Sentences with phrase «spending in the hands of parents»

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With few expenses and cash from their parents in hand, teens are leading indicators of discretionary spending.

And colleges and universities spend time and money running seminars led by academics and mental health workers that cater to the concerns and preoccupations of anxious parents as they leave their children in the hands of strangers.

Many parents have referred to the time spent in our community as «two educations for the price of one,» meaning that a Waldorf school not only develops the heads, hearts, and hands of our children, but also those of our partners, families, and selves.

Forty - eight hours later, after spending every possible second in the hospital with her sweet baby, she signed the adoption papers and handed her into the loving arms of her new parents.

To help the get - together get off the ground, spend some time helping the kids connect, advises Patty Wipfler, director of Hand in Hand, an organization focused on nurturing the parent - child connection.

(Special time is one of the Hand in Hand parenting tools where we spend time 1 - 1 time with our child doing something that they love.)

Plan to volunteer at a charity on February 14th, to extend love to «terminally ill children in a hospital, or to a geriatric facility, or spend that evening with your grandparents or parents... serve in a soup kitchen... the list is endless of people who need a loving hand extended their way on that day,» says Los Angeles - based therapist Dr. Nancy Irwin.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

One way forward for simplification and increases in the productivity of the federal investment is to make social programs intended to support lower income families with children more like tax expenditures — putting more money directly in the hands of parents to spend on the care and development of their children and less money directly in the financial accounts of states, welfare agencies, and social service providers.

The 15 volunteer parents who spent a week last year reviewing 10,000 Utah test questions were suddenly — in the last minutes of the 2014 Legislature — handed a far broader job: investigating complaints from parents about curriculum and materials used statewide.

But «I don't spend a lot of time on vouchers or even tax credits because I think charters are a faster way to get great schools in the hands of parents.»

Parents will also be able to hand out achievement badges, thanks to a built - in progress report that keeps parents updated on total time spent reading, number of words looked up, and books fiParents will also be able to hand out achievement badges, thanks to a built - in progress report that keeps parents updated on total time spent reading, number of words looked up, and books fiparents updated on total time spent reading, number of words looked up, and books finished.

Parents who spend time in waiting rooms with their kids - at the dentist, doctor, hospital or even a car dealership - inherently recognize that the tattered books provided to keep the kids busy have been handled by hundreds or thousands of grubby hands.

The program puts pets in the hands of students who otherwise would have never gotten to spend time with these animals — kids who have never had pets because their parents either never considered having one or do not believe they have the time, money or living space to care for one.

By sharing these understandings and techniques - professionals come to a better understanding of the meaning of behavior which can then be shared with parents and other caregivers, placing the power of that understanding in the hands of the people who know, spend the most time with, and have the most powerful relationships with the child.

Add in trying to balance time with a parent who may have limited parenting time throughout the rest of the year and you may have an explosive issue on your hands as to how the summer should be spent.

On the other hand, if those same emotional Achilles heals are not effectively managed, the couple may end up not being able to agree to settlement terms, forcing the couple to spend tens of thousands of dollars (or more) on legal fees in a contested, litigated trial where the judge makes all of the decisions for them regarding a Parenting Plan and property / debt division in ways that neither of them likes.