Sentences with phrase «speak up for kids»

«They're coming to speak up for all kids.

Included: Information about UNICEF's Kids Speak Up for Kids Essay Contest.

And, in addition to offering free online resources as well as an Ask an Expert page that contains clinician answers to questions parents have asked the organization, the institute creates high - impact awareness campaigns, like Speak Up for Kids.

Parents Magazine, a founding partner of Speak Up for Kids, is published monthly by Meredith Corporation and has been America's # 1 family magazine for more than 80 years.

On October 21 from 3:00 — 4:00 p.m. EST, the Children's Leadership Council and Every Child Matters will host a webinar titled, «Who's Speaking Up for Kids?

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When the «This Is Us» star spoke with Kimmel, he recalled his childhood love for Disneyland: growing up in Orange County, CA, he used to go all the time as a kid.

I did not know how to speak up for myself back then because it was the older folks who was trying to tear me down and build their own kids up over me.

You apply for a job in my community by running a campaign for a paid office that my local tax dollars pay for and you get elected then show up to your first scheduled meeting and decide to spend the first 5 minutes — eating donuts instead of working, speaking to the audience about your personal problems with your wife, telling the audience about an upcoming play your kid will be in, telling the captive audience about the benefits of being gay, speaking to them about God or praying aloud to your God regardless of which God the rest of the audience believes in.

Child sex abuse is a taboo topic for some parents [and churches]-- CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/29/…/sexual-abuse-talking-to-kids-parents/ CNN Apr 30, 2014 — Child sexual abuse is a taboo topic in some families, but experts insist that parents must empower kids to speak up about inappropriate... until a guest speaker stood up to talk, shattering the banality of the.....

By speaking openly about the potential problem or by devising little gestures and kidding routines, partners in friendship set up a circumstance for handling disagreements.

In fact, most sports are equivalency sports, meaning that scholarships can (and are) broken up into fractions in order to provide aid to more kids and again, not all of those fractional scholarships are offered and spoken for in the early signing period.

Not surprisingly, the media feeding frenzy has resulted, anecdotal evidence suggests, in a sharp drop in youth football registrations for this fall's season, with parents fearful that playing football will almost inevitably expose their kid to an unreasonable risk of injury (which, of course, is patently untrue; more than 7 million kids in the U.S. currently play football, very few of whom, statistically speaking and despite a few well - publicized cases - are likely to end up committing suicide because of the hits they sustained playing the sport, and millions upon countless millions who have played football over the past century without apparent ill effect).

So if something is bugging you about kids and food — whether it's the unnecessary «refueling» with Oreos at the 10 am soccer match, the prevalence of highly processed food on your child's lunch tray, or the Sunday school teacher who hands out candy for good behavior — speak up and get involved.

Similarly, kids who think, «Being mad isn't good,» may paste on a smile and refuse to speak up for themselves.

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Parents of kids with special needs are so used to advocating for their children that they often forget to teach kids to speak up for themselves.

This list seems to have some good titles for kids on immigration, respecting differences, and speaking up.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt may be overly generous; it also may assist our kids in having the confidence to speak up for themselves and «set things right.»

According to Dr. Laura Markham from Ahaparenting.com, rather than teaching kids to speak up for themselves, forced sharing actually teaches some of the wrong lessons, such as:

I know all parents think their children are the smartest most amazing kids ever but I can honestly say my son is really exceptional he has hit all his milestones months before they were due to be hit and for a boy he has been AMAZING verbally his first word was mama at 4 months he was up to 10 words by 8 months and past 30 words at a year, he is now 2 and speaking in sentences.

Today I'm rounding up cute gift ideas for kids and if Elle could speak she would tell me that she wants everything on this list.

As if I enjoy demonstrating this, since hanging up his director's cap, Hughes has produced and / or scripted a series of junk kids movies (a few of which stuck only through sheer force of hype)-- in addition to overseeing the screenwriting debut of son James, New Port South, a teen - aimed film, like those Hughes became famous for, that may well speak to the specifics of today's youth but fails to get at anything universal.

Several of the kids I spoke to singled out the school's rigid schedule for special loathing: up at 6:30; breakfast at 7:30; jobs at 8; then classes, lunch, more classes, performing arts, sports, «Discovery Group»; dinner; then study hall or «Mandatory Fun.»

Praise kids for speaking up when they encounter texts of concern.

This site includes Listen Up, a student's guide to the Individualized Educational Program; Speak Up, tips on dealing with and compensating for LD - related problems; Read Up, a list of books about LD and kids with LD; and Interact Up, an activity page where students can take a quiz to learn about celebrities with learning disabilities and print a page to show other people what it's like to have a learning disability.

She was quiet and mature, spoke her mind, and stood up for other kids who were outcasts.

Bob is the author of numerous publications, including Stand in My Shoes: Kids Learning about Empathy, Stand Up and Speak Up for Yourself and Others, Essential Math Skills: Over 250 Activities to Develop Deep Understanding, The Essential Skill Inventories (Pre-K to Grade 3), Fanatically Formative, Successful Learning During the Crucial K - 3 Years, Creating Classrooms Where Teachers Love to Teach, and The Juice Box Bully.

Dave Moyer, speaking at the 2014 National Center for Education Statistics data conference on July 31, 2014, found that even at Hawaiian public schools where 95 percent of the students show up every day, chronic absenteeism can be a gigantic problem where as many as one in four kids — 25 percent — are missing 15 or more school days a year.

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Who is fighting for these kids who can not speak up for themselves?»

When Rosie speaks to Mr. Tongo after Poppy is outed, he tells her: «For you, Poppy with a penis isn't any more or less variant than any of your other kids» wonderful quirks, and you love them all no matter what, and you just wake every day and raise them up.

Maggie McGuire, vice president of Parents and Kids channels for Scholastic, spoke to GoodEReader about not only the need to keep up with reading over the summer months, but also ways to foster the importance of reading for kKids channels for Scholastic, spoke to GoodEReader about not only the need to keep up with reading over the summer months, but also ways to foster the importance of reading for kidskids.

Listen up, kids: A policeman speaks with children at the Swecapura sports complex, which has become one of the centers for evacuees fleeing from the rumbling Mount Agung in Bali.

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So there's a lot of opportunities, especially for Nintendo to speak to millennial parents who grew up playing our product and now have an opportunity to pass on that love to their kids.

So it's up to us to connect the dots, to brazenly speak for Jesus, and then to laugh it off and be like, «You know we're kidding right?»

We proudly support the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Sick Kids Foundation, Autism Speaks Canada, University Health Network, Bridgepoint Health Care, Hamilton Health Science Centre, and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health through «Put up your Dukes» and have served on the committees of the Brain Injury Society of Toronto (BIST) and Ontario Brain Injury Association (OBIA).

I don't mind this aspect of it, because as soon as the workday is over I pick up my kids and have tons of people to speak with as I ferry them around to their activities... it makes up for the isolation of the workday.»

Google said it's improved how the technology understands the way kids speak, and there's a new account option for children under 13 that parents can set up and control.

It's natural to blame ourselves for the things that hurt us when we can't find another solution, but kids often don't speak up about their pain.

The boy slapped hands with me and said, «That's exactly what I mean, thanks for interpreting kid speak into grown - up speak!»

However, if you see a wave of blood wash down the hall or creepy kids in old - timey clothes asking you to come play with them, you should speak up (and also cancel the listing agreement, for that matter).

Here is my story [and I can provide documentation for all I say] As a kid I had no idea why I could not fit in, why I could not speak for nearly 8 years, why people hurt me, rape me and tell me no one would believe me [no one I told did] but I grew up.