teen years, the easy path is to avoid such girls, even shun them.

Our population of low - skill workers has more troubled families and more troubled children, and has seen stagnant wages over the last thirty years.

Poor children are less healthy, less involved in school, more likely to drop out of school, more likely to get in trouble with the law, and much more likely to die prematurely.

Religion is very harmful to our children and our future nation unless we all believe we can just put are hands together and pray so that all of our troubles and problems will magically disappear.

For example, one church school has a social worker who, at the invitation of a teacher, visits that class to observe and work with a troubled child.

So, off the subject of Gods great plan for Brenda... isn't anyone troubled by the fact that this couple need to have so many children?

Perhaps, the reason that some of our kids are troubled and confused is because some parents tell their children that they are born with something wrong with them, in a state of sin, no less.

He does not treat the parallel development in Marian devotion in which adult women and men were encouraged to relate to Mary as little children attached to their mother, relying on her to get them out of all trouble or at least comfort them in a motherly way.

The thought of God killing «innocent» women and children is troubling.

Kingsley in his 1863 book for children, The Water - Babies, put these words into the mouth of Mother Carey, a personification of nature:» [A] nyone can make things, if they will take time and trouble enough; but it is not everyone who, like me, can make things make themselves» (231).

Teach children that they will get in trouble if they hurt others, and they will behave better because they fear the bad outcomes of misbehavior.

When I asked him why he'd gone to such trouble he said these are the most important funerals — even if only God is watching — because it affirms the agreement between «all God's children» that we will witness and remember and take care of each other.

We have little trouble finding the «truly unable», such as desperately sick people, the mentally ill, some of the homeless, and the recently bereaved (such as loss of spouse or child).

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

This time Eli recognizes that this is not just a young boy caught in some pattern of troubling dreams, but a child to whom God is calling.

Abortion can end when the Church comes to the aid of those mothers - to - be are in trouble and families are scared to bring a child into the world — not working against them.

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This runs counter to a troubling trend in our culture — the equation of children of rape with monsters.

But can you imagine a parent bringing a child to Jesus with the words: «I want my boy to go with you, because you will keep him out of trouble»?

One may believe in the God of Israel; believe that, as President Ronald Reagan has said, «We're all children of Abraham»; and believe that the biblical script is important for our society — count me in among such believers — but still have trouble with «the Judeo - Christian tradition.»

Children of single - parent families are far more likely even when they are not poor to do badly in school, get in trouble with the law, have poor mental and physical health, and have marital difficulties later in life.

There are, of course, an indefinitely large number of other practices that are part of the common life of Christian congregations: pastoral care of the ill, the troubled, and the grieving; nurture and education of children and adults; management of property; raising of funds; maintenance of institutions; and so forth.