The common thread was rock-solid confidence, developed through parental encouragement and sports.

With parental encouragement and support, the work experience your children will gain here becomes even more meaningful.

Instead, he said, they can profit from applications of the same kind of determination and parental encouragement as any other students.

Against odds and without parental encouragement, she became a star in her own right.

They are easily treated with mild pain relievers like acetaminophen or ibuprofen and some soothing parental encouragement.

Only bright kids with stable home environments and parental encouragement do well with textbooks.

But there's a fine line between parental encouragement and excess.

The little leaguers played grave, careful ball, and the audience watched them without a word of parental encouragement or joy.

I support stronger gun control, but it will never substitute for parental encouragement that there is life after high school.

But there are others whose dads were bank managers, civil servants or poets, and who drifted into the building game despite a lack of parental encouragement.