Sentences with phrase «parenting children from hard places»

We recently brought home our 4th and 5th adopted children from Haiti and I can attest to the fact that parenting these children from hard places is the HARDEST thing I have ever done.

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Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about the importance of predictability for children from hard places, and how parents can help children succeed by enabling them to know what to expect.

As a kind of surrogate dad for the circus of bastard children and, in some cases, their down - on - their - luck parents, Bobby tows the line with a steely stare or a hard word but comes from a place of genuine caring, dare I say loving.

In 2013, he briefly suggested that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was «impolitic» to place opposition to the Common Core State Standards upon «white, suburban moms» who don't want to find out that their children are not brilliant — just before he jumped in and declared that Secretary Duncan was right to be concerned that «a laudable set of guidelines» would be rejected for making kids work too hard, characterized most opposition to the standards as «welling hysteria» from the right and left wing, and chided parents concerned about the increasing lack of joy in school with declarations that portions of school ought to be «relatively mirthless» while blaming stories of students breaking down from stress upon their parents.

• it is in the interests of the children involved that the pool from which prospective parents are drawn be as wide as possible; • discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation is a serious matter because it departs from the principle of treating people equally; • local authority evidence suggested that even if the charity were to close its adoption service, children would be placed through other channels; and • local authority evidence suggested that gay and lesbian people were suitable prospective parents for hard to place children, and that such adoptions have been successful.

It is a trauma - informed intervention that is specifically designed for parents and caregivers of children who come from «hard places,» such as maltreatment, abuse, neglect, multiple home placements, and violence, but is an approach that can be used by parents and caregivers with all children.