Sentences with phrase «raised his children as middle»

Robert Evans — the agent of a large estate in Warwickshire, near Coventry — had raised his children as middle - of - the - road Anglicans, but some of his daughter's teachers, in the «ladies» seminaries» she attended from age nine, were more enthusiastic.

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Mark From Middle River Or, believers are raising their children to be believers, and they are counted as such until many of them grow independent and feel comfortable enough to admit that they don't believe any more?

I like to think of her more as middle aged and she already publicly posted she stopped practicing to raise her children, that she breastfed.

The article takes the focus off the prosperous women whose child - care situations raised anxious questions when they were being considered by President Clinton for appointment as U.S. attorney general and instead examines a group it sees as the largest group of mothers frustrated in seeking good day care: middle - class working mothers in urban areas where nearly all the available caregivers are undocmented foreign workers.

«The IDC is going to make a positive change for New York's working - and middle - class families who struggle to send their children to college through our College Affordability for All plan, make sure our teenagers are treated as such by Raising the Age of criminal responsibility and create good - paying jobs through our Made by New Yorkers vision.»

Katko was raised in Camillus as one of the middle children among a gaggle of five girls and two boys.

However, while the most common forms of family engagement (such as encouraging parents to attend school events, serve as classroom volunteers, and participate on fund - raising committees) tend to line up well with middle - class child - rearing practices and family resources (Lareau, 2003), they can be less accessible to families who have recently arrived in the United States, or whose child - rearing practices differ from those of school leaders.

After that, it's natural to marry and buy a house to raise the resulting children, after which investing and ultimately retirement will become priorities as one reaches middle life and the later years.

She was raised as one of six children in a middle - class family that eventually became wealthy, with a powerful female energy (her mother was a well - known and highly respected political figure in Nigeria).

She would stubbornly pursue her own quiet «tentativeness» (as the poet and art critic John Ashbery once put it), just as she would soon marry a businessman, move out of bohemia, build a house overlooking the ocean near the Hamptons, raise a child and pursue a more conventional upper middle class lifestyle.

The new version is perfect for modern and old - fashioned mothers as the author expanded it with child - raising suggestions on how to deal grade school kids, middle - schoolers and young teens, in addition to the advice on dealing with babies and toddlers.