Sentences with phrase «shorter than that of their parents»

There is a recent Surgeon General who said that this generation of kids growing up today might be the first to have a life expectancy shorter than that of their parents.

For the first time in the history of our nation, children's lifespans will be shorter than that of their parents.

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The short explanation: As long as a parent is the account custodian, the child's financial aid will decrease by no more than 5.6 % of the account value.2

In the academic sphere, we have not always managed parents» expectations perfectly, and because we are young plant, any falling short makes us vulnerable; but some batches of results, especially in English and in languages, have been better than most schools back home.

The curse of plentiful rich food may mean that young Australians become the first generation in a long time to live shorter lives than their parents.

It is so bad, that a recent study analyzing children of divorce over a 50 year period by Stanford University demonstrates that children of divorce actually live five years shorter lives than children raised in intact two - parent married families.

When parents are separated and a child is being raised in two different households there is always a tendency to try and compensate for what the other parent is doing wrong or to compensate for the short amount of time you have with your child by being more indulgent than you would otherwise be.

Parents and children, especially tweens and teenagers, often worry when they notice that they are shorter than many of their peers and classmates of the same age.

For the first time in recorded history, this generation of children is projected to have a shorter lifespan than their parents.

In a nation where kids are born with shorter estimated life expectancies than their parents due to diet - related disease, Chef Ann has been a constant champion of school food reform as an important avenue through which to improve childhood nutrition.

It's important to keep in mind that even if the transition is challenging or inconvenient in the short - term, it's one of many (endless) less than easy and convenient choices you'll have to make as a parent for the health and safety of your child.

Parents of all heights can enjoy this feature, especially those who are shorter or taller than average!

This is especially true of small children, who have much shorter wakefulness windows than their parents.

One third of children in America are now considered overweight or obese, and this generation of kids is the first in modern history to be at risk for a shorter lifespan than their parents, largely due to obesity - related diseases which are entirely preventable.

This fun, parent - friendly program includes more than 60 short videos and more than 100 images of diverse mothers and babies breastfeeding.

Weaknesses: No visual picture of your baby, Only one parental unit, Shorter range than the VTech Safe & Sound Digital Audio Monitor (although this didn't make a difference to me), Can't communicate with your baby over the monitor (if you care — I don't), Doesn't always immediately show temperature on parent unit, Screen can be a little hard to read at certain angles.

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Chief of Parents [«The Dishes Can Wait»] Rachel Hollis, My Chic Life [«Permission To Be Awesome»] Erin, Home with the Boys [«Our Kids Are Capable»] Rachel Turiel, 6512 and Growing [«The Romance of Gratitude»] Shawn Ledington Fink, Awesomely Awake [«Being Together is Enough»] Danielle Smith, Extraordinary Mommy [«It's Okay to Drop Some Balls»] Ronnie Tyler, Black and Married with Kids [«It's Hard to Forgive Yourself»] Christine Koh, Boston Mamas [«Done is Better Than Perfect»] Ilana Wiles, Mommy Shorts [«Sleep When Baby Sleepof Imperfection»] Leslie Marinelli, The Bearded Iris [«I Suddenly Have a Mom Mullet»] Michelle Lehnardt, Scenes from the Wild [«Big Kids Need Tucking In, Too»] Nina Badzin, NinaBadzin.com [«Shine and Let Others Shine»] Debbie Koenig, Words to Eat By [«We're All Just Faking It»] Rachel Balducci, Testosterhome [«Words You Shouldn't Be Scared Of»] Kimberley Clayton Blaine, TheGoToMom.TV [«Moms, Don't Be Camera Shy»] Kristen Levithan, Motherese [«It's Not Always All On Me»] Amber Strocel, Strocel.com [«Know What You Need»] Stacie Billis, One Hungry Mama [«I'm Not Above Asking for Help»] Kathryn Whitaker, Team Whitaker [«Learn to Love the Unplanned»] Jill Herzig, Editor - in - Chief of Redbook [«Sometimes It's Best to Do Nothing»] Alicia Ybarbo, producer at NBC's TODAY [«The Secret To «Me» Time»] Dana Points, Editor - in - Chief of Parents [«The Dishes Can Wait»] Rachel Hollis, My Chic Life [«Permission To Be Awesome»] Erin, Home with the Boys [«Our Kids Are Capable»] Rachel Turiel, 6512 and Growing [«The Romance of Gratitude»] Shawn Ledington Fink, Awesomely Awake [«Being Together is Enough»] Danielle Smith, Extraordinary Mommy [«It's Okay to Drop Some Balls»] Ronnie Tyler, Black and Married with Kids [«It's Hard to Forgive Yourself»] Christine Koh, Boston Mamas [«Done is Better Than Perfect»] Ilana Wiles, Mommy Shorts [«Sleep When Baby SleepOf»] Kimberley Clayton Blaine, TheGoToMom.TV [«Moms, Don't Be Camera Shy»] Kristen Levithan, Motherese [«It's Not Always All On Me»] Amber Strocel, Strocel.com [«Know What You Need»] Stacie Billis, One Hungry Mama [«I'm Not Above Asking for Help»] Kathryn Whitaker, Team Whitaker [«Learn to Love the Unplanned»] Jill Herzig, Editor - 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Ty is one of the few names with fewer than three letters, making it even more special for parents looking for something short and sweet and to the point.

Sasha and Malia Obama may be part of the first generation to have a shorter lifespan than their parents» if we don't act quickly to improve the food they consume.

High conflict is usually temporary, so it is best not to decrease the child's access to the other parent; it is more harmful for a child to lose a relationship with a parent than it is for them to be exposed to conflict for a short period of time.

For the first time in centuries, the current generation of children will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents...

I heard that it is predicted that today's children will be the first generation of Americans to have a shorter lifespan than their parents.

Retaining the gentle, non-verbal comedy and daffy sight gags of the popular stop - motion TV series — itself a loose spinoff from Aardman's cherished «Wallace and Gromit» franchise — while assigning Shaun and his flock an urban escapade more expansive than their usual short - form gambols, the film should reward small fry and parents jaded by more synthetic kiddie toons.

A reunion of sorts between Ferrell and Talladega Nights co-writer-director Adam McKay — who also teamed up for the smash web short «The Landlord,» which was probably seen by more folks than saw Semi-Pro — the movie centers on two oafish fortysomethings who live at home with their respective parents (Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen) who are then forced to coexist when their folks get married.

The More than a Score coalition, which covers 16 teaching and early years» organisations including the NEU, the British Educational Research Association, the Association of Child Psychotherapists and parents» group Let Our Kids Be Kids, is also concerned about the idea of short tests in pupils» first few weeks at school.

Scientists predict this might be the first generation of Americans in 200 years to have shorter life spans than their parents.

2) the indirect channel that works through families» choices of schools, in which the school characteristics relevant to achievement are more fully captured by what parents observe than by the short list of school descriptors in the regression (for instance, well - educated parents choose teachers with higher value - added); or

Second, why did I specify school characteristics «relevant to achievement [that] are more fully captured by what parents observe than by the short list of school descriptors»?

«If Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy says anything short of «Commissioner Pryor will be moving on to greener pastures, I am withdrawing Connecticut from the Common Core and we will suspend the Common Core standardized testing program,» Malloy will be doing nothing more than reaffirming his commitment to the corporate education reform industry and not to the students, parents, teachers, public schools and taxpayers of our state.

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

I think he might have realised their short - comings as parents ahead of Zelda, and rather than hiring a strict Nanny to restrict their access to their child -LCB- as I think Zelda did feel, especially whilst in France & Italy -RCB-,... I think the harder issue at hand might be that motherhood didn't at first come naturally to Zelda, but it grew in time.

The life of a new puppy owner is almost as hectic as the life of a new parent; however, fortunately for a new puppy owner, the baby phase is much shorter and much less expensive than having a human child...

Still, it's out of the frying pan and into the fire as I'm now crediting my oneworld flights to British Airways — an airline whose hierarchy I detest (the CEO of the airline's parent company has less class than a swamp rat)-- so this could all go horribly wrong and end up being a very short flirtation with the British Airways Executive Club.

It is so bad, that a recent study analyzing children of divorce over a 50 year period by Stanford University demonstrates that children of divorce actually live five years shorter lives than children raised in intact two - parent married families.

This process of manipulating children to reject a parent is nothing short of child abuse and have been demonstrated in research that it is at times worse than physical or sexual abuse.

You can specify that the time be takes in shorter blocks (i.e. each parent shall have two weeks of vacation each summer break, not to be taken in longer than one - week periods).

Although everyone here at Short Street has attended our first KidsMatter Profesisonal Learning and begun unpacking the materials, there has not been a great deal of progress further than informing parents through newsletters and bulletins, including a «KidsMatter» page which we have added to our daily visual reflection.

If the stepparent consents to adopting his or her spouse's child, and if the other birth parent has abandoned the child for a period of one year or more or the other birth parent has failed without cause to provide reasonable support for such child for a period of one year or more, an adoption can occur in a relatively short amount of time — sometimes less than two months from service of the adoption petition.

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He is co-founder and director emeritus of the Association for Play Therapy and has written or edited more than sixty - five books on parenting, child psychology, and play therapy, including The Therapeutic Use of Child's Play, Family Play Therapy, and Short - Term Play Therapy for Children.

Second, it focuses on the long term effects of ongoing conflict on children and the co-parenting relationship, rather than focusing on short term change in parents» behavior, likely to last only during the divorce process or until the court has made orders in their favor.

The vast majority of studies (87 %) had short time interval (less than 5 years) or were cross-sectional, which makes it difficult to get a clear picture of the longer term effects of parenting.

We have developed a series of 5 short films (less than 1 minute each) based on our recent psychological research about sexual and relationship satisfaction of new parents.

For the study, researchers created a program of parent education and support that was shorter in duration than most similar trainings.

He is also Director Emeritus of the International Association of Play Therapy and has coauthored or coedited more than 50 books on child therapy, play therapy, and effective parenting, including Short - Term Play Therapy for Children.

A recent meta - analysis indicates being younger parents or experiencing shorter relationship involvement as risk - factors for lower relationship satisfaction over the transition to parenthood (Mitnick et al., 2009), while a prospective study indicated that older first time mothers reported greater hardiness than younger first - time mothers and hardiness was predictive of a more adaptive transition to parenthood (McMahon et al., 2011).

Contemporary principles of measure development for the assessment of parenting [36, 37] guided the construction of the intrusiveness measure, including aggregating multiple measures of the same parenting behavior from different informants into a single composite measure; focusing on specific behaviors (e.g., «mom gave me help in putting on or taking off clothes») rather than vague concepts (e.g., «mom invades my privacy»); focusing on a short, specific time - frame; using items that are relevant to the age - group being studied; and including observational methods.

First, rather than relying on short term reports of family or parental functioning in determining targets for intervention, clinicians would be wise to evaluate patterns of parent — child interaction over time with repeated assessments, as individual or family functioning at any one point in time may not be reflective of enduring patterns of behavioral or relational functioning.

Some scholars argue that younger children should be more harmed by parental divorce than older children, partly because they live together with both parents for a shorter period, partly because they are less well equipped to understand the causes and consequences of their parents» divorce.

For example, parents responded from never to «more than 14 times per day» to the item «How many times per day, on average, does BABY get fussy and irritable — for either short or long periods of time?»