Sentences with phrase «parents more influence»

We want to give parents more influence and control over local services.

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They have more influence over their parents than they think!

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This is most noticeable in the Millennial generation of entrepreneurs who are more likely to be driven by the desire to increase their influence and have a positive impact on others than their parents» generation.

So I think your blog might qualify... though again, it is more of a blog about parenting and marriage than about Scripture and theology, and Paul's is quite a bit like Hyatt's, in that it is about leadership and influence.

I hope that this exercise helped you get better acquainted with your inner Child, Adolescent, and Parent sides and made you more aware of the ability of your Adult to control their influences.

It is no longer feasible to keep a child insulated from outside influences forever — and the longer a parent tries to do it, the more likely the kid will question things once they inevitably get access to the oceans of information we have at our disposal.

Our children are influenced by more then just what comes out of their parent's mouth.

When parents are afraid of other kids» bad influences, they restrict their children's access, isolating them further and creating more stress by interfering with their need to connect.

As girls grow, they tend to be more heavily influenced by their friends than their parents.

The OECD has recently said that «parental leave design is one of the few policy tools that are available to governments to directly influence behaviours among parents» (read more in their Doing Better For Families report).

• Children's behaviour is is more likely to influence parents» behaviour in stepfamilies than in intact families (for discussion, see Hetherington & Henderson, 1997).

We view it as a breaking away to become an independent adult, and although it often causes much strife when adolescents are more influenced by peers than by parents (rebellion, poor decisions, impulsivity), we rarely question the motivation for teens doing so.

His ideas about childcare influenced several generations of parents to be more flexible and affectionate with their children, and to treat them as individuals, which later led to the more permissive parenting styles as we know them today.

The DC school district's position directly pits Chartwell's business interests against the rights of DC parents to know if (a) their school district is being unlawfully denied funds to which it is entitled and (b) if huge food manufacturers are wielding undue influence over the FSMC, resulting in that much more processed, sugary foods on school lunch trays.

A study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in the US looked at the influence of both child care and the home environment on over 1,000 typically - developing children They found that parent and family characteristics were more strongly linked to child development than were child care features.»

And if, as they grow up, they are shaped or influenced in some mysterious way by their births, I hope it will be part of what makes their life textured in a rich and positive way and that the over-arching thing that they take with them is a deep knowing that they were each welcomed with immense love from their parents — certainly more love than I ever thought I had inside me.

And, I have a strong hunch that sleep and exercise will influence, if not fully enable, my second intention for parenting in 2010: more consistent patience with my 3 year - old.

Parenting books written by doctors and scientists began to exert more influence on mothers and a variety of parenting styles emerged throughout the 20thParenting books written by doctors and scientists began to exert more influence on mothers and a variety of parenting styles emerged throughout the 20thparenting styles emerged throughout the 20th century.

But in reality, parents have much more influence than they realize.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether Adlerian - based parent education classes influence parental behavior in the direction of being more authoritative.

Students from authoritative families were more likely than others to say that their parents — not their peers — would influence their decisions (Bednar and Fisher 2003).

Breastfeeding, more than any other single factor, has influenced my parenting style.

Studies showing the influence of child temperament upon parenting suggest that children who have high levels of negative emotionality or self - regulatory difficulties are more difficult to parent than other children.

The interactive effect of infant temperament and parent behaviour on child development has been explained by the «differential susceptibility model, «39,40 which proposes that highly reactive infants are more sensitive than their peers to both negative and positive environmental influences.

I think All Dr. Sears is saying is that if women did not have tons of outside influence, family, friends, books, TV, etc, and were more in touch with how they felt, they would parent in a more attached way.

I learned that most of us grew up in «dysfunctional» families and the way that we parent our children is influenced much more strongly by what we subconsciously learned from our own experiences in childhood, than by what we now consciously learn from books.

The more presence by a parent, especially by the mother, in early childhood — the greater the influence on her child.

Your GKGW group eventually becomes a «like - minded community» (the GFI term for it), with its own vocabulary and rationale for everything, and because you care deeply about the «moral health» of your kids (and keeping them «within the funnel»), you tend to mix more and more with the like - minded parents, and steer clear of other influences.

This month's book is focused on exploring the influence of childhood experiences and communication skills on parents» relationships... -LCB- read more -RCB-

Significant factors like: maternal morbidity, family history, prior birth trauma, socio - economic status, mental health history, expectations of childbirth, adjustment to the role of parent, and many more aspects can influence the way in which a woman and her family integrate and heal from a traumatic birth.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

According to an analysis of the more than 115,000 baby names registered on BabyCenter so far this year, the two presumptive presidential nominees are influencing parents» name choices, and there is an overall sense of patriotism affecting naming decisions.

When it comes to the impact of a father's love versus that of a mother, results from more than 500 studies suggest that while children and adults often experience more or less the same level of acceptance or rejection from each parent, the influence of one parent's rejection — oftentimes the father's — can be much greater than the other's.

Parenting involves many additional, more subtle positive influences, including being a role model, providing comfort and encouragement, sharing values, etc..

It is more a manifesto on the origins of, and influences on, parenting and family life from the very beginning.

The information that seems to indicate sex differences, Spelke says, comes from problematic studies whose results are colored by cultural influences — everything from parents responding differently to girls and boys to university faculties viewing identical job applications more skeptically when the applicant's name is female.

THE PROBLEM Since being beautiful tends to pay off for women more than for men, evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics wondered if natural selection might influence the sex of the offspring of beautiful parents.

Some parents are influenced more by the perception that there is now only a low risk that their child will become infected with, say, the polio virus.

These findings have influenced child - rearing practices ever since, and it is now taken for granted that the more time a parent talks to an infant, the better.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

What's more, the frogs seem to be doing it for the kids: Limited resources keep them close to their offspring - and to each other - a condition that may have influenced the evolution of parenting strategies in other species as well.

Researchers wanting to know more about the complex influences of multiple stars on planets have come up with two new case studies: a planet found to have three parents, and another with four.

As parents, we have much more influence than we think in our kids» diets (more on that in a minute)!

More correctly categorised as a type of anxiety disorder, compulsive hoarding appears to be influenced by emotional triggers or genetics, with many sufferers having at least one parent who is also a hoarder.

I definitely appreciate my parent's eating style and influence on my eating a lot more now than I did when I was eating buckwheat for school lunch while my friends had lunchables.

On the whole though, it's mums who are much more influenced by their children's opinion, with 75 % of those who parent under - 18s saying they wouldn't date someone unless their children liked them.

On the whole, though, it's single mums who are much more influenced by their children's opinion, with 75 % of those who parent under - 18 year olds saying they wouldn't date someone unless their children liked them.

(See on interracial dating sites) Conversely, in Brazil, race is based on various factors, like the physical appearance influenced by environment and genetics, socioeconomic status, and the race of the parents, and is therefore more flexible.

Researchers have examined just this — whose opinion, friends» or parents», has more influence on individuals» dating choices.