Sentences with phrase «of working class children»

Donaldson says that TFA is often looked at like a «volunteer experience for upper, middle - class college graduates at the expense of working class children.»

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I grew up one of six children with working class parents in the Deep South.

We are working on a message, so if you are flying with a family and you choose that class of fare, «How can we better communicate with you, especially if you are traveling with young children?»

«At the same time as they have these massive tax cuts for the richest people in the country they actually increase taxes for a lot of working and middle class people, and so I think they see the child tax credit as a way to try to address that,» Marr said.

Some of those observations also apply to much of the working and middle - classes, and especially families with minor children.

Can people in bad, poor areas break out of the cycle of family instability that puts children at risk academically, economically, socially, and emotionally — a cycle currently working its way through the working class?

My own statements about the way in which the decline of marriage contributes to the difficulties facing the working class were singled out as suggesting that unmarried women with children were somehow responsible — blaming the victim.

The New Yorker Book of Kids» Cartoons (2001) features only three cartoons with families of more than two children — one a family of fish, another of cats, and a third an obviously poor, white, working - class family.

3) It is a source of dignity — made obvious in this case by Renee's low status as an unattractive working - class woman without children and past child - bearing age.

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.

From Steve King's comments about unauthorized immigrant children to Donald Trump's promises of mass deportations, it can seem that our politics is forcing us to choose between the foreign and native - born members of our working - class.

At the other end of the spectrum, children in middle - to - upper - class families grow up knowing that college, work, and a strong family are all desirable and attainable.

A working - class, single mother of a child with autism, Icilda credits the Jehovah's Witness community of which she is a member for supporting her.

August 31 — Premier League fans like what they are seeing, think the league is more exciting than ever, would take their children to games and is no longer the exclusive domain of the working class English male.

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.

The video will be used by London Firefighters and the Brigade's Education team as part of their fire prevention outreach work, teaching children in foundation year classes (Nursery, Reception and Year 1) about the people who help us.

As a parent of an elementary aged child, and having shared meals in the school cafeteria with my child's class, on more than one occasion, this may actually work.

With a staff full of licensed therapists and professionals experienced in working with children and families, the Wright Mommy and Me offers classes aimed at nurturing both Mama and Baby and helping you both through the often - tumultuous first year and beyond.

... Working - class people did not start having children out - of - wedlock in such great numbers because they were promiscuous or because they followed an alternative morality.

Classes cover the full spectrum of your child's life from their first introduction to solid foods in our Solid Start class to managing picky eating with The End of Picky Eating and working with the family to manage issues of overweight, obesity and childhood chronic disease in our Healthy Habits class.

There are a lot of methods that we use that don't work well in group classes, like one - on - one discussion, hands - on activities, more field trips, special interest projects, etc. and some of their methods don't work well for home schooling, like lectures and extensive workbook work (especially for the younger children, under grades 5 or 6, where hands - on experience is what they remember).

The third grade class trip takes the children to a working farm where they observe and participate in the work of raising plants and tending animals.

This works quite well for some students (our Campus and Community page discusses options for what your family can do in our neighborhood while you're in class); other students, however, find they can focus more on their studies when they are here alone and that their children are happier staying with a caregiver in the familiar environment of their own home.

Waldorf elementary (or «class») teachers integrate storytelling, drama, rhythmic movement, visual arts, and music into their daily work, weaving a tapestry of experience that brings each subject to life in the child's thinking, feeling, and willing.

In this way, parents and teachers can work together over time, orchestrating their efforts to best meet the changing needs of the child and the class as a whole.

Add challenges such as driving 50 miles to get to the only dentist who will work with your child, only to learn that you'll need to come back next week to fill that cavity... and then driving 60 miles in the other direction because your kid wants to take ballet and there's a special needs ballet class on the other side of the county.

If you're unable to get the class work your child will be missing ahead of time, talk to your child's teacher.

But to fully understand the scope of the problem, one need only listen to the children and their working - class parents who arrive at the Barreto Boys and Girls Club daily.

Toddler Play class nurtures a child's necessary work of play.

When her son was three, Kathy had the good fortune of taking parenting classes with Ruth Beaglehole, founding Director of the Center for Nonviolent Education and Parenting, (theechocenter.org), and she realized this powerful compassionate method of working with children was something she wanted to teach.

Eat - Sleep - Love's services include breastfeeding education, greenproofing (educating about eco-friendly pregnancy, birth and home environment options), maternity and newborn sleep hygiene education (including safe co-sleeping practices), babywearing education, safety awareness, education regarding stages of pregnancy, birth options information and referral, referrals to childbirth education classes, nursery planning support, child proofing information and referral, registry information and support, post-partum and return to work plans (including referrals for postpartum care and support), transition resources for those who plan to stay home, and more!

Services may include: breastfeeding education and support, maternity and newborn sleep hygiene education (including safe co-sleeping practices), birth options information and referral, greenproofing (educating about eco-friendly pregnancy, birth and home environment options), baby wearing information, cloth diapering information, safety awareness, education regarding stages of pregnancy, referrals to childbirth education classes, nursery set up support, child proofing information and referral, registry information and support, baby shower planning, bed rest plans, post-partum and return to work plans (including referrals for postpartum care and support), transition resources for those who plan to stay home, pregnancy and newborn photography referrals, and more!

Social - studies work may also include a basic discussion of citizenship: What is your child's role as a student in the class, in the school, in the community?

Deciding factors may include how much time your child spends in the teacher's class, how directly the teacher works with your child, how much of a darn the teacher gives about special students, how pushy the case manager is, and whatever else is preoccupying the teacher that day.

Kelly Hogaboom: Cisgendered working - class white woman, wife and mother; two children, one husband, four cats (that's officially a «clowder» of cats), five laying hens.

Make sure that your child is capable of doing the class work he is being asked to do, for example.

The article takes the focus off the prosperous women whose child - care situations raised anxious questions when they were being considered by President Clinton for appointment as U.S. attorney general and instead examines a group it sees as the largest group of mothers frustrated in seeking good day care: middle - class working mothers in urban areas where nearly all the available caregivers are undocmented foreign workers.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

We appreciate all of your hard work and the positive learning environment you provide for the children in your class.

When he got back he spent quite a bit of time working on a poster for the «Kids Fest» - the day when the children's classes at the theatre put on their end - of - year performances for family and friends.

Each of our early childhood classes provides a warm, secure environment where the young child's primary work is to play.

When working as a preschool director and teacher in Waldorf schools in the Chicago area, Bonnie pioneered the development of parent - child classes for families of very young children.

While the film makes the point that the children are exposed to advertising, the scenes of these families seem to say that working - class people just can't make good food choices or get exercise.

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.

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For working - class and poor families, the cultural logic of child rearing at home is out of synch with the standards of institutions.»

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.

With the working class having the highest number of working parents that ever, it has become imperative that parents get their children into a preschool - and one that they like and trust!

She has had the opportunity to explore child birth from different perspectives by: developing and teaching Prenatal Yoga classes, caring for pregnant social high risk and new immigrant women at the Northeast Health Centre, and by working in Nunavut as a Maternal Newborn Health Services Consultant for the Government of Nunavut.

For example, we did a whole issue about class of our quarterly magazine, and its been a central theme of our work on child poverty, inequality, taxation, solidarity.