Sentences with phrase «focused activities like»

The island has female - focused activities like Maui Surfer Girls Camp for the ladies looking to take a new sport with a group of supportive women.

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«Flow, according to Csikszentmihalyi, a psychology and management professor at Claremont Graduate University, is a state of heightened focus and immersion in activities like art, play, and work.

The workouts — which beam into your home live or on demand — focus on activities like high - intensity interval training, which includes short sprints followed by exercises on a mat.

In the meantime, we can do our part to keep our attentional focus sharp by first reducing distractions to improve our suppression capabilities, and then beefing - up the brain's enhancement functions through activities like exercise, meditation, outdoor time, and immersive video games.

«That's because the focus of NPS is on creating promoters, but stops short of engaging them to actually promote the business through activities like referrals, references, blogging or tweeting, speaking at industry events, or any of the myriad ways that passionate customers can help build businesses these days.»

Activity foods, like pistachios, are great for pacing your eating and allow you to focus on your hunger cues.

The objective is to add tactical but focussed value to the more extensive and ongoing activities of organisations like ACIAR, the universities and research organisations in Queensland.

Specific activities like focus on enhancing leadership skills of women, promoting thrift and credit groups as well as health, education and economic activities also have contributed largely to women empowerment.

The video focuses in on sophomore offensive lineman Cesar Ruiz, who makes squatting more than 400 pounds look like a leisure activity.

The capacities that develop in the earliest years may be harder to measure on tests of kindergarten readiness than abilities like number and letter recognition, but they are precisely the skills, closely related to executive functions, that researchers have recently determined to be so valuable in kindergarten and beyond: the ability to focus on a single activity for an extended period, the ability to understand and follow directions, the ability to cope with disappointment and frustration, the ability to interact capably with other students.

Enjoy your March Break with the family — and remember to check out momstown for more family - focused activities, crafts, and more — like winter activity ideas, getting a jump on Easter crafts, or using Lego for literacy building.

Combi Ferrari F1 Baby Walker model is the Best Baby Walker that is created for toddlers and its main focus is on delivering a great, racing - like activity for your baby.

It is also important to understand that children this age are processing a lot of information and new expectations, and what may look like defiance may actually be a child simply being focused on an activity, and lacking the self - regulation to pull herself away and transition to something else.

Your sweet 12 year old daughter his now starting to have tantrums like a 2 year old, be a drama queen, and self - centered, as well as focused on her friends and activities.

Best baby walker: This Ferrari model is one of the Best Baby Walker created for baby boys and its main focus is to deliver a great, racing - like activity for your baby.

Parents report having a laser - like focus across a wide range of activities, unlike their childless peers, according to a poll by CreditDonkey.com.

We try to focus on activities more than products, but this product seems like such a good idea, it could help you avoid a daily activity: cleaning pacifiers.

My son doesn't like to do a lot of crafts or activities that require lots of fine motor control and focus.

We have been on focusing on all kinds of ocean themed activities for kids the past few weeks (like our Rocky Shore Small World with Ocean Playdough, our Fine Motor Octopus Craft and our Free Printable Beach Scavenger Hunt).

Military training is more focused on things like shooting, which is rarely required in law enforcement activities.

Which is why Gavin Barwell, the PM's chief of staff, is laser - like focused on activity that it's hard for Labour to oppose in the Division Lobby.

«The one thing trade unions do through their activities is give Labour that focus on what's happening in the workplace, when we're listened to, on things like the minimum wage.

George Bray, who heads the clinical obesity and metabolism department at Louisiana State University, says environment and behavior — like lack of access to exercise facilities and overeating — so strongly affect gene activity that you can not focus on one while ignoring the other.

Previous work on silent synapse - based NAc remodeling has focused on addiction paradigms where animals learn to associate an activity, like pressing a lever or poking their nose into a hole, with receiving drugs.

On the other hand, if you have indeed made up your mind that teaching is in your blood and are convinced that you would like to focus most of your time on this activity, then I urge you to consider the HBCU route.

Plus, it's a good way to release tension in the hips — something many of us have developed from focusing on forward - motion activities like walking and running.

Once you sit down (and you should never eat while standing or doing another activity like driving), take a deep breath and focus on your upcoming meal.

The focus of the study was on aspects like physical activity, hormone replacement therapy, consumption of alcohol and being overweight.

Yin is more inwardly focused, with activities like yoga, Kinesis and Pilates, while yang is more outwardly focused (advisable if your goal is kickstarting weight loss), with more energetic activities and optional gym sessions.

They like the convenience of grabbing on the go, especially when we're running around to different extracurricular activities during the day or have homework where they really need to stay focused.

We try to focus on activities and experiences rather than stuff so our rewards were activities, but you could also create a system like you'd find with tickets at an arcade and allow the kids to turn in points for physical rewards too.

So, say you're focusing on lower body training; you'll want to perform dynamic movements like walking lunges, leg swings, butt kicks, and lateral lunges, combined with dynamic stretches like the plantar flexor stretch and a light aerobic activity.

Mind - body exercise like Pilates is activity that keys on the mental focus of the physical movements being performed.

When doing an activity like this, I would focus on pure protein and fat.

So I recommend that one to two times per month, you go do something long, like a backpack hike, a big bike ride, a Bikram yoga session, or anything else that combines low - to - moderate physical activity intensities, endurance, and mental focus.

Wondering what nutrition your body needs when your focus is on endurance activities like running or cycling?

I like to focus on activities that help get us off to a good start, keep our energy going throughout the day, and then help us wind down at night.

I'm taking a break from work to focus on raising my boys and pursue creative activities like this one.

Not like the usual dating platforms, Senior Match's focused service is meant for over 50 senior singles who are searching for their travel companions, activity partners, and dream lovers.

These events could be deals from Groupon or events from sites like Living Social, Eventbrite and Meetup, with a focus on «free or close to free activities».

In light of the report, the Sutton Trust has recommended that schools provide a «broad array of life skills within regular lessons and through extra-curricular activities like debating and volunteering» and that there should be a focus on increasing participation from those less well - off.

For example, practices like the inclusion of information about Roma in the history manuals can lead to a decrease of exclusionism, but could also lead to an increase of segregationism and it is therefore important that they are accompanied by activities focused on dialogue, interaction and human rights based approaches.

Many of the activities focus on health issues, like water and sanitation, diarrheal disease and preventing accidents, but Child - to - Child has also been successful in meeting the social and emotional needs of children such as addressing the prevalence of psychological problems including PTSD.

In this sense, projects like Educação: Conquista Coletiva (Education: Collective Conquest) developed by FEAC, has supported public schools that wish to develop activities focused on music and the arts.

Because, we as leaders have to be conscious that our own leaders can get subsumed in the business and activity of schools and they actually need time... it's like cognitive space, to simply focus on one thing, otherwise they never get to it.

She's also put money — she and her husband have put money into right - wing groups like Focus on the Family, which believes in conversion therapy and sponsors anti-gay activities and legislation.

Many students enjoy learning through dramatic activities like acting out a story that they've read, or creating monologues by historical characters, but students may lack the skills of cooperation, collaboration, focus and self - control that drama requires.

Over recent weeks the focus of this blog has been on parental right and the importance of opting out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test, but that issue is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the unprecedented activities of the Corporate Education Reform Industry and their supporters like Governor Dannel Malloy.

Like the Bill & Melinda Gates and Walton Family Foundations, funding tends to focus on particular issues, and funded activities tend more toward innovation and disruption of the status quo — an approach termed «venture philanthropy» in a nod to the notion of the business sector's venture capitalism and the application of related business principles to philanthropy.

When children are already comfortable with a book's storyline and have a good understanding of it, I like to focus on writing activities that use the text.