Sentences with phrase «very children advocates»

Ignoring the harsh realities of racial disparities outside of school is likely to hurt those very children advocates seek to protect.

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Sax makes some very helpful suggestions for parents struggling to raise respectful children, but his emphasis is misplaced in advocating....

I don't want it to come across that I am advocating passively praying that child molesters (for instance) would get a personal encounter with God... I also take very seriously the responsibility to defend the abused... I have received more «christian» flak for reporting abuse than I get from any source for praying for my abusers.

Essentially they are the ones who are not strong enough to be advocates for themselves: prisoners, very old and very poor people, household workers, most people who live in Third World countries, retarded children and adults, schoolchildren, immigrants, farm workers, unemployed persons, the institutionalized mentally ill, sometimes women, sometimes gays.

Suzanne at The Joyful Chaos who co-sleeps, but also says she's «not actually an advocate for co-sleeping,» drives the point home that you have to do what works best for your family in her post The Cosleeping Edition of my Attachment Parenting Freako - ness and sometimes that may very well differ from child to child.

It's very important to advocate for your child.

She is an advocate of children with special needs and very passionate about her family.

I am a huge advocate of creating a flexible, loving routine and have seen this method work very successfully for many years with my clients» babies as well as with my own children and grandchildren.

The arguments that nut bans limit the food allergic children from learning to advocate for themselves or that they need to live in the real world which will not accommodate them are also very tired ones indeed.

Upon watching my breastfeeding advocate girlfriend interact very lovingly with one of her children, I asked her for advice on pages to «like» on Facebook which would help to reinforce the nurturing type of parent I would like to be.

Any advocating of elimination or reducing routine vaccinations to me is child endangerment (Yes that does sound harsh and not very nice but it is the truth).

Emery's response to our rejoinder did not address our major criticisms of their research; rather, he claims that absent strong evidence about the effects of infants and very young children spending overnights with each parent, the burden of proof lies with those who advocate for the co-parenting position, rather than with opponents of co-parenting.

I am a very vocal advocate of attachment parenting and the consequences that impact our lives if we choose not to fully attach to, and be attached to by, our children.

These are the very investments that community members, children's advocates, and County Legislature Democrats have been asking for, in some cases for several years.

Although the authors do not advocate for sending all orphaned or abandoned children to institutions, «it is not an option that should be taken off the table — and it could be very appropriate for children who don't have another place to go,» Whetten says.

Paul Offit, the vaccine advocate and profiteer, who helped invent a Rotavirus vaccine is said to have paved the way for his own multi-million dollar windfall while serving on the very council that eventually voted his Rotavirus vaccine onto our children's schedule.

Later after being very unsatisfied I traveled far to see a holistic dentist who was an advocate for natural mouthwashes for children.

«Technology has really forced those in law enforcement to change the way we look at things, and I'm a very strong advocate of educating adults and children alike.

Many advocates appear to be abandoning our once shared convictions about what it takes to lift children out of poverty, the very wellspring of the movement's power and mass appeal.

With the nomination of Betsy DeVos — the soon - to - be former chair of the American Federation for Children and a lifelong school - choice advocate — as the next secretary of education, many folks are now trying to understand for the very first time the role vouchers and private school choice play in the reform universe.

The Common Core standards being adopted in the District, Maryland and most other states grew in part from the work of E.D. Hirsch Jr., a University of Virginia scholar who persuaded many advocates like Petrilli that children often don't learn to read very well because they have not been taught enough facts about their world to understand what they are reading.

Advocates of universal pre-k who wish to ground their position in research better hope the estimates are biased downward because they are very small, e.g., no more than one to three percent of a standard deviation difference between the children in Georgia / Oklahoma vs. other states on fourth grade NAEP achievement scores.

To these advocates, the very idea of public oversight of private providers is redundant: market forces will ensure that schools will deliver high quality service because customers — parents just as much as outsourcing public agencies — will otherwise just take their money, and children, elsewhere.

The significance of the Common Core is that the advocates for the Common Core and the people who are designing the test talk very explicitly about, as Carol said, these instructional shifts, which have not been publicly debated, which got little public airing as 40 - odd states rushed to adopt the Common Core in 2009, 2010, and which portend a dramatic shift in how we teach 50 million children reading and math.

But at the very moment that the children of the land face certain defeat, parents, teachers, the teacher's union (known as the Hartford Federation of Teachers) and other public education advocates rally together to speak out on behalf of their children, the school, the importance of public education and what is right.

Success looks like kids who are extremely well - prepared for secondary school with a very clear understanding of what it takes to go to college, and parents who understand what their children need to get to college and can be strong advocates for them.

«He definitely felt very bad about it,» said Kathryn Meyer, the lawyer, who acts as an advocate for children in Kazzmaire's situation.

She has served as a teacher, advocate, and interventionist for very young children with special needs and their families across the state.

The very best advocates for recruitment are teachers themselves, but I keep meeting teachers who try and put off their own children from considering it.

«So there's the knowledge base and the skillset around advocating for children, parents and even the state in child protection matters that is really very different from the domestic family law side of things.»

But secondly, I think we as women have to continue to advocate for our very conservative profession, looking at ways that law firms of all sizes and shapes can more fairly and adequately deal with women with young children, because it is an enormous brain drain if the profession doesn't get there.

She remains a passionate advocate for services committed to helping vulnerable children, youth and families and is very excited to join the Board of Directors at Peacebuilder's International.

Therefore, it has created four new and distinct categories of family advocates, with very specific statutory powers: a Child & Family Investigator, a Parenting Coordinator, a Decision - Maker and an Arbitrator.

«It's a very lucrative market; companies want to capture these people, these children, so they can keep them throughout their lives,» said Kathryn Montgomery, a communications professor at American University and one of the main advocates who helped get COPPA passed.

Social Services: Social Workers who are child advocates can be very helpful in finding needed services in your area.

Pediatricians must advocate for workforce development for professionals who care for very young children and for promotion of evidence - based interventions focused on healthy attachment and parent - child relationships.

This drive for more collaboration on behalf of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is very much in line with the NHS constitution and reforms to the wider NHS, which advocate greater integration wherever possible.

On the other hand, there are others who advocate for litigant preparation in that such consultation can result in very powerful parental education which can ultimately decrease conflict between parents and benefit the child.

She is an advocate for abused and neglected children and very passionate about directing people towards a healthy and positive lifestyle.

Children of Trauma: What Educators Need to Know — Kathleen Benckendorf, a former ATN Board Member, wrote this very comprehensive article for the National Council for Adoption's Advocate publication.

While all three House candidates have made education a central part of their platforms, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona trusts Ms. Butler to advocate for a very important aspect of children's schooling: comprehensive sex education.