Sentences with phrase «children feel powerful»

Because books can resonate with children, they can serve as important tools in helping children feel powerful and take action.

It also makes the child feel powerful because so often in the end, he actually gets what he wants, including your attention.

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It is a feeling hard to describe, a powerful awareness that you are child loved by the Mother of God.

So this year as you start the process of getting gifts for your family, please also begin a tradition of giving shoe boxes to children around the world that are longing to feel that powerful, tangible touch from the God that loves them.

I wondered when we would know better how to help children more widely in schools and homes to understand their feelings, and when we would be able to help parents understand theirs, so that the boys and girls now growing up might know not only about tanks and bullets but about the most powerful of all weapons for both good and evil — the human feelings that propel us, if we do not understand them, into hating in place of loving, into killing instead of creation.

If your child tends to be argumentative and you stay in the argument with them, it makes them feel more powerful and in control.

But I would be doing myself and my children a disservice to not also look back and feel, beyond the surface of my frazzled nerves, the stored memories soaked into every part of my body that make being a parent more powerful than achievements stored in a baby book.

Imaginative play serves children well as it allows them to try on behavior and skills, to imagine themselves as brave and daring, as defeating fears and feeling powerful.

Giving a choice can be an effective tool if it's done respectfully and gives control to a child who wants to feel powerful.

Going through this period when your child wants to feel powerful and make all the decisions puts parents to a major test.

What is even more powerful is when a parent feels he or she wasn't «seen» as a child and mistakenly tries to avoid the same pitfall by overdoing it with their kids.

Free play gives children the space they need to make their own choices, and to feel powerful and interested in the world.

If teasing doesn't get a rise out of your youngster, then it won't allow his tormentor to feel powerful or to have fun at your child's expense.

Let your child be a participant in family work and she'll feel needed and powerful in her ability to help.

Your child will feel so strong and powerful pushing it all by himself.

That gratefulness and positivity will resonate with your child in powerful ways, and ultimately, it supports them feeling positively about their own adoption.

When a child feels empowered, he doesn't have to try to win his power, since he already feels powerful through decision - making thus there is no need for power struggles.

The threat to the older child's sense of self can be felt especially severely if that child's powerful early needs for love, attention, recognition, and a trustworthy environment were frustrated and not adequately met.

Refusing to do it becomes a very powerful way for your child to feel in control.

I still feel like every single incidental glance that we exchanged during Monica's labors, and every single time we held hands or laughed out loud or rubbed feet (OK, I never got my feet rubbed) or just lay there beside each other on the same bed, breathing quietly, knowing that we were in for something so magical and powerful that it was impossible to even get our heads around the child we were about to meet, I still feel like those were some of the greatest moments in my life, hands down.

Amy's latest book focuses on the central idea that every human being has a basic need to feel powerful - with children being no exception to the rule.

If teasing doesn't get a rise out of your youngster, then it won't allow her tormentor to feel powerful or to have fun at your child's expense.

Here are nine simple, yet powerful, things you can do today to help your child feel better as you serve them food on a daily basis:

Here are ten simple, yet powerful, things you can do today to help your child feel better as you serve them food on a daily basis:

lindalu curious, glorious, uproarious, wandering jew, born on the cusp of cancer and leo, in the year of the wood horse, child of the beat generation, mother of many, lover of peoples, their words and their musics, feels passionate, artsy, and powerful, needs peanut butter and jelly...

The episode ends in a violent climax that feels more soap opera than psychological thriller, but for the most part, «Arkangel» delivers a grounded, powerful thesis on what it means to protect our children in a threatening world.

Georgiana is played as a loving mother, torn irreconcilably between the children she has and the life she desires, and in the moments where these feelings are tested to the limit, Knightley's performance is powerful, verging on harrowing at times.

«We know that agency is one of the most powerful cognitive motivators for kids,» Grotzer told me, describing a large body of research that shows how children learn and grow when they can see and feel the consequences of their own actions.

That is such a powerful, motive force when you see children who feel they can understand things, command things and get on top of things because education, and particularly technology in education, has helped them do that, so its a massive social achievement.»

Indeed, when asked, in later childhood, to discuss their first memories of school, many of these children recalled, as a powerful and uncomfortable memory, the feeling of strangeness, even alienation, that came with the realization that no one else in the class, except the teacher, could actually read!

That said, I've experienced a different feeling that's just as powerful, when I realized that the most meaningful time I spend with any of my children is one - on - one time.

Therapy animal handlers can tell many compelling stories of the powerful effect of their work: people in memory care that talk to the therapy animal after months of silence, a child in the hospital that doesn't appear to feel pain while the animal is visiting, autistic children who speak for the first time after petting a therapy animal.

Caring for a classroom pet is a powerful way to teach children responsiveness for a living and feeling creature.

In part, this is due to painting's long and continuing history of being the poster child for the powerful, a precedent that feels at odds with the show's filters; but this goes deeper than that.

Games where children can dress up or play as someone powerful (like superman) can help them to cope with feeling powerless and unimportant.

This stable network strengthens a child's feeling that they are not alone in this world, but have a deep and powerful support system — an important factor in becoming a psychologically healthy adult.

Parent - child relationship: when connection is embodied and you can show empathy, the child feels understood and powerful moments ensue

Fantasy play allows children to feel powerful and magical, whatever the reality.

The individual, in attempting to ward off these powerful and intensely uncomfortable feelings, develops behavioral strategies that involve the children.

An enthusiastic teacher, Peggy feels privileged for opportunities to share powerful stories of learnings from over 30 years of work with families and their children, teens, adults, couples, communities and students of all ages.

The answer is that we as parents need to set a powerful example and honor, respect, validate and support our child's needs, feelings, decisions and desires.

Literature is a very powerful and safe lens through which SEL can be discussed because it allows children to talk about someone else's feelings and problems.

All of the activities are designed to build trust, healthy relationships, and a full conscience (i.e., age appropriate ability to use moral judgment to choose right from wrong and to feel remorse for wrongdoing) in traumatized children while supporting their parents to provide for their special needs and powerful nurturing.

Deliberately bringing attention to loving feelings towards their children can have a powerful emotional effect, helping parents to re-connect with their positive feelings towards their child and view themselves more positively as parents.

This is a detriment to children's learning, but can be fixed by creating spaces where «children feel safe, creative and powerful,» she said.

A powerful tool to support you as you help your child work his way through difficult feelings that lead to challenging behaviors

-- Roger Lewin Coaching can be a powerful way to help our children become more self - aware, understanding their thoughts and feelings and how they impact their behavior choices.

Unrealistic highs in self - esteem - for example, a child or adolescent who feels all - powerful or like a superhero with special powers

She felt fortunate to learn of Positive Discipline early on as a parent and its ability to change the way people interact with others, beginning with the most intimate and powerful relationship between a parent / caregiver and child.

Gottman and DeClaire write «we have inherited a tradition of discounting children's feelings simply because children are smaller, less rational, less experienced, and less powerful than the adults around them» (p. 31).