The Mayor devoted an entire campaign advertisement to encouraging parents to "thank another Rudy."

How will free schools include children who, through no fault of their own, are not blessed with encouraging parents?

He was the encouraging parent I never had, and I miss him very much.

I think encouraging parents' involvement in schools is about as sensible as getting them to run the local nuclear reactor.

From April, child benefits are to be raised in the hope of encouraging parents to produce a few more babies.

Until then, the available research supports doctors' encouraging parents to read aloud to their young children.

The coming together of teacher and parent on an informal basis had the effect of encouraging parents to turn to teachers for advice.

And encouraging parents to teach their children some good old fashioned morals.

Many of the library's efforts are focused on encouraging parents to read aloud at home.

They're angry over plans aimed at encouraging parents to take up teaching in primary schools.