Sentences with phrase «than helping kids»

«It says to me that they don't think anything can be done because they are looking for the fall guy rather than helping all kids achieve.»

About 12 years ago, however, the group reexamined its mission: rather than helping kids adapt to the system, why not help the system adapt to them?

You're doing more than helping kids with their homework, you're actually teaching them about the subjects they struggle with the most in school.

Not exact matches

Our specially designed, proprietary Mathnasium Method ™, derived from more than 35 years of research and development, helps math make sense to kids.

«The feedback helped me realize that the key takeaway was bigger than that — with Jibbitz, we built a business selling to moms and kids, and that's exactly the same audience we're trying to go after today.»

But a smart marketing campaign targeted at a new demographic — households with no kids — is helping it grow, which should keep the McCains more than comfortable.

They are part of the No Kid Hungry annual fundraiser every year, for which they have helped raise more than $ 100,000.

I didn't ask enough of these questions and I got hooked up with someone who was more interested in selling me products than helping me and my family win in retirement and college planning for our kids.

And although anti-best-friend policies may help kids in the short - term, research suggests the strong connections found among best friends could be vital for mental health in a world where adolescents are lonelier than ever.

Covenant House is a national nonprofit organization that has been helping homeless and trafficked teenagers, young adults, and single moms with kids get shelter and support across the country for more than 40 years.

This holiday season, Zillow Group is pleased to announce The Home Project is making a $ 100,000 donation on behalf of Zillow Group employees to Covenant House, a national nonprofit organization that has been helping homeless and trafficked teenagers, young adults and single moms with kids receive shelter and support across the country for more than 40 years.

She does like YouTube, though: In a speech at Google's developer conference last year, Wojcicki said she had been a strong proponent of Google's decision to buy YouTube for $ 1.65 billion in 2006, after seeing a user - uploaded video of kids lip - syncing to the Backstreet Boys get far more traffic on Google Video than the premium studio content for which she had helped cut deals.

Other economists don't agree that you need $ 350,000 to be considered rich, however an amount of money that exceeds $ 200,000 per year is enough for a family to lead a more than comfortable lifestyle; this means having the chance to live in a big house, send the kids to private schools, have enough money to travel internationally, own at least 2 cars, and have no debt except a mortgage which will help them build equity.

Once you embrace the idea that there is no possible way for anyone to know any truth beyond what they have been taught, you can focus on what really matters; helping your fellow man, making the world a better place than how you found it and teaching your kids to do the same.

I learned that letting my kids explore, ask questions, then more questions, to push the boundaries of their understanding helped me to learn as well, while helping them to see that often there is more than just one way of seeing things.

The information they provide might help you decide whether to raise your kids not too religiously or more than that.

The phony pro-lifers now drop health care, (which is needed for life) are against birth control (Never offer any money to help the kids they want so badly to be born) The catholic church is no different than taliban, al queda, kkk or other terrorist organizations.

Ultimately, after 10 years, Lee is most proud that the New York City Wine & Food Festival has raised more than $ 10 million to help end hunger with Food Bank For New York City and No Kid Hungry.

«More than 16 million kids in America are living in familieswhostruggle to put food on the table, but with driveslike Boston's Cares, we are able to help provide themfamilies with the necessary resources to ensure their children receive nutritious food, every day.

The combination of the sweet strawberries and the tangy dressing make this salad so much more than the sum of its parts, and if you're having trouble getting your kids to eat greens then hopefully the addition of strawberries will help!

Older kids can even help put them together (I found that my 3 and 5 year old were more interested in eating them than completing the craft on the day I tried this).

I couldn't help leaving you a comment, you asked so nice =) I think this meal looks absolutely delicious and so much better than the jello and stale popcorn that I ended up eating for dinner because my kids are sick (and cranky!)

The kids are out of school and what better way to keep them busy and full then to have them help you in the kitchen and fill up on homemade snacks rather than the store - bought versions.

Other than that, I was honored to help with the little kids at the camp, you guys were great.

I am not kidding myself that we would have been able to keep Messi any more than we could stop the likes of Ashley Cole, Robin van Persie and Fabregas himself from leaving, but you can not help wondering whether the Gunners would have their name on a few more trophies, including the elusive Champions League, if Wenger had been able to play Messi for a few years.

Are we hurting more kids than helping them?

1 - Kids listen to other people better than their parents, she probably enlists their help and the go about it willingly 2 - Nanny doesn't live there, so to her it's probably not that bad.

I promptly told them I was nursing my 4th and would ask if I needed help — because I frankly knew more about BFing my kids than they did.

There are so many sad kids out there (abused by their care givers, etc) that righteous people ought to try to help than to vent their spleen on a humour site.

In the same way that the zero - tolerance approach to discipline sends precisely the opposite psychological message to disadvantaged kids than what we now know they need in order to feel motivated and engaged with school, so do many basic elements of traditional American pedagogy work in direct opposition to what the psychological research tells us will help those children succeed.

Our frantic efforts to give our kids «an edge» are harming rather than helping them.

The good news is that doctors and therapists today understand anxiety disorders better than ever before and, with treatment, can help kids feel better.

About the Book: Most parents spend more time helping their kids succeed at academics or athletics than infusing shared spiritual experiences into the rhythm of everyday family life.

While I believe all the issues on The Lunch Tray are worthy of discussion (even if some are a little sillier than others), and even though we've certainly discussed childhood hunger here and will continue to do so, any site claiming to be dedicated to «kids and food, in school and out» really ought to take affirmative steps to help kids with no food at all.

And parading kids and chefs through the White House and trumpeting the changes through media channels that don't know any better than to laud them is not helping get better food in schools.

It's uncivilized, uncouth, and will never help our kids understand that eating is a more sacred act than shoving it in as fast as you can.

Is there any evidence that giving kids time to eat a decent lunch, and time for physical activity and social interaction, would hurt, rather than help, their academic performance?

At home, of course, we have friends who can either join us or to whom one of the kids can duck out rather than go somewhere they don't like, but on the road, there's no «plan b», no - one else to help out.

In fact, stressed out kids need discipline more than ever to help them feel secure.

My kids have sat on many a lap other than mine on planes and someone always offers to help with hand holding, bag carrying or child minding if I need it.

Sometimes I feel like getting kids to help with the housework may seem more like a chore than the actual cleaning task does.

Conclusion: Using bribes to manipulate kids to repeat a desired behavior is a control tactic that makes kids focus on the reward rather than helping them want to repeat the behavior.

Soft fruit like tomatoes can be more tricky for kids to chop than some of the harder fruit so we helped T first off showing her to start with the point of the knife into the tomato and then move it down chopping the tomato.

My boys, so my first two were boys, so my first son was about six months and same thing really for my second son and I was really personally disappointed by that, that wasn't my plan, my plan was to breastfeed them a lot longer than that and just other things just kind of got in the way and education and everything that probably could get in the way and with my girls I just kind of was like and I think what helped me too was knowing that the twins were my last plan pregnancy, like after that like, if I get pregnant you know «Surprise» but we are not planning have any more kids and I think knowing going into to it that I wasn't able to do what I wanted to do with my first two, really, really motivated me and knowing that these are my last babies that I'm planning to have so if I, it's now or never so it's kind of like putting a little bit of pressure on me I guess on that regard.

In other words, the structure helps manage the kids more than your personality does.

It has helped me help my kids be on a team rather than accidentally pitting one child against another.

Kids are harder than an Ikea bookshelf to figure out and help construct without making mistakes, losing things and general frustration.

Kids need information to help them understand whether bio, adoptive, foster or step families — they are more alike than they are different.

It also helps to focus on what you want your kids to do rather than long lists of «don'ts.»

It's up to the adults, I suppose, to help the kids work through (rather than merely cope) any emotions that arise from seeing their birth parents parenting other children.