In fact,the orientation program for new students at Virginia Tech this summer includes a meeting for parents called "Parents as Partners."

VOA: special.2009.07.09

The Web site includes ideas about jobs in science and information for parents who want to help their daughters remain interested in science.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

So the Ms.Foundation planned a day for parents in New York City to show girls all the possibilities for them in the professional world.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

It provides resources on its Web site for parents, teachers and students about financial issues.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

(Voice) There also are a number of Internet groups for parents hoping to locate pox parties, often to avoid vaccinating their children.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

"Nobody else has ever tried to help defray costs for anything for parents, so this is huge."

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

Now a study by the Seattle Children's Research Institute shows how that idea can influence what parents order for their children.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Benjamin was a quiet boy. For much of the time, his parents were busy working in his father's store.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Officials there seemed to think that education was only for children whose parents had enough money to pay for private schools.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

Yet there was no difference in calories between the two groups for foods that the parents would have chosen for themselves.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Doctor Spock said his work was an effort to help parents trust their own natural abilities in caring for their children.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

"I want to sue my parents for the rights to my own body." "Would you repeat that please?"

VOA: special.2009.06.12

The money came mostly from the weekly pay the children get from their parents for good behavior or work around the house.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

This opera was first performed in nineteen forty-two at a center for Jewish children without parents in Prague,Czechoslovakia.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

But any concerns that parents would not want to buy it for little girls were soon proved wrong.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

They decided that some parents were under too much social pressure to plan costly parties for their children.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

He also says parents can help create a healthy emotional life for small children by being watchful and responsive to their needs.

VOA: special.2011.08.10

Parents might sometimes withhold sweet food from a child as a form of punishment for saying bad things.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

Parents given the counts chose an average of one hundred two fewer calories when asked what they would order for their children.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

For example, if a child says things she should not say to her parents, she might be described as a mouthy child.

VOA: special.2010.06.20