Sentences with phrase «than help children»

High quality early childhood programs do much more than help children learn numbers, shapes, and colors.

In some schools, class pets do more than help children learn about animals.

Rather than helping a child understand himself, it tells a child there is something wrong with him.

It reinforces and prolongs the behavior rather than helping the child gain the vocabulary he or she needs to better deal with emotions.

A pen pal can do more than help your child learn about the world around him.

It is pretty sad that rather than helping the children in the public schools in this district be able to read, write or do simple arithmetic at grade level, it is more important for our disgraced assemblyman to provide basketball nets, rather than educational safety nets.

«I think teachers are really caught up and now a lot of their time is spent assessing children rather than helping children to learn.

Rothbart's own motivation stemmed from years of frustration with individuals and systems that hurt rather than helped her children, with teachers who did not understand learning disabilities or believe her children had learning disabilities.

I truly believe that there is nothing more important than helping children succeed.»

Rather than helping children and parents and informing teachers, tests are being used to justify academic tracking, over-representation of Black and Brown kids in special education, push outs and school closings.

But now, in some classrooms, class pets are doing more than helping children learn about animals.

I can't think of a better way to give back than helping children.

Not exact matches

For more than 50 years, Kumon has helped millions of children worldwide advance their reading and math abilities.

Citing studies on the early lives of heroes who rescued people from the Holocaust and highly creative architects, Grant suggests parents «help children think about the consequences of their action for others,» rather than simply yelling «no!».

He said he's heard more than one story of grandparents continuing to work full time when they might have retired so they can help out with basic expenses like strollers, cribs and child care.

We have the perfect opportunity to implement this powerful concept in helping our children pay for their own college, rather than flipping for the bill ourselves.

Forty years ago UNICEF figured out that promoting simple, low - cost interventions like hand - washing and breastfeeding could save millions of lives, and its mission has helped children in more than 190 countries and territories.

Parents want nothing but the best for their children, and if you come to them earnestly looking for help, you'll likely find that they'll be more than willing to do so.

Changing entrenched views about girls and education is a long - term process, she says, but so far her organization's efforts have helped to educate 1.3 million children, including more than 80,000 girls that it has brought into the school system.

McKelvey helped organize the Families of Freedom fund after the September 11 attacks, headed by Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, which raised more than $ 100 million to be used toward college scholarships for the children of the attack's victims.

As parents, you think the best thing you can do for your children is to encourage them to go to college and get a good education — and, hopefully, that will help them land good jobs with higher earning power than if they had high school diplomas alone.

In a study published this year that tracked Best Buy's ROWE program, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that, while it had helped reduce employee turnover, women who took part still spent 10 hours more on child care per week than their male flextime colleagues.

Women in Need (Win) has provided safe housing, critical services, and groundbreaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives in New York City for more than 33 years.

(Win) has provided safe housing, critical services, and groundbreaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives in New York City for more than 33 years.

Other Tencent blockchain projects include a financial application that allows users to profit from increases in the price of gold, a service that helps small and medium - sized businesses to procure financing at a lower cost than they might otherwise be able to, and an app geared toward locating missing children.

Food Banks Canada's HungerCount study reported that more than 860,000 men, women and children are helped by food banks each month, a 28 per cent increase since the 2008 economic downturn.

To be fair, the new lower tax brackets and expanded Child Tax Credit should help to somewhat offset the loss of the personal exemption, and there are obviously more variables involved in any particular tax situation than I've mentioned here.

Each year more than 30,000 women and children affected by domestic violence in B.C. come forward for help.

Press Release — SAN DIEGO — San Diego native, Richard Nares, will run more than 1,700 miles from Seattle, Washington to San Diego, Calif. to raise money for the Emilio Nares Foundation (ENF), a nonprofit that helps families navigate their child's journey through cancer.

More than three - quarters of children surveyed - 87 % of boys and 77 % of girls - felt pornography failed to help them understand consent, while the majority of boys (53 %) and more than a third (39 %) of girls saw it as a realistic depiction of sex.

The image of the child, holding a smaller sibling on her hip, tells us that these brown children are poorer than us, and they need our help to break a cycle of poverty.

But within 48 hours of Invisible Children's «Kony 2012» video going viral, the conversation surrounding Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and the best way to help the people he has terrorized for more than eight years, had become anything but simple.

It was at this point that Julie entered the mix to suggest that the blog Tony posted regarding the causes of Driscoll's seemingly sudden tumble from the status of Golden Boy contained no small measure of the pot calling the kettle black, and in the course of her comment pointed out that when Tony abandoned her and their children it was none other than Driscoll who stepped in to help.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

«Thou shalt not interfere with a woman's right to choose abortion; indeed, thou must help to pay for abortions through tax money; more than that, thou shalt not legislate that the woman contemplating abortion must be fully informed about the potential adoptive parents who desperately want to provide a loving home for her unborn child.»

Many experts both within and outside of the church think that there is much we can do to help couples and modern societies learn to hold together genuine covenantal love (a much stronger concept than that of romantic love) with the economic, kinship, networking and child - rearing aspects of marriage.

Ms. Richards has been very clear about her child - focused strategy, disclosing that in 2009 - 2010, Planned Parenthood «reached more than 1.1 million adolescents and parents... with information and education to help them make informed decisions and stay safe.»

They help us to know that we are often closer to God in our doubts than in our certainties, that it is all right to be like the small child who constantly asks, «Why?

Specialty gum and candy brand Project 7 partners with organizations around the world to help those in need, and to date, thanks to their efforts, has helped serve more than 4 million meals in the U.S. alone, provided 116,000 malaria treatments, built wells around the world, helped children receive an education and more.

Parents of hemophilic children have more help in raising their children than ever before, and laws protecting the handicapped have helped adult hemophiliacs on the job.

I think that students often take their cues from the adults in leadership, so by pointing back to the student rather than the unbelieving parent, it can help keep the discussion from turning into one about something that may be confusing and upsetting for the child, but is instead an encouragement to them.

But the Lord had chosen a mother for that baby, and a child for that mother — nothing is more loving, our friends found, than helping a parent to receive the Father's gift of life.

Helping a child is no more important than shooting up heroin.

But I would rather be here in this imperfect place than outside where I see Grace disappearing, where most have lost faith in the world that pushes it's children into employment where money, power and influence is the only road to happiness, where dog eat dog is the Tag Line which tries to conceal avarice by saying The Wealth creators help the poor as it eventually trickles down.

Wouldn't he have helped the child rather than deny the child, as the church does to protect its own reputation over the harm of child?

My own analysis is that the Church, rather than any hierarchy of ends, now wishes to emphasise their intimate connection and interdependence, especially so as to help overcome the modern mindset that marriage can be truly fruitful and «fulfilling» independently of the children who may be born of and nourish any genuine conjugal love.

However, some have raised legitimate concerns about Invisible Children's strategy and finances, suggesting that IC may do more to hurt the situation than help it.

What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.

This is why Benedict was also quick to point out that the Catholic Church has done more than anyone else to help with the crisis» either through its hospitals that provide on the ground contact with those suffering from the disease or be it through orphanages that care for the children who have been left parentless from the pandemic.

A freedom of information request found the majority of authorities do not have systems in place to measure the scale of the problem, other than collecting statistics on the number of children already receiving help from social services.