Sentences with phrase «emotional lives of children»

Supported by research and clinical insight, this book offers specific strategies to help children achieve healthy separation, while respectfully acknowledging the emotional lives of children and the need for parents to take care of themselves.
At the heart of these projects are the emotional lives of children and the emotional communication between parents and their children.
We must be prepared to invest in the spiritual, intellectual, and emotional lives of our children, as have Chinese Indonesian Christians, who benefit from the dual heritage of Christian faith and Confucian morality.
In the midst of the chaos and insecurity is the crowning tragedy of what is happening in the emotional life of the children.
Our school fosters the intellect, nurtures the imagination, and recognizes the emotional life of each child.
Through play, play therapists tap into the emotional life of the child by activating the same regions of the brain.

Not exact matches

P&G: Pick Them Back Up — Continuing to tug on our emotional heartstrings by emphasizing the influence of «mom» in all of our lives, the spot clearly romances mom by letting her know how important her role is in her children's lives.
In the same way a mother can fall into a depression when ending of a intensely emotional, highly personal child - bearing experience, a founder can experience immense despair when her company is no longer a vital part of her everyday life.
The need for adequate legal aid is very compelling in situations where a woman is attempting to leave an abusive relationship, and her life and her physical and emotional security are at risk, as is the safety of her children.
Such a child is also likely to experience serious problems of social and emotional adjustment, for he senses that in his language deficiency the very foundations for his participation in the life of relation — and hence for having any life worth living — are threatened.
I have deliberately left out of the discussion such topics as ethics and the Christian family — although I have talked about responsibility, both for one's own adult behavior and for helping one's children develop the essential emotional equipment with which to face life.
Then, the child develops emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities that haunt them for the rest of their lives.
I think you are a punk and a fool and a bully, and that you care more for fetuses than for the real living women and the real living children who live with the consequences of poverty and violence every day, because too many kids are being born to people who don't have the emotional or financial resources to do the job right.
Would it not embark on a comprehensive program of parent education as a central focus of its work, making the discoveries of the psychologists concerning the emotional hungers of children, from the very dawn of life on, easily available to all its parents?
The most cogent psychoanalytic explanation of alcoholism indicates that the emotional damage involved probably occurred in the very early life of the person — during the period when the child's primary way of relating to the outside world is oral.
Having spent many days at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — I could only imagine how emotional and tearful it is for families living that horrible reality.
Noah's Ark Children's Hospice provides clinical, emotional and practical care and support to children and young people with life - limiting and life - threatening conditions, with a central aim of enabling them to live life as fully as possible, regardless of cognitive or sensory Children's Hospice provides clinical, emotional and practical care and support to children and young people with life - limiting and life - threatening conditions, with a central aim of enabling them to live life as fully as possible, regardless of cognitive or sensory children and young people with life - limiting and life - threatening conditions, with a central aim of enabling them to live life as fully as possible, regardless of cognitive or sensory ability.
This means being able to tune in to the emotional and academic lives of our children.
and also with later satisfactory partnerships in adult life Good father - child relations are associated with an absence of emotional and behavioural difficulties in adolescence and greater academic motivation.
The focus of this model is on healthy social, physical, and emotional development and the integration of athletics with a child's life (rather than the other way around).
The neurological infrastructure is being formed that will support all of a child's future capacities, including not only her intellectual abilities — how to decipher and calculate and compare and infer — but also those emotional and psychological habits and abilities and mindsets that will enable her to negotiate life inside and outside school.
A relatively small change in caregiver behavior made a big difference in the lives of the children and in the emotional climate of the orphanage.
The child's development of an emotional attachment to a primary caregiver in the first six years of life is very important.
The lesson of Okinawa is the lesson of consent, the lesson that indicates that if a child is well - mothered and well - guided by both parents, then the child given the best of all possible starts in life and seems well on his way to emotional stability.
Feldman postulated that this is likely internalized by the baby as an «emotional sense of security that accompanies the child throughout life
An empty emotional bucket can not help fill the bucket of another, especially a child who is feeling the effects of a divorce in his or her own life.
It is understandable that enthusiasts wish to offer children the same benefits in hopes of preventing poor mental and emotional habits from developing later and perhaps optimizing well being over their lives.
A study from the London School of Economics draws the conclusion that «The most important childhood predictor of adult life - satisfaction is the child's emotional health....
The emotional consequences of stress from colic alone have lasting effects on the child's development and life dissatisfaction of the family years later according to a Finnish Family Competence Study Project by researchers at the University of Turku.
There will always be a temptation to return to it when life is hard, and your child will also be more vulnerable to other addictions — even non-chemical addictions, such as gambling, which can have the same sort of emotional appeal.
Regnerus (the same sociologist behind a controversial study of how children of same - sex couples fare) says cheap sex — sex with little cost as far as time or emotional investment — is behind a host of societal ills, from fewer people marrying to the rise of unmarriageable men to more people living together to more children being born outside of marriage — you get the idea.
Most obviously, the needs of very young fathers are substantially different from those of older young fathers (Kiselika, 2008, p. 132); and they tend to be most socially disadvantaged to start with, are less likely to be living with their children's mothers, and are more likely to be involved in criminality and substance misuse and to suffer anxiety, depression and emotional volatility (Kiselika, 1995).
The other thing I want you to know is about a very disturbing statistic, that children who live in a home with a non-biologically related male - your boyfriend, a stepfather, a stepbrother, have 11 times the risk of sexual, physical or emotional abuse.
Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development Social practices and cultural beliefs of modern life are preventing healthy brain and emotional development in children.
«From educational achievement to emotional development and healthy self esteem, the contribution that dads make to the life and the development of children is unique and enduring, and Parentchannel.tv's National Dads Matter Week is a great way to recognise this.
It's so important to find like - minded parents who can offer their «been there, done that» stories, emotional scaffolding, and specific suggestions for when you feel confused as to what to do about your child's behavior, or when you question whether this new thing you're trying, like positive discipline instead of spanking, for example, is going to work out in the long term, or how exactly to keep those family attachment bonds strong as your children grow, or how to move forward when your family encounters challenging life circumstances.
But it also gave them, sort of, an emotional sense that they matter, that they actually could be good parents, that they could make a real difference in the life of their child.
With five years of clinical experience and nearly ten years of experience supporting individuals with developmental disabilities of all ages, Melanie offers a unique approach to addressing difficult behaviors, as well as the physical, emotional, and sensory regulation challenges that are often a big part of a child's life.
Given the critical nature early relationships, it is imperative that all care givers and professionals touching the lives of young children have the knowledge and skills to promote healthy early development, including social - emotional development or infant mental health.
Together, they are embarking on a mission to provide children in impoverished regions of the country with opportunities and resources to integrate purposeful play into their everyday lives; a factor proven critical in children's emotional, physical and cognitive development and future growth.
Children have emotional and behavioral difficulties for a variety of reasons, sometimes related to parenting deficits, but often related to personality characteristics and life experiences.
Children who are living with food insecurity during the first five years of their lives are more likely to lag behind in social, emotional, and cognitive development once they start kindergarten.
It talks about traditional foods as the tools with which to bring our children back from a life slated toward disease and illness and into robust health where they can be free of weight issues, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, dental problems, mental and emotional disorders like depression, ADD, ADHD, and other related (even autism).
Secure attachment forms when a child's physical and emotional needs are consistently met during the first 2 years of life.
What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect
Many studies suggest that children raised in a two - parent family have a higher standard of living and fewer behavioral and emotional problems.
Through this webinar from PBS's This Emotional Life — featuring Daniel J. Siegel, MD, of the Mindsight Institute, moderated by Kathryn Power, M.Ed, of SAMSHA — we learn how the quality of parent - child attachment impacts your child's:
From this point, they can begin talking about what that really looks like for their child in this stage of life, and that discussion allows for the child's emotional needs to be considered alongside their financial and physical needs.
I went back through several books I'd recently read: Kohn's Unconditional Parenting, Lieberman's Emotional Life of the Toddler, Cohen's Playful Parenting, and half of Aldort's Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves (I'm still finishing that one), and asked for the collective wisdom of my seasoned mama friends.
We meet children, adolescents, teens and their families at the most challenging times of their lives and help them overcome some of life's most difficult circumstances: child abuse and neglect, complex emotional and behavioral issues, and family crisis.
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