Sentences with phrase «school kids on»

I'll also be working on two books, one for middle school kids on resilience to disasters and another, for adults, on ways to navigate the next 50 years with the fewest regrets.

Kill two birds with one stone and school your kids on the ancient Indigenous and natural history of the Wet Tropics with this four - day road trip.

When not teaching, Carrie takes her elementary school kids on long hikes; reads voraciously; and plays banjo and guitar, though not very well.

«It helps keep the high school kids on track, gives them confidence, and makes you look good for the teachers and colleges.»

And plenty of people get locked in this church — school kids on a field trip, church employees including a painter and a newly wed couple using the historic church as the background for some wedding pictures.

Director Babak Najafi's one set piece really meant to wow — a single - take shoot out in a London alley — has the feel of a video game recreated by high school kids on a gym auditorium set made of paper mache.

I was in Indonesia and Philippines this year, and even school kids on small islands all had mobile phones and cameras, and asked for photos.

I model and directly teach that to a room full of special needs middle school kids on a daily basis.

In this program, we take local secondary school kids on a five - day camping trip into the mountains, trying to raise their awareness and appreciation for the environment and nature.

2 Travel Dads Not only do we love accompanying this adorable family on their adventures via their awesome IG account, but we love their tips for schooling kids on the road and their open - minded approach to travel.

A highlight among the letters is one in which the young author writes to Sheard of «the first Holden story» about a «prep school kid on his Christmas vacation.»

Not exact matches

The Alpina was built by Marcel Bach, a former farmer who capitalized on his land and now seems to own much of the village, and Jean - Claude Mimran, an agriculture billionaire who moved to Gstaad to be closer to his three sons who were attending Le Rosey, the until - recently Canadian - owned $ 100,000 - per - year private school that specializes in teaching kids how to be properly rich.

I called today a victory because both of my kids brushed their teeth the first time I asked and haven't killed each other yet on this, the fifth day of their week off from school.

On weekdays, he would take his kids to school in the morning, then head out biking for around 25 miles or play badminton before picking them back up again.

Perhaps the most important part of that strategy relies on Target resolving its distribution woes and stocking shelves this August with everything a parent or kid could want on a back - to - school list, as well as those special items they can't find at other stores (Shaun White's collection of skate shoes and apparel, for instance).

If you're headed off to college, you can also find more great back to school content on Insider Picks along with our guide to all the school supplies your K - 12 student needs and all the college dorm supplies your college kid could possibly want.

Fortunately, my kids are both in school now but I still work a lot of the time in the evenings or on weekends.

High school can be brutal on kids that don't quite fit in.

«When you do outdoor events,» says Russell, who went to high school across the river on 98th Street and played sports on Governors Island's athletic fields as a kid, «you are expected, both contractually and on a personal level, to return the park in the same condition, if not better than, it was in when you first took it over.

As we all remember from our younger years, high school can be pretty brutal on less popular kids.

Another contributing factor: the extra tasks sitters take on during those periods, like getting the kids ready for school, supervising drop - off or pick - up at the bus stop, and helping with homework

As she and her husband struggle to find the best school for their daughter, «I worry about the experiences she'll have early in her life on the other side of town where the parks are picturesque and pristine and none of the other kids have beads and braids like her, and how that might impact her culturally.»

The case for this being true for kids is pretty well documented (though you might not realize it given the eerie silence on many playgrounds and neighborhood streets after school).

Blame it on their helicopter parents, Instagram, or the way the educational system has been schooling kids via group activities for decades — the vast majority of Millennials have no qualms about being the center of attention.

Setting strict limits on screen time during the school week (or even banning screens entirely for younger kids)

The serial entrepreneur and investor, who serves on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, spent several years as a kid living in Tokyo and fueled a lifelong zest for travel, which his international consulting practice provides plenty of today.

In doing so, he's aiming to capitalize on one of the biggest trends in K - 12 schools: one - to - one computing devices for kids.

Lyne: A suburban life was very comfortable, lots of great clubs around, lots of good schools for kids, but for somebody who grew up thinking, «I want to do something, I want to have an impact on the world,» it was not necessarily the place you could do that.

School, she says, was «very hard on kids who didn't speak English.»

Granted, consumers without kids and parents who do have extra cash to spend on themselves are likely to find some back - to - school sales worth investigating, said Brent Shelton, a spokesman for FatWallet.com.

Unless you really think a college - bound kid is in the market for luxe sheets and comforters in the «Three Looks for the Dorm» showcase on flash sale site OneKingsLane.com or the high - end digital SLR cameras included on Amazon.com's «Back to School» landing page.

Black also hosted a series of informal «town hall» gatherings on college campuses, inviting college students and local high school kids to talk about how they see their futures.

Our family also tends to FaceTime or Skype when my wife or kids have something they want to show me — perhaps work being done on the house or a school project the kids are working on.

That's because parents can't rely on their kids getting money lessons at school.

When we were raising our young kids at home, we would try to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, just for the experience of it all — gingerbread house kits at Christmas, school projects on the kitchen table, taco night with all the fixings prepped in bowls.

«Together for 13 years, Smith is on morning duty, making breakfast and driving [the kids] to school; Swisher takes the after school through dinner shift.

«Anything that's not an absolute necessity, kids coming out of school today can't spend their money on,» Cuban said in an interview with Inc. in 2014.

The new emphasis on the extrovert ideal, she argues, is reflected everywhere — from the way we educate our kids in a school system increasingly skewed toward group work and participation, to the traits most commonly rewarded in the corporate world.

It found that children of American homeowners scored no better on math and reading tests than renters» kids, nor did they have lower high - school dropout rates.

To celebrate back - to - school season, here are 10 jobs that made our list of Canada's Best Jobs and figure prominently on most kids» list of their dream jobs.

On days when I don't run or take my kids to school on the Upper East Side, I attend spin clasOn days when I don't run or take my kids to school on the Upper East Side, I attend spin clason the Upper East Side, I attend spin class.

Just because I granted a license to Facebook, doesn't mean that I granted it to some kid I knew in high school to take my photo and put it on a thousand T - shirts,» he added.

It's that time of the year again, when kids drag their parents along the different store aisles to check off school supplies, clothing and electronics on their list of back - to - school items.

Starting from the publication in 1997 of The Innovator's Dilemma, by Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen, we've become increasingly aware of the risks of ignoring the new kids on the block.

«[That] would have absolutely left the bus on the side of the road with elementary school kids aboard.»

If you have kids or are planning on starting a family, you've likely thought about how you can position yourself in an area with excellent public schools.

Every kid loves being able to put on that new outfit for the first day of school.

In a post on his blog, Bridges wrote, «Memphis is ranked the highest of child hunger; most kids only get a meal when school is in session.

Earlier this year, Kenney provided the inspirational spark for the idea by telling the Calgary Herald in March that «parents have a right to know what's going on with their kids in the schools unless the parents are abusive.»

That's enough to rent a nice apartment (or pay the mortgage on, say, a + / - $ 1m house), take a nice vacation each year, and probably pay private school tuition for one or two kids... but you're certainly not going to be flying your own Gulfstream with only $ 5 million.