Sentences with phrase «several stories of children»

We have heard several stories of children that just won't go on the potty but once they have once they accomplish this task, they seem to be okay with it and have no further problems.

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[11] «King and King» (See Appendix 4) is a story for young children which is one of several being promoted in a government sponsored project.

Relying on intelligence dossiers prepared meticulously by his UDR commanders, he prepared intensively, making several dry runs by following the bread delivery van in which Hackett would ultimately die; he blocked out the reality that the target might be a family man with a pregnant wife and child awaiting his return home from work; he avoided reading the papers or listening to TV reports over the next days, because the stories tend to make a real human being out of what had to be thought of only as «the target.»

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

A story in Aug. 7 Chicagoland North and South omitted the names of several organizations that along with Cook County Hospital developed a program of billboard advertisements to encourage low - income mothers to breast - feed their children.

- A story in Aug. 7 Chicagoland North and South omitted the names of several organizations that along with Cook County Hospital developed a program of billboard advertisements to encourage low - income mothers to breast - feed their children.

I gave birth to my 4th child at home in April, my best friend gave birth to her first born in my house last month, we got a dozen more chickens and hatched a few of our own this summer, we went to Story Land and to Lake Winnipesaukee on vacation, built a large wooden swingset, landscaped our backyard, and did several other home projects!

Below is a box of goodies with several creative themed packages to encourage my children to capture their own stories with props and pictures on Spoonful.com's iTunes Story App.

Giselle Weiss, in a story first appearing in Science magazine, profiles several children of Nobel - winning parents.

Although the vandalism can not be justified, if we recognize the root of the students» feelings it may help us reconcile their loyalty to Paterno — inconceivable to many outside the Penn State community — with the disturbing story of child molestation that has been revealed over the last several days.

On the linguists» previous visit, they recorded him telling a story nearly half an hour long, of how he was lost in Egypt for several years as a child.

Stories about sick children might not work on some parents for several reasons, says Betsch, including a quirk of the human mind called omission bias.

But now, Palm heard the same story from the parents of several narcoleptic children.

After recapping the story of the weird - looking doll as we know it (The roommates from the opening of The Conjuring explaining that the doll has been causing them problems), the movie jumps back several months and finds Mia (Annabelle Wallis) and John (Ward Horton), a happily married couple expecting their first child.

Although initially not interested in a human interest piece, Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) finds himself drawn into Philomena Lee's (Judi Dench) story of her forced labor at a convent decades earlier whose nuns sold her child, and those of several other unwed mothers, into adoption for 1000 pounds.

This Measures of Success framework serves several functions: it tells a story about the systems - level work to better serve children and youth across multiple initiatives, it provides accessible information that can be used to inform cabinet - level conversations and discussions with potential partners and funders, and it can trigger conversations and collaborative action to improve capacity to use data for effective decision - making.

Zack Kopplin, a student activist who favors rigorous science education, has found more than 300 voucher schools across the U.S. that teach the Biblical story of creation as science; some also instruct children that the world is just several thousand years old and use textbooks describing the Loch Ness Monster as a living dinosaur.

Build knowledge: Several education organizations including Educators for Excellence, the American Federation of Teachers, Stand for Children, Teach For America, and the Education Trust are hosting a tele - town hall on Tuesday, September 12 to share stories, take your questions, and provide information about opportunities to support undocumented students in your classroom and beyond.

Along with a plot that includes several experiments and diagrams, Keller crafts a winning story full of heart and action that balances the weighty subject of a child dealing with a parent's depression.

She is the author of the popular middle - grade mystery series, The Samantha Wolf Mysteries which has hit the best - seller status on Amazon in the children's detective story genre several times and continues to grow in popularity.

The Invisibles By Cecilia Galante Morrow • $ 14.99 • ISBN 9780062363510 The author of several popular YA and children's books makes her adult fiction debut with the moving story of four young women — close friends when they lived together at a group home for teens — who reunite 15 years later and confront the troubles from their past.

The book app features several in - story activities and is the only way parents and their children can get a full retelling of the film with images and audio from the movie until the DVD is released next year.»

In 2011, Oceanhouse Media became the first digital content provider to bring several of Dr. Seuss» previously unpublished titles to tablets; the seven children's stories had only been available serialized in Redbook magazine in the 1950s until Oceanhouse adapted the material for its catalog.

Set just after World War I, it's the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife, Tom and Isabel Sherbourne, who, after several failed attempts to have a child of their own, claim a baby that washes up on the island's shore.

The Treasury recounts several classic holiday stories, and Christmas Joy explores a variety of holiday themes such as charity, children and food.

Greene presents the stories of several Ethiopian children settling in with their new families in America: Meskerem, Mekdes and Yabsira, Ababu, and Mintesinot.

My four hilarious children's day - to - day dramas growing up gave me so many scrumptious stories, that after several years and a lot of persuasion from friends and family I felt it was time to put pen to paper and bring them to life in an animated adventure.

A Village Voice «Writer on the Verge» and Pushcart Prize winner, she is also the author of the forthcoming Half Life, The Melancholy of Anatomy, several children's books, and SKIN, a story published in tattoos on the skin of 2095 volunteers.

I too have read several horror stories of parents on the hook for tens of thousand, and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars for student loans after a child passes away.

Over the past several months, the team here at Q - Games has been hard at work on The Tomorrow Children, adding tons of new features previously unseen in trailers and the closed alpha last fall, as well as enriching the story and setting.

The Bari - based artist will present a series of sculptures installed, arranged and then «modified by several actions» to create a surreal scene where «stories between parents and children are analyzed by the artist's personal view».

A search on the iTunes Store will pop up everything from digital - only publishers like Atomic Antelope that build beautiful children's stories for the iPad, to TouchyBooks and several interactive book versions of Disney (s dis) movies.

Dreaming stories: A springboard for learning records the experiences of several diverse services using the The Dreaming films to introduce young children to a huge range of concepts:

This story works on several levels; A family movie of child - parent bonding that doubles as a lesson in letting go, building meaningful friendships, and the joy and terror of parenthood.