• "Encouraging children to play in roads is typical of the council's careless, flippant attitude to road safety, " he said.

    BBC: Council cabinet with 20mph signs

  • Psychological abuse can also include what you might call "corrupting a child" encouraging children to use illicit drugs, for example, or to engage in other illegal activities.

    CNN: Belittling kids as harmful as beating, study finds

  • There have been claims that the move towards encouraging children to begin learning at an early age is "too much, too soon" - and that it can be counter-productive.

    BBC: Nursery children more popular

  • Ms Cooper said government schemes encouraging children to walk or cycle to school would help to keep children active and cut the risks of heart disease and obesity in later life.

    BBC: Children eating

  • His view on the importance of education has prompted him to start BA32, a foundation promoting the idea of teaching youth in a practical and interesting way, focused on encouraging children across the globe to learn more about mathematics, science and technology.

    CNN: January 23, 2013 -- Updated 1738 GMT (0138 HKT)

  • Ochs and Izquierdo noted, in their paper on the differences between the family lives of the Matsigenka and the Angelenos, how early the Matsigenka begin encouraging their children to be useful.

    NEWYORKER: Spoiled Rotten

  • Shona Robison (Dundee East, SNP) asked the First Minister to condemn Dundee City Council for encouraging parents of children with special needs to go to the press and criticise nurses.

    BBC: NEWS | Programmes | BBC Parliament | Scotland: First Minister's Questions (11/03/04)

  • The teachers, like the telecoms men, fear creeping privatisation: the government, they say, is not just neglecting state schools but actively encouraging teachers and children towards private ones.

    ECONOMIST: Colombia

  • Parents are "breeding ineptitude, " by allowing and in some cases encouraging children to hand off those jobs, says Hara Estroff Marano, author of "A Nation of Wimps" and editor-at-large at Psychology Today.

    WSJ: Forget the Old College Try, Ring the Concierge

  • Well into the nineteen-fifties, psychologists were encouraging parents to give children less attention and affection, in order to encourage independence.

    NEWYORKER: Hellhole

  • For children, this is not an encouraging trend: Fathers who are married to their children's mothers are, statistically, the most active caregivers.

    WSJ: Are Dads the New Moms?

  • Much of the information included in the program is basic, such as encouraging parents to talk to children about colors and shapes while shopping for groceries.

    NPR: Program Aims to Help Troops with Young Children

  • So, I had questions about how we should respond, including the moral hazard risk of encouraging ever growing numbers of children to attempt the perilous journey if we said all were welcome.

    CNN: Don't turn your back on these children

  • For people like Mr Buschkowsky, this is a disastrous departure from the progressive policy of encouraging women to work and young children to attend German-speaking pre-schools.

    ECONOMIST: Germany scandalously underuses immigrants and women

  • Gutai stood for everything that Japanese totalitarianism had forbidden, urging children to make mischief and encouraging grown-ups to engage in childsplay.

    FORBES: Something Funny Happening At The Guggenheim? Try Gutai.

  • He has reached across Mr Howard's focus on foreign and security issues by proposing a domestic agenda that includes encouraging parents to read more to their children and ending the generous pension scheme for federal parliamentarians.

    ECONOMIST: Labor is making a comeback

  • Such projects, encouraging learning through play, had led to children's attaining higher IQs and getting better reading skills, she said.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Toys 'could help 200m children'

  • This includes telling children that homesickness is normal, encouraging them to write letters to home, arranging a practice time away from home and telling them to talk to staff if they feel homesick.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Homesickness 'can be prevented'

  • The researchers say than encouraging such simple "positive acts" could help children to get along with classmates and even prevent instances of bullying.

    BBC: Kinder children are more popular

  • However, encouraging results from the first clinical drug trial for children with progeria has researchers hopeful that the first treatment for the disease could be on the horizon.

    CNN: Advances in kids' early aging disease

  • The fertility rate had dropped to 2.7 in 1979 from 5.5 in 1970 due to a policy encouraging people to marry later, wait longer between children, and have fewer babies.

    WSJ: China's One-Child Plan Faces New Fire

  • While the government is not considering a ban currently, it has run marketing campaigns aimed at encouraging people not to smoke in the presence of their children at home or in cars.

    BBC: Ban smoking in cars, says health minister

  • If states want money, we're going to reward excellence, and we will show them what has been proven to work in terms of encouraging the kind of critical thinking that all of our children need.

    WHITEHOUSE: Your Interview with the President

  • The rationale for pursuing stem cell therapy in autism is based on encouraging results of unpublished data examining stem cell therapy in children with cerebral palsy, a group of disorders that affect not only movement, but learning, behavior and cognition.

    FORBES: Stem Cell Therapy To Treat Autism?

  • It also has initiatives promoting farmers' markets, having schools buy their foods locally, feeding low-income children nutritional foods during the summer, and encouraging grocery stores to operate in so-called "food deserts" that have little or no access to supermarkets that sell fresh and affordable foods, Vilsack said.

    WSJ: Ag chief: youth obesity issue of national security

  • Yet over the last three days, while we have been watching and encouraging him in huge numbers, Sheen has been endangering his children and threatening his ex-wife.

    FORBES: Charlie Sheen: Don't Make Him an American Idol

  • Research in autism has indicated abnormalities in spinal fluid and chemical signaling in the brain- anecdotal reports of children undergoing stem cell therapy have indicated some potentially encouraging results.

    FORBES: Stem Cell Therapy To Treat Autism?

  • The latest figures do show a small drop in the number of children being permanently excluded from school, which is encouraging, although it is unlikely to wow the voters.

    ECONOMIST: Education: Behave, or else | The

  • This is not only intended to identify and mobilise potential learners and teachers but also to ensure that the programme effectively addresses their particular needs as well as encouraging parents to enrol into the ALP and to support their children in school.

    UNESCO: National Literacy Programme (NLP)

  • As part of a broader pattern of devolution, the ministry is encouraging local education boards to come up with their own ideas to enrich children's lives outside school, a task in which civic groups have begun to get involved.

    ECONOMIST: Japan

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