What has drawn generations of readers to Cleary's books is her knack for
capturing real children and their real - life adventures — even if those adventures are as mundane as getting stuck in the mud of the grocery - store parking lot.
Not exact matches
Her original webshow, TheGoToMom.TV has
captured one of the largest growing niche audiences — parents who have
children birth to seven, through professionally produced yet authentic and
real educational videos.
The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the
real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his
children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to
capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!
When one of the camp's guiding shrinks tells a room full of parents that their
children are addicted to online games because «they can't experience satisfaction and heroism in
real life,» the film can't help but invite comparison to the
child - coddling excess of American culture, while
capturing the opposite scenario in excruciating detail.
I find it intriguing that we have not fully realised the affordance that technology offers in relation to
real - time (just in - time) formative assessment practices that research tells us makes a significant impact on student learning (Wiliam, Black, Hattie) I have a pre-school age
child whose school uses a «reporting / communication» tool where daily updates are
captured by the educators including work samples, outcomes linked, photos of my
child engaged in learning tasks etc..
«Ray has
captured the essence of the
child - centered approach to play therapy and has made it
real, for both experienced practitioners and therapists who are new to the field.
Although informative, this measurement approach fails to
capture the dynamic, interconnected and contextually specific emotions that
children and parents together employ during
real - life interactions (Butler 2011; Frijda 2007).
Together, we think that our results again seem to advocate that problematic emotional interaction patterns of mothers and
children are best
captured by examining dyadic emotional flexibility in
real - time (Butler 2011; Moore et al. 2013; Van der Giessen et al. 2015).