Sentences with phrase «though reading to children»

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«Though made for children, this book has served me as a metaphor for business since I read it to my son 25 years ago.

But when Gadamer says that «we have the ability to open ourselves to the superior claim» of a conversation partner, he means that we can refuse to engage that ability» like a child who won't read the words before him, though he can.

When you read stories like Sodom and Gomorrah you see a god who was willing to destroy hundreds of men and women and children without mercy, but Lot is considered okay even though he offered up his two virgin daughters to be raped... and then he would later have incest with both of them.

Even though your child is young, it is advisable to read to them so as to give them a much better chance of having good behaviors as well as academic success.

Even though they have talked to other parents, read books and watched TV shows about parenting, they aren't able to change their child's behavior — and their own techniques continue to be ineffective.

So here's a big shout out to all you moms out there who survive those energetic days, who read aloud to your kids even though they are tired, who help with homework, who take your child's education seriously, who take the time to listen to your kids read, who make a difference.

Even though children's toys like play dough tend to be nontoxic across the board, always read product labels for age recommendations and warnings before offering something to your toddler.

Even though I like breastfeeding my children, I haven't read or heard a lactivist address how a woman is supposed to cope with breastfeeding if she doesn't have any support at home.

Not only is reading to our little ones wonderful for their education, though, but it is also a fun and easy way to build and maintain a strong parent / child connection.

Again, appropriate behavior and language so you don't have to worry about what your kiddos are reading -LCB- though it's never a bad idea to pre-read or read books with your child. -RCB-

Not sure how little your child is but I have read that even though babies can «sleep thru the night» at 3 — 4 months that is only considered from 12 am — 5 am and before they can start sleeping 10 — 12 hours they should be at least 14 lbs but even then some babies still take a few more months to stop.

So, potty - training mommies (and daddies, though I doubt there are too many of the latter reading this blog), sign your self up right here and see if it won't help to have someone else teach your child how to go in the potty.

My last Champagne toast was for a friends birthday (even though she wasn't really celebrating herself or with me), in the week little dude bought a beautiful piece of work home — we celebrated, this time with a more appropriate child friendly hot chocolate (with whipped cream), later that week we celebrated again with a pizza party thanks to a sticker regarding his improvements in reading.

I have been reading a lot about attachment parenting pros and cons.I think that the pros are obvious.the cons however are if the parents decide they can not continue with for example co sleepng it is very hard on the child to then have to learn to sleep alone before they are confident enough to do so.for working parents the seperation to a carer is very hard and also helping parents to read the signs properly that their child wants to explore freely when they are used to protecting their little one.these are all things parents need to be aware of when adapting this form of parenting.I like it very much but I am a professional childcarer with additional childcare knowledge too and though parents always know their own child best risk for example is always an immotive subject to get across to parents that their little one needs to experience risk within of course a safe environment.

«The greatest gift we can give our children is for them to see that even though we're not perfect, we are striving every day to learn — through reading books, going to API Support Group meetings, or Attached at the Heart parenting classes and being involved in their lives every step of the way.

Usually, once gifted children learn to read, though, they progress rapidly.

These pre reading skills are the signs of early literacy and, though it may look as though your child is merely playing, she is organizing what she knows about books and language and how they work together to for this magical skill known as «reading.»

Your first child is told about it and he is excited at the thought of having a little brother or sister, though he probably doesn't quite understand what it is going to feel like not to be an only child anymore Continue reading →

Though new to her current position, having started in July 2015, JoAnne has a passion for feeding children; prior to moving to... Continue reading →

(I needed to be clearer, though, that I wouldn't in any case impose this diet on my children, for the reasons I... [Continue reading]

If I tell people I followed the Babywise books, I get criticized for it (though if you actually read those kinds of books, they never say to deny your child food or leave them to cry for hours on end).

Even though your child's attention span is still relatively short, don't feel compelled to read quickly in order to finish a story.

This was refreshing to read, though I'm sad that I just recently weaned my 19 month old (2nd child).

But he says that records read to him from the Royal Free pathology service clearly stated that the children's gut biopsies were within normal limits, even though they were reported in the Lancet paper as having enterocolitis.

Though we all want our children to be in properly installed car seats for vital crash protection, we also want those seats to... Read More

it's only to point that i recently read on a book that defends Dukan's diet wrote by a MD that happens to have only one kidney since he was a child, and he links the occurence of kidney stones in those children of the early ketogenic studies to the prevailing idea of water in those days, ie, that water should be consumed in small amounts because it was thougth to provoque interferences with ketonic bodies production, and that was though to lessen their positive effects

Though results from our recent study showed that single parents in the US are dating more (21 %) compared to singles without children (16 %), we know Read more...

Not having read Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book, I can't say how faithful this adaptation is (though colleagues have suggested that darker aspects have been watered down), but it seems to follow the same basic trajectory: Cute British orphan Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill) gets abducted by the title character (played, or performance - captured, by recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance), who turns out to be the smallest and kindest inhabitant of Giant Country; Sophie winds up enlisting the Queen (Penelope Wilton) in an effort to stop the other, meaner giants (led by a performance - captured Jemaine Clement) from eating England's children.

Though Princess Mononoke deals with green philosophy and Spirited Away can be read as an allegory of child prostitution in Asia, the images of noble pigs and pre-bellum fascism are too broad and obvious to be taken without a certain cynicism.

As the authors state, «Even though it is expected that a bilingual child's vocabulary measured only in one language would not match that of a monolingual speaker, when bilingual children's vocabularies are too low in the language in which they are learning how to read, these young learners will certainly encounter difficulties [particularly, in the context of monolingual English instruction].»

Before leaving for the United States, though, she decided to start a reading clinic at her house on Sunday afternoons for Ryan, his friends, and children from the neighborhood who also needed help.

Dyslexia was a term adopted to confer a lesser, though still neurologically - based, form of reading impairment in children.

This leads to advice for parents «to increase the intelligence of your child and yourself,» though Nisbett focuses on such «21st - century» skills as «problem - solving» rather than reading books, acquiring knowledge, and gaining understanding.

Bob Davidson says he had his epiphany after reading a newspaper story about a Maryland child who was assigned to kindergarten, even though he had the reading skills of an 11th grader.

Though e-books have been available for children to read on computers for some time, they are receiving quite a bit of attention recently due to the development of new, more mobile platforms on which to view them.

Even though a child may learn to decode letter sounds, if they are not expected to blend them into words, they may have difficulty transferring that skill to actual reading.

Children are asked to read and then answer multiple - choice questions about such topics as taking a hike in the Appalachians even though they've never left the sidewalks of New York, nor studied the Appalachians in school.

Big standardized tests are not designed to provide reliable assessment for individual students, and when you go to the level of trying to use sub-tests to make instructional choices for a child, you're down to coin - flip territory in terms of reliable information (Cizek, 2007 is the reference I've seen for that info, though I haven't read it myself).

A decade ago, Australia nearly topped the charts when it came to teaching children to read, though it lagged behind countries like Canada and Finland.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sincReading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sincreading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

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.

Even though we continue to learn more about effective schools, effective instruction, and effective change efforts, we seem hard - pressed to integrate and apply this knowledge in ways that positively impact the thousands of schools which are struggling to teach all children to read.

Once students have read or heard the nominated books, their votes can be tallied and submitted to the Children's Book Award Chairman though the online form.

Children from «near poor» families, those whose families have low to moderate incomes but are not poor enough to qualify for subsidized pre-K, are even less likely to attend — even though NAEP data show many of these youngsters also struggle to learn to read.

English language learners can especially benefit from TTS even though it is no substitute for parents reading to children — ideally among the top goals of cell phone clubs.

Though e-books have been available for children to read on computers for some time, they are receiving quite a bit of attention recently due to the development of new, more mobile platforms on which to view them.

Though the children protested, Darwin left the warm parlor where Emma had been reading aloud to them in the shadow of the Christmas tree and slipped away across the hall to the darkened study to retrieve it.

Often, though, we have to provide a «hook» or motivation to interest children in reading biographies of historical figures.

The best part of this title, though, is it's only one shining example of how digital reading can be put to use in educational settings, especially for the often forgotten readers that fall in the gaps between the incredible children's ebooks and the higher education academic e-texts.

This reading was meant to raise scholarship money for a local school — a private school — even though White, when he moved to Maine from Manhattan, sent his child to the local public school.