Sentences with phrase «sometimes children struggle»

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Sometimes children become locked in a power struggle that they don't know how to resolve and don't know how to stop.

In a world where anyone who struggles with anything will sometimes face persecution because of their struggle, you have a unique opportunity to teach your children compassion.

Whether you are transitioning a young child from their crib to a bed, trying to keep a child in bed through the night, needing to convince your child not to wake up at the crack of dawn, or struggling to sleep - train a child of any age who is on the Autism Spectrum, sometimes a parent just needs a little help teaching healthy sleep habits.

Sometimes, you need to allow your children to feel disappointment, struggle, or even fail at a task.

Divorced dads and men who are in a struggling marriage can be very dedicated to their children and involved in their lives — sometimes more than dads in strong marriages.

«Sometimes you struggle to find the words, but it does feel like parents are comforted by your presence,» said Summer Kelly, a nurse and lactation educator who started the donor milk program at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge.

If your child is struggling in his sport, you can sometimes sniff out a problem during your chat.

Sometimes a not - very - verbal child will resort to «no» just because she's mad or flustered and struggling to get her point across.

Children with depression sometimes struggle with sleep issues, so it's important to establish a healthy bedtime routine as well.

However, sometimes it can be a struggle to make learning and cultivating social skills fun not only for children, but also for the entire family.

Sometimes parents are reluctant to see a child's struggles for what they are, or feel threatened by the suggestion.

I know sometimes if we have struggled with our own money issues we often feel like we can't teach our children about money.

It's no wonder that, when my children were small, my house wasn't as clean as I wanted it to be all the time — that I was so tired in the evenings, that I sometimes struggled to stay in touch with my friends or run errands or find time to get my hair cut.

Unfortunately, parents are sometimes left to struggle with the decision about whether or not to send their children to kindergarten.

I, however, have found that patience really is a virtue - and sometimes waiting for your child to mature a little more can make all the difference between struggling to teach them something and easily teaching them something.

These power struggles sometimes lead to children trying to regain control over their bodies by withholding urine or bowel movements.

As children struggle with these important tasks parents must be able to provide praise and encouragement for achievement but parents must also be able to allow them to sometimes experience the natural consequences for their behavior or provide logical consequences to help them learn from mistakes.

And in terms of the behavior modification, it's often a really good way to reduce power struggles, when your child feels like he is working for something, and working for something doesn't have to be a toy, doesn't have to be something really expensive, it can be positive praise, it could be that they are working special time with you, special activity, we can do a token economy system which is usually the most well known behavior modification intervention, where your child can earn tickets or stickers or poker chips, and sometimes you may want to attach a reward menu to that, so they know that, «Oh, if I can save ten chips I can get this, if I can save 20 chips I can get this».

More is sometimes worse, wider is often shallower, incoherence usually brutalising and the alacrity with which labour MPs snatch their own children form schools struggling with eight languages shows that none of this is a hopelessly nebulous when its your own.

Sometimes, it's a struggle for me to come home from work, manage three children, and get dinner on the table.

That's why it was a stunner when Moore returned to the spotlight in 1980 in the family drama Ordinary People, playing a cold and sometimes emotionally cruel mother struggling to deal with the death of a child.

In many ways, Zathura feels like a Spielberg creation, and while Favreau may not have the prodigious conception of Spielberg when it comes to making a truly magical movie, he does have a great knack for getting superb and very realistic performances from his child actors, which is something Spielberg has sometimes struggled to do.

Brain Stories: Children and adolescents who struggle to pay attention sometimes don't feel accepted or successful in school.

Looking at the work and commitment from the team in Indonesia, I often feel overwhelmed by what has been achieved in terms of good - will and dedicated support from people who sometimes have to struggle for their own livelihood, and simultaneously need to devote their time to family, careers and children.

They're sometimes repetitive but often moving, particularly for parents and staff who have know these children for many years and have witnessed their struggles, growth, and achievements.

Laura Overdeck, the founder of Bedtime Math, reminds families that it's sometimes good to let children struggle with math problems.

But amidst the search for a kinder and gentler education politics, research demonstrating the positive effect of these New York City strategies makes the moral case clear for an incoming President and for states and districts rethinking education policies: The American education system presents intolerably long odds to low - income children attending persistently struggling schools, and sometimes the most appropriate response to dramatic failure is dramatic intervention.

Sometimes my mind scrambles, though, to square the confident, accomplished person in front of me with the child who struggled to write an expository paragraph or make sense of a reading.

My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart / hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.

Here is a woman — a writer, wife, and mother — struggling with herself (a battle I understand), her art, the pressure of trying to love a child who sometimes drives her crazy, and a husband who breaks her heart.

Those dogs and many others like them came alive in marvelous stories that both captured my imagination and carried me to a place where no matter what childhood struggles I encountered, there were warm hearted, always loyal and loving fur - covered friends who would help fill the empty places that every child sometimes faces.

In focusing on the best interests of the children, we recognize that sometimes an extended family member can temporarily or permanently provide the best environment for a child when a biological parent is struggling with mental health or addiction issues.

When children struggle with a stressful situation, a decline in school performance sometimes follows.

Sometimes, however, despite parents» best efforts to make the divorce process as smooth and painless as possible, children struggle to cope with divorce.

Divorced parents sometimes struggle to agree on child custody and visitation, which is now known as parental responsibility regarding decision making and time - sharing as to their time with the children.

Sometimes when a child feels controlled or forced to do what a parent wants a lot of the time, they can start to resist and a power struggle can result.

Sometimes when a child is struggling to decide you should use the «On the one hand...» technique.

But as couples struggle to find common ground and work through a divorce, sometimes it's the children who suffer most.

However, we would be turning a blind eye to many struggling families if we did not acknowledge that sometimes removing the child from the home is necessary.

All children make wrong choices occasionally but sometimes poor decision - making is a sign of other struggles.

If it is helpful and relevant sometimes I can help parents take a glimpse into the child's struggle as I describe their play experience.

For many new social workers, working with families has become an uphill struggle fraught with missed appointments, hard - to - reach parents, children who can only be seen during school hours, and family members who sometimes undermine the clinician's treatment with their own views about mental health.

In the classroom, troubled children have difficulty interacting with the other kids, sometimes manifesting as aggressive behavior, while also engaging in a power struggle with teachers by misbehaving in class or not listening.

Children of divorce, like me, can sometimes struggle with belief that a loving marriage can last, be happy and secure.

Kevin and I struggle with social anxiety sometimes, but spending that kind of time with five other couples who are also in the process of adopting children (of all ages and races) was so awesome.