Sentences with phrase «say about being a parent»

I have felt reassured by many things you say about being a parent.

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And when I say procto - parents, I mean parents who are totally into minding their kids» and everyone else's business, but don't know the first thing about effective education, or how to build the kind of self - sufficient, self - starting students that we actually do need to compete in the global marketplace.

When I was brought up, if I ever said anything ill about someone, my parents would put me in front of a mirror and make me stand there for 10 minutes and say how badly it reflected on me.

Although the T. Rowe Price survey found that 69 percent of parents are very or extremely concerned about setting a good financial example for their kids, 40 percent are relying on a «do as I say, not as I do» attitude for teaching their kids about money.

«Probably the mistake parents make most is that they don't have conversations about money with their kids,» said Laura Levine, president and chief executive of the Jump $ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy.

LinkedIn career expert Nicole Williams says entrepreneurs and individuals working in new fields such as social media or technology can especially benefit from inviting parents into their working lives, as their parents are most often confused about what their children working in these new fields do for a living.

«We want to be thoughtful about what we do, giving parents the right tools to oversee their kids» use of our products,» USA Today quoted Diwanji as saying.

«It is an ongoing process where parents perform the activities with their children, and they talk with their children about how they felt,» said Dwight Burlingame, a professor of philanthropic studies at

Certified financial planner Thomas Henske of Lenox Advisors says the onus is on parents to educate their children about financial literacy.

Parents are actually doing a disservice to their children by teaching them about finances solely via cash, Carmichael said.

«Kids and their parents weren't connecting about this provocative topic, and they felt isolated from each other on both sides,» said Powell speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif. on Monday.

Parents worrying about their children probably won't be focused on keeping the company in shape through the disaster, says Freitag.

Students shouldn't borrow more in loans than they'll make in their first year of employment, said Jeff Selingo, author of «There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.»

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

That expert also said, «The good news is that parents know more about child development than ever before.»

This is all very fascinating if you're an education professional or a parent, but does this science have anything to say about how to handle Millennials in a professional context?

«Probably the biggest influence [my parents have] had is about always being very respectful of other people,» he said.

But she says her research shows that even when we're talking about children as young as a year to 3 years old, parents can help them develop growth mindsets.

The sales slowdown comes as about half of the company's Canadian Tim Hortons franchisees joined an unsanctioned organization to fight against what they say is their corporate parent's mismanagement of the coffee - and - doughnut chain.

She says your financial history could give clues about «what kind of parent you're going be, what kind of friend you're going be [and] what kind of partner you're going be.»

The parents are usually relieved to learn about it so they can stop it, he says.

Doug Lockwood, a financial planner at Hefty Wealth Partners in Auburn, Ind., says he is having many more conversations with clients lately about young people saving money — although mostly these involve affluent parents expressing their fears over how their grown children will get by in more trying times.

Stephens said when her parents confronted Nassar about the abuse, Nassar convinced her parents that she was lying.

Well, the onus is on you, the parent, because you can't count on them learning about money matters in school, said Thomas Henske, a certified financial planner and partner at Lenox Advisors.

She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

«When you think about things at scale that we do to get people to care more about Messenger, this is one that addresses a real need for parents,» say Facebook's head of Messenger David Marcus.

-- could come on about 5 minutes before starting the descent and say, «Hi parents, I want to let you know that we'll be starting down in a little while, and your little one might experience some discomfort due to the change in cabin pressure, so this would be a great time to have a bottle prepared, or get into a comfortable nursing position.»

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

«We tried to refocus what he was thinking about, made sure he called his parents so they knew he was alive and just tried to keep him calm,» said Lt. Pekora.

He says, «Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves talk, or speak,» and he goes on to say, «The ability to lock in and listen is a skill that has served me well in life,» says Branson, «Although, it seems to be a dying art, I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur, or just about anyone who has a pulse.»

When Schultz says, «let's meet the parents of our employees in China» — he's talking about more than a few symbolic handshakes.

«Parents and their young adult children may not be communicating as well as they could be about money,» says Ann Dowd, CFP ®, vice president at Fidelity.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

In reference to how Millennials were raised by their boomer parents, mentors and teachers, he says: «We would have been much better off hearing a little less about how special we were or how super diversity is, and a little more about how much it costs to own a house and how interests rates work.»

Pippa Smith said schools should inform parents as well as children about internet safety, so they can make sure its enforced when children are by themselves.

A Christian education charity has said almost one in four parents are concerned about their child's progress... More

kendallpeak I'd say that about 90 % of parents end up keeping pets that their children have picked up as strays and fallen in love with, but that doesn't mean that keeping the animal was a sound choice, or will ultimately prove to be.

Then in 2015 Mr Page gave an interview to the BBC about freedom of religion where he reiterated his original position, saying: «My responsibility as a magistrate, as I saw it, was to do what I considered best for the child, and my feeling was therefore that it would be better if it was a man and woman who were the adopted parents.»

But I also want to say, if you had been here (I'm in Birmingham) and read some of the stories of people's kids being killed by this storm (so many had lost power already by earlier storms and had no idea F4 and F5 tornodoes were about to hit, and their kids were at friends» houses... and then those friends» houses were totally destroyed, and several parents lost all of their kids - I also know of several people who lost their wives AND all of their kids because they were at work while their family was at home)... anyways, if you could read some of these stories, who are you guys to tell them that their loved ones are not going off to a better place?

In college, I was an English major, wasting my parent's tuition money learning how to read, and then learning how to say worthless things about what I'd read.

We're Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents» Divorce By Constance Ahrons HarperCollins 304 pp.

Leadership is, as Wendell Berry said about parenting, «a vexed privilege and a blessed trial.»

But when I read about and see young, emerging lives being destroyed by neglect, hunger, war and enraged parents, the distinction refocuses, and I say, «Life, real life, is being not only destroyed but twisted, deformed, «unholy» life is being created.»

My parents learned about this and were more or less upset but said little.

@ Brigette — yeah, I don't want to be a Hare Krishna either... I do like what you say regarding thinking about your parents and grandparents teaching you the prayers — nice sentiment there even for folks like me who don't pray anymore.

While the mainline has a great deal to say about the social - structural evils that afflict children, it sidesteps the impact of family breakdown on child well - being and has very little to say about the responsibilities that parents have to their children.

It is not old - fashioned to think about parenting and concern for children as among the central ethical issues of life, says Bateson.

These young people can say to their parents, «See, we're not strange because we care about these things.

In the Post interview, he said he was «a little timid about telling parents about it because I thought some would be worried,» but claimed to get an enthusiastic response after the announcement.

That is an odd thing to say about a Church that donates millions of dollars in medical and relief supplies to several different areas of the world for assistance after natural disasters, and that puts so much emphasis on strong marriage, dedicated parenting, forgiveness, and striving to be like Christ.