Sentences with phrase «pushing for more family»

Still, a growing number of Canadian men are pushing for more family - friendly workplaces — and most employers are responding.

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And individuals are creating more innovative approaches to managing family - work balance, such as a reduction in working schedules, family support and a push for more shared responsibilities within the home.

Having made fashion more accessible, Hyman is turning her eye to the business world, pushing for family - friendly offices.

It's a perfect response to the nastiness of the tax plan being pushed by the GOP - controlled Congress and a way for the state to help middle - and low - income families by making wealthier individuals pay more.

It's just a small incarnational moment, hardly worth noticing for most of the world, but for me, this was a metaphor moment of life in the Kingdom, life in the glorious truth of worship in spirit and truth, Jesus - shaped leadership as servanthood, and so our family's lighting of another candle within community, with their affirmation and prayers and participation, pushed back just a bit more of the darkness, and then we scattered back out again.

I suppose that doesn't include Palestinian lives, what with the way the Jews pushed their way into what was once the «Palestinian Mandate» under England, forcing legitimate home and land owners from properties that had been in their families for generations, shoving them into refugee camps that exist to this day, and treating them like nothing more than dogs in the ensuing years.

Your Toddler's Disposition For a toddler who doesn't like to be held down, a booster seat can offer a little more sense of freedom and equality with the rest of the family since they are pushed right up to the table.

Instead, the authors of the study argue for policies that account for the realistic needs of individual families and setting more immediate short term nursing goals instead of pushing rule - based policies that new mothers might fail to reach.

According to Blumenfeld, other babies who need it include babies born via C - section, babies born with forceps or vacuum assistance, babies who had an internal fetal scalp monitor, babies born with any visible bruising or bleeding, babies who are being circumcised or have other upcoming surgeries, if you pushed for more than four hours, and if there is any family history of blood clotting disorders.

Efforts are underway within sectors of the academy at Oxford, including the push to install baby changing tables in some departments and to make the Middle Common Rooms (MCRs)-- spaces reserved for the comfort, sanity and fraternisation of postgraduate students in their respective colleges — more family friendly.

Schumer, the Senate minority leader, and King met with Teamsters Local 707 in Hempstead to push for the bill, which could help fund pensions for 4,500 Long Island families, including more than 3,700 retirees, Schumer said.

Excerpt: «Cut property taxes for middle class families and local businesses and push for more low - interest loans for Main Street businesses.»

For advocates in the Working Families Party and education organizations that have pushed for more school funding, the feeling has been mutual, suspicious a Democrat who they believe is a bit too transactionFor advocates in the Working Families Party and education organizations that have pushed for more school funding, the feeling has been mutual, suspicious a Democrat who they believe is a bit too transactionfor more school funding, the feeling has been mutual, suspicious a Democrat who they believe is a bit too transactional.

«If it is proposed that Labour MPs are being asked to vote for the government's plans to cut benefits to families, I am not willing to vote for policies that will push more children into poverty.

The Buffalo News: «Cuomo has made efforts in the past to push for a more ethical Albany, but he never seemed willing to go to the mat for it, as he is now for higher wages and family leave.

«If it is proposed that Labour MPs are being asked to vote for the government's plans to cut benefits to families I am not willing to vote for policies that will push more children in to poverty,» he said.

McMurray noted that the effort to push him out of the congressional race came soon after the Working Families Party endorsed actress Cynthia Nixon for governor, giving Cuomo more reason to worry about his own primary.

This week, House Democrats are beginning their push for a cap - and - trade scheme that makes big promises, but amounts to little more than a national energy tax that will destroy countless jobs and raise energy prices on families and small businesses already struggling during this recession.

«If more residents knew their building was burning dirty fuel that was bad for the health of their families and their neighbors, they might be more likely to push their landlord to switch to a clean alternative,» says Diana Hernández, the study's senior author and assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

It seems the important things like spending time with family and cooking at home often get pushed aside for other, more pressing events that fill up our time.

If enough families see that their child's likely future includes remedial education, then maybe they will start pushing their K 12 schools to do more to help prepare their kids for success at the postsecondary level.

Know your #SDGs / #GlobalGoals and hold adults and leaders accountable for them, push back if they try to make you believe that your country, language, tribe or family is greater or more deserving than the others, and look for opportunities to make a difference yourselves.

And the beauty of expanding school choice is that it generates its own advocates as families that benefit from these programs lobby to protect and expand their choices.We are almost at the point where ed reform organizations don't have to do very much other than to coordinate choice families pushing for more choices.

Ironically, advocates» success in pushing for more universal - style pre-K programs is probably dimming the prospects for more Perry - style intensive interventions in the lives of the neediest children and families.

On February 5, WBUR's Edify team reported that Families for Excellent Schools, the organization... Read more about Organization Behind Charter Push In Mass..

For more than a decade, Utah has been a leader among states in pushing programs to make early childhood education opportunities available to more families, particularly those burdened by low incomes and lack of access to nearby preschools.

But there is no mention that the vast majority of these parents pushing for more are already 1 - percenters (median family income in the district tops $ 150k), immigrants with advanced degrees, working on Wall Street or for one of New Jersey's many pharmaceutical companies.

ASCD supports some of the proposed changes, including the push for stronger family and community engagement, the extended grant period to allow for more planning and pre-implementation activities, efforts to address school climate, and the focus on tying professional development to teacher evaluations.

As an advocate, Kirkwood works every day to engage families and communities to get them more involved and to push for more quality options in cities that desperately need them like Buffalo and Rochester.

The Civic Coupe is one of the more expressive members of the Civic family, where it joins the new - for - 2017 Civic Hatchback in pushing Honda «s compact entry out of the practical doldrums and into something that could be a passion purchase.

All new for 2016, the eighth generation Maxima pushes the limits of what Nissan has ever done with its family sedan, making it far more appealing to those who refuse to sacrifice driving pleasure with the addition of kids.

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Yes, the leadership was pushing us to be more efficient with our resources, which I approved of, but the purpose wasn't to open our time up for more curiosity and exploration or to go home and spend time with our families.

The latest campaign, #SeeHer, by ANA's Alliance for Family Entertainment (AFE) is pushing for more accurate portrayals of girls and women in the media.

• We reject the idea that parenting requires hard work • We pledge to leave our children alone • That should mean that they leave us alone, too • We reject the rampant consumerism that invades children from the moment they're born • We read them poetry and fantastic stories without morals • We drink alcohol without guilt • We reject the inner Puritan • We fill the house with music and laughter • We don't waste money on family days out and holidays • We lie in bed for as long as possible • We try not to interfere • We push them into the garden and shut the door so that we can clean the house • We both work as little as possible, particularly when the kids are small • Time is more important than money • Happy mess is better than miserable tidiness • Down with school • We fill the house with music and merriment

«We are pushing for family law because it's the area of the most tangible need — nowhere are you going to find more depressing stats than family courts,» he says.

There has been a push for more transparency within the family courts and judges are encouraged to allow the press to attend, although orders can be made to restrict what can be published.

But cost of living and need for more space with expanding families often eventually push them to the fringes as well.

Facebook is also pushing the app as a far more secure way for youngsters to chat with friends and family online.

Overall, I find that parents who have experienced PACT stop wishing for the return of the joystick era and feel they know the right buttons to push to be more in control of all the relationships in their family.

My therapeutic effort includes a push for clearer boundaries, increased flexibility in family interactions, practice more empathy toward others in the family, and most importantly to teach modifications of the dysfunctional structure.

«As the leading edge of Millennials push into their 30s and form families, they are looking for more affordable housing and are going to the suburbs, causing companies to shift to those areas and smaller markets like Portland,» he adds, noting that the most popular markets have good mass transit and lots of retail amenities.