Sentences with phrase «voices of parents»

Talk gently with your child before he goes to sleep, otherwise sing a song or tell a short story, because babies find voices of their parents very soothing.

In identifying your priorities, it is really important to put aside the external voices of parenting experts and coaches like me.

In February, following the 2016 election, a new education group called Massachusetts Parents United launched, which claims to be «the independent voice of parents in the Commonwealth.»

InCultureParent offers an alternative to the dominant voice of parenting information with viewpoints from around the world.

The collective voice of the parents of our 46,000 kids could have quite an impact on some of the conversations we're having.

Educators and policy makers need to be prepared to look long and hard at what we're doing in Wisconsin, and to hear the critical voices of parents like Rep. Ripp who are concerned about when and how their children's reading problems are dealt with at school.

The united voice of parents is the trebuchet.

The strong voice of parents and carers at the Heart of Stockport's delivery of services for children, young people 0 - 25 years with disabilities and additional needs and their families.

This post is a confessional fiction piece excerpted from the collective and authentic voices of parents we've worked with over the last 45 years here at the Institute for Attachment and Child Development.

In the beginning, before we know better, maybe the voice of God sounds like the voices of our parents.

Thus, the child, the voice of his parents, may claim compensation for physicians who, through their fault, some were injured and legitimate interest to be a therapeutic abortion, as granted that his mother would have been appeal if it had been duly informed of the condition during pregnancy.

«Usually, the voices at the table who have weight and are listened to are voices of industry and voices of government, but rarely the voices of parents who are the most invested in children's health,» she says.

Sometimes just the voice of his parents or gentle humming can be enough to palliate their grumpy mood.

The responses below are written from the voice of Parenting Journey staffer Erica Brunner.

I love the idea of the parents recording their voices on books such as Counting Kisses, All the Ways I Love You and Guess How Much I Love You for kids to pull of their bookshelf and get that reassuring message of love in the voice of their parents.

Try not to call home... hearing the voice of a parent tends to make homesickness worse.

In the midst of all of this Congressional wrangling, where are the voices of parents and kids?

A two - way baby monitor can be extremely soothing and calming for a baby since he can hear the voice of the parents as soon as he gets up.

«I think that the way the voice of parents has just been completely shut out is a disaster for the schools,» said Nixon, who was there with her wife, and her wife's parents, as well as their young son.

Mulgrew said that he has gone on the record in opposition to the current system of mayoral control, which shuts out the voices of parents, educators and community members.

«I can not ignore that it seems the district is working hard to control the flow of information and in some cases limit the voices of parents and community members,» Flanagan - Priore wrote in her resignation letter.

Radford said it was his participation on the task force that led him to conclude that many of the voices of the opt - out movement were reflective of the teachers unions through parents who are also teachers, but the voice of parents who were not teachers seemed to be missing from the conversation, he said.

«The voices of the parents, teachers and the community have been heard,» said Leonie Haimson, the executive director of education blog Class Size Matters, who delivered 13,000 signatures to Steiner's apartment on the Upper East Side Monday evening urging him to deny the waiver.

StudentsFirstNY Director of Organizing Tenicka Boyd said: «We can not allow the loud special interests to drown out the voices of parents and students anymore.

There is no price tag on elevating the voices of parents demanding better schools for their kids.»

«The voice of parents empowers our children,» said Elzora Cleveland, a mayoral appointee to the Panel for Educational Policy and a parent of an 11th - grader.

«Turning over a school or a school district to a private individual or to a non-profit would silence the voices of parents, students and educators and would create a czar,» NYSUT spokesman Carl Korn said.

For instance, he said, a premature infant who spent critical developmental weeks listening to white noise in the hospital may «prioritize» that kind of noise later in life, preferentially tuning into background sounds instead of paying attention to the voice of a parent or teacher.

It is the voice of your parents or your teachers or your ex-lover or your cultural mores.

I have learned especially to respect the positive power of the voice of parents.»

And the voice of parents who are deeply engaged in the most important decisions of our school, like interviewing teachers for our first campus in southeast Washington DC?

The voice of parents who show up in droves to defend our schools at reauthorization hearings?

The voice of parents who drove over 100 miles every day to send their children to Rocketship, then organized parents to open a Rocketship school in their own community?

The measure, which calls for the mayor to appoint a new school board, contains provisions designed to allay fears that the voices of parents might be lost or that the mayor would exercise unchecked power.

The Education Select Committee report on Academies and Free Schools identified concerns that the voice of parents can be marginalised in some academies.

The commissioner has pursued policies that repeatedly ignore the voices of parents and educators who have identified problems and called on him to move more thoughtfully,» said NYSUT President Richard C. Iannuzzi.

Problems with SBAC and Inappropriate Penalties for Schools Speaking on House Bill 5555, CEA Research and Policy Development Specialist Ray Rossomando urged legislators to ensure that the voices of parents, educators, and voters are heard on important policy matters.

We hope you find the voices of these parents compelling and that it helps Idaho begin an important conversation about how best to create school options that lead to educational equity, access, and quality across our great state.

We have not done enough to elevate the voices of parents who want better options for their kids, who want transparent information and who get frustrated with being stonewalled by the system.

When I hear the appreciation in the voices of parents, or when I see teary - eyed parents bragging about our school, I know that the struggles, hurdles, obstacles, ridicule, and opposition we face are worth it for us to realize the change we're making in our students.

The voices of parents: Rethinking the intersection of family and school.

The voice of parents is very much needed in this arena because, the fact of the matter is, if they don't understand the Standards and the need for them, they will continue to have difficulty assisting their children in meeting them.

Academy level committees can have an extremely important role in ensuring that the voices of parents, pupils, staff and the wider community are heard by the executive leadership and the board of trustees, and that reports are made to them.

If we can foster such collaborations here in Indiana, a robust parent trigger could magnify the voices of parents who too often have not been heard.

We must stand together as a national force against those who seek to privatize our public schools, dissolve elected school boards and shut out the voices of parents, teachers and students.

«These are challenging times for all public schools and especially charter schools, which makes it more important than ever that the voices of parents are heard in Sacramento.»