Sentences with phrase «parents read to children»

Research has shown that home visiting programs increase children's literacy and high school graduation rates, and increase how much parents read to their children.

Parents» engagement in these activities was higher than that reported in the National Survey of Early Childhood Health (NSECH) 6 and the Commonwealth Fund Survey of Parents with Young Children (CWF).4 For example, more Healthy Steps parents read to their children daily or showed their children picture books (Healthy Steps, 68 %; NSECH, 52 %; CWF, 48 %) and had the same bedtime (Healthy Steps, 77 %; NSECH, 68 %).

Even if parents read it to their children, you can not put the book down.

When parents read to children, they hear more complex and sophisticated language which become the building blocks of their literacy and language development.

It is important that parents read to their children frequently, even when the children are capable of reading to themselves.

The disparity results, in part, from the fact that many low - income children don't attend pre-school; low - income parents speak to their children about one - third as much as parents who are professionals; low - income parents read to their children much less than do other parents; and low - income children watch much more television than do their peers.

At schools where most parents read to their children, teachers don't forgo their reading instruction, do they?

«Parents read to the children and the children read to their parents,» principal Donnette McNeill - Waters told Education World.

«Children do learn a lot when parents read books with them and many parents read to their children several times each week,» said co-editor Professor Jessica Horst of the University of Sussex.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends parents read to their children starting at birth.

For parents reading to their children, a book like Where's the Bear requires more effort than traditional baby books.

1) direct channels (for instance, the educated parent reads to her children in a more instructive manner);

English language learners can especially benefit from TTS even though it is no substitute for parents reading to children — ideally among the top goals of cell phone clubs.

Not exact matches

But even after leaving public office, her commitment to improving America's literacy continued — with initiatives like a partnership with NFL player J.J. Watt to encourage parents to read to their children — until the end of her life.

She plans to run her business from home and personally market her books in hospitals, day - care centers, schools, libraries and bookstores, where she will read her stories to children and sell the books to parents.

Imagine a child asking a parent to read a bedtime story only to be met with an «I'm busy».

When we were children, our parents told us to never stop reading.

Meet the innovator who is making it possible for parents and loved ones who are away from home to read bedtime stories to children.

The parents not only risked their lives, but they risked the lives of their children... To read how wealthy this man became and read he sent a care package, wow... I would be ashamed to meet this man today.To read how wealthy this man became and read he sent a care package, wow... I would be ashamed to meet this man today.to meet this man today...

In such a silence, if you have turned off the television and tempted your child away from his games with a good book, you can hear other things: the chatter and call of cardinals who have found the birdseed; the crack of a log in the fire; hot coffee being poured into a cup; the ticking of your last non-digital clock; the rhythmic breathing of tired child (or parent) who has dozed while reading; the soft thud of a book sliding to the floor.

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.

Many of her friends» daughters had also returned home from a broken marriage with a child or two that they dumped on their parents while they were out «catting around» in a futile tragic attempt to heal their bruised egos and Mother was quite thankful that I spent my after work hours in my room reading my bible.

«If parents didn't come into school, didn't come to parents» evening, didn't read with their children, didn't ensure they did their homework, I would tell them they were bad parents.

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.

Like so many other Christian writers, Chrysostom painstakingly outlines the specific obligations of parents to their children — reading the Bible to them, praying with them and acting as models of the Christian life for them.

It is the obligation of parents to maintain at least minimal standards in the home by appropriate regulation of the reading, listening, and viewing diets of their children.

Yet I would urge parents, especially today, to read this story to their children because of what it can do for us, the parents.

(It is getting worse: The ACLU sued to prevent Mormons from reading from pioneer journals on the Mormon Trail because they contained religious content, parents were detained because their children had pencils that said «Jesus» on them and so on.

For, God willing, children to whom The Giving Tree is read when they are young may eventually come to understand its meaning — and the meaning of having parents who read it to them — when they can - with rich memories — read it in turn to their own children.

Reading The Giving Tree to our children can thus inspire gratitude in us as parents and can encourage us to repay our debts to our own mothers (and fathers) in the only way we can — by gladly spending our substance in the loving care of our own children.

An innovative school program carried out at a mental health center in New York uses parent - tutors to assist in remedial reading, which often is needed by children showing maladaptive behavior.

As a parent, I read the passage with even wider eyes — imagine being asked to sacrifice your child, the beloved gift that you have waited for all of your life.

As they grow, children encounter many large and small crises both expected and unexpected: birth itself, weaning, toilet training, separation from parents, illness, accidents, the birth of a brother or sister, bad dreams, starting school, learning to read, making friends, adolescence — these and many other experiences provide the potential for problems of varying intensity.

When sexual promiscuity in almost every movie, when television airs homosexual dating shows, when you read the headlines of the magazine covers at the grocery checkout isles — it makes a parent wonder how to raise up Godly children in such an ungodly culture.

Read Between Parent and Child or Between Parent and Teenager by Haim Ginot (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1965 and 1969) for concrete help in learning how to relate intimately with your children.

Two weeks ago, I reported on a poll by Scholastic demonstrating the importance of parents reading aloud to their children well past the age that children can read on their own.

Have read many stories about children killing their parents sisters brother in the same way as in the game specially that ice hooky thing... killing people with to score points and sure drugs with such games are behind most crimes...

As for going by the «word» of the Bible... go back and read where it says a man can have his wife stoned to death if he «thinks» she's cheating on him (I think this would be called murder today) of that the parents can have the children killed for not obeying their parents.

Therefore, parents should be attentive to their own children's questions whenever the text is read and heard.

That is to focus this Commandment on the parent - child phase of life and to read it in terms of childlike respect and obedience.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

What made America strong was not military power, but literacy and education (which was often rooted in the desire of the parent for the child to read a Bible).

One by one, parents and children rose at the sentencing to read their victim - impact statements.

People who are being referred to as CIO advocates are loving caring parents who have usually read lots of books and tried a myriad of things before allowing a child to cry.

I would recommend actually doing some real observations of children going through sleep training before you make judgments (and this whole web page was very, very judgmental and reads more like anti-CIO activism to scare would - be parents from sleep training their kids).

However, I would feel really irritated if we were practicing CIO, and I read about all the harm it was causing my child — no one wants to be painted as being a bad parent!

I'd been considering therapy, but perhaps other things — such as The Anxiety - Free Child Program or simply reading more of The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Anxiety (I admit I just started it) or perhaps another visit to the pediatrician (now that I feel I have more pieces of the puzzle)-- would be useful as well.

Any parent SHOULD know NOT to let their child cry for hours!!!! Anyone who has read a book on CIO («Babywise», for example) should remember that there is no reason why a baby should cry that long.

«Parents could begin with a discussion of current events and the news, reading children's books about important historical figures who have championed social equalities, encouraging children to participate in small acts to conserve water and resources, and visits to urban and rural areas,» she says.

The book includes a Reading Guide that provides helpful historical context, and a Note to Parents, Caregivers, and Educators about the importance of teaching LGBTQ history and culture to children.