Better to learn a language in high demand, but short supply one reason, no doubt, ambitious American parents are steering their children towards Mandarin.
I don't think that we should be steering our children away from pain.
And I believe that we aren't doing our jobs as parents if we aren't steering our children away from the same mistakes we made ourselves.
Jones conveys not only Amanda's relentlessness, her inability to stop steering her children's lives but also her desire for their happiness, her belief that they are special even as her fear that they might not succeed makes her steal from them the right to make their own choices -- the air to breathe.
Educated girls, for example, are likely to become heads of more resilient families, and are more capable of steering their children towards good health, nutrition, and education, compared to their non-educated peers.
Steering a child through all this almost amounts to a full-time job.
The parent's role should be more about removing obstacles and getting out of the way than about steering the child in any particular direction.
— The legend of Justin Smith began long before he shoved a Pro Bowl left tackle backward into his own quarterback, as if steering a child's push toy, on national television.
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Against that, there are the realities of safely steering a child through certain key education stages, which, from the parental point of view, could be likened to a huge ongoing egg-and-spoon race, where the egg's already fallen off and splattered, the spoon's been stolen and someone's set fire to your hair.
