Sentences with phrase «role than parents»

Those polled also believe science teachers play a larger role than parents and others in inspiring an interest in science, with 70 percent saying teachers have the most influence at the elementary level, and nearly 90 percent saying teachers have the most influence...

Permissive parents usually take on more of a friend role than a parent role.

Not exact matches

After all, an overwhelming focus on risk and harm creates fear, underplays possible benefits of technology, and limits parents» role to policing and protecting rather than mentoring and enabling.

This vision of childhood, in which the role of parents is to trust children and the role of children is to keep that trust, to be honest and good and, above all, not duffers, is to me a purer, sweeter, and infinitely more potent vision than any other a child is likely to encounter in literature.

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.»

«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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

To help children learn self - discipline, the parent needs to adopt the role of coach / teacher rather than that of disciplinarian and punisher.

Wise grandparents avoid such rifts by asking for the patience of the parents as they make the transition and by relishing the opportunity to enjoy their grandchildren as grandparents rather than bearing the many responsibilities of the parental role.

First, he cites a study that states, despite the rhetoric of father's rights groups, more dads want to «assist in the parenting role after separation than take over as primary caregiver.»

Parents» Effort Is Key to Child's Educational Performance Parents» efforts toward their child's educational achievement is crucial - playing a more significant role than that of the school or the child.

FNP's wide scope also draws the dads in, since the programme is concerned with far more than just the pregnant woman's body and covers health, parental role, home, neighbourhood, family and friends, parenting, resources and community and other services.

The argument that fathers should not have a greater role in parenting after separation than they had before separation ignores the significance of the change that separation can make to fathers» attitudes to the parenting role.

A parent for each child is present, like parent - child class, however, the parents begin to take on roles for the class rather than just for their child, more in the vein of a co-op.

More often than not, the role of mother - in - laws get a bad reputation for meddling or dishing out completely unhelpful parenting advice.

Every year, API presents an equally timely theme in parenting, and this year — perhaps more than ever — we need October's 31 days to concentrate on the role of parenting and family relationships in nurturing peace not only in our communities but also in fostering worldwide harmony.

Part of that transition is that friends take a preeminent role in their lives — often becoming more important than parents and family.

In my role as an advocate for athletes involving coach - athlete sexual abuse, athlete - on - athlete sexual abuse, athlete cyber-bullying, athlete sexual hazing as well as many forms of athletic abuse in general, much of the work I do with Safe4Athletes tends to be less with the athletes than with parents of young athletes who have been abused, bullied or harassed.

And while 47 % of parents in two - parent households where both the mother and the father work full time say they and their partner play about an equal role when it comes to taking care of sick children, the same share says the mother does this more than the father.

Learning how to balance your work, parenting, and relationship roles takes time but there are more resources than ever to help.

For parents who have themselves experienced abuse, it can be very difficult to feel confident about doing things differently than their parents because they didn't have positive role models.

When it comes to a parent's happiness, the role that parenting plays is a matter of subjectivity, as well: Attachment - minded parents are happy to give their children more attention than not, whereas parents of other parenting approaches may argue that a child seeking attention is being manipulative; attachment parents simply do not view children, or their choices, in this way.

As parents take a more active role in their children's education, inside and outside of school, their taking advantage of these opportunities is more important than ever.

Today» society also brings about challenges that have become harder than ever to be a parent, but it can take on a whole new role when... more

It's useful to remember that families are usually very hierarchical by nature and the role of parents is to lead the tribe or gang rather than resolve individual problems.

He won't consider labor and delivery nothing more than his partner's job because, well, unless she's the virgin Mary, she didn't apply for the parenting role solo.

It is about finding a psychological identity that is separate from parents — that they have a role in the family or at school, they know what that treasured and valued role is, and that they do feel accepted and loved but also a bit «separate», a bit ready to take a view on something... there is a shift toward the child having real opinions about the world, that may be different than the parent's view, and that in this view that the child has a continuous self and therefore can participate in learning.

Involved parents take on a partnership role with their child's school, rather than viewing the school as being an independent authority in charge of educating children.

«Although well intentioned, the last Government received very little for their money in terms of social mobility and a reduction in the gap between the rich and the poor, and they have further fuelled a culture of benefit dependency in which children grow up seeing parents and grandparents who have never worked as their role models, in which people are better off living apart than living together, and in which there is no incentive to work because of the fear of becoming worse off.

His words were echoed in the Commons by Schools Minister Nick Gibb who said: «We see a new and stronger role for local authorities emerging over the years as champions of parents and pupils, challenging rather than defending underperforming schools.»

We need a comprehensive strategy to fix rather than abandon struggling schools, and we need to give parents — who have for years been ignored by the city's Department of Education — a real role in important decisions about their local schools.

«We found that the amount and type of input children with brain injury receive from their parents or caregivers plays an even bigger role in syntactic and narrative development (but not vocabulary development) than it does in children without injury,» said Levine.

The fact that adolescent smoking was more strongly affected by parents who were current smokers than by parents who had quit, the authors write, suggests a role - modeling effect.

The study differed from past research because it focused solely on the roles of parents, rather than the child or her mentors.

A parent's age may play a role — children have a greater risk of Down syndrome if they're the offspring of older parents, and a child born to a 45 - year - old father is 3.5 times more likely to have autism than a child born to a 24 - year - old father.

And although Owen might not be a parent's first pick for a role model, he does a better job of it than any of the other grown - ups in this movie.

The film presents a lot of statistics — almost more than can be taken in on one viewing, in fact — about the state of manhood in this country, but it also shows examples of what parents and teachers and coaches and other role models can do to raise men who can be strong and powerful without shutting off their feelings.

Mr. Mom is, in parts, hilarious — most often when it's Jack coming to terms with his self - image in a role that he feels is emasculating, rather than in scenes built upon flimsy jokes about his ineptitude as a parent, or in the home environment.

Clearly intended as an introduction to discussion rather than a particularly entertaining animated film, it becomes the role of the parents with The Pagemaster to point out the references it makes along the way: Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Melville's Moby Dick, Shelley's Frankenstein, Verne's 20,000 Leagues, Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Perhaps there is an overuse of hulking John Cena crying, but that's less cringe - inducing than the role - playing of Gary Cole and Gina Gershon (parents of one of the girl's dates).

Robert DeNiro and Virginia Madsen as Joy's parents are more broadly drawn as naysayer and eccentric — role surprising smaller than the first act promises, but still fleshed out.

They don't care any less about their children or value education less than English speaking parents, but understanding how the system works, let alone finding a role for themselves in it, is not as straightforward as marching up to the principal and saying, «Sign me up.»

More than a dozen groups have joined in drafting a document that outlines the roles education professionals and parents should take to start successful «response to intervention» programs in schools.

For much of the past century, and perhaps today more than ever, schools played a key custodial role that allowed parents to earn a livelihood while their children have a safe space to spend the day with caring adults and to socialize with friends.

Principal mentors help their mentees identify unique school cultures, the varied roles of search committee members (parents, students, teachers, central office administrators, consultants), and what must be said — rather than what not to say — to gain the advantage.

Teachers and parents can feel compelled in their role to help students fulfil their potential and work towards the high expectations alongside the students, rather than dictating the goals for the students and leaving them to achieve them on their own.

In my experience, these complaints are often from parents who have different expectations about learning and the role of home and school than you do.