Sentences with phrase «adult says to a child»

When an adult says to a child «Oh, I can't draw a bus», a child learns to feel that they can't either.

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Because the children come after school and the adults after work, music lessons happen only from 2 to 10 p.m. «Knowing how much I pay in rent,» he said, «it just kills me that nobody uses the place in the morning.»
She said that while children tend to stick with classic superhero costumes, «adults are definitely more creative.»
«Deputies located what they believed to be 12 children inside the house, but were shocked to discover that seven of them were actually adults,» police said in a statement.
With access to the food these benefits provide, experts say these children are more likely to do better in school, have better health and do better economically as adults than children that live in chronically food - insecure households.
«Every new person affected by measles in Europe reminds us that unvaccinated children and adults, regardless of where they live, remain at risk of catching the disease and spreading it to others who may not be able to get vaccinated,» said Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, the organization's regional director for Europe.
«Rather than waiting until after your death to leave the company to your adult child — who might have to pay 55 cents in tax on every $ 1 of its value — you want to start transferring a minority stake now, let's say 30 % of the stock.»
Nearly half of adult children past age 30 say their parents made no money mistakes, according to part two of Fidelity Investments Intra-Family Generational Finance Study.
Collectively, this disparity fuels what has been called the «school - to - prison - pipeline,» a systemic bias that civil rights advocates say pushes children and young adults of color out of the classroom and into the criminal justice system.
That said, Sallie Mae Bank doesn't offer custodial UGMA / UTMA accounts, which are other options for adults to save for a child.
They say that they «love» them, but it comes off more like a condescension, treating fellow adults like they are naughty children without sense enough to know better.
If possible, Canada's guidelines say, try to shoot any adult military leaders to demoralize the child soldiers.
As a child I know that I would read the Bible and believe the things that it said to be true and then I would go to church and all the adults and pastors would seem to live, act, and preach differently from what I had read and it confused me.
In interviews with CNN, religious leaders from Newtown, the site of last year's school shooting where 20 children and six adults were killed, said that a recent gun control agreement does not do enough to fight gun violence, leading one rabbi to doubt whether Congress was actually working for the American people.
Although it proved a harrowing experience - she fled with her family, she says, once the cult began advocating child - adult sexual relations - as the setting at first «was really idyllic,» remembers the actress, 38, who rose to fame on TV's Charmed and now stars in Conan the Barbarian 3D.
They were surprised, and perhaps a bit hurt, when the Master rebuked them, ordered them to give the little children admittance to his presence, and said that the children belonged to the kingdom of heaven just as much as did the adults.
A commitment to the larger good, a sense of wonder, and the ability to say «yes» to life and all it brings are caught by children who experience them in the need - satisfying adults in their early life.
If you attempted to teach Christianity to somebody without the Bible, say an adult and not an impressionable child, do you think that you could convince them that it was true?
In Calvinism, total depravity applies to children as well as adults, and Jonathan Edwards said some very hateful things about children.
Francis said he wanted people to remember that children look to adults, with light in their eyes and trust in their heart, to protect them.
From the child who prays for a longed - for toy to the adult who prays for good weather or for good luck in business, there is not a little praying which amounts to saying, «O God, I want this.
For a «live» illustration of the use of T.A. in a growth counseling session, listen to cassette course 3A «Using Marriage Problems for Growth,» in Growth Counseling: Enriching Marriage and Family Life) Suffice it here to say that if both persons respond to the counselor's initial presentation of the P - A-C concepts, they should then be coached in using this tool to interrupt Parent - Child transactions and in learning to relate on an Adult - to - Adult basis.
I often say to a couple: «You may not be able to turn off the old Parent - Child tape recordings fully, but your Adult can decide whether or not to be controlled by their messages.»
They tell children what they HAVE to believe, and children's brains at that young age can't help but believe what the adult says.
Speaking on Premier's News Hour, Manchester Metropolitan University's social media expert Dr Bex Lewis said adults must work together to help children navigate the world wide web.
Adults frequently say the sermons they really like are those prepared and delivered to children because they are simple, vivid, employ ordinary language, and are concerned about life.
Ann B said, on February 2nd, 2010 at 6:34 pm So to follow your opinion it would mean the majority of these abusers were so damaged as children that as adults they no longer have it in them to seek God.
The program was started by President Barack Obama, who set it in place as a way of protecting children who are undocumented as a result of being brought into the country by parents, guardians or other adults when they were too young to have a say.
It isn't long before somebody is asked to organize activities for the children, snacks for the children, then somebody doesn't like the subject matter of the adult study, somebody says it's going on too long, too short, and where's the music, we need somebody to play guitar, and who's going to organize the prayer at the end, and why do the children interrupt us all the time when we're trying to talk to God?
On the Sunday I visited, the community added a new member to the group, which Stock says is made up of 23 adults, eight teenagers and «I can't remember how many» children.
«Call on other supportive adults to help your children when you own resources are likely depleted,» she said.
And yes, it does seem to say by implication «You are children, unable to make your way through life without some «adult» to hold your hand and constantly keep an eye on you.»
In effect, these adult children were cursing their parents to death, which was the exact opposite of what the law said they should do.
Do we not do the same when we are disciplined by our parents as children or by our employer when we call ourselves adults, don't we want to «get our own back» don't we relish it when they become ill or have an accident and we say «it serves them right» justice has been done.
There are many reasons why this has happened; this is no place to discuss them, but among others we may mention scientific constructions, psychological discoveries, awareness of sociological conditions, and all that Bonhoeffer summed up in saying that man has «come of age» (by which he did not mean that man is an entirely mature and adult creature who now can take the place of God, in a fashion not unlike the claim made by the Provost of King's in his recent utterances; but he did mean that we now know our own responsibility and that God treats us, not like slaves nor like little children, but like sons to whom He entrusts such responsibility).
Justin Humphreys, Executive Director of Safeguarding at CCPAS said: «We believe that the UK church needs to play a role in ensuring high quality safeguarding continues for children and adults who may be vulnerable or at risk.»
CCPAS CEO, Simon Bass, said: «Last year's conference was exceptionally well received by a wide variety of people involved in keeping children and adults safe, from police officers to social workers, across organisations from churches to missionary agencies.
With just 12 % of adults saying that they know the nativity story, and more than one third of children unaware whose birthday we celebrate at Christmas, the Christmas Starts with Christ campaign has been launched to help churches to make Christ and the amazing story of his birth the focus of the nation's favourite time of year.
«Several said their adult children vowed never to go to the church again [question: and were they going before?
As long as the activity is being engaged in by consenting adults (so there goes your child marriages right out the window) I see no reason why I should say «you can't do this» to someone else.
R. R. Reno says that we should impose a tax on advertisements on pornographic websites, because this would be a constitutional way of decreasing the amount of pornography making its way to children and young adults online («While We're At It,» February).
Children and young people may be said to be «on the way» and Christian maturity is a possibility only for adults.
At some point or another, those parents must show their children the door, saying, «It is time to be an adult on your own.»
«This nutritious treat is guaranteed to satisfy both adults and children without compromising taste,» the company says of the product.
I used to LOVE frozen fish stick and fish filets as a child but as an adult — well, let's just say that giving in to childhood nostalgia can definitely be a mistake.
In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a new guideline recommending adults and children alike reduce their daily intake of «free sugars» (another way of saying added sugars) to less than 10 percent of their total energy intake.
While children under age 18 are more likely (78 percent) to drink flavored milk, it seems adults are pouring themselves a glass as well, with more than three quarters (76 percent) of adult flavored milk buyers saying they drink flavored milk.
Young adults or families with young children have completely different tastes to a busy Australian teenager, indicating our beverage habits don't last a lifetime,» Mr Shrapnel said.
In the U.S. more than 10 million children under the age of 16 play organized sports, coached or otherwise supervised by more than a million adults, many of them unscreened male volunteers — which is to say, men on whom background checks have never been done.
Now there is a question which opens a massive debate about how OUR club is run but the answer has got to be yes, I miss Highbury and to say I loved the clock end as a child through to leaving there for the grove as an adult is an understament, although the stadium has been a financial burden obviously it is still a wonderful place to watch football in, but football and especially Arsenal has changed so much in the last thirty years, I really am concerned about how much our supporters are charged either season tickets or match day sales including food / drink, we have removed a vast core of our traditional support and young because of these prices.
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