Sentences with phrase «working against parents»

Uneven criteria for partnership also works against parenting female lawyers.

Not exact matches

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.

When employees are underpaid, they have less incentive to continue to work when other demands — becoming a parent, for example — cause them to weigh their costs of living against the monetary benefit that the paycheck would provide.

In the legislature, MLA Laurie Throness spoke against the universal child care plan, saying, «I find it strange that the government... ignores the cries of an infant leaving its parent, who has to go to work, and the sadness of a parent who would rather stay home with their new baby for a while.»

Finally, while parents at elite schools only have one vote, cutting their subsidy would feel like a direct attack, and really motivate them to work against the NDP, either through donating to the UCP or helping out with their campaign.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

The head teacher of the school wrote to parents refuting all the allegations made against CrossTeach and commending them for their good work.

In Pakistan, senior clerics have worked with the government to assure parents that vaccinations against polio are in keeping with their devotion to Islam.

Conservatives can be the party that reduces the tax system's bias against working parents, that uses markets to increase the productivity of our enormous health care system, and that transforms our welfare state to make work and family formation a better deal.

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

If a corporation / parent company has a substantial egregious record or history of working against our values — organics, sustainability, non-toxic food, social and environmental responsibility, etc., we remove their products from our shelves, or don't stock them in the first place.

Cronin was not against skilled athletic trainers, physicians, or physical therapists deciding whether to ice or not, but he worries that telling «parents, coaches, and athletes to «skip the ice, it doesn't work» sends the wrong message and may «open up Pandora's box for other problems that ice helps limit.»

Being a parent is hard, and it is harder when you are working against the baby.

Parents are aware and educated about the fact that an extreme emphasis on metrics, on perfection, on a narrow version of success, is working against the healthy development of their children.

But when it's a more generalized rant against AP parents (who aren't at all a homogenous group) or something like that, it just doesn't work for me.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

As a gentle parent, working with, instead of against, our children will help to make eating healthy a fun family project instead of a food fight.

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

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.

Work together with your partner on parenting together and never team up with your child against the other parent.

I see you also participate in «tag team parenting» — that is, you came in for the second round when daddy was used up, but didn't go against any of daddy's prior work (she still had to take her bath and get undressed).

So instead of losing it when your little one loses it, take an adult time - out, breathe deeply to gain control of your own emotions, and then grab the Three C's of gentle discipline from your parenting toolbox and work with your child, not against them.

Working with our children instead of against them is a foreign concept to most parents, but therein lies the secret to a peaceful, happy home and the healthy parent / child trust relationship that the Three C's of gentle discipline — Connection, Communication, and Cooperation — are built upon.

Breast - fed babies are believed to have greater immunity against ear infections, respiratory infections and other common childhood ailments, and the less a baby is sick, the less likely a parent is to miss work, Connor said.

I was hoping for some more detailed and nuanced information, for example differences in populations of available children, differences in ability to discriminate against certain kinds of potential adoptive or foster parents (e.g., single, non-Christian, gay, etc.), differences in whom prospective parents work with (attorney?

BUT I read all these attachment parenting blogs and am brainwashed against crying - it - out, which honestly worked fine for my now 3 year old daughter when she was 9 months old.

The writer of this rant rails against practicers of AP as parents as those who don't allow their children to play sports for fear that they might get hurt and ones who raise their children with a sense of entitlement and no work ethic.

The nutrition director may inwardly roll her eyes and think «Great, another parent wants to tell me how to do my job,» but she will probably agree to meet with you, especially if you mention that your group has numerous members and that you want to work with her, not against her.

Article 11 (2) In order to prevent discrimination against women on the grounds of marriage or maternity and to ensure their effective right to work, States Parties shall take appropriate measures: (a) To prohibit, subject to the imposition of sanctions, dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity leave and discrimination in dismissals on the basis of marital status; (b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances; (c) To encourage the provision of necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public life

There are two ways to determine the sleep training method that works for you: First, «It shouldn't feel like you're going against your instincts as a parent,» says West.

Parenting suggests working against gravity as your baby eats (and for a few minutes after a feeding) to see if that helps before assuming your baby needs medical attention for it.

While this parenting style worked to a certain extent (I was a very well - behaved child who rarely bumped up against authority), I believe it prevented me from finding my own voice for a very long time.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

From maternity and paternity leave for parents, work place rights during pregnancy, to rules protecting against harassment and unequal treatment, women in Britain benefit from the EU.

He must be living in a bubble (or has lousy people working for him / maybe both) however this is the agenda NYC parents are against.

Tory leader David Cameron has come out against certain key sections of the welfare reform bill aimed at forcing single parents into work.

In January 2013, then the public advocate, de Blasio launched his first campaign as an outer - borough working dad and public school parent who would bring a populist, progressive fight against the policies of then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

As State Senator, she'll work every day to ensure that Westchester schools get their fair share; stand strong against the misuse and overuse of standardized testing; and protect the rights of parents to have a say in their children's schools.

The Connecticut Working Families Party announced Thursday it had endorsed one candidate for the election: Shonta» Browdy, 41, a Hartford parent advocate who has been a fixture at city school board meetings for years and spoke out against the prospect of school closures in the North End.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

The paper where he comes up with this, which was a 1931 paper, which is an absolutely sublime piece of work — I might say, set against, the most terrible domestic [period]; his parents throwing things at each other, dreadful domestic turmoil back in Bristol — but out of this tragedy that was his private life came this foreseeing of the whole subject of antimatter, which is why Heisenberg praised it so highly.

O'Hara starred in the original Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Sitting Pretty (1948), the comedy that launched the Mr. Belvedere films, and the original The Parent Trap (1961), worked with directors Dorothy Arzner (Dance, Girl, Dance, 1940), Jean Renoir (This Land in Mine, 1943, again with Laughton), Nicholas Ray (A Woman's Secret, 1949), Carol Reed (Our Man in Havana, 1959) and Sam Peckinpah (The Deadly Companions, 1961), and appeared opposite Tyrone Power (The Black Swan, 1942), Henry Fonda (three times, starring with Immortal Sergeant, 1943), John Garfield (The Fallen Sparrow, 1943), Errol Flynn (Against All Flags, 1952), and James Stewart twice (Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, 1962, The Rare Breed, 1966).

One slight turn of the head as he sits listening to the preacher in his hometown church inveigh against his kind of music as the work of the Devil promises an explosion — not at the windy parson or the congregation or his dubious parents, but through a series of compositions and performances that will simply give such nonsense the lie.

Here we find curriculum organizations, teacher education organizations, and educational policy organizations working together against standardized testing, the privatization of public schooling, the school to prison pipeline, advocating for parent and community involvement in schools.

This is a generous - enough definition of the gifted population to mitigate charges of elitism and dampen the competition to participate that is apt to work against those without educated or driven parents.

Incidents in other settings tell us that where there is verbal abuse going unchecked, so there will follow physical violence, and there can be little doubt that an aggrieved parent is going to take his / her frustrations out one day on an administrator and the administrator will claim damages against her employer for failing to provide a safe working environment.

Parents can work against this tide, and it's really important that we do.»

There is work to be done, for example, to guard against teachers assigning homework that upsets parents who don't understand their children's assignments, especially those based on Common Core math.

Parents are required to inform the authority of any changes and regular checks will be carried out against records held by the Department of Work and Pensions, the Home Office, and HM Revenue & Customs by the free school meals team.

Whether you be a teacher, a student, a parent, an administrator, or a community member, I plead with you to work together to create answers that work toward healthy conversations and hands - on action in the fight against racism.