Sentences with phrase «proper role of the parent»

The proper role of the parent is to provide encouragement, support, and access to activities that enable the child to master key developmental tasks.

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If the Husband, Slave Master or Parent is not submitted to Christ and leading in a way that Christ would lead His church then they are abusing their role of leadership and not taking the proper responsibility.

We can go back and forth all day about parenting philosophies, but at the end of the day, that whole «proper role of government» question boils down to this — if you want the government imposing upon the free interactions of others to serve your preferences, at the very least, it's incumbent upon you to prove that the government action (in this case the classroom environment) is the independent variable that deterministically thwarts your goals for your child.

But it will and should lead us not to Washington but to a proper redefinition of the role of states (akin to Canadian provinces) and to the roles of individual schools, parents, and choice.

That question is increasingly at the center of a heated dispute — one that boils down to whether Uncle Sam's proper role in K - 12 education is to provide resources, demand changes, or simply get out of the way of states, districts, and parents.

«Parents who opted their children out of state exams in recent years became the focal point of major education debates in the country about the proper roles of testing, the federal government, and achievement gaps,» writes Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa.

The irony of course is that the nation's teachers unions — especially UFT's parent organization, the American Federation of Teachers — have adopted the language of racial justice activism (and have appropriated the Black Lives Matter name) in an effort to deflect attention from their role in perpetuating the systems that deny black and brown children a proper education.

For most parent groups trying to assess their proper role in the post-NCLB landscape, there's a sense of feeling their way slowly through uncharted territory.

Nationwide, increasing numbers of parents are tiring of annual standardized testing becoming a goal in and of itself instead of taking a proper role in monitoring the education system.

Ultimately, it is up to parents or other significant role models in a child's life to guide them in the discovery of what is a proper pet, how to handle, care and feed pets as well as the commitment made to an animal we take into our custody... that it's for the life of the pet....

In Virginia, a court may consider any of the following factors, among others, in making a decision: The age and physical and mental condition of the child, giving due consideration to the child's changing developmental needs; the age and physical and mental condition of each parent; the relationship existing between each parent and each child, giving due consideration to the positive involvement with the child's life, the ability to accurately assess and meet the emotional, intellectual and physical needs of the child; the needs of the child, giving due consideration to other important relationships of the child, including but not limited to siblings, peers and extended family members; the role that each parent has played and will play in the future, in the upbringing and care of the child; the propensity of each parent to actively support the child's contact and relationship with the other parent, including whether a parent has unreasonably denied the other parent access to or visitation with the child; the relative willingness and demonstrated ability of each parent to maintain a close and continuing relationship with the child, and the ability of each parent to cooperate in and resolve disputes regarding matters affecting the child; the reasonable preference of the child, if the court deems the child to be of reasonable intelligence, understanding, age and experience to express such a preference; any history of family abuse; and such other factors as the court deems necessary and proper to the determination.

We believe that PBS and its affiliates owe the public a more thoughtful examination of the proper role of non-custodial parents after separation or divorce.

In determining the best interests of a child, the court considers a variety of factors including the age, physical and mental condition of the child as well as each parent, the needs of the child, the role of each parent and the rapport of each parent, and the «willingness and demonstrated ability of each parent to maintain a close and continuing relationship with the child, and the ability of each parent to cooperate in and resolve disputes regarding matters affecting the child,» family abuse, and «other factors as the court deems necessary and proper to the determination.»