Sentences with phrase «role of parenting as»

The design of such studies does not permit an analysis of the potential role of parenting as a moderator of the relationship between early risk and later outcomes.

Independent of the California ruling, teacher union leaders across the country have left no doubt how they feel about the role of parent as teacher.

The Act directly addresses the increased role of parents as active partners in the learning process.

OPK emphasizes the role of parents as their child's first and most important teacher and builds relationships with families to support:

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As the parents of three young children, Paul and Milena Berry spend a lot of time thinking about the role of social media in their lives.

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).

Instead, ask a CEO mom how they, as individuals and as a community of business professionals, can help each other embrace the opportunities, lessons, and payoffs of the dual leader / parent role with grace, optimism, and success.

«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.

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...

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.

The role of your parents, in - laws, siblings and friends all shift the moment you say «I do,» because when you join together as one, you've chosen to put your spouse above all others.

Dr David Landrum, director of advocacy at the EA, said: «As we expected, the report shows how strongly faith groups, parents and others feel about proposals to register and regulate out - of - school settings, and in particular about the role of Ofsted.

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.

This involves expressing his love and respect for her, creating opportunities for continued sharing on as many levels as feasible in light of the new demands of parenthood, encouraging her to maintain at least one satisfying interest outside the home and the marriage, and taking over the parenting role regularly to give his wife a «chance to come up for air,» as one young mother put it.

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.

[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.

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.

Drawing on the work of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, Barnhill encourages readers to view parenting as a spiritual practice through which God shapes us rather than as «a role filled with high expectations and the resultant disappointments.»

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!

During the nineteenth century, the spiritual power attributed to parents — especially mothers — gradually undermined the priestly role of the Protestant pastor as an agent of God's grace.

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.»

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

The grand - parents and parents play their role as wisdom teachers at home, as they transmit wisdom to the children at different stages of their life.

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.

Thus, by abandoning the man - woman distinction in favor of the heterosexual - homosexual distinction, homosexual activists demand not parenthood (paternity or maternity), but the right to some new abstract parental status that reduces the role of the «parent» to the exercise of certain functions such as education.

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.

Stop bashing young dads — and support them to help their children The Fatherhood Institute calls on government - funded services aimed at supporting parents to identify and support young fathers as well as young mothers, rather than dismiss them as «feckless» and reduce their role to that of cash providers.

«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.»

As parents, researchers, and educators, we embrace the role of this type of stress, as it can help kids to stretch and achieve in valuable wayAs parents, researchers, and educators, we embrace the role of this type of stress, as it can help kids to stretch and achieve in valuable wayas it can help kids to stretch and achieve in valuable ways.

Practical guidelines that recognize the critical parenting role and related challenges can help parents attend to their infant's needs at night while avoiding risky products or products that do not provide the full benefits of sleeping in proximity, such as baby monitors, and avoiding falling asleep in chairs, rockers or sofas.

The Fatherhood Institute calls on government - funded services aimed at supporting parents to identify and support young fathers as well as young mothers, rather than dismiss them as «feckless» and reduce their role to that of cash providers.

Plus, every parenting book I read as my kids became adolescents themselves talked about the changing role of a parent — you become less of a manager and more of a consultant.

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.

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.

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

Finding a support network of other lesbian or same - sex couples, or parents who parent in less traditional ways, including single parents, may be helpful as you both find your way in your new parenting roles.

... In addition to their role as observers and reporters, parents have been identified as exceptionally important in the development of gifted school children and unusually talented young adults.