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We're looking at moving out of the mental health (program) piece at the high school and offering a more comprehensive social work, which will be working with the parents as well as doing all the counseling for the drug and alcohol abuse.

We're concerned about children that reside in this area -- them getting connected with their parents after school.

We recommend parents come with their kids because some of videos are graphic. We are not trying to scare the youngsters, we just want them to be more educated so they can make better choices.

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

Lighted Schoolhouse Night is designed to connect the parents and the children with the school.

Like everything else, parents need to be cautious because besides having a lot of good material out there, there's a lot of junk material out there as well.

Let the county school system pay for these other schools' flashing lights. This is our charter school. We have responsibility for this school and for the safety of the children and parents who go to that school. I see no reason why we can't extend beyond the guidelines.

Love your parents and your children will have loving grandparents.

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down. But we all need to take a breath and fashion solutions to address the real problem, which is how much information kids are putting online and who are they communicating with online.

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down.

Lots of people keep telling (the Sentinels) that they're very good. The parents say it, teammates say it, a few players from the other team have said it. We don't want the attitude that people will walk off the field against us.

Look, there's another kid hiding from his parents,

Latch doesn't always make it a simple click-in operation to install a restraint. Before buying one, parents should be sure to try fitting it in the vehicle they plan to use it in, because not every restraint is going to fit in every vehicle.

Leroy's also a special human being. I've told parents how fortunate they are to have this guy heading up the program and dealing with their kids.

Many of them also have other issues including a lack of transportation. Parents may have to miss time from work to take their child to the doctor and that can be an issue for a low-income family as well.

Many parents would be upset if their kids used drugs but many are accepting if their kid has been drinking. They consider drinking a beer as a right of passage in high school. I know of students using ecstasy all night and then they drink a beer when they get home and mom or dad smells the beer and thinks it's fine.

Many parents were told by doctors that their children had problems because of something that happened during pregnancy or delivery, or their child had a high fever. If they find out it is genetic or a birth defect, they have this catharsis of guilt they've carried around for so long.

Many parents want to give their children a Christian education, but they can't afford it.

Many parents want a magic bullet to keep their kids safe, but kids can usually find a way around this parental control software. In protecting kids, the key element is education and getting parents involved.

Many parents today are concerned about the content found in video games today and the effect these games may have on their children. AOL has long been an advocate for parents on the Web and we believe the Family Gaming Guide will be a valuable resource to help parents determine which games their children should be playing.

Many parents refer to Sugar Creek as their home. Some parents really want to stay at the school.

Many parents haven't learned the skills as quickly as our children. We're not sure what we can solve in one and one half hour, but we can at least open the opportunity to know that our kids are safe, and that's certainly well worth the effort. We're doing this as a community service.

Many parents don't know the correct car seat for the developmental stage of their child. For example, infants should ride rear-facing until they are at least 1 year of age and a minimum of 20 pounds.

Many parents and caregivers know the dangers of soft bedding in cribs, ... This study shows, for the first time, that the same dangers exist when using pillows, quilts and comforters in playpens.

Secondly, we expect parents to be in regular attendance in a church to continually influence raising and upbringing of the children,

sending a letter home to all the parents in the district that will also include some handouts with some helpful hints on how to sit down with your children and talk about safety.

So far this school year I've had 21 hearings at the board office with parents whose children had at least 20 absences.

Soft drinks are very acidic. When I was a child, I remember my parents using Coke to clean out a radiator.

So many parents were asking us for this. We were just responding to what they wanted.

So many parents tell their kids how great they are. When he didn't make the team, I told him he had to get better.

She used to play every weekend in pubs with Daddy, and she'd written all these Irish songs out in a book. They're songs we've loved over the years, and because our parents played them in their band, they're very special to us.

She was charged with making sure students stayed in school. Most of the time, she was at folks' houses, talking to parents about the importance of keeping their children in school. Education was always important to Juanita.

She was just a victim of her parents' callousness,

She works at it year around. She is a dedicated softball player, she lives and breathes it. Plus she has had tremendous support from her parents (Mike and Joanne).

One of my big fears in life is that I'm gonna die and my parents are going to come to clean out my apartment and find that porno wing I've been adding on to for years.

Some activists will only see another opportunity to push government as parent, but parents make the best decisions about what is appropriate for their family to watch and have the tools to enforce those decisions.

Some of best things parents can do to help their kids before they come to school are read to them and teach them nursery rhymes. They've kind of become a lost art, but they are very beneficial.

Show me the worst school districts in Detroit, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and I'll show you parents that shouldn't be raising a Chia Pet, much less a child.

Should parents be notified if a minor's going to have an abortion? Of course our answer is that they should be notified.

Since children are particularly vulnerable to food-borne illness, schools must be vigilant in their efforts to ensure that cafeterias are not putting children at risk. These changes in law will support parents who want to work with school principals and food-service directors to ensure a safe environment,

She has been the most influential person in my singing career because she's so inspiring and encouraging. My parents have also been great.

She had size and strength beyond her years. But I remember being at the training center in Finland, assisting her dialing home so she could talk to her parents.

She had followed me out to Hollywood from St. Paul. I was living in a boarding house, and she had a small apartment across the street. She supported me pretty much for about a year while I tried to get work. Her parents had said that we could marry once I had a job and good prospects, and the seven-year contract qualified.

Since Ripken stopped playing baseball, parents are always asking for his opinion on issues. We want the column to be more interactive than anything. We are trying to re-brand him from a baseball player to a youth sports expert.

Since her murder, parents are terrified of their children going backpacking.

She's a good player now, and she's going to be a really good player. I enjoyed it. She's a good kid. Her parents are great and it was a good experience. I'm so glad she was able to play.

Most of these teams will have anywhere from 18 to 20 players, plus their parents, plus the coaching staff. You're talking between 60 and 80 for each team. Everyone but Marquette arrived Thursday.

Most parents want to know what they can do to make their children do as they're told,

Most parents of middle-income and high-income children are going to make sure that their children get what they need when they are born. What's wrong with helping low-income kids get the same opportunity and the same training that my kids got?

Most parents dont recognize the importance of bright light and how it can affect circadian rhythms,

Most parents call their own company and say, 'What does it cost to add a teen driver to my policy?' I think they tend to live with whatever the answer is.

Most parents are agreeable but some aren't because they don't have transportation or they have problems with scheduling baby sitters.

Most of us have had Red Cross swimming lessons when we were growing up as children. We have a whole coastal region of water and many of our children haven't had swimming lessons because they're uncomfortable around water, can't get to the lesson or parents can't afford the lessons.

Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support. We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.

Mr. Quinn has failed to meet his responsibility to support his child, and that has consequences, ... We will use all of the tools at our disposal to ensure that parents provide for their children.

Moving away from home and on to college is a major life event. We've found that students want something inexpensive and readily accessible; parents want to be able to get money to their child quickly.

Me and my husband say parents of a parent should raise their children. Some people need help with their children more than others, and she's one of the ones that needs some help.

My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.

My fellow members, gay and lesbian people fall in love, we settle down, we commit our lives to one another. If our goal is to teach our children to model self-respect, is it not counter productive to dishonor them and their parents or their families? Fellow members this is a bill whose time has come.

My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this age know what they want to say but don't have the language skills to say it yet. The signing bridges that gap and allows them to let their needs be known before they're able to tell us.

No doubt about it, this feels better than the other ones. To be the head coach and build something and see the effort by the kids and support we have received from the community, parents and school has been special.

One of the things we are hearing from parents is that this is a much-needed facility for teenagers, where they can go for entertainment and are not hanging out somewhere, getting into trouble.

One of the things we always wrestle with is trying to get parents to read to them at home. Time is a factor, and work schedules. A lot of them work at night.

One of the toughest things parents do is make a rule their kid doesn't like. You'll inevitably feel a lot of pressure because your teen will make you feel like you're singling them out as a little baby loser.

One recommendation from the summit was to focus on supporting parents and helping them talk about issues like violence with children. Our research shows that there is a window of opportunity with preadolescents when they're most receptive to messages from their parents.

One out of four students that we have in the county schools speak another first language. It's helpful to have bilingual teachers to be able to communicate with parents. In some cases, the students may speak English but the parents may or may not speak English. And it's critical to communicate with the parents.

One hundred and fifty thousand Cambodian people in the United States now were either born in a refugee camp or their parents were born in a refugee camp. The person that sits next to you in class may be a refugee.

Of course she threw you out. My sister teaches there. They're sick of hearing about it. The thing is with these girls, their parents don't want them around because they want to smoke the dope. So they give them money, and they go out and do whatever they want. These kids are out in the street at two, three in the morning. There's nothing to do in this town. You don't see too many stores. It's all restaurants and bars.

Odyssey of the Mind is student-driven, and they aren't helped by parents or teachers. If the student wants to make a costume, they have to sew it themselves.

Of all hands in the world, it was not the hand that I wanted or dreamed of touching, ... We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians - we say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. ...The time for peace has come.

None of us as parents brought up our children to be this way, ... We all have some turn out to be bad apples ... As one parent to another, I have a lot of compassion for him.

One woman from the Congo talked about children running wild in the bush, outcast because their parents died of AIDS. She tries to persuade them to take food from her hands...and then, as she goes walking into the bush, she sees these shallow graves where children bury children. She takes them back to her home to give them a proper burial...These are AIDS orphans, children raising children with no values, no direction. What will become of them?

Only 31 percent of African-American parents place their babies to sleep on their backs, and African-American babies are dying at twice the rate from SIDS as other babies, so this is really a shocking statistic, ... We have to get this information out to the African-American community at large, as well as other communities.

One thing that impressed me is his dad (Rob) will tell him after the game how bad he was or be totally honest with him. The standards at his house are pretty high. We have a lot of that with tough parents who set the standards high and that's why the program is successful.

My first job paid well for a young attorney. I was making over $50,000, which was more than either of my parents had ever made. I thought I was rich.

My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.

My experience is not as isolated as you might hope. This is not, as so many want to believe, the story of a few bad kids whose parents paid no attention. There are hundreds of kids in the United States alone who are right now wrapped up in this horror.

My dad would just feed me balls before that. I kept pushing my parents to let me play in tournaments, but they didn't want me to play too early. They wanted me to focus on technique first.

My 16-year-old brother does the graphics. And my parents have started to help out a lot more now that I'm in college. Even my 6-year-old brother offers me moral support and encouragement.

My advice to other parents is to talk to their kids. Talk to their teachers and see what they're saying and what they're doing in schools.

My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.

More than 60 percent of our funding comes from local individuals, churches, businesses, organizations and the Bucyrus Area United Way and 40 percent comes from grants and fundraisers that we hold. Also, while we are a nonprofit organization and do not charge the parents of our children who use the program, we do ask them to make a pledge. One mom gives us the change out of the bottom of her purse a few times a month and that is fine. We want any child who wants to attend the program to be able to and that is another concern about having to move. With the decent amount of room we have now, we still have 20 children on a waiting list. If we have less room at a new location, that will mean less children can attend. We do not want to see that happen.

My goal isn't to have everyone who attends the concert walk out and be foster parents themselves -- that's not realistic. The goal is to plant the seed in these people, and give them a bag of seeds to go out and plant in their community. They may not want to be foster parents, but they may know someone who would.

My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew.

My grandparents and parents urged me to go to school and do well in school so that at the end of the day I'd have options, choices.

My grandmother was musically gifted, and Annie recognized that gift. My grandmother did the same for my mother. My parents did the same for us.

My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts.

My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

My dad is a very good sounding board. He's very, very smart. Both of my parents are very, very sharp, much smarter than I, I'm happy to acknowledge.

My dad is an art director for BBC TV shows, and my mum does screen printing workshops. Both of my parents played instruments, too, and my mum used to have crazy house parties when me and my brother were young - dub and garage would be banging through my house.

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

Maybe my parents were concerned that radio and TV would bring in IRA propaganda music and rebel songs to our house.

No one wanted to loan me anything. My numbers were small because I was just starting. I used all my savings, and my parents loaned me money. I was able to pay them back fairly quickly.

No ordinance can protect the children of our community 100 percent. The ordinance is just one tool available. Parents still need to know where their kids are and what they're up to.

No parent can fully protect their child. What they can do is continue the conversation. It can be as simple as asking you kids how they feel after you both witness a character in a television show doing something wrong. As parents we should always be talking.

Now we have evolved a system under which we take down details from parents who believe their children are with us.

Now there are thousands of people with those names that wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for them. This generation of parents is looking to get away from cookie-cutter stuff, and our culture of celebrities is supporting that.

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

Next time we need to schedule this before the alien abduction, ... Parents should be out there cheering, 'Yeah, we're ready for school to start.'