Sentences with phrase «take the children to school kind»

Often times, this means that they have to figure out who will take the children to school kind of last minute.

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Indeed the desire of the counter-cultural types to take charge of the education of their own children seemed a reasonable extension of the kind of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind of oppressive social control some of the cooler teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.

In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learning.

I'm currently completely failing in my mission to be Superwoman, the combination of a job, three very busy children, helping at school, a husband who seems to be away a lot and trying to maintain some kind of life away from my computer is taking it's toll.

«Mommy will still buy food and make dinner for you» and «Daddy will still take you to school in the mornings and to sports practices on the weekends» as these kind of concrete events are what mark a child's world as predictable and understandable.

If you're just starting to consider home education, or have recently taken your children out of school to educate them at home, you probably have all kinds of questions about what to do, how to help your children to learn, whether to use a formal curriculum, how to organise meals around home education, whether you'll ever again get any time to yourself... These home education articles address these issues and more, from my perspective having «been there, done that!».

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

Not only did the district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.

The newly minted secretary of education is pushing for schools to take advantage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to give every child the kind of broad background «that engages and intrigues kids, allowing them to discover interests in the arts and the sciences and world languages and so much else.»

It was inspirational, and it was an opportunity to learn more of what it takes to prepare and support the kinds of outstanding leaders our schools need to ensure every child receives a great education and achieves at high levels.

They argue private schools accepting vouchers should not necessarily be subject to the law because embedded in vouchers is a different kind of accountability, accountability to parents that can choose to take their children, and their tax dollars, elsewhere.

What we are doing is stating sound principles that are aligned with and underscore the responsibilities we have (or should have) agreed to take on in exchange for public dollars and the autonomy that we have (or should have) to innovate in our schools and create the kind of learning environments that families aspire to for their children and educators aspire to for their careers.

In the case of North Carolina, for example, the mere threat of No Child's sanctions alone led to many schools that were identified as failing for the first time to take on the kind of reforms needed to improve student achievement.

Various government agencies take care of things such as roads, parks, and schools that our children and we use on a daily basis.Any kind of breakdown in these facilities can cause serious injury that may entitle you, your child, or your loved one to the recovery of damages.

The kinds of things that primary school children take into account in developing their self - concepts include how well they are able to succeed with schoolwork and other activities, how they look, and how they get on with family and peers.

When children experience this kind of stress, what is primary to them - school and friendships, can take a back seat to making sure that one or both parents are taken care of and feel loved.