Sentences with phrase «work against kids»

But in general, excessive rest and isolation might work against kids.

«If you isolate parents from their kids, you are working against the kids,» Tinklenberg says.

89, and her colleagues at the Challenge Success project at Stanford University, spell out something that seems especially important these days: Our fast - paced, high - pressure culture is working against kids being able to develop in a healthy, happy way.

Not exact matches

While there are good reasons to worry about combining kids and creative work in the modern world — kids are indeed expensive and bosses demonstrably discriminate against mothers - there's at least good news for creative moms when it comes to the last question.

«Women have to work more than twice as much to compete against men, but she has led her father's business successfully while raising kids,» one women told The Japan Times in January.

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

Says Epstein: «It's important to get the work done, but you need to balance that against being with your family, playing with your kids, spending time with your partner.»

It doesn't work to fight against them about their belief, to make them wonder if we are safe (and considering several of us have kids in schools now) or if we are going to do something against them.

«So, when you die and say you have a large estate with tons of stocks on Wall Street... you have a child that hates you, worked against you, refused to speak to you,... basically a kid that states that he or she wants nothing to do with you.

It is another matter that in this day and age most men can hardly afford to maintain even one wife and her kids... but that is due to the stressful lifestyle and economic realities of today... nothing against polygamy that worked perfectly in the past and was a positive for the society.

The story of Kid Rock reads like an «Against All Odds» American success story of hard work, perseverance, and a commitment to excellence throughout his multi-million selling recording career — and he has done so in his signature «Bad Ass» fashion complete with undeniable style and swagger.

, we work hard every day to get more kids and their families cooking in the kitchen, help fight the battle against hunger, and help more public school students have an opportunity toward education in the restaurant and foodservice industry.

There are other things Palmer does which such a sports celebrity could think twice about, i.e., working with power tools, playing baseball and football with local kids, Indian wrestling and crossing Fifth Avenue against the light.

It's probably for the best that as a California kid Sanchez might not fully appreciate the force of history he is going against: Things just have a way of not working out for the Jets.

One of the NFLs stronger arguments could be that the prejudice against concussions is actually a symptom of participation trophy culture where everyone gets a healthy brain - by coddling our kids mental health we're actualy doing them a disservice and leaving them ill - equipped for the real world when their brains eventually stop working altogether.

i think this could officially be the start of the end for wenger his blind arrogance has cause him to buy welbeck in the sheer belief that AGAINST THE ODDS HE CAN BEAT THE REST OF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for klopp

We are looking like kids against men and I can't see us getting anything out of this game without a miracle, and we won't get one unless Lacazette finally learns how the offside rule works in England.

Kids compete against one another in drills, laughing and joking, and working on their free kicks and headers.

During the game they learn about everything from math, which range from simple points per game for younger students to how to calculate goals - against averages for older kids, to the science behind how a Zamboni works.

The old way of parenting might help kids fall into line, but it works against some of today's parents» values.

Anne: As my kids grow older and move toward more «food independence» I think a lot about what you're talking about at the end of your comment: have I done enough to arm them with good information so they can make sound food choices in a world that often works against that goal?

Casey Legler Hinds I applaud the hard work that has gone into the improvements to school meals and they have helped level the playing field when the deck is stacked against teaching kids to learn to love foods that love them back.

Cooking veggies at one site and then shipping them out to another site to be reheated and served is what turns kids against vegetables in the first place, so preparing it at another school for ship out doesn't really work either.

It's confusing and just one more way that feels like as parents, there are so many forces working against us as we're trying to raise healthy kids.

Why Working Moms Against Guilt is a Top Mom Blog: Motherhood is a huge transition and a constant challenge, and this blog is for moms who need support and advice when it comes to balancing their desire to be home with the kids with their passion for work.

Do you work together so you kids can't easily pit you and your spouse against each other?

It's not that I'm against learning from other mothers or against bouncing ideas off of each other and talking about what's worked and what hasn't (because I am) and it's not that I don't value the friendships I've made with other women who have kids (because I do), but after having my son I was in search of friends who would give me something outside of my child, who would remind me that motherhood wasn't the only characteristic that defined me.

Critics say the new rules will roll back the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act championed by Former First Lady Michelle Obama, who worked to establish strict nutritional standards on the program as part of her campaign against obesity.

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Bettina I love your work against the pink slime companies trying to hide that crap in our kids (and our own) food, for the people who don't like pink slime being labeled that think of a pr campaign where the slimer from ghost busters is green and has a heartfelt conversation with kids on how mean old bettina is trying to stop him from coming over to play at lunchtime!

I and Jo's friends and family are going to work every moment of our lives to love and nurture our kids and to fight against the hate that killed Jo.

I saw how much the deck is stacked against working class kids before we even started.

With de Blasio and the UFT - financed Working Families Party as allies, the union is hijacking the very language of movement politics, annexing left journalism to defend its narrowest interests and even recruiting progressives to join its war against charter schools that work for kids.

Gov: Eric Holcomb spelled out his agenda in his State of the State address, and there were no big surprises: improve and skill up Indiana's workforce, continue the fight against opioids, work to give Hoosier kids a better education.

I've had three kids and I've worked HARD for this body.I have to, my genes are against me.

As Ray and his kids commandeer the only working vehicle in town and light out for Boston with the aim of finding the kids» mother, they run up against wave after wave of human refugees, panicked and herded by the towering alien craft like so much cattle to the slaughter.

It's really not his fault as he is given so little good to work with — and against kids and animals (W.C. Fields where are you?)

One major problem working against the film is that you know the kids can't get mauled by rage victims and it kills a lot of the film's suspense.

In both the crotch - kicking and the firebombing, Mildred's lust for justice is targeted against innocent parties — only one of those kids could have thrown the soda (and it may have been neither of them), and we later learn that the man who burned down her billboards doesn't work in the police station.

The moments between Max and Atom work a bit better, possibly an indicator of the kid's anxiety working against fellow actors.

Miracle - working mavericks, they defy the forces of mediocrity arrayed against them and magically transform a class full of those kids — the ones the «system» and every other adult in the building — nay, the world — has long since given up on.

Although he voted against legislation that would permit a voucher experiment in Washington, D.C., he has since said, in perhaps an unguarded moment, «If there was any argument for vouchers, it was «Alright, let's see if this experiment works,» and if it does, then whatever my preconceptions, my attitude is you do what works for the kids.»

We work with kids who push at us, rebel against learning, and beg for attention — all at the same time.

However, educators are entrusted with the responsibility of guiding entire generations of kids, and these kids are owed the chance to learn from effective teachers, and a system that works for them, not against them.

Fashioning themselves the «United Students Against Sweatshops» (it's okay to laugh at that), these kids have taken TFA to task for being «the man» — and for turning teaching into sweatshop - like work by allowing some selected recruits to enter the classroom without slogging through the entirety of traditional teacher prep.

Howard Smith, a professor of bicultural - bilingual studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, explained: «One of the arguments levied against African - American children, especially in the poor areas where the dual - language programs are springing up, is that, «Well, these kids don't speak standard English anyway, and we need to work on their standard English.

Teachers who are using these tools say that their kids are doing better work against higher standards, and most agree that they improve instruction.

Yes on 2, despite outspending the «no» camp 2 - 1 couldn't find a message that worked, and was never able to counter the single argument that most resonated with voters against charter schools: they take money away from public schools and the kids who attend them.

«What I don't think works is when you pit communities against one another, when you pit groups of kids against one another,» he said.

For a kid from San Diego to be able to work at Corvette Racing and compete against the best in the world is unbelievable.