Sentences with phrase «parents had fewer child»

«When they're confident their children will make it past their 5th birthday, parents have fewer children.»

Child Care New Jersey's working parents have fewer child care options.

Not exact matches

Parents of highly creative children had an average of fewer than one rule,» writes Grant in the op - ed.

She's been reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a book off a shelf and share it with a child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.

Few parents would willingly admit to neglecting their children.

Already there are many thousands of present - day parents who were brought up with no religious faith and few standards, and they have had almost nothing, and sometimes less than nothing of spiritual value, to pass on to their children.

He wants to leave it to parents to decide if a child they don't want, and who has few prospects for being adopted, should live.

Consequently, when I see people reading an article or a news item on Israel, I react like a conscientious parent whose only child has developed an addiction to junk food; I want to sneak a few vitamins into the soft drinks and candy bars.

The children range in age from a few months to five years old, and they have come because their parents must work or look for work.

Mintz attributes this pattern to the fact that children and youth now have very few ties to adults other than parents and teachers, and even fewer opportunities within the broader culture to demonstrate and exercise their developing maturity.

«Few people have noted the irony of the appeals by the police to parents to «contact their children».

There appear to be no studies of children brought up by two male parents, and the few studies purporting to show that children with two lesbian mothers are in no way disadvantaged are typically flawed: they are taken from limited samples, have not followed the children's behaviour through time, and have generally been compiled solely on the lesbian parents» opinions.

there was a story a few years back, when i was in the army, when the army sent 100 soldiers behind enemy lines to bring back body pieces of israeli soldiers, just so the parents could have a place to bary their child.

Improved socio - economic conditions can be identified that motivate parents to have fewer children.

He had a normal birth, but, writes Andrew Solomon in Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, «things fell off over the next few months.

And three or four of the «town elders» would camp out for an hour or so on Halloween to give out some little goodies to the few children who's parents would have them stop by on their way to the bigger more happening trick or treat dwellings.

IRI GIRA Foodservice believes that increasingly fluid families — in particular fewer families with children and more single parent or single occupant homes — and more people working away from home has led to greater demand for convenient meal solutions.

A few weeks after my trip to Queens, I visited the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where a team of researchers led by Phil Fisher, a psychologist, has developed a series of interventions with parents that in many ways parallel the ABC program, though with one major difference: They use digital video as a teaching tool to help steer parents away from behaviors that cause fear and stress in children and toward patterns that promote attachment and self - regulation.

Since my last few weeks have been spent listening, sympathizing, educating, and mostly reassuring parents whose first (or second or third) child has left for college, thi...

I've seen you object in comments to parents who say they only needed a few nights or even 15 minutes of CIO to get to a child who cries less and sleeps much better.

Something I've been hearing more and more about over the past few years is that people — specifically parents — are asking friends and relatives to refrain from buying things for their children for the holidays or birthdays, but instead they are asking for experiences.

So, within your sample of parents you know who co-slept, you may have a few who did so out of necessity — and therefore have children who resisted sleep from the start.

In the past few months for instance, Reno has reported on a high school coach who allegedly gave his team the password to a porn site to create team camaraderie, a coach who allegedly pulled a gun on a parent after a game (not child abuse, but still pretty unsavory), and a youth cheer coach who stands accused of running a prostitution ring in her spare time.

Parents choose to have fewer children, later in order to pursue career and have an easier life.

For instance, many do not require that coaches receive training in recognizing the signs and symptoms of concussion, or require that parents be notified when their child is suspected of having suffered a concussion, and few penalize those who violate their provisions.

If you haven't already done so, read one of the many excellent books out there on sane parenting — Raising an Adult, Overloaded and Underprepared, The Blessing of a B Minus, Building Resilience in Children and Teens, Teach Your Children Well, or Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be — to name but a few.

When parents have mild to moderate conflict that involves support and compromise and positive emotions, children develop better social skills and self - esteem, enjoy increased emotional security, develop better relationships with parents, do better in school and have fewer psychological problems.

Even though I've written a book about parenting, the process of building a happy family continues to evolve, and after raising four children over a period of thirty - six years, there are a few things that stand out as lessons learned.

One of the best resources for how to parent for a secure attachment in the first few years of life is the new book Raising A Secure Child by Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell, all therapists who have worked with many different kinds of families for decades.

Gaps in breathing can be common in the first few months of infancy, according to The Natural Child Project, and by being close by, a parent can arouse or assist a baby who might be having respiratory issues.

I've heard of a few cases where a teacher asked a parent to take their child to their doctor to get ADHD medication.

They also should have a child's tray that can hold snacks and a cup, along with some type of tray for the parent that can hold a few cups and a storage compartment.

Researchers have found that parents and children ask fewer questions when reading an e-book together, and children have more trouble following along.

However, because some parents have voiced their concerns over some of these mind numbing games in the last couple of years, the toy developers have now come out with a few educational games that your child will enjoy playing.

But while schools often provide help and support for pupils who are going through the break - up of their home, few take into account the effect that having a parent in prison can have on a child.

Steve helps fathers see that the two hours spent at the contact centre interacting intensively with their child is something very few parents normally do — that it's a tremendous opportunity and can have a huge effect on their child, and their relationship.

So I apply a sense of humor with my children all of the time, so much so that my children have now begun to adopt the same sense of humor with me when I make the very few mistakes that I make as a parent.

She has a few tips for how parents can encourage their children to speak up for themselves.

As a parent, I can't imagine anything more painful than the loss of a child, and I have a few friends who have lost a child.

I have had quite a few parents of my students comment on how much better emotionally their children seem once they have a time and place to be creative and expressive.

The child - rearing «experts» just a few generations ago would be appalled at how today's parent educators encourage affection, nurturing touch, and comforting of our children.

Sharyn has always promoted that with a few parenting tools and creative discipline, we can communicate more effectively with our children.

Most parents have good intentions, and few intentionally harm their children.

This digital video system has the advantage of not only being affordable, but it is also expandable to include up to 4 cameras which is great for parents with a few young children.

Parents have reported fewer battles around activities that their child once found unpleasant.

Over the last few months, I've had to do something that as a parent I find so hard - walking away whilst my child cries.

While a lot of the book speaks to parents of slightly older children than mine, here are a few things I have learned from the book, and how I've applied them to my very young kids.

Secure Attachment — These children show fewer adjustment problems; however, these children have typically received more consistent and developmentally appropriate parenting for most of their life.

Some experts suggest that, particularly young children exhibit more anxiety and stress when they have permissive parents who give little guidance or set few limits.

In a few instances, child protective services have become involved in families where free - range parenting seems to be negligent.