Sentences with phrase «third of children between»

Less than a third of children between the age of three and five are able maintain their lies, while a little more than half of six - and seven - year - olds can keep a lie going.

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His father had only a «third grade education or what passed for a third grade education for an African American child in the state of South Carolina between 1906 and 1909,» Frazier explained in the same interview.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

This is part of why many researchers now believe that the most promising approach to parental behavior change may be that third category: interventions that target the relationship between parents and children.

As outlined in our new blog, numerous internationally respected studies make clear the importance of secure father - child attachment — including, for example, work by Dr Paul Ramchandani of Imperial College London which shows that «disengaged and remote father - child interactions as early as the third month of life» predict behaviour problems in children when they are older [1] and US research showing that «verbal exchanges between fathers and their infants and between mothers and their infants each, independently and uniquely, predict pre-schoolers» social competence and lower aggression» [2].

Drowning is the leading cause of injury - related death among children between 1 and 4 years old and it's the third leading cause of death among children in the United States.

Between 12 and 24 months, it can supply one third of your child's energy needs.6 Human milk is a nourishing food for as long as your child drinks it.

Colic, crying, round - the - clock wakings — is it any wonder that parents experience high rates of depression in the first year after the birth of a child?A study of British parents in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has found that more than one - third of mothers and about one - fifth of fathers seem to have weathered depression sometime between becoming parents and their children's 12th birthday, with the most episodes occurring in the first year after birth.

If this remains a problem, it might be helpful to sit down with a third party such as a therapist to look at ways in which you can compromise so that your child has her screen time limited but without making it an area of contention between parents.

Here, to illustrate the connection between fatherhood and child well - being, I compare adolescent boys and girls who fall into one of four categories: those living in an intact, married family with a high - quality relationship with their father (top third), or an average - quality relationship with their father (middle third), or a low - quality relationship with him (bottom third), or living in a single - mother family.

«Increased duration of breastfeeding confers significant health and developmental benefits for the child and the mother, especially in delaying return of fertility (thereby promoting optimal intervals between births)... There is no upper limit to the duration of breastfeeding and no evidence of psychologic or developmental harm from breastfeeding into the third year of life or longer.»

Just 1 in 5 children is breastfed for 12 months in high - income countries, while a third of children aged between 6 months and 2 years receive no breast milk at all in low - and middle - income countries.

In 2003, according to a report by the Trust for America's Health, Kentucky had the third highest level of overweight high school students, as well as the third highest number of low - income children between two and five years old in the country.

«Although your toddler's growth rate will slow between his second and third birthdays, nevertheless he will continue his remarkable physical transformation from a baby to a child,» according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

It can provide half or more of a child's energy needs between the ages of six and 12 months, and one third of energy needs between 12 and 24 months.

I'm 7 months PP tomorrow with my third child and have been exclusive pumping since between 3 and 4 months due to lots of eating / allergy issues.

Wondering about a third... I had a lot of guilt about having the 2nd baby and taking time away from the first child; guilt about the distance that the new baby created between my first boy & myself; how to give each one enough attention individually, and how a third or fourth would play into all of that..

It's estimated that nearly one third of school aged children between 12 and 18 are bullied at some point in school, and 16 percent of New York State students, have been victims of cyberbullying off of school property.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

It's estimated that nearly one - third of school aged children between 12 and 18 are bullied at some point in school, and 16 percent of New York state students, have been victims of cyber bullying off of school property.

Between a fourth and a third of front - line CPS workers resign or transfer out of the department each year, disrupting child investigations and leaving more work for caseworkers who remain.

To determine what level of a toxin is safe, researchers take a dose that has no observed toxicological effect in an animal and divide it by 10 once (to account for the differences between species) and then again (to account for variations among humans» ability to handle toxins); for pesticides, the dose is then divided by 10 a third time (to allow for the extraordinary sensitivity of babies and children).

«By the end of the third year of life, the average bilingual child uses two words for most concepts in his or her vocabulary, so young bilingual children gradually acquire more experience in switching between languages,» says Poulin - Dubois.

However, progress on reducing newborn deaths (in the first 28 days) has been slower meaning that as a whole the world failed to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing child deaths by two - thirds between 1990 and 2015.

Deciphering Developmental Disorders, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the UK Department of Health, 24 regional genetics services and more than 180 clinical geneticists, has now analysed the first 1000 children from its 12,000 - strong cohort, returning a genetic diagnosis for nearly a third of families.

This study compared the association between the provider of preventive services (nDPCP, dentist or both) to Medicaid - enrolled children before their third birthday and subsequent dental caries - related treatment (CRT) and CRT payment.

The 2001 SBS textbook cites two studies (from the journals Annals of Emergency Medicine and Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology) showing that between 15 percent and 33 percent of SBS - symptomatic infants died, while one - third to one - half suffered permanent injury such as paralysis or mental retardation.

PDA survey results indicate that almost two - thirds of the postdocs have non-child dependents (including spouses and domestic partners), and between 25 % to 50 % of the respondents have children.

In Bwa Mawego, 36 percent of households with children changed composition at least once between 1990 and 1995 — a statistic not unusual for the Caribbean; over the same period about a third of the children lived in more than one household.

Teachers might use interactions between a child and puppets or other toys during which the child is asked to describe what they see in a way that elicits a particular verb tense — for example having the child describe what a puppet is doing to stimulate use of the third person.

While 44 percent of children live in low - income households, only one - third of adults between 18 and 64 years of age live in these households.

The paper claimed that in two thirds of 12 consecutive child patients with «regressive developmental disorder» and enterocolitis, attending one London hospital's paediatric gastroentreology clinic, the «apparent precipitating event» was a measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, with a temporal link between shot and symptoms of 14 days.

At a recent preview screening of «Shrek the Third,» I was settling into my seat, enjoying the good sight lines (nothing but pipsqueaks between me and the screen) and the excited anticipation of the children, when a little voice behind me said, «Have to turn off my cell phone now.»

Disconcertingly, NAEP results show that for children between the ages of 9 and 13, the gender gaps in science and reading roughly double and the math gap increases by two - thirds.

Contributors to the Magnuson and Waldfogel collection are interested only in the third of those questions, with specific reference to the test - score gap between African American and white children.

Continuing his seeming obsession with the relationship between food and cognition, Rothstein writes, in a March 2001 column, «Surgeon General David Satcher reported... that more than a third of poor children have untreated dental cavities.

We analyze records for children born in Florida between 1994 and 2001 and observed in the test score records in both third and fifth grades — a total of 872,893 children.

Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region with the highest out - of - school rates for all age groups: more than half (57 %) of all youth between the ages of 15 and 17 are not in school, as are more than one - third (36 %) of adolescents between 12 and 14 years and one - fifth (21 %) of children between the ages of about 6 and 11.

Instead, the report recommends a ten - year programme of social reform, which it believes should have the key objective of narrowing the attainment gap at GCSE between poorer children and their better - off classmates by two - thirds.

Children's formal learning opportunities between preschool and third grade have a strong influence on the building of knowledge and skills critical to students» academic trajectories throughout their schooling years.

The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn From Each Other (2003), captures the crucial exchange between parents and teachers, a dialogue that is both mirror and metaphor for the cultural forces that shape the socialization of our children, and The Third Chapter: Risk, Passion, and Adventure in the Twenty - Five Years After 50 (2009) explores new learning during one of the most transformative and generative times in our lives, and EXIT: The Endings That Set Us Free (2012).

There were a small number of outcomes favoring Head Start participants at the end of the Head Start year, but no appreciable differences between children attending and not attending Head Start from kindergarten through third grade.

In reading scores, two of the four within - cohort comparisons reveal a widening of the black - white gap as children move through school: between the 1st and 2nd grades, the gap grew one - third of a standard deviation larger, and another one - fifth of a standard deviation larger between grades 3 and 5.

«Somewhere between half to two thirds of school - aged children have experienced significant trauma, and it impacts their ability to focus on learning or worse, causes them to withdraw or act out in way that leads to suspensions,» said Brandy Fluker - Oakley, Executive Director of E4E - Boston.

When over 80 % of our children can not read proficiently by the third grade, it is a travesty of enormous proportions, particularly when compared with the TAKS reading test results (even after a significant standard deviation adjustment), their comparison with national norm - referenced test scores, and the wide gap between scores of white and minority children.

In fact, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University, summer learning loss during elementary school accounts for two - thirds of the achievement gap in reading between low - income children and their middle - income peers by ninth grade.

«The first one would be to have them get an individualized education that meets the needs of each student; the second was that we were drawn to a classical curriculum; and the third would be flexibility in time with family,» said Banks, a resident of Fredericksburg, Va., who added that her elementary - age children went back and forth between home education and Catholic school over the past few years before they settled on home education.

At the elementary level, DCPS and many other schools have groups of children rotating between stations in a single classroom, with each group spending a third of their time working at computers loaded with software geared to their needs.