Sentences with phrase «about engaging your children»

The NIrV Seek and Explore Holy Bible is about engaging the child's whole being — heart, soul, and mind.

Poppendieck's point about engaging children in the decision - making process is a well - established pedagogical rule.

If the government is serious about engaging children at a younger age — which language professionals fully endorse - it is essential that there is an obvious pathway for progression.

Lifebooks Adoptive Families Provides multiple articles related to the creation of lifebooks, including resources about engaging children in their creation as well as sample pages.

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When asked about the PBO findings Thursday, Morneau said the government pursued the changes because some Canadians were lowering their taxes by sprinkling income to children or their spouses in a private corporation, even though those family members weren't actively engaged in the business.

Children from the local school and community were engaged throughout the entire Build Day playing games, learning about the environment and being active.

«We're asking questions about everything we buy now: I want to know that my makeup isn't full of toxins, my clothing wasn't made by children, and my food is free of pesticides,» says Melissa Mock, a 30 - year - old tech startup executive who got engaged last summer.

That may mean writing really condemnatory articles about the sexualization of children, child molestation and pedophilia, but it would not mean engaging in a nationwide tar and feathering of a particular child molester or pedophile.

For while we argue about stroller brands and family size, millions of women are engaged in a different kind of mommy war, fighting with every decision of every day for the very survival and future of their children.

If we are engaged in chastity education rather than giving information about sex, it is easy to show that such education, is part of the character building for children that finds its natural place in the home.

The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

I worry about turning the Bible into a children's story book, about helping the tinies to engage with Scripture and wrestle and ask questions, and then I can't bring myself to read about Abraham's near - sacrifice of his son, Issac, on the mountain, no part of me could ever understand that obedience, I admit, I'd probably go to hell before I'd raise a hand to hurt my child, I don't understand it at all.

He added: «The most effective way to deal with it is to accept that it is there, to educate ourselves as best we can about both the benefits and the risks of online activity and to seek to engage our children and young people in meaningful regular dialogue about those issues.»

Gary Bauer, undersecretary of education and chairman of a White House task force on the American family, has been quoted as saying that his group's goal is «to tell children [that premarital sex] is wrong and explain why it's bad for them — not to teach them so much about sex that they can engage in it in early adolescence.»

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

«One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering.»

If you were to read an article about a groups advertising campaign to promote reinsti.tuting slavery, ritualized child abuse or lowering restrictions on toxic dumping in school zones are you saying you wouldn't comment because you aren't interested in engaging in any of those things?

But it compels us to raise the horizon of our faith beyond ourselves as Christians, to expand our theological frontiers, and to engage ourselves with the life and faith of men, women and children around us who also have much to tell us about how God has been dealing with them.

Students in schools populated mostly by middle - class - and - above children were about equally likely to find themselves in a classroom with engaged and interesting instruction (47 percent of students) as in one with basic, repetitive instruction (53 percent of students).

The ideal to aim for is to have such good data about everyone in the family, that your letters would be addressed to named people — and that if a child lives across more than one household, you'd be writing to named people in each household, because all the adults involved in that child's life have significance, and you're engaging successfully with them.

Oh, I don't mean that my kids were doing that — that is what's been on the news as we followed former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's announcement of a love child with his long - time housekeeper, the revelations that former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss - Kahn allegedly sexually assaulted a hotel maid, and that former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner had been engaging in social media hanky - panky with a bunch of young hotties on Facebook and Twitter but not without lying about it first for 10 days before resigning.

«With this particular [New Dad] project we found that [fathers and mothers] seem to be coming from the same place — young parents tended to feel quite hesitant and alienated at children's centres and I think some of the fears and concerns that young dads have about how they are treated and engaged, were shared by young mums, so there was a bit of common ground there.

FI Training: Working with Fathers in Early Years and Children's Centres Option A: Standard A 2 - day training course to help managers, front - line workers and volunteers in Children's Centres and other early years settings: • develop the confidence, knowledge and skills to work effectively with fathers • explore and develop strategies to engage with fathers • think about how to create a «whole team» approach to engaging fathers • plan needs - led approaches to engaging with and supporting fathers • consider how to use networks to support fathers.

There is an emphasis throughout Supporting Families on supporting shared parenting, and it makes clear that from pregnancy onwards, all professionals should consider the needs and perspective of both parents — and should think about how better to engage fathers in all aspects of their child's development and decisions affecting their child.

Catch your child being engaged in or excited about something.

Engage your child in play and talk about the things you are playing with.

Magical Nick's one of a kind ability to relate to young children makes for a highly engaging show that the kids absolutely love and will talk about for years.

We would like someone who is interactive and engaging with children and who will be respectful about how we like to care for our little one.

This week, I'm chatting about ways for to help your older child engage with your newborn.

While there's no hard research to support this, I've read a number of articles about iPads helping to keep autistic children calm and engaged so they can be more comfortable when in social spaces.

The important thing to remember is engaging in conversations about sex will be an ongoing process throughout your child's life.

Guided by staff, children engage in conversations at their level of understanding about the appearance, behavior, habitat, and adaptations of our resident reptiles, birds, and small mammals.

I can recall spending many nursing sessions reading to the older children or talking to them about the day at pre-school, simultaneously keeping them in view, engaging them and soothing feelings of jealousy toward the baby.

So, I set up different ways to keep my children engaged and busy in an activity so I didn't have to worry... as much... about what they were doing while I was away.

A few months ago I told you about a voluntary scheme created by the Council for Better Business Bureaus under which major food manufacturers promise to either devote 100 % of their child - directed advertising to «better - for - you» foods, or to not engage... [Continue reading]

Additionally, as one of the most comprehensive surveys of Hispanic parents» attitudes concerning online safety, the study indicates that Hispanic children are highly engaged with technology (69 % of Hispanic parents say their child has three or more devices that connect to the Internet, compared to 55 % of white parents who say that about their child.

You and your child ages 3 - 5 can learn about flying machines of the past and create your own kite to send skyward at this engaging activity at the North Carolina Museum of History.

Children under the age of seven should not be exposed to TV news because it's purposely designed to keep us engaged by telling us about traumas.

Their perspectives on fatherhood * Nearly 50 % of the conceptions were described as a complete surprise, and only three were planned * Nearly two - fifths (37 %) of the prospective fathers had had previous children; most still had some contact with the children but only two were still living with them and were engaged as actively involved fathers * Two - thirds (65 %) described themselves as having a low or medium sense of reality about their impending fatherhood * Three - quarters were expecting the baby to have a noticeable impact on their way of life * Three - quarters were motivated to learn more about pregnancy and fatherhood, with partners, family and friends seen as the most important source of information * Very few thought about health professionals as a potential source of support and advice, and some would have liked to have talked to one but felt awkward about it.

They also talk about trying to get involved with children other than their own when they know these children do not have involved fathers, because from engaging with the programme they have come to understand the benefit to children of involved fathering (Fagan and Palm 2004).

Six good practice «taster sessions» from our conference At the Fatherhood Institute's Engaging fathers as partners conference in central London on Thursday 11 November 2010: Martin Clement, team manager from the Children in Need service at Islington Children's Services talked about the «Breaking down barriers» project, which is attempting to bring fathers to the fore in social work practice.

On this call, API founders Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson talk with Lu about how: — our «flaws» are actually pathways to raising resilient, secure, connected kids; — without an awareness of how our story drives our fears, our kids re-enact it; — without self - understanding and empathy, parents then tend to manage rather than engage, control rather than connect, in a chronic practice of «defensive parenting»; — we can turn our old wounds to new wisdom and free our kids from repeating our stories; — the gift of our anger, fear, doubt, chaos, anxiety, struggles, and conflicts is that they can shed compassionate light on our old wounds and we can use this light to «heal» our inner conflicts, and pave our path for ourselves and our kids; and — doing this paving work «keeps our light on»... and our children's light on, and teaches them the power of forgiveness, humility, and humanity.

A further important process has been to design a training programme to equip Children's Centre staff to feel confident about engaging dads and recognise parenting differences and dispel myths.

If you're creating a space for others to care for your children in an ongoing, engaged and loving way, many of your childcare issues will be non-issues and you won't have to worry about losing income or career momentum by opting out.

From a language development perspective, engaging your child in every day tasks gives you SO much to talk about!

Our caring and energetic counselors are passionate about engaging kids and creating an environment where each child matters.

«With an intellectual engaging environment and scaffolding to explore questions and theories, young children can develop many healthy dispositions toward learning and acquire skills, deeper understandings, and increasing curiosity about and respect for the amazing world.»

You can help children learn about emotions by engaging them in conversation.

Frequent, sit - down, home - cooked family meals — with the television off and parents and children engaged in conversation about the day's events, the food, etc. — are key to developing a healthy lifestyle....

«I took a step back,» Roe said, «and realized we really need to address as a community how we define success and how we engage parents and children in conversations about ethics and virtue.»