Sentences with phrase «parenting lament»

Sibling rivalry is a common parenting lament, so it's good to see Kate Mara so public about turning to her younger sister, Rooney Mara, for career advice.

On a parent yahoo group I frequent, one parent lamented «what's with kids on iPhones in restaurants?!»

As a teacher, I often hear parents lament that their children, when asked what they did at school today, reply, «Nothing.»

Many parents lament lending them their Nook Tablet or iPad, and this is the perfect device for kids to bring to school with them and cost effective enough so you're not anxiously micromanaging them when they use it.

One such parent lamented that with his wife moving, he would no longer be able to attend Cub Scout meetings or coach the soccer team.

Andrew Matthews, best - selling author of self - help books like Being a Happy Teen and public speaker to sell - out audiences, is no stranger to parents lamenting their daily struggle to communicate with their teenagers, as everything tells them — from the media to social media to other self - help books.

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Campaigners for workers» rights have long lamented that the US is the only industrialised nation that fails to mandate paid leave for new parents.

Rama's brother, Lakshman, also begged to accompany him in his exile, so the three set off, lamented by parents and by the citizens of Kosala, for their fourteen years in Dandak's forest.

In 1977 Robert McNamara, as head of the World Bank, saw in population growth the «gravest issue» short of nuclear war and in a particularly prophetic statement lamented that the decisions that had led to this growth were «not in the exclusive control of a few governments but rather in the literally hundreds of millions of individual parents who will determine the outcome.»

I sat down with a piece of toast to lament my plight as a solo parent and began idly thumbing through your latest issue.

Whatever the answer, I remember the good old days, when you trick - or - treated and lamented the licorice and ignored the curfew your parents set and nobody watched football in the driveway as you did so.

«Nobody knows who I am,» she lamented to her parents.

Yet in survey after survey adolescents lament the lack of parental attention and say they want to spend more time with their parents, not less; more free time, not less.

Many parents of twins lament the difficulty in trying to find cuddle time with both twins or trying to read with twins when they compete for lap space.

Parents in WITS schools lamented the fact that their children's improved lunches would likely revert to more processed food, a perverse result of legislation intended to improve school food overall.

Parents also lamented the price of the seat, saying they could get something easier for the price.

The parent of a sulky teenager will lament, «He's such negative person!»

-- laments her inner turmoil over all the many parents who hate her because she is «actually trying.»

Finally, some parents did lament the fact that it did not seem as versatile as some of the other Evenflo products, especially because there are so many on the market.

And as many a new parent has lamented, babies don't come with instruction manuals.

Providers have lamented that parents sometimes do not take into consideration that a child in a bodysuit and overalls — no matter how adorable they make look — is incorrectly clothed for potty training.

This is not the time and place to lament about how hard is life as a working parent, nor about how good it would be for children in general if their moms are staying at home.

The reporter said since the enrollment exercises across the country Monday, parents in the Region continue to lament about monies charged from them.

Spokesperson for the parents, Mr. Dapo Adesega, lamented that their children had been with the kidnappers for 14 days and that the state government had not communicate with them.

► A woman cries, lamenting that she missed a plane to her parent's home in the UK.

Zach's grief causes him to continue to accept a friendship with Beth's parents, who are also lamenting her loss in their own peculiar ways — at least until Beth suddenly re-appears from the dead as if just snapping out of a bit of amnesia.

When Amy, who bore the first of her two kids at 20, laments that she feels like she missed out on her 20s, Bad Moms briefly elicits pathos from that inevitable sense of loss that comes with becoming a full - time parent — the realization that your own life is, to some degree, over.

As one NAACP member recently lamented, «Black parents, I am sorry that you will have to listen to non-black people quote the NAACP to you as they basically tell you that you do not have the right to choose what you feel is best for your children.

Lightbourn lamented the study's central finding that, despite the impressive array of school choice options available to Milwaukee parents, «only 10 percent have been the active consumers that would exert market - based influence to [sic] the school system.»

Whatever you do, don't obsess or lament about high - stakes testing, deadbeat parents, unfunded mandates, or No Child Left Behind accountability.

Project Appleseed Grows Parent Involvement On National Parental Involvement Day 2010, Kevin Walker, the founder of the organization that created the holiday, advises schools not to lament the lack of parental involvement, but to use the day to invite parents to do more.

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Desmond - Hellmann laments, «We missed an early opportunity to sufficiently engage educators — particularly teachers — but also parents and communities so that the benefits of the standards could take flight from the beginning.»

High school teacher and instructional coach Tony Winger laments how traditional classroom grading practices lead to grades becoming a distraction from learning — a commodity students feel they work the system to attain — rather than a clear message to students and parents.

We lament the lack of civility, the loss of behavioral boundaries, and the irresponsible parents who have raised this child; and we justify the punishment as «holding the student accountable for his behavior.»

For years, the board has lamented the existence of charter schools and treated them as unwanted competition, placing onerous conditions on approval and roadblocks to sustainability, like the year - to - year facilities agreements that make life hard for schools and their parents and are part of the current disagreement.

They lamented losing their neighborhood school, Desert Trails Elementary School, to a controversial education law they'd fought so hard against: the so - called parent trigger.

WASHINGTON — Students, parents and teachers have long lamented the hours that kids spend taking standardized tests, especially since the introduction of the Common Core academic standards.

In comments to the New York State Council of School Superintendents, Board of Regents Chancellor Dr. Merryl Tisch, lamented parents who opt their children out of standardized examinations, compared them to people refusing vaccination for their children, and pledged that ``... we are going to continue to help students and parents understand that it is a terrible mistake to refuse the right to know.»

Designed for distribution at black churches around the state, «A Stone's Throw» relies exclusively on testimony of African American parents, students, educators and education - reform advocates, each with praise to sing about the wonders of charters schools or a lament about the lack of charters in Mississippi — even though the phrase «charter school» doesn't appear until a quarter through the film.

At Community Education Council hearings on the subject, PS 199 parents literally wept as they lamented that the rezoning is «fracturing our community.»

On National Parental Involvement Day, Kevin Walker, founder of Project Appleseed, advises schools not to lament the lack of parental involvement, but to invite parents to do more.

Black parents who are wait - listed to get into one of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies are hardly lamenting the fact that their kids may not get to go to school with a bunch of white kids.

Finally, when Tuck debated Torlakson he lamented the failure to provide parents test results for the item try - out last spring.

His parents are from South Africa, and, like the itinerant family described in his novel, The Laments, they couldn't stay put anywhere.

Throughout my decades of being a dog parent, most often I hear this lament from someone who has a puppy.

At a House Science Committee hearing on states» role in EPA rule - making, Republicans lamented a supposed parent - child relationship between the federal agency and its state - level counterparts.

I see a lot of parents of teenagers in my private practice and I often hear them lament how their children are very difficult to manage.

As in many cases that this writer has seen where he picks up a file from another lawyer or from a self represented litigant, the judge laments that she had «very little information upon which to assess the quality of the relationships between these children and their parents».