Sentences with phrase «role is as a parent»

You might wonder what will happen during the sessions and what your role is as a parent in the counseling process.

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After the deal is completed, Buffalo Wild Wings will operate as a privately held subsidiary of Arby's Restaurant Group, with the CEO of Arby's, Paul Brown, holding that same role in the parent company, according to a release.

Hal Lawton, 43, is leaving his role as eBay's senior vice president for North America to take on what is essentially the No. 2 job at Macy's (Bloomingdale's, part of parent Macy's Inc, is largely run as an independent retailer with its own CEO, who reports to Macy's Inc CEO Jeff Gennette).

Robin Thicke was never sold to tweens and their parents as a role model.

«Being listened to, first of all, is a really key thing [for young people] and of course we can all play a role in that: as parents, as friends, as uncles, aunts, teachers and other professionals.

Our role as parents, I believe, is the same as our role as Christians: to do the best we can with what we have and what we know; and, after that, to live our entire lives in a constant state of humility and repentance.

Gay and lesbian couples should be supported in their role as parents, whether their children come from previous heterosexual relationships, adoption or artificial insemination.

Just as history brings freedom from rigid role definitions, it may also give us the freedom to think seriously again about what it means to be not simply a unisex parent, but a mother or father in particular.

John Boyle FAITH Magazine July - Aug 2007 Finding ways of helping parents to take on board their role as primary «educators in chastity», and to be aware of the practical ways in which...

I know there are so many ways to describe one's role as a parent — different seasons for different roles for different children.

I looked to Adam and Eve as a role model for parenting and found that they were terrible parents.

One of the most difficult experiences of mid-years couples is the reversal of roles, as aging parents become increasingly dependent on them — emotionally, if not physically.

It was thought that the family as an institution would suffer if men gave up their work roles for parenting roles.

It is time for us to grow out of our juvenile, neurotic absorption with our frailties and begin assuming our roles as God's earthly parents.

Acquiring spouse roles is even more complicated if the couple simultaneously must acquire new and demanding roles as parents.

If parental status is a matter of intent, however, not of genes, absent fathers can say: «I never intended to take on the role of that child's parent; therefore I'm not morally bound to act as a parent.»

So, he invited several couples to meet for eight to ten sessions to explore their mutual concerns related to their roles as parents of soon - to - be adolescents.

Write as who you are: a gay or lesbian person, a parent, a pastoral minister, a counselor, a youth worker, a chaplain — whatever your role is.»

[10] As mentioned above, shortly to be published Australian research of mine found that: «84 \ % of parents believe that parents should play at least an equal role with schools in sex education.»

Once parents are relieved of any understandable fears about having to teach their young children how to have sex, it will be easier to convince them of the importance of exercising their God - given role as educators in chastity.

This is more obvious in congregations where there are support groups for parents and where the pastor communicates the role of the church as the family of faith through careful preparation of all members for baptisms and weddings.

Every parent has a right and a duty to ensure that their primary role as educators of their children is not sub-contracted out to schools.

Many who hear him in his preaching and teaching roles are in attitude - molding positions as parents, teachers, and community leaders.

Yet not too many of us think that we need to throw our children to popular culture willy - nilly, I can't think of anyone who denies the importance of a stable and loving family for a child, anyone who thinks that by creating a strong community we are abdicating our roles as parents, not at all.

It examines the role of the teacher as not only an educator, although precisely what this term implies is discussed, but also as witness, parent, guide, minister and cosmologist!

This role might be carried out not only by supporting the mediating institutions involved, but also, as in many European countries, by adopting measures that make it easier for a parent to remain at home for the first year or two after a child is born.

Thus Christians are constantly summoned to break through the sometimes rigid circumscriptions of their roles as parents, citizens or professionals.

CANON 796 $: 1 Among the means of advancing education, Christ's faithful are to consider schools as of great importance, since they are the principal means of helping parents to fulfil their role in education.

Here, under «Home, School and Parish», a spirit of «collaboration» is mentioned and the «Church» teaching that parents are the «first teachers» (not «primary educators») is explained as «underlin (ing) the role and responsibility of parents within the home as the place where faith is formed and nurtured.»

«Pro-life people,» she wrote, «believe that one becomes a parent by being a parent; parenthood is for them a «natural» rather than a social role The values implied by the in - vogue term «parenting» (as in parenting classes) are alien to them.»

Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.

«This is my body» aims to give parents the confidence to fulfil their role here as the primary educator of their children.

The university today is far too homogenous and institutionalized for Locke to approve of it, and far more Platonic in that it sees its role as replacing the education of the parent and even remedying its ill effects.

So before you think the worst and judge someone because they are not doing what you are doing, find out what they ARE actually doing and even if you do not agree, respect their role as a parent who is not perfect and is still learning just like yare not doing what you are doing, find out what they ARE actually doing and even if you do not agree, respect their role as a parent who is not perfect and is still learning just like yare doing, find out what they ARE actually doing and even if you do not agree, respect their role as a parent who is not perfect and is still learning just like yARE actually doing and even if you do not agree, respect their role as a parent who is not perfect and is still learning just like you.

This is important because it helps create a situation where dads (by which we mean the full diversity of men with a significant caring role in children's lives, including biological and other fathers and father - figures), as well as mums (in a similarly diverse sense), feel comfortable and valued — in the context of a culture which still privileges women as more naturally suited to caring, and more important as parents (and by extension, less important in other contexts, eg the workplace).

(Further things to consider: «X When providing support to fathers, be aware of cultural issues: the fact that parent support can be considered as a female domain, that accessing support is an admission of failure, and that fathers may lack basic confidence about what their parenting role should be.

«SPL is far from perfect as a policy, but we need to give it time to «bed down» and for employers to get to grips with their vital role in supporting mums and dads to share it more equitably — to the benefit of both parents» careers, and their children's wellbeing.»

Our role as parents is not to help our kids with their homework.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

this is all about an interest in independence and our role as parent is to allow that process to occur.

As such, API is responsible to the parents in those communities and wishes to provide the necessary preparation and support needed for those who volunteer in the role of Leader.

Under the changes, mothers will be able to transfer maternity leave to fathers from 2 weeks after the birth of the child (rather than 20 weeks as now), in theory encouraging both parents to take a full role from the start — with all the benefits that brings.

A little bit of flexibility can help enormously in expanding the role of both parents in the care of the child — work flexibility for men is of primary interest to women, just as flexibility for women is of primary interest to men.

When labels are applied to anything as complex as all of the choices and love and anguish that go into being a parent, that role is immediately trivialized and for some frightening reason parenting is converting into following a set of rules (or «principles») rather than living in the moment, responding to your child and doing the best you can with what you've got.

According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.

Elisabeth's mission is to support parents in getting the skills they need to restore their confidence as parents and their enjoyment in the role.

As fathers, it's good for us to honor moms — our own mothers, who helped to nurture and shape us, and our children's mothers, who are our teammates in the parenting role.

That's the beauty of making choices as you acclimate to your new role as a parent.

Remember, the idea is not to never get angry as a parent — the idea is to be a good role model for your child by handling your anger appropriately.

Parenting is as much a relationship as it is a role.