Sentences with phrase «children pretend»

«Make - believe» play, such as when children pretend to be characters, encourages their imagination and creative skills.
Let children pretend to be apple trees and use their bodies to show each tree part.
Then use this movement game to have children pretend to be tiny sea turtles who are about to hatch.
I love seeing children pretend thst they are super heroes or princesses.
Along the way, she examines such fascinating topics as why children pretend, how they discover the truth, the origins of love and morality, and how early life shapes later life.
It can help children pretend to shop, which is an important life skill.
Does it bother you at all to see children pretend that way?
Let your children pretend to breastfeed on their own, without more plastic electronic stuff!
I asked the Leakies on Facebook to send me pictures of their little ones copying their moms by pretending to «breastfeed» their «babies» to see if I could get a better grasp on the concern about children pretending to breastfeed.
What will your child pretend to deliver to the park - baby crocodiles, big green gators, or perhaps other exotic animals.
(I search for potential warning signs of abnormal in children pretending to breastfeed toys here.)
For younger children, collecting pebbles and sticks and building with them, or for older children pretending to be pirates or playing house, are all valuable learning experiences.
Pretend play will get more elaborate as your child gets older; for example, your child pretends he is a doctor, fireman, or race car driver.
Let your child pretend to be a doctor and check the health of their toys and family with this easy to make doctor's play set.
Children enjoy play - acting, so have the child pretend they are meeting an adult friend of the family for the first time, answering the phone, or asking a security guard for help when lost.
By the same token, a child pretending to nurse her doll is just that... pretend.
Let your child pretend to be a horse or to ride a horse.
They have an earnestness about them that plays out like what it is (children pretending to be big), but I don't know that children asked to be big would act any differently.
Their shortcomings are exacerbated — as opposed to plastered over, as they have been in the past — by the supporting cast of the UK's best and brightest, a harsh relief that probably explains why for long stretches it appears as though there are two films going on: one with actors and one with children pretending to be actors.
Van Hollander suggests getting creative, like giving the child a pretend remote control and having him pause, rewind or stop the situation.

Not exact matches

The director would pretend to catch the child, and the child would have to come up with a lie.»
Pretend that you're teaching your topic to a classroom full of children — people with limited vocabularies who don't understand complicated jargon.
While McDonald's pretends to be «giving back,» it continues to lobby against policies to reduce junk food marketing to children and refuses to pay its workers a living wage, despite growing protests.
Branch Davidians were all about giving everything, even their children to be raped, to the guy pretending to be Jesus.
The saddest display is the loneliness and desperation of divorced women who have to pretend that they like acting like children to attract men who really do like acting that way.
You are a child or teenager pretending to be an adult.
You come on here and pretend to have a clue but you fight the battle like a child does.
Only a child or a fool pretends that their imaginary friend will make everything okay.
So, until you are willing to condemn the child's family members, his or her teachers, and his or her sports coaches, get off the soapbox and stop pretending that clergy members are somehow more likely than average to abuse kids.
All they have to do is pretend to be the victim as they beat children to death after ra.ping them.
Children don't want to be adopted, they want their own parents, their own kin, their own culture, not a let's pretend we are family.
In conclusion, we can pretend that the biggest threat to «our children» is some creep on the Internet, or we can admit it's Mom and Dad.
They pretend to be Jews and use traditional Jewish symbols to trap children and the unsuspecting.»
But don't pretend to know how child molesters should be treated, or what the law is.
For elementary school children the game is primarily physical, kinetic; but to older children I read my poem «Plaint of the Summer Vampires,» which pretends to be a lament voiced by a mosquito and a deerfly.
Rev. Benedict Groeschel states that children often seduce their unwilling and unsuspecting victims, who then pretend to be seducing the children because they don't want them to feel left out?
At the same time, Jews, like adherents to other non-Christian religions, may with justice object to their children in school being forced either to sing or to pretend to sing of «Christ the Lord.»
It served a valuable purpose for a good while, and I don't begrudge others who still do it, as long as they typify me or my children as hell - bound because they don't pretend to have a sacred, personal relationship with the creator of the universe.
We who sacrifice fabulous resources to fatten the most inhuman form of violence so that it will continue to protect us, and who pass our time in transmitting futile messages from a planet that is risking destruction to planets that are already dead» how can we have the extraordinary hypo crisy to pretend that we do not understand all those people who did such things long before us: those, for example, who made it their practice to throw a single child, or two at the most, into the furnace of a certain Moloch in order to ensure the safety of the others?
I think the Pastor Marshall Mabry should be volunteering to help save the lives of the 40,000 innocent children that die horrific deaths each and every day instead of pretending to have telepathic powers and sending suggestions about oil prices to an invisible omniscient creature that lives outside space and time.
Pretending that gay marriage, with two committed adults raising children, is somehow going to damage the family unit is a fear that is not founded on any sort of reality.
Pretending to be a cashier is a wonderful thing if children also pretend to be doctors or teachers or carpenters, but when it is the only career children are encouraged to imagine, it amounts to a severe restriction of possibilities.
«The children are learning to pretend they're cashiers.»
By the way, that was me pretending to be you Red Dwarf because I have no valid argument and can only act like a 3rd grade child when faced with actual logic and reason.
Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.
Even if we can not know the answer to all of society's ills, even if we can not pretend to know how to solve the problems of crime and drugs and inflation and poverty, we can still proclaim that it is obviously and unquestionably a moral wrong to maintain a penal system based on vengeance instead of rehabilitation; to allow human rights violations to go unchallenged (on either side of the iron curtain); to waste vast quantities of food and resources while others are malnourished and sick and poor; or to allow so many children in our own midst to go through childhood unwanted and unloved and even abused.
Do we stop them from clouding up the beauty and serenity of the place, or pretend it's not happening so we can finish tying our ribbons and help our older children with theirs?
This may make black children especially vulnerable to predation by gays and many will be harmed by this insane push by the radical left to pretend that gays are simply a different form of «normal.»
Being immigrants, or children of immigrants, these people could not pretend they came from old and prestigious families; money was the sole instrument of their snobbery.
Find a different community that doesn't require you to pretend (to yourself or your children) that you're something you're not.
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