Sentences with phrase «several years the children»

Crayola has been known for decades for its crayons and markers, but in the last several years the children's art supply manufacturer has been branching out with more and more amazing creative tools for kids.

Not exact matches

Although the dream had to be put on hold for the next several years as Ganahl adjusted to life as a single mother raising their children, she never gave up.

That's all it took for some two dozen global leaders to commit to the goal of providing 100 million children with modern frontline health care over the next several years.

He has been wed to Gail for 43 years, and they have 3 married children and several grandchildren.

On June 15, 2012, then - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano issued a memorandum entitled «Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children,» creating a non-congressionally authorized administrative program that permitted certain individuals who came to the United States as juveniles and meet several criteria — including lacking any current lawful immigration status — to request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal, and eligibility for work authorization.

Canada Student Grants and Loans has expanded eligibility for part time students, as well as full and part time students with children, and introduced a three - year pilot project that will provide adults returning to school on a full - time basis after several years in the workforce with an additional $ 1,600 in grant money starting Aug 1, 2018.

For several years, the advocacy group Common Sense Media has been decrying the public health threat to children from addiction to social media.

Hell, even Al Jazeera says 10 thousand, not to mention several formal studies that say as many as 232 children per 100k were abused EVERY year during the 1990's.

I am not being entirely sarcastic here: I have reread both «Tom Sawyer» and «The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» several times in recent years, precisely because Twain draws such fascinating portraits of children whose behavior is familiar, even if we now describe it differently.

A better one would be that the parents DO give in to their child's desire, knowing full well what will happen when they do and then punish the child by locking them in a closet for several years.

And in several weddings over the past few years, I've heard the officiating ministers (all of them male) warn young brides to avoid «letting themselves go» after having children or else their husbands might be tempted to «look elsewhere.»

The role of raising children is entrusted in principle to married heterosexual couples because after much experimentation — several thousand years, more or less — we have found nothing else that works as well.

She refers to the man in his 40s who divorces his wife because her commitment to church and to gardening and her dislike of tennis make him doubt that she will be a sufficiently amusing partner to cheer his retirement years; a young mother who admits that her husband is her best friend, but who divorces him because she no longer feels very romantic toward him; a woman who marries someone she doesn't especially like because she fears she may never find anyone better and then, after having several children, does find someone more to her liking.

The reason children require a number of years to develop mastery of certain basic concepts, according to some child psychologists, is not that they are slow in learning the words — they actually know the words quite early — but that they have to start experiencing the world in a new, more simplified way that corresponds with the classifications suggested by these words.4 For example, young children may know the words spoon, teaspoon, silver, knife, and metal but find it difficult for several years to apply them appropriately to objects in their environment, the reason being partly that these words form multiple and overlapping classifications.

Molly Shannon's been goofing around in niche comedy lanes like Wet Hot American Summer and Children's Hospital for several years now, and placing her atop the reboot of The Office would be a long overdue return to prominence after her run on SNL.

So, on two visits over several years, and with our four children in tow, we went on a great American adventure.

After several years of happy married life, two children having been born to them, Kali seeks to break up this home.

Several couples described the satisfactions they were receiving from volunteer service programs («volunteer grandparents» in children's institutions, for instance) which allowed them to keep involved and to use skills acquired over the years.

It contains several hundred letters that C. S. Lewis wrote to children over the years.

Several years ago I read about a study done on a group of small children who were taken to the top of a mountain where there was this wide open space that went on for miles and were told to go play.

These laws, known as «Romeo and Juliet laws» provide that a person can legally have consensual intercourse with a minor provided that he or she is not more than a given number of years older generally four years but sometimes some other number of years Romeo and Juliet laws were passed Several ped membership org endorsed lowering or abolishing age of consent laws to legalize fleshly activities involving an adult and a child.

'' [There were] four young children, they've been here for several years.

We saw this truncated view of First Amendment freedoms several years ago when Catholic adoption agencies in several states were ordered to place children with homosexual couples, refused, and closed down.

According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.

I had my children with me — yes, he delivered a sermon on abortion at the family service so thanks for that, that's a conversation I didn't plan to have with my young children for several years — so it would have been awkward to walk out anyway, I guess.

Over the past ten years, several institutes that study public opinion have regularly asked representative samples of the population of those over eighteen years of age whether they favored or opposed homosexual marriage and adoption of children by same - sex couples.

Over the last ten years, several institutes that study public opinion have regularly asked representative samples of the population of those over eighteen years of age whether they favored or opposed homosexual marriage and adoption of children by same - sex couples.

My children will have approximately 1 / 7th greater life experiences because they won't be wasting a day trying to commune with a non-existent all - powerful being with pathological tendencies, if you base his existence on what you read in the various religious texts some men (no women) wrote several thousand years ago.

I have struggled for 30 years in my local Parish Church and have been tempted to leave several times but God has called me back as i eventually learnt that it's not what I get out of Church thats the main thing, it's what I can add, so if I remove myself I'm being mean spirited, I'm like a child who has a ball but if I don't get my own way in a game of football, I pick it up and take it home so no one gets to play.

During the past 40 years, plantain - farming families have become the pillars of the region's socio - economic stability by improving their quality of life, educating their children and providing employment for several generations.

Many of the toys that are shared among several children over the years are wood.

Over the last handful of years I've known several friends with children have the devastating news of cancer shake their worlds.

Every year, DISC - IT owners get together and compete in several different categories while benefiting UNM Children's Hospital (which gets all of the proceeds).

A full - time working mom, she has worked for the past eight years in the world of private philanthropy (on the grantmaking side) for several Boston - area family foundations dedicated to supporting research and improving opportunities for differently - abled children and adults.

Following closely on the heels of that media circus was the publication last week of a new book by Dr. Bennet Omalu, Truth Doesn't Have a Side, and interviews in which Dr. Omalu, as he has for several years, argues that letting kids play football is the «definition» of child abuse.

Before having children I worked in London as programmer for a large international bank, after having baby number three I made the difficult decision to set up my own company and have for the last 4 years been working as a freelance social media consultant as well as running several of my own blogs.

We got two cats several years ago, but once we started having children my love for the cats went down the tubes.

This has actually been an ongoing discussion between my best friend and myself for several years; she has chosen to have each of her 3 children at home (specifically, a caravan home in the middle of the desert) with a midwife, her mother, and her husband the only people present.

Several years ago, when I worked in residential treatment, parents would show up at the administration building, child in tow, holding a suitcase and asking how they could leave their child in our care because what they were doing was clearly not working.

There are several things to consider changing for the repeat school year to help your child have a successful year that will have them back on course, rather than just doing more of the same they have already gone through.

She also says that this is extreme, but if you don't do it, «it will only get worse, and you'll probably have a clingy child on your hands for the next several years.

Avoid Loud Noises If you've walked down the toy aisle of any major retailer in the last several years, you're more than likely familiar with the garish and noisy toys that are available for toddlers and young children.

(Link to Amazon in new window) It holds tips and techniques for several years going forward for your children.

I was pleasantly surprised to spend two years in a culture where everyone breastfed for several years, where nursing problems were virtually unknown, and where children seldom cried or fussed.

Why couldn't we create a world where all children got to breastfeed for several years, where every mother knew how to prevent or solve common problems, but also where vaccines, antibiotics and sufficient high - quality foods were available to all?

She is coauthor of «The Informed Parent: A Science - Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years» and of several children's science books.

For some men (and women), this doesn't happen until after the birth of the child or even several months or years into early childhood.

Last year, I finally had the chance to try the EzyRoller (a 2009 Best Toys for Kids Award Winner) and saw how my purchase inspired several other moms to buy an EzyRoller for their children after seeing it during a playdate at my house.

One study in Germany several years ago examined specific ways in which fathers and mothers cultivate close attachments with their children during the early years, and which of those early parental practices lead to deeper, long - term attachments during later stages of childhood.

After doing that for seven years, Iris returned to Argentina and opened a children's program that focused on music and arts and crafts as well as teaching music at several schools.