Sentences with phrase «children come to understand»

«It creates sort of a ritual and a special space that the children come to understand very quickly, that can be the major source of prevention of harmful behavior,» Levy said.

The curriculum represented in our nation's textbooks appears to be severely out of line with the way children come to understand scientific concepts.

She investigates how young children come to understand and express intents and achieve goals through language and literacy.

Through this love, children come to understand comfort, nurturing, security, and safety.

By pretending to be someone else, children come to understand other people.

He argues that children come to understand themselves and their world only as they encounter other creatures.

Sadly, if alienated children come to this understanding, it is usually much later in their life and after the alienating parent has died and can no longer be a threat to them.

As these parent - child interactions are continually repeated, the child comes to understand his role in the drama, to provide a criticism of the mother, the more extreme the criticism the better, until eventually when the child returns from a visitation with the mother and receives the father's invitation for the criticism, the child responds with a full measure of antagonism for his mother,

Not exact matches

Just believing something because you are to naive to know better (i.e. a child believing in Santa) is very different from a person studying their religion, coming to truly understand it, and choosing to believe it.

'» The story does not say whether her children understood that she was leaving them, perhaps not to come back, because she had something more important to do.

Whether or not people understand where I'm coming from I hope we all can agree that children should never have to endure that, regardless if gender.

Explain that during their preparation the children will come to understand what they all mean.

I mean, I understand that religion spreads because adults take advantage of the fact that children are born programmed to believe anything coming out of an adult's mouth, both educational and BS, but all of this represents such a huge, incredible waste of time and effort and money that could be put to so many good uses...

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

While I in fact acknowledge that there is no way that a devout Jew can really understand Edith's willingness to embrace the Cross of Christ just as Edith's mother could not understand her child's Christian faith, all of us people of good will, be we Jewish or Christian, can acknowledge our common tie to the mystery of God's redemption that began with the covenant with Abraham, continued and was solidified in the exodus, and is with us today, whether we are still awaiting the promised messiah or believe that he has already come and is among us now.

For, God willing, children to whom The Giving Tree is read when they are young may eventually come to understand its meaning — and the meaning of having parents who read it to them — when they can - with rich memories — read it in turn to their own children.

Even as a child we can come to understand these things.

They also have the right to expect that the moral and social context within which the programme is taught is clearly Catholic, that children come away with a clear understanding of social relationships and the moral context in which sexual intimacy should occur, and an understanding of why the Catholic Church teaches what it teaches about the human body, sexuality, and friendship.

Rather a very child like understanding that all of us who are weary and heavy laden can rest when we come to him.

If the parish priest is welcoming and friendly with all parents, no matter what their personal situation, the word soon goes around the area that he is an understanding priest and quickly so many others who have one way or another been made to feel unworthy of the sacrament come forward to have their children baptised.

Christian parents may be more understanding of the life - style of their children if they realize that the world in which their children have come of age requires their children to make decisions about sexual behavior that were not even issues in the past.

In an alliance with Christian conservatives against the atheism that has made a sick and paltry joke of each of their respective and joint traditions and that has begun like a swarm of termites to eat away the underpinnings of this democratic republic, the new Jewish conservatives have come to understand that any alienation they felt as children in Christian America is as nothing compared with the danger they sense to themselves and their progeny, along with their uncomprehending coreligionists, in atheist America.

In addition to its broad target — reaching the entire congregation with a message that will help them understand alcoholism — the church has a number of more limited and strategic target groups: teen - agers and pre-teens who are making or are about to make decisions about alcohol; parents who are searching for ways to prepare their children to cope constructively with alcohol and to avoid alcoholism; alcoholics and their families who need help but are afraid to come out of hiding (see Chapter 8).

So I hope that as he flies home on September 27, the Holy Father will understand that American Catholics share every ounce of his passion for Christian service and human dignity — beginning with the unborn child, but not ending there; including the poor and the immigrant, but reaching from conception to natural death... and confirming that the «joy of the Gospel» comes from a Gospel of Life.

The task of educating children means teaching them the larger designs that could give form and focus to their individual and collective aspirations, so that they come to understand not only how to be good but why.

It was only when I reached my twenties that I came fully to understand that the center of the liturgy is the Eucharist and not, as I had been led to conclude as a child, the sermon.

I understand that someone in as deeply as you will never come away from what I believe is a grand delusion and a complete waste of energy, money and time so I'm not even going to bother responding to you any further... I'm not playing childish games with children!

You will come to understand that nothing is definitively lost and you will also be able to ask forgiveness from your child, whois now living in the Lord.

He has provided His word for us to rely on when it comes to an understanding of our identity and worth as His children.

School Food Matters aims to ensure that every child enjoys fresh, sustainable food at school and understands where their food comes from.

Later he admitted that he had come to terms with his team's shortcomings many weeks ago, in the way only a parent comes to understand his child's limitations.

Watch the movie trailer here, and you come to understand that among the biggest challenges facing these children are other people's assumptions that they are not smart or don't have an opinion.

I love your post, you have described exactly how I feel at the moment.My older 4 children went to our local school, but now my son has just turned 5 and will attend kinder next year I am really considering homeschooling.I just have this niggling feeling in the back of my mind that our local school is just not right for him.I understand completely where you are coming from.I'm going to check out your other post and my options too.Good luck with your decision.

Early adversity, scientists have come to understand, not only affects the conditions of children's lives, it can also alter the physical development of their brains.

Out of this work has come a clear understanding of the barriers to better engagement with fathers / father - figures in child protection in England, as well as steps that can be taken to improve and maintain engagement.

We're going to have to find a partner who understands what «We're both in this together» means, and we're going to have to talk about our expectations around chores and child care, and we're going to have to be willing to not fall into gendered divisions of labor once a child comes along, and we're going to have to commit to talking honestly about our expectations.

Her book is designed to help couples create a parenting plan — just as we suggest in The New I Do — to help them get on the same page about their children and to understand what drives our behavior, and our partner's behavior, when it comes to the childhood we want to give our children.

You want to understand where your child is coming from.

Fathers are most likely to come to your service (s) if they understand why their presence benefits their children.

We'd like parents to understand that every child is different, that there is no such thing as «one size fits all» when it comes to measuring success and that the historical measures of success, grades and SAT scores, are limited in their ability to predict success for our children.

While I didn't care enough about the sex of my children to use any of these outside influences, I can understand a little about where the impulse comes from (except for Francis, because I can't even with that guy).

One of the most important ways to clear through all the clutter of advice, guilt and comparisons to others is to understand what you are and aren't responsible for when it comes to raising your child.

I will introduce your child to Shakespeare — if you introduce your child to others he / she may not now understand, but will come to respect.

It's important for us to communicate with our children, understand their perspective, and respect where they are coming from.

Being aware of the changes to come — and helping your older child understand what to expect — is the best way to prepare for this joyous event.

There's absolutely no reason to risk your child's safety and well - being in the name of co sleeping, so it's always a good idea to understand what the basic attachment parenting principles are when it comes to proper sleep safety.

Their goal is for parents to have a better understanding of the broad array of behaviors that constitute «normal» when it comes to children's sleep, and that if the behavior is not a problem for the family, it's most likely not a problem for the child.

You may end up with a few gray hairs when it's all over, but you'll survive largely intact by trying to understand where your child is coming from — and by handling his stormy reactions with care.

There is selfish reason for that — the adopted child will one day come to know and understand all these, and what will they think of us, the adoptive parents, if we had not thought enough to alleviate the pains of the first mom.

I am not pro-circumcision when it comes to my own children, but I can understand why some parents choose to go that route with their newborns.