Sentences with phrase «realities of raising children»

Many parents experience grief as they face the realities of raising children with reactive attachment disorder.

Yet, they don't understand the realities of raising children with RAD.

On Thursday September 29th, Creative Capital artist leader, choreographer and father of two Andrew Simonet will be leading our Artists Raising Kids webinar, sharing his knowledge — both from personal experience and through the stories of other artist parents, on the realities of raising children and maintaining a sustainable and enriching artistic practice.

But the risk is that without attention to the social and cultural realities of raising children in a country that does not offer paid parental leave, does not invest in quality child care, and in general does not significantly support parents or children, these recommendations may leave parents in a difficult or even untenable bind.

Being met with the reality of raising a child is no easy feat.

The not - so - sexy reality of raising children has usurped our sex life.

Reportedly, the Cheaper by the Dozen source novel explored the reality of raising children, while the film goes completely in the other direction.

They just don't understand the realities of raising a child with RAD.

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Pretending that gay marriage, with two committed adults raising children, is somehow going to damage the family unit is a fear that is not founded on any sort of reality.

In contrast to Beck's stratospheric narration, Zuckoff reports the daily, prosaic work of Greg and Tierney Fairchild as they gather copious medical information, discern vocation and then live with the delicate reality of raising an interracial child with Down syndrome.

The reality, though, is that having people over when you're raising three young children, is a metric TON of work.

We'd also like an equal partner, one who will supply «the basics of a relationship,» which also happens to include the day - to - day realities of being a couple, living together and perhaps raising children as co-parents.

The M.O.R.G.A.N. Project The M.O.R.G.A.N. Project stands for Making Opportunities Reality Granting Assistance Nationwide.This group, established by parents Robert and Kristen Malfara, supports families in their journey of raising a special needs child, be that child biological, adopted or within the foster care system.

While some couples enjoy their empty nest as a time to travel and reconnect as a couple without the distraction of raising children, the reality is many long - married couples fall apart, finding themselves strangers with nothing to say to each other and years of built - up resentments.

The story he tells about his family's journey through adopting and gently parenting his daughter, Elena, is an inspiration to all parents struggling through the newborn phase, coping with the realities of a special - needs child, or hoping to parent their children in a more healthy way than they themselves were raised.

When our children are little we only know that reality and often we narrow our focus to only the here - and - now (like potty training, tantrums, feeding toddlers healthy meals, getting them to nap etc), but what we really should be doing is focusing on the long term goal of raising our children to become successful adults.

Volunteers around the world are working everyday on programs, locally and online, to educate and support parents in raising children whose brain neurons are forming each child's reality of love.

But unlike married women, a single woman faces the arduous process and costs of adoption alone and with the reality that she may end up raising her child alone without a father or a partner.

Page after page, I ached for Oksana, the twelve - year - old heroine, for the sad reality that was / is her life and that of many other orphanage - raised, severely traumatized children who fear to trust and open themselves to attachment.

While acknowledging the daily reality that parents face, Schaefer's humor and experience make this book a must for parents who want to preserve the peace and also the joy of raising a child.

«The media likes to convey a romantic sense of raising children,» Haltzman said, «but it's not always the reality.

So hopefully we'll raise our kids» generation to carry on our ideals of diversity and acceptance, regardless of what our own children's realities are.

Raising Black Boys is an honest dialogue about some of the tough realities and complex issues that Black children may experience and how their parents can guide, support and prepare them for a society that is far from color blind.

This incredibly misinformed and short - sighted policy statement demonstrates the ever growing disconnect between conventional medicine and the realities of how a growing number of informed, health conscious parents are raising their children today.

He's depicted here living with his white wife, Serena (Keri Russell, pictured above), and a black ex-slave, Rachel (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), the pair of them jointly helping to raise Rachel's child, though in reality Knight had five children with Rachel and nine with Serena.

A 2009 study raises questions about children's abilities to fully understand what they have encountered; it found that about half of children who had experiences in virtual reality recalled them as if they had occurred in the physical world — a powerful but also troublesome finding.

Two years ago, the Obama administration and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan raised eyebrows and garnered criticism from school reformers when it allowed Virginia's state education officials to retroactively set the proficiency targets it had to meet under the No Child Left Behind Act — and make the performance of its schools look better than reality.

Suddenly, all your fantasies about what your child will be like are replaced by the realities of the responsibility you are about to undertake, and the looming questions about how to nurture and raise this new little person.

Through a series of photos, virtual reality experiences, films and educational activities for children, the exhibit will raise awareness of the unique diversity of these reefs and the impacts of climate change on them.

Being forced to raise your children in the shadow of a petrochemical plant or an oil field is a frightening reality that no family should be forced to live with.

I can not claim to be a close follower of the legal wrangling between Jon and Kate Gosselin, the ill - fated stars of the reality TV show that was to follow their lives together raising eight children.

[68] This is not a mere quirk of family law, but the reality of most family units where one spouse withdraws from the workforce (or reduces his or her working hours) in order to raise children.

The USDA data does not provide information on the costs of raising a child across two households, which is the reality for most children in the child support system.

I would say that the classes are great for people that already have a young child because in reality the class teaches how to have better and more effective communication with your partner with the massive new pressure and stress that comes with raising a new child and the effect it has on the dynamics of the parents» relationship.

In journalist Lisa Chedekel's recent article Desperate Choices: Giving Up Custody for Care, she poignantly relays the tragic reality of adoptive parents raising children with reactive attachment disorder.

While protecting the best interest of the child is the appropriate goal for any population considered, the overlay of custody analysis, based on white, middle - class precepts of gender rights and privileges regarding the raising of children, does not sufficiently account for the realities of parental roles and responsibilities in many District of Columbia households.

Another example raises the question of what influences advocacy, this one from a woman lawyer and AFCC activist who inexplicably lobbies for joint custody and father's rights (and more therapeutic jurisprudence in the courts) even though the arrangement worked for neither herself as a child, nor, ultimately, her own daughter: [ANONYMOUS LISTSERVE COMMENT]: «In personal life, we learn things about the day to day realities too, that influence the lenses through which we see life.