Sentences with phrase «control over one's environment»

A group room helps provide cats with a sense of control over their environment, thus eliminating a major source of their stress.

People are more motivated when they have more control over their environment.

Trauma - informed care also means giving birthing women as much control over their environment as possible.

For toddlers, tantrums are a way to exert control over their environment.

That allows you to work around outdoor areas where you don't have as much control over the environment as you do inside your home.

Find a quiet room in your house; you'll be most comfortable at home and will have the most control over the environment.

They like to set their own schedules, exert full control over their environment, and depend only on themselves for survival.

By giving the player control over the environment instead of the player character, the amount of freedom you get from manipulating the world with two hands is substantial.

We make decisions and arrange our lives but children do not have this same control over their environment.

Your babies are beginning to show control over their environment!

Just as children have very little control over their environment, there are many things parents have very little control over in our world environment.

The lighting was dim, I had complete control over my environment, and I knew that I could do this even though I'd never done it before.

Younger children have fewer coping skills and less control over their environment.

As children grow older, they gain skills which give them more control over their environment.

Choosing any new item enhances their feeling of control over their environment, thus reducing the chance of a stressful reaction.

Giving the players that much control over the environment can make for some complicated gameplay mechanics.

However, they are not a substitute for providing sheltered cats control over their environment by creating multiple opportunities to engage in any of the full range of natural species behaviors.

Playing with food also presents food in a non-threatening manner and gives a child a sense of control over their environment when exploring new foods.

«An active control over the environment suggests a potential ability to cope with changing conditions,» said Prof Stocker.

The computer embodies a particular value system, a technological thought world first articulated by Francis Bacon and René Descartes four hundred years ago, that turns our attention outward toward asserting control over our environment (that is essentially what technologies do — extend our power to control from a distance).

She gave up significant control over our environment by letting Stephen Harper and his cabinet decide project approvals on Enbridge and Kinder Morgan.

In the modern world, humans wield considerable control over their environment — even over the diseases they face, as several recent outbreaks attest.

Such «smart» hearing aids give people with hearing impairments greater control over their environment, said Louise Levy, chief audiologist with the Baby Face Foundation, a nonprofit organization in New York City.

Tetraplegic patients rate hand and arm function to be of the highest importance to have better control over their environment.

Available as part of the Rear Climate Package is a 4 - zone system, which adds left / right temperature settings and other features to give 2nd - row passengers a high degree of individual control over their environment.

Scientific research with animals has shown that animals with more control over their environment excel at learning complex behaviors, making decisions, increasing attention, lowering arousal levels and better health.

During their daring escape, Booker and Elizabeth form a powerful bond — one that lets Booker augment his own abilities with her world - altering control over the environment.

The environmentalists, like the Communists, believe that human beings have total control over the environment and that the environment determines all.

To support the rights of indigenous communities to assert more control over their environment and resources, SIPPI published a handbook in 2003 to help local peoples understand and identify mechanisms of the current intellectual property regime that might be advantageous or detrimental to the protection of their environments, biological resources, and traditional knowledge.

He sees it as the Martians taking an active control over their environment.

Exerting control over your environment and creating a safe, orderly space offers physical, emotional and spiritual health benefits.

He either (i) answers questions the believer can not work out for himself — such as the origins of the Universe or of life on Earth — «I don't know therefore God did it»; (ii) gives people a false level of control over their environment — «I prayed that my mother's cancer would go away.»

Religion is now, and always has been, an attempt to explain the observations of the Pink Monkeys to themselves, and their need to feel they have some control over the environment they observe.

It's so important for kids of all ages to feel like they have some control over their environment, including their role as an older sibling.

Inconsistent (or nonexistent) boundaries can cause kids to develop anxiety because they feel a lack of control over their environment.

But what's really going on is that toddlers are exploring their ability to be autonomous and have some control over their environment.

Like many others who choose home birth, she liked the idea of being in a familiar and comforting place, and felt it made labour easier because she had more control over the environment.

They may be longing for attention or trying to exert some control over their environment.

Toddlers want independence and control over their environment — more than they may be capable of handling.

«In the past hundred years,» Fogel says, «humans have gained an unprecedented degree of control over their environment, a degree of control so great that it sets them apart not only from all other species, but from all previous generations of Homo sapiens.»

Children have little to no control over their environment, and even when they do have control over it as an adult, it can often feel as though they don't, because their minds are stuck in a pattern.

In order to learn responsible behavior, students need to have some control over their environment.

Engaging students in creating the classroom layout at the beginning and returning it back at the end of class may be necessary, and have the side BENEFIT of giving them control over the environment.