Sentences with phrase «of years a child»

Over the course of the year children experience the changing seasons and begin to develop a sensitivity to the subtle transformations in the landscapes around them.

If the average elementary student attends school for 188 days, then during the course of a year the child will consume 25 % of the meals from SFSD.

For the past couple of years the children — a boy and a girl — have been educated at home.

The educational attainment of the mother remains the single most important factor associated with the number of years a child remains in school.

Not exact matches

This is a June 8, 1972 photo of South Vietnamese forces follow after terrified children, including 9 - year - old Kim Phuc, center, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places.

In recently published research, University of Manitoba economists Ryan Cardwell, Chad Lawley, and Di Xiang show that supply management costs the typical household the equivalent of $ 450 per year — and nearly $ 600 per year among households with children.

After a successful 32 - year investment banking career, Bill Henson, a decade ago, made the transition to inner city education, initially joining the board of Cristo Rey New York High School, a private Catholic college preparatory high school that educates children of all faiths.

For a number of years, I had been on the board of Project Hope, which operates a shelter and provides services for homeless women and children in Boston.

The 22 - year - old former child prodigy had a few big - ish wins, and a lot more tough losses, before she entered the Rio Olympics an unseeded representative of Puerto Rico this past August.

That's why their cookies are an $ 800 million a year business in the U.S. (Such a shame that pesky child labour laws make it difficult for profit - seeking entities to exploit the selling power of Girl Scouts.

«So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue.

The British response to the Dunblane massacre was clearly driven in part by emotions — the murder of 15 children, only 5 or 6 years old, and their teacher, who apparently tried to shield them, is clearly emotive.

Rasco: Well China is at an inflection point where they have some negative demographic issues going on due to the one child policy of years ago.

Either way, his comments follow a trend of famous figures — from entertainers to sports figures — taking a hard stance against their children playing football at any level, especially in light of the revelations about long - term effects from football concussions that have surfaced in recent years.

This works best for things like maternity clothes, old children's clothes, clothes that you haven't worn in years or are simply out of style.

Over the years, his children have filed lawsuits against each other over pieces of their late father's empire.

«Firearm - related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among U.S. children aged 1 to 17 years, surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and / or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes,» wrote the CDC in its report.

Morneau said nine out of 10 recipients of child benefits would do better under the new program than they were previously; a family of two children earning $ 90,000 per year will get a tax - free bonus of $ 5,650 per year from the federal government, an increase of $ 2,500 per year compared with Harper's child - subsidy regime.

More than half of the 4,000 travelers Airfarewatchdog surveyed in 2017 said families with children under 10 years old should be required to sit in a separate section of the plane.

She has been married to her husband Mohammad for 19 years and they have 6 children all under the age of 11, Zara (4) Hassan (5) Yusuf (7) Zaina (9) and twins Adam and Isa (10).

For many years has been a voice for France's homeless through his Les Enfants de Don Quichotte, or The Children of Don Quixote.

In fact, last year the government added one such credit — for teachers» classroom supplies — while dropping four as of Jan. 1 2017, including the children's fitness and arts credits, as well as the education and textbook credits for students.

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After two years of work, that number stayed the same for male employees — but for women, it dropped to 16 %, regardless of whether they were married or had children.

For more than 50 years, Kumon has helped millions of children worldwide advance their reading and math abilities.

We lived in rural Wisconsin and on one of the coldest nights of the year, I was seven months pregnant with my first child and my husband and I went to bed one night and our house burned down.

Netflix stirred envy in sleep - deprived parents nationwide by saying it will give its employees up to a year of paid leave following the birth or adoption of a child.

(Full disclosure: I have two small children, and after the birth of each I opted to take the full year of combined maternity and parental leave to which I, as a Canadian who made sufficient contributions to employment insurance, am entitled.

Out of that drive for answers came the idea for Scherf's 12 - year - old company, PrioHealth, and a program called MeMoves, which uses music, patterns and movement to help teach children and adults like Rowan to calm their nerves and make connections.

Tencent, which has a portfolio of over 200 games, also said it would upgrade a parental - control platform rolled out earlier this year that makes it easier for parents to monitor their children's gaming account activities.

They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

We had just gotten through a successful tax season when the unthinkable happened: The youngest of our three children, 4 - year - old Nicholas, was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer of the connective tissue.

Within about four years of cycling through departments, she became creative director of Rocawear's women's and children's divisions.

An employee who spends 250 days a year with his employer, who spends more time at the office than with his or her own children on any week day, is investing most of their human experience with that employer.

On Monday, Facebook launched a new product aimed at children from 6 to 12 years of age.

Kenney spent most of last year driving cutting - edge brand marketing campaigns for Brooklyn, New York - based über - brand MakerBot, including the wildly successful #Robohand video that documented how MakerBot users developed prosthetic hands for disabled children.

Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, has spent the last two years struggling: to normalize life for her children, to get comfortable accepting the help of friends and family, to regain confidence at work, and to rediscover hope.

A few years ago, Penny Chapman noticed she was receiving letters from parents saying their children couldn't eat ice cream at birthday parties because of a severe nut allergy.

The rate of women who had their first child between 40 and 44 has more than doubled in the past 20 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Like Amazon, they've learned to execute their strategy on the basis of what won't change over the next 10 years — children playing and learning from compelling block toys — as opposed to what will change.

After years in which the number of children being excluded from schools declined, the latest figures that slipped out Thursday reveal that the number is starting to rise again.

It was less than a year and a half ago that Reddit finally banned some of its most violently racist, borderline - child - porn - y communities.

But this year has reminded us that some of the most coveted things and experiences are ones that are, well, hard to get: the Tragically Hip's farewell tour, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pirelli's über - exclusive limited - edition promo calendar.

One of these women is Alicia Bint, a 33 - year - old freelance illustrator from Milton, Ont., who was taught to knit as a child by her grandmother.

When the Kula Project first engaged with them in May of this year, they asked what their number one need is and the unanimous response was to have the funds to send their children to school.

Try to find a baby carrier that you provide you years of use, but don't ever choose one not suitable for your child's current size.

«Tech has radically shifted how we think about productivity and learning, yet we're still teaching our children the same way we taught them 100 years ago,» says Geoff Ralston, founder of 2 - year - old education technology incubator Imagine K12.

At 31, Maye divorced her engineer husband of nine years and left South Africa with her children for North America.

After experiencing years of abuse from family members and friends, Winfrey ran away from home and bore a child at age 14 who died shortly after birth.

Percentage of this year's companies that offer full - time employees Health insurance: 97 % Retirement plan: 84 % Life insurance: 72 % Disability insurance: 71 % Flextime: 64 % Telecommuting: 51 % Tuition reimbursement: 45 % Job sharing: 23 % Sabbaticals: 16 % Child - care services: 3 %