Sentences with phrase «books read to the child»

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[With it,] she went from a child who couldn't hold a single letter in her head to someone who was able to read words and sentences and chapter books and able to effectively communicate with people around her.

She plans to run her business from home and personally market her books in hospitals, day - care centers, schools, libraries and bookstores, where she will read her stories to children and sell the books to parents.

For instance, if you're running a Facebook page that features children's books and you run across a great list of 100 books every child should read, you may be tempted to just post a link to that list as a status update.

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

So they pulled out all the stops by experimenting with an in - store cafe, free Wi - Fi, monthly book swaps, a children's play area, entertainment, more than 200 in - store author readings a year and community forums on topics of interest to customers.

I learnt this eventually, in the course of general reading, from a book, «Influence», aimed at a popular audience, by a distinguished psychology professor, Robert Cialdini... I immediately sent copies of Cialdini's book to all my children.

You've read enough children's books to last you a lifetime, but have you given any thought to writing one?

You need to read a book, even a childrens book if thats your intelligence level so you can expand your mind b / c you have the mind of a nomad.

Instead, Prof. Ashford reads from a children's book about a runaway bunny whose mother promises to find him wherever he goes, and manages to elicit from it the comforting message that God will seek out the soul no matter where it hides.

I laid with him in his hospital bed when he was still conscious and began reading scripture to him from a little book he had received 80 years earlier as a child in England.

I would like to see some real loving father get away with just leaving a book for his «children» to read and then never be heard from again.

I fear for all my fellowman, including some of my children and siblings and wish they would just do the simple thing — read the Book of Mormon with real intent, wanting to know if it is true or not.

He was arrested in 2009 after he lodged a protest with local education officials after learning his child was being forced to read from the Quran, the Muslim holy book, in school.

I can't wait to see the new text books that children ages 5 an up must now read which glorify the achievements of gay.

In such a silence, if you have turned off the television and tempted your child away from his games with a good book, you can hear other things: the chatter and call of cardinals who have found the birdseed; the crack of a log in the fire; hot coffee being poured into a cup; the ticking of your last non-digital clock; the rhythmic breathing of tired child (or parent) who has dozed while reading; the soft thud of a book sliding to the floor.

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

She's been reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a book off a shelf and share it with a child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.

Reading aloud to the children has been like gathering kindling daily — lighting children to read books on their own, flaming their interest in books they might have otherwise passed over.

I have always read for oxygen, my only punishment as a child was to have my books taken away from me.

I took the book to my boss and told him that I was NOT going to read that to five and six year old children.

It was an RCC sanctioned book, complete with imprimatur, that had been placed in my classroom by the curriculum development experts in the diocese with the expectation that I would read it to the children.

I've been to church a handful or so of times, and I've read children's books about Christ, growing up.

All those hours spent reading by dim firelight the same book over and over (the way little children still like to be read to) were to contribute to Lincoln's being the foremost master of prose among our Presidents.

Andrea Yates, the Texas mom who drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001, believed they «were «stumbling» into the throes of the devil and were going to burn in the fires of eternity,» said Richard Bonnie, a University of Virginia law professor, reading from his criminal law teaching book.

John Delaney, editor of Catholic books for Doubleday, has figured out that so many Americans have bought Bibles during the past ten years that one out of every three of them (excluding children who can't read) should he able to quote chapter and verse in unison.

Reading all the books about 2012, and listening to all the doom and gloom sermons, attending all the prayer meetings about the end of the world, and watching the Discovery channel special about Mayan calendars and aliens from space and Egyptian pyramid tunnels, OR loving our neighbors, serving our spouses, teaching our children, working hard at our jobs, and helping where people are hurting?

There are, however, other ways to face death, and Charlotte's Web is not the only child's book that will bear many readings.

Oh ya because most of the book contains sick things that if it was any other book you wouldn't allow your children to read.

One is the reality system of face - to - face encounter with other people, working at the office or store or home, taking care of the children or visiting with neighbors, playing with the kids and tending the yard, reading books and telling stories and remembering the past and planning for the future.

The man who performs religious rites without observing their hidden meanings is, according to them, like a child who reads the words of a book without understanding them.

There are whole chapters of John's Gospel that I would like to snip right out of the book so that no child ever has to read what John said Jesus said about Jews.

People who have read this book have: killed millions of people needless in the Crusades, tortured and killed hundreds of thousands in the Inquisition, conducted countless «witch» burnings in Europe and America, have advocated for beating children (Proverbs 13:24), have advocated for the subjugation of women (far too much to cite)...

I read to my children, I watch them in the slip n» slide, I spend time with people whom I feel genuinely know and love us, I get to essentials at work and re-learn saying no, I read books, I get pretty inward and quiet, I go for walks, I sing, I knit, I do ordinary work like clean the house and plan meals and cook.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

I now see that God has made Himself known to little children and to those who may never crack open a book of theology or read a chapter from the Pentateuch.

The books that should be counted, but are skipped, are those that one reads to one's children, aloud.

Not surprisingly, the most conflicted and complicated chapter in the book is the one in which Rapp attempts to read the cultural terrain of what she calls the «alienated kinship» of children with Down syndrome.

Perhaps the better way to think of this volatility would be not in geographical terms of capital cities but» as these two books suggest when read in tandem with each other» as a genealogical problem: we are the children of both Abraham and Aristotle.

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.

If you have been told that Christmas is based on the Roman festival of Saturnalia, that putting up a Christmas tree is idolatrous, or that Santa Claus teaches children to be greedy, then you must read this book!

If someone told Wendy that she needs to «be more balanced» and spend less time cooking and with children and more time reading books, she wouldn't do so well.

I can't for the life of me recall what book I read it in, but I remember an author saying once that he raised his children to be wary of consumerism by teaching them to laugh at commercials.

That reminded me of the Boxcar children books I used to read as I kid.

Find a children's book from your childhood and read it to each other.

It is a time of year (if you are a stay - at - home mom like me) when you find yourself dumbfounded on how to pass the intervening eternity between 4 pm and dinner time and end up reading lots and lots and lots and lots of children's books.

I've loved reading the books again to my children and I learn so much from Ma!

These managed to quell my gingerbread longing brought on by reading 19th c. children's books.

The 161 square - foot library will hold nearly 1,000 books, many bilingual, offering a range of excellent reading material for children from 2 to 12 years old.

People who are being referred to as CIO advocates are loving caring parents who have usually read lots of books and tried a myriad of things before allowing a child to cry.

We will be launching the option of reading a book focused on the younger child set (birth to preschool) and one focused on the older child set (school - age and above) to be read simultaneously.