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Our plebe year, our parent-teacher week, we ended up taking, for the first time ever, the entire plebe class to New York City for a field trip on 20 buses with no chaperones.
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Good news, folks: Time Warner (disclosure: our parent company's parent company is owned by Time Warner) is facing a future of "download-to-burn" DVD movies with grim determination, and expects said apocalypse to occur sometime in 2007.
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On Wednesday, Aol announced it had purchased gdgt and, while we generally don't pay much heed to the acquisitional whims of our parent company, this one we're very, very excited about -- and you should be too.
It happens that Christopher Forbes, vice chairman of our parent company, sat as a director (and shareholder) of Raffles, though he was not part of the negotiations--and he did not figure in our conceptualizing or producing this story.
Besides dealing with our own sense of loss about a parent, we now have this new responsibility: doing a lot of the stuff the other parent used to do for our remaining aging parent.
We adopted a documented e-mail retention policy in line with our US parent's records management policy.
Whether our aging parent has planned ahead or not, the adult children have a new responsibility thrust on us.
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Writing down the problems we observe in our aging parent can help us communicate better and more efficiently with medical personnel.
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If our aging parent is showing extreme behavior, such as anxiety, obsessions, paranoia, or panic attacks, we need to get the parent to a doctor for an evaluation, in case medication can make it better.
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Janelle Sperry is being honored as a Champion of Change for her time and effort in supporting parent involvement in our children's education.
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Deirdre Pierce is being honored as a Champion of Change for her time and effort in supporting parent involvement in our children's education.
Consider the responsibility a widowed aging parent may be in our future.
Sandberg's announcement reminds us, too, of how little we're asking for when we ask for flexibility -- things like getting home to have dinner with our families or take an ailing parent to the doctor.
However Anna May Mangan, mother of four and author of Getting into Medical School: The Pushy Mother's Guide, told the BBC that being a hands-on parent was important because "our schools don't teach children to be competitive".
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After being offered the position, I began to look for parent involvement information and supports for our school.
Publicly traded subsidiaries for which the parent company consolidates figures are excluded from our list.
We find that 25% of the subsidiaries in our sample are repurchased before 2007, and that parent shareholders earn positive returns when these repurchases are announced.
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As a parent, I worked diligently to share our program with our community and for years developed and ran a summer introductory program for the new families.
The biggest newcomers immediately land on the list by way of initial public offerings or spin-offs of major subsidiaries of their former parent companies, who are also on our list.
Most are gas giants like our Jupiter, and many orbit so close to their parent stars that any microbes would have to survive roasting temperatures.
"It just goes to show you that we're going to have to do a lot more to protect our students in this small town, " an unidentified parent told KGET.
Developmentally, the empathy we experience, that feeling of being known by an other, while in the arms of a loving parent is how we grow into people with our own feelings, values and thoughts.
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When memory loss affects an aging parent or the parent mistreats us, we may have to limit our contact with them.
One of my first steps was to set up a meeting with the Kansas Parent Information Resource Center (KPIRC) to discuss our approach to involving families.
Because there is no role model more powerful than a parent, and no better way to take back our ball fields than raising kids with composure, here are more tools for parents on how to raise real athletes, on and off the field.
The only other alternative is that we have our free will trampled and be told by the federal govt each parent must take a minimum of 2 years off to raise each child they have.
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And every parent knows there is nothing we will not do to shield our children from harm.
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