Sentences with phrase «fearful children»

But mothers with insecure attachments were working hard to get their fearful children to not be fearful, said Gunnar.

Fearful children tend to develop greater early conscience and do best under parental warmth and gentle discipline that promotes internalized conscience.

That old phrase tossed out by parents at fearful children about spiders, «They're more afraid of you than you are of them,» has never been more true, at least according to researchers from the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) who have found that spiders, like many other animal species, are suffering from habitat loss and human encroachment.

Fearful children indicate that your family is not yet ready for a greyhound.

Screaming children find sudden relief, shy and fearful children find courage, impatient and angry children find peace and discouraged children find the will to go on.

Fearful children tend to develop greater early conscience and do best under parental warmth and gentle discipline that promotes internalized conscience.

There is experimental evidence that this old standby really helps: In a study that randomly assigned fearful children to receive a toy «huggy puppy,» kids exhibited fewer nighttime fears and sleep problems than did children in a control group.

This is a normal reaction to the unknown, and we are trained to help fearful children through their dental experience.

, but a very fearful child is likely to find comfort from having Fido or Mittens nearby, preferably in a pet bed of their own.

You — or a favorite toy — can take the part of the fearful child.

Especially if you have a stubborn, strong willed, or fearful child.

A fearful child can not learn.

So why do I have a fearful child?

Communicate — Often times your fearful child may not want to talk when they are afraid, but remind them that you are available to listen and help if they feel comfortable in that moment.

Richard (Macaulay Culkin) is a pathologically fearful child, a timidity bemoaned by primetime parents Mel Harris and Ed Begley, Jr..

A calm, nurturing parent is a fearful child's best ally!

Even the most shy or fearful child has found the courage to pet Sandy!

Not exact matches

One deeply flawed, since - retracted study of 12 children made some parents fearful that there might be an association between vaccines and autism.

It might seem encouraging to applaud your child's intelligence, but tons of research — much of it spearheaded by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck — shows that doing so makes kids fearful of taking risks or pursuing tough goals that might make them feel less than brilliant at first.

, those with an anxious kid at home have a more immediate concern — how should I handle a child who is too fearful to enjoy a playdate, order a slice of pizza, or get through a math quiz without distraction?

He said many boomers — far from being disinterested in or fearful of the latest tech — instead see it as the best way to connect with family and friends, particularly their children and grandchildren who see smartphones as the prime means of communication.

In contrast, if a child grew up with a parent who was emotionally disconnected, passive, anxious, fearful, or unavailable (perhaps due to chronic sickness or mental health issues), or if children were consistently shamed when they expressed need, they may become insecurely attached.

As children lost in a woods, are fearful of the sinister darkness — and then, suddenly, hearing a sound from the sombre blackness, a familiar voice, a loving, seeking, helping voice, their mother's voice — so prayer is our reply to the voice from the Word of God in Jesus Christ which suddenly cries out to us in the mysterious, dark universe.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

Certainly a daycare center has many reasons to be fearful of enrolling a hemophilic child, and private institutions are exempt from handicap discrimination laws.

Fearful that she would again be mistreated, as having no son, she carried the dead child about upon her hip from house to house, crying, «Give me medicine for my baby.»

When I think about the trauma we're experiencing as a society right now, and our fearful, primal, and often - illogical reaction, it's pretty much the macro version of what my children go through daily.

It's common for siblings of a chronically ill child to become angry, sullen, resentful, fearful, or withdrawn.

Most parents recognize that a fearful, easily upset child isn't a happy camper, but Holinger finds that many parents don't recognize that an angry child is usually expressing sadness.

The problem will worsen if your child's teacher is fearful of talking to you about instances of bullying.

Although it was once believed that letting your baby cry it out during the night was the only way to train him or her to sleep through the night, it's now believed that doing this can raise stress levels in your child and make your little one fearful of sleep instead.

When you spank your child, he suddenly becomes fearful of you.

For the many Palo Alto parents fearful about sending their children to our high schools, Save the 2,008 offers a path to hope.

If your child is fearful of something that is real even if it's a remote possibility such as a fire or a tornado, remind them that there are smoke alarms in the house or that there are weather alerts to warn people about dangerous weather.

My children watch me and know what I am putting into my body, they know if I'm fearful when I get sick.

Second, I would like you to understand that telling your story will help other fearful mothers who may be preparing to make the same mistake and it will help save a child's life.

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Some children may be fearful of germs, or worry about wiping.

I tend to refer to this kind of parenting as fear based parenting - children learn good behavior because they are fearful of the consequences.

I was fearful as a child and terrified of doing anything wrong.

Even children born with predispositions for high noradrenaline levels and fearful responses should remain clam in stressful situations if they are with a parent they trust.

She may be overly fearful of and / or have difficulty socializing with adults or children outside her family.

It's not easy to stay calm in the face of a yucky mess, but overreacting to accidents can make your child fearful about having them, which in turn may stir up anxiety about the whole process.

Or she may be the «overly good» child, fearful lest she make a mistake and be abandoned again.

Parents today are so fearful of kids drowning, getting cancer, contracting lyme disease from a tick, being hit by a car while riding a bike, that we don't let (or MAKE) our children get out and play.

The University of Notre Dame also noted an English study by P. Heron which showed that children who never slept in their parents» bed tended to be less happy, they exhibited a greater number of tantrums, and were more fearful than children who consistently co-slept.

When you are feeling happy, sad, fearful, angry show your child appropriate ways to handle those emotions.

And even advocates of «cry - it - out» strategies of sleep training warn that such approaches are inappropriate for young babies and children who are especially fearful or anxious (France and Blampied 1999; Owens et al 1999).

If your child believes you are worried or anxious, he may become more fearful.

This technique — called story desensitization — is designed to make children less fearful by having them confront their fears in small steps (King et al 2001).