Sentences with phrase «smarter than the parents»

Kids, it's ok to be smarter than your parents and not buy into the lies.

From the opening moments of the movie, Jenny's character appears to feel smarter than those around her — smarter than her parents, her classmates, her teachers, David's friends and perhaps even David.

Will someone correct me, but weren't public schools created to make up for bad parenting skills and poverty by teaching kids to be better and smarter than their parents?

Not exact matches

Since estate taxes are assessed only when bequests are left to someone other than a husband or wife — most commonly, when estates pass, after parents» death, to the children — it's smart to buy enough second - to - die coverage in the name of the beneficiary to pay off future estate - tax bills.

Growing up, I heard, «You're smart, you can do anything,» more than I heard, «You're a pretty girl,» so I was raised with feminist ideals, even though my conservative, Rush - Limbaugh - listening parents didn't necessarily label themselves that way.

Exploring the world and various cultures and traditions makes them smarter and more able to deal with diverse people than someone else who accepts the doctrines of their parents and seeks after nothing.

This suggests, and I do hope, that her parents are smarter than her.

Imagine if a cinnamon bun and a croissant had a baby, only the baby was smarter, taller, better looking, and more popular than both its parents.

Queensland parents are smarter than that Dr Young» said Mr Parker.

The result is the Jiobit Smart Tag, a new wearable tracker smaller than an AA battery that pairs with an app to keep kids and parents connected.

That's very useful, because parents are smarter than bulb syringes.

Fun Features & Big Benefits: Five SMART skills: Social Skill Basics, Mealtime Manners, Art of Conversation, Restaurant Behavior and Technology Talk More than 100 pages of kid - approved activities Game format with a ticket incentive system Practical tips for busy parents BONUS!

Babies are smarter than we as parents, give them credit for.

We have more knowledge than our parents did so we can make smarter decisions that are better for our children and the world we live in.

While I will not be able to participate in the roundtable, it is probably just as well because, with MomsTEAM Institute's SmartTeams Play Safe summit in Boston in my rear view mirror, I am devoting all my energies the rest of the fall sports season to working with an incredibly talented and dedicated group of certified athletic trainers at the grass roots level on our SmartTeamTM pilot program, which is helping parents, coaches, administrators, and more than 800 athletes in youth football programs in six states play safe by being smart.

This type of story plays smack dab into the war ideology that career women are smarter than women who've chosen to be career parents.

If parents wait to potty train until 3, why do they allow them at 2 to play video games unattended??? Infants are a lot smarter than we give them credit.

You won't find a smarter, more energetic parenting coach than Tosha Schore.

I learned an important lesson in parenting: your baby is smarter than you.

I think parents have to be smarter than their kids when it comes to technology because obviously we're trying to protect them.

Parents seeking a more natural choice in cloth diapering could hardly choose a smarter fabric than hemp.

The Smart Changing Pad by Hatch Baby is a perfect example of how technology advancements can make parents» lives easier and create easy access to more information about their child than ever possible before.

Plus, Mimo and its ilk appeal to parents who may know better than to think that a silly crib tent or infant positioning pillow can do any good but who are trained to believe that the cooler the technology, the smarter the gadget, the more useful it actually is.

Some research that shows parents who socialize their children in accordance with certain principles like reading with them often or having nightly family dinners, have children who are smarter than children whose parents do not do those things.

Brewer is a natural fit for the material, being a self - admitted Footloose fan, a teenager of the»80s, a music - lover, a connoisseur of the South, and a parent, and all of which he draws upon to make the movie smarter than it needs to be.

grown - ish is less consistently funny than its parent series, but it's likable and smart, and has surrounded Shahidi with an appealing cast of new faces, plus one familiar one.

As a result, grown - ish is less consistently funny than its parent series, but it's likable and smart, and has surrounded Shahidi with an appealing cast of new faces, plus one familiar one.

As she grows through her first six years, she discovers that reading provides an escape from her nasty parents, and the educational pastime quickly allows her to become smarter than anyone else in her family.

«We had parents working with their children months ahead, studying together and trying to get ready for Are You Smarter Than an Oak Manor Student?

Part of the point I was trying to make the other day, with my «More money to the parents» post, was that plenty of these parents, including poor parents, are a lot smarter than we — the system — gives them credit for and that if they had more choice (or the money to exercise those preferences) and fewer structural and institutional impediments to overcome, you'd see big changes in some of our slackard schools.

But in reality, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Field Test is nothing more than an experiment and as Commissioner Pryor and the State Department of Education admit, if parents «insist that the child not be testing» then «in these cases, the district generally does not test the student and the student is counted as «absent» (for purposes of testing).

While hundreds of thousands of parents and students, aware of the shortcomings of these tests and dismayed by the relentless testing their children were being subjected to, took the matter into their own hands and opted out of the testing, more than 90 % of students in Smarter Balanced states took the test as planned.

In reality, the Malloy administration's entire maneuver was nothing be a farce designed to, once again, mislead Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and taxpayers about the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme, and the fact that the tests are wasting millions of dollars in scarce public resources and turning public schools into little more than testing factories.

With the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Testing beginning in less than a month, more and more parents are informing their local school districts that they have decided that their children will not be taking the unfair, discriminatory and inappropriate Common Core SBAC tests this year.

Their legislative agenda also includes taking away local citizen control of public schools and supporting the Malloy administration's effort to punish school districts in which more than 5 percent of the parents opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

We parents have been listening to folks who are richer and more powerful, and seem smarter than we are, for 20 years now.

After reviewing preliminary results of the Smarter Balanced Assessments, LA Unified officials say the test scores are lower than what parents typically see but want them to know «it does not mean our kids are getting dumber.»

At the same time, most parents do want an eReader for their kids — reading makes kids smarter, it's a far better use of free time than TV and video games, and it can also be used for school - work.

In fact, we find that almost 30 percent of Smart Option Student Loan ® cosigners are someone other than the borrower's parent.

Using a smart question - and - answer application, 3StepParentingPlanTM gets you a fully customized Parenting Plan in a little more than half of a lawyerÕs billable hour.

For those parents that prefer a classroom taught drivers education course, call Drivers Ed Direct to learn why our online course is a smarter choice than a traditional classroom course.

According to data gathered by Google, parents and their kids are using smart speakers more than other crowds, and they're using them for a range of purposes that they say are making life easier for both sides of the family.

Talking about cognitive tasks during childhood, Dr. Carol S. Dweck at Stanford says: «Our message to parents is to focus on the process the child engages in, such as trying hard or focusing on the task — what specific things they're doing rather than «you're so smart, you're so good at this... what (the adult) does early matters.»

With events like the Smart Marriages Conference in Orlando this week, and with all the classes, books, videos, and retreats offered all year «round by those who speak there, there are better options for your children than our divorces or this new single - parent - from - infancy game plan.

Smart Parents: Parenting for Powerful Learning Bonnie Lathram, Carri Schneider, and Tom Vander Ark Packed with helpful guidance from more than 60 parents who are also experts in learning and / or education, this book prepares parents for powerful and significant contributions to children's learning with practicaParents: Parenting for Powerful Learning Bonnie Lathram, Carri Schneider, and Tom Vander Ark Packed with helpful guidance from more than 60 parents who are also experts in learning and / or education, this book prepares parents for powerful and significant contributions to children's learning with practicaparents who are also experts in learning and / or education, this book prepares parents for powerful and significant contributions to children's learning with practicaparents for powerful and significant contributions to children's learning with practical tips.

Using a smart question - and - answer application, 3StepParentingPlanTM gets you a fully customized Parenting Plan in a little more than half of a lawyerÕs billable hour.

My elderly parents remodeled their bathroom recently and the smartest thing they did was to install the vanity / sinks a few inches higher than normal.