Sentences with phrase «often several children»

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Our mothers and fathers, and the children when they got old enough, were involved on several fronts in order to make the social soil suitable for growth: the neighborhood, the white world that tried to put immovable stones in the soil, and the church that helped provide moral and spiritual (and often political) sustenance.

In addition, several closely related and often interchangeable figures, known as Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, and Christkind, are associated with bringing gifts to children during the Christmas season and have their own body of traditions and lore.

There are several kinds of parent - child relationships which are often mistaken for parent - child intimacy.

Paternity / parental leave, often with a specific «father quota» (i.e. leave which, if not taken by the father is lost to the family) and the ability to work shorter hours and / or more flexibly when children are young have been available to fathers in Scandinavia for several decades.

«Research shows that children will often begin to tolerate a new food only after they're exposed to it several times,» says pediatrician Block.

These days, child slings are offered in many different design patterns, colors, and styles, some of which have been designed for special purpose functions or to meet several often competing requirements.

We often focus on TLT on the challenges of feeding younger children, but today I want to share several links relating to teens, college kids and food: Is anyone in your house guzzling milk straight from the carton?

But if you make it a habit several times a day, you'll find yourself shifting into presence more and more often, because you'll find it creates those moments with your child that make your heart melt.

While the older boys work through their workbooks at one end of the table (shown in the photo above), you'll often find another child or several sitting at the other end...

They often have several displayed and your child can have an opportunity to envision his own bed - perhaps have him pick out his own pattern for linen so he can take ownership.

Dr. Sears has explained in several of his writings that introverted children are often calm, observant, and cautious.

Making an early bedtime actually happen so that your child can achieve adequate sleep often means doing one or several of the following:

While children in the U.S. are often required to be current on their vaccinations or receive a special waiver in order to attend public school, there is no requirement for adult vaccinations, despite several diseases that continue to present dangers.

Toddlers will often go on «nap strike» for several days, even weeks, so don't rush into moving to one nap until you think your child is really ready (trust your gut feeling).

Most often there will be a transition period of several months when your child clearly needs two naps on some days, but one nap on others.

Head banging often starts after a baby turns 6 months old and may go on for several months or even years, but most children outgrow it by age 3 or 4.

This post hints at several complicated issues that probably each deserves its own post — the events or experiences that inspire us to become AP parents, the naive assumptions we often have about love being «all you need» to make a child's world right, the tragedy that can occur when children's emotional needs go unmet... All very important topics that we've all probably talked about many times with other parents and in our API support groups.

then causes the child to have runny poo (diarrhoea) and often tummy pains, which can last for several days.

Advocates in Erie County often complain that the state Health Department is several years behind in releasing lead poisoning data and fails to include children who test within the federal threshold.

If children receive fruit and vegetables free of charge in their schools several times a week, they consume considerably more of this food group, which is often less popular with children, even on days without school fruit distribution.

Until now, multiple skull fractures meant several points of impact to the head and often were thought to suggest child abuse.

And as the eldest child in my family, I often carried several family obligations, such as looking after my younger siblings.

When I introduced this nostalgic treat to my children several years ago (before I was as health conscience as I am today and before researching the ingredients) they loved it almost as much as my Italian husband; so I was sad that it's not a treat they could enjoy often (six kids + that much sugar = not fun), especially because it does have some beneficial ingredients (hazelnuts and chocolate) hidden under all of that sugar!

Today, residents of these remote towns often scrape by on subsistence farming and fishing, and children in the area can find themselves several hours — or days — boat ride from the nearest town with a schoolhouse.

When children are identified with dyslexia, public schools often lack staff with the appropriate training to help, according to several studies and reports.

We're not sure if the Automobile Magazine staff is covetable, but it was an easy decision for us to test a four - wheel - drive Infiniti QX56 for twelve months: several of us have young children and related paraphernalia to vacation with, editor - in - chief Jean Jennings has a prize - winning Chesapeake Bay retriever to transport to dog shows, and trailers carrying race cars and campers need to be hitched up surprisingly often.

Fast food has often been linked to several health issues among children and the above scheme can be seen as a means of promoting not only literacy among the kids but also the McDonald's food bouquet.

Real artists, he often explained to Caddy and Saffron and Indigo, can not work with three children under their feet and a baby that wakes up several times every night.

Toys designed for human children are often offered to puppies, but they pose a risk for several reasons.

In rooms without carpet, there are several creative ways to create nonskid floors, including incorporating area rugs and the spongy interlocking floor tiles often found in children's play areas and gyms.

Istomina begins: «Henry Taylor's painting has often been discussed in the context of outsider art not only because of his vivid and somewhat reductive figuration, but because of his biography: the youngest of eight children raised by a single mother in Oxnard, California, he held several jobs unrelated to art, including a ten - year stint as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, and didn't earn his BFA until he was in his mid-thirties.

Henry Taylor's painting has often been discussed in the context of outsider art not only because of his vivid and somewhat reductive figuration, but because of his biography: the youngest of eight children raised by a single mother in Oxnard, California, he held several jobs unrelated to art, including a ten - year stint as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, and didn't earn his BFA until he was in his mid-thirties.

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

Where nearby water sources are lacking, children often have to walk several miles to fetch water for their families — leaving little time to attend school.

Having thus neutralized the partialities of his emotional nature, he proceeds with a certain natural and enforced erectness of mental attitude to the investigation, knowing well that some of his intellectual children will die before maturity, yet feeling that several of them may survive the results of final investigation, since it is often the outcome of inquiry that several causes are found to be involved instead of a single one.

Family's who choose structures often choose to have the child receive several installments instead of a single lump - sum at age 18.

Often several applications on the same file are heard at once (for example, child support and spousal support, along with parenting orders), which is usually a more efficient way of dealing with disagreements between parties than having multiple court appearances.

Paula continues: «In our experience there are not enough specialist therapists for children with cerebral palsy, and those that are available are often overstretched, serving several different locations, making their input less effective than it could be, with long term implications for the development of individual children.

There are several reasons: (a) it's less adversarial than going to court; (b) it's more private; (c) you retain control of the process — i.e., you are not bound by what the mediator thinks (indeed, most mediators see their role as helping the parties effectuate their goals, not imposing the mediator's ideas); (d) it's usually much less expensive; (e) if there are children involved, the process is less likely to embroil them in a painful conflict; and (f) mediation often gives divorcing couples a better chance of successfully negotiating issues that may come up in the future (such as child support, alimony, or custody and visitation issues).

Couples experiencing infertility often suffer marital discord due to stress from several sources including the financial strain of invasive high tech infertility treatments that can cost tens of thousands of dollars and have no guarantee of success; the emotional strain — shame, guilt and inadequacy — that many men and women endure as they struggle with the inability to produce biological children; and the physical strain from treatments that involve hormone and other drug therapies that can cause fatigue, nausea, headaches, mood swings, weight gain and disruption of the sleep cycle.

Increased parenting responsivity and sensitivity As several studies have documented, home - visiting programs are often associated with parental gains in responsivity and sensitivity in their interactions with their children.

Intervention is often required on several levels within the context of the child's environment and relationships at home, in the community and at school.

Often, it's not only one med but a combination of several different ones that your child needs.

Although not in their immediate job description, school nurses often wear several different hats, including social worker and counselor, to help children cope with non-medical factors affecting their learning.

BJ lives in Brighton (Rochester NY), is married, and has three grown children as well her dog, Gracie, and often several other dogs, as she is a foster mom for rescued dogs until they find adoptive homes.

Often, but not always, she will meet with several families or at least speak with them over the phone before she chooses a family to parent her child.

These less - than - healthy ways of attaching are often not diagnosed as disorders, but are common in children who have backgrounds of abuse or neglect or who are no longer with their biological parents, who have had the loss of one or more parents, who are in foster care, who have had several medical procedures or who have been adopted.

Johnston found that in some cases, parent - child alignments often continue for several years into mid-adolescence.

It often takes several tries before children learn to like something new.

Several types of child victimization were reported significantly less often in 2008 than in 2003: physical assaults, sexual assaults, and peer and sibling victimizations, including physical bullying.