Sentences with phrase «other children in their neighborhood»

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).

They involve other children in the neighborhood in their fundraising efforts and help spread the word about animals needing homes.

It's quite common in the Indian society for parents to compare their children with other children in their neighborhood or with their cousins.

There's nothing better for kids than to have other children in the neighborhood.

Not exact matches

This was all so that my best friend and I could spend some time traveling in Europe where we would meet irresistibly handsome and rich identical twins with Australian accents (we had a thing for the, «G'Day, Mate,»), get married on Regis and Kathy Lee at Cinderella's Castle in Disney World, and then live next to each other, raising adorable little children in our idyllic neighborhood.

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.

Don't just practice the reading habits described above, but teach and encourage others to do the same, whether your own children, or young people in your church or neighborhood.

Let's ask the numerous children and now adults who were molested by your neighborhood Priest or other people who work in Churches.

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.

Get other kids in the neighborhood or from your child's school involved.

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.

We found that the scooter was a bit unreliable for our young children when we used it on sidewalks in our residential neighborhood, where driveways and other inclines and dips disrupted the smoothness of the ride.

Angel Cregan, who has spent countless hours chauffeuring her son and other neighborhood children to private skate facilities in Orland Park, Mundelein and Rockford, was told that Ald.

And then I come home and see the beauty of our culturally diverse neighborhood; projects yes, but a dozen countries represented, children tearing about in the nearby parks hollering at each other in a dozen different languages, and I know our multi-cultural-ministry hearts are planted here for a reason.

Chicago Children's Museum (435 E. Illinois St. in North Pier Chicago, Room 370, Chicago 60611; 312-527-1000): Five one - week sessions of City Stalkers begin July 12 take children on explorations of Chicago with one session focusing on architecture, another on neighborhoods and foods, and others on the environment, transportation and news gathering; $ 100 per Children's Museum (435 E. Illinois St. in North Pier Chicago, Room 370, Chicago 60611; 312-527-1000): Five one - week sessions of City Stalkers begin July 12 take children on explorations of Chicago with one session focusing on architecture, another on neighborhoods and foods, and others on the environment, transportation and news gathering; $ 100 per children on explorations of Chicago with one session focusing on architecture, another on neighborhoods and foods, and others on the environment, transportation and news gathering; $ 100 per session.

Not only will extracurricular activities get your preschooler in contact with others, these activities will also help you find children in your vicinity — maybe even your neighborhood.

If you don't live in a diverse neighborhood and your child doesn't go to a school with kids of other races, surround her with children's books and artwork featuring people of different races.

All kids grow at different paces, so you can't determine whether your child will be short or tall just from comparing her to other kids at school or in the neighborhood.

Also take note of other things that interest your child visually — the ceiling fan, birds or fluttering leaves in the yard, or the neighborhood children jumping rope.

Diaz added, «Children in the Bronx and other poor neighborhoods across the city are in danger of being left behind in this rapidly changing work place.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

c) in fact has worked in many instances to obstruct, delay and otherwise frustrate elements of the reform agenda including the use of neighborhood schools, charter schools and all other available vehicles and opportunities to provide seats in performing schools to all children in the BPS,

In Dominican and African American families from poor areas of New York City, living in a neighborhood with dense traffic and industrial facilities increased a child's risk of developing asthma, according to Miller and other Columbia University researcherIn Dominican and African American families from poor areas of New York City, living in a neighborhood with dense traffic and industrial facilities increased a child's risk of developing asthma, according to Miller and other Columbia University researcherin a neighborhood with dense traffic and industrial facilities increased a child's risk of developing asthma, according to Miller and other Columbia University researchers.

They found that living in neighborhoods with strong social cohesion and trust — where neighbors are willing to help each other and generally get along — protects families against getting involved in the child welfare system.

But the movie implies Connolly is acting out something other than a repressed crush: It's the need of a bullied child in a tough neighborhood who looks to the biggest, meanest kid to protect and define him.

Poor kid, and poor everyone else — Griffin mildly chides Phoenix for lashing out at a woman scolding a child, telling her that taking it out on others isn't going to help, and then he vandalizes every car in the neighborhood.

But as Paul Tough writes in his book, Whatever It Takes, about Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone, Canada had something growing up that a lot of other kids in the neighborhood didn't: a mother with a couple years of college under her belt who realized that education doesn't only happen in school.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Third, many control group children may already have been attending a school other than one in their neighborhood as a result of expanded school choice policies, which also meant that children in the experimental group could stay in their original schools after their families moved.

«The Other Neighborhood» a film which won the Best Child - Made Film Award at yesterday's opening ceremony discusses a neighborhood that is deemed dangerous by the inhabitants of an area in Sharjah without actually naming it.

The children sometimes are surprised to learn that other people in their neighborhood, or even the school building, don't respond to conflict the way they do, but Connections teachers think the training can pass from their students into the smaller and larger worlds in which they circulate.

In Florida last year, the parents of nearly 1.5 million school children chose a school other than their assigned neighborhood school.

Part E of Title IV would also include funding for «education innovation,» Promise Neighborhoods (funding to nonprofit and other entities to benefit children in distressed communities), full - service community schools, arts education, Ready to Learn television, and gifted and talented education programs.

The Clinton Administration, signaling it will take a strong stand in controversies involving disabled students» desires to be educated with other children, has joined in a California lawsuit involving a mentally retarded girl who wants to attend her neighborhood school.

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

Many community schools operate year round and serve both children and adults in low - income neighborhoods as well as other areas.

But if these same failing schools were located in Center City or Chestnut Hill, does anyone doubt that the wealthy residents of these neighborhoods would choose charters or any other better option for their children?

Others take a finding suggesting that direct instruction provides some benefits for young children from chaotic neighborhoods or families as a mandate to constrain all teachers in a tightly scripted curriculum.

Pointing to LA Unified's soaring numbers of students living in poverty and learning English, Caputo - Pearl suggested, «If Broad and other billionaires want to ensure a great education for every child, they should invest half a billion dollars, and more, in an LAUSD foundation, run by the democratically elected school board, to fund sustainable neighborhood community schools that address the myriad educational and socio - economic needs of our students.»

It was a neighborhood school and a magnet school, part of LAUSD's voluntary integration program, for black and Latino children living in parts of the city beleaguered by poverty, violence, and other harms of racial isolation.

The board's vote followed months of intense pressure to reject the proposal from other black education advocates, who argued that charter schools give children in poor neighborhoods better school options.

It includes children from failing schools who are entitled to transfer to 223 (or any other middle school in good standing) under the No Child Left Behind statute as well as children whose families recently moved to the city or the neighborhood, often under duress.

Families in the Anderson area, an urban neighborhood of Reno, Nevada, were given the choice to transfer their children to other schools, and the school would soon be forced to provide supplemental tutoring.

Schools that educate our black children, in particular, in our own neighborhoods have always been undermined through the restriction of funds, quality staff, and other resources.

Renaissance schools can provide children in Camden not only with a neighborhood school experience, but also — based on the strong track records of KIPP, Uncommon and Mastery in other cities — a high - quality school experience.

The Orinda case drew special attention when it became public last fall, in part because the district had hired a private investigator to visit the child's other, less affluent neighborhood about 20 miles away.

For example, Terrasi and de Galarce (2017) describe a case of PTSD in a 2nd - grade student who previously got along well with his friends and was succeeding in school but who, after witnessing his mother being hit in the arm by a stray bullet while they were walking together in their neighborhood, became «defiant with his teachers... often hiding under a desk, knocking things down, hitting other children, and running out of the classroom» (p. 35).

The new formula will send more money to many schools in high - poverty neighborhoods, enabling principals to pay for psychologists, tutoring services or other tools that could better serve children in need.

North Star [one of the large Newark charter networks] serves effectively no children with limited English language proficiency, in part because North Star caters to a predominantly black student population from Newark's black neighborhoods, which remain geographically segregated from the city's Hispanic and other ethnic neighborhoods and are home to non-English speaking families.

Through PACK, local organizations and leaders worked to expand learning opportunities for children and families at home and in the community through afterschool programs, neighborhood celebrations, leadership development, youth engagement, social marketing and other activities.