If you understand this fact, then suddenly, you can
have a better attitude toward the change in your life while continuing to attempt to control the outcomes as much as possible — but not letting the things that are out of control upset you.
«We should be
having a better attitude toward the markets today, but people are still nervous and concerned.»
«I like to think that
I have a good attitude toward football and other players, and that I always put forth a great effort.»
Numerous studies have demonstrated that physically active students perform better in, and
have better attitudes toward, school.
Additionally, students are pleased to observe their personal growth, they tend to
have better attitudes toward their work, and they are more likely to think of themselves as writers.
Even more impressive was that students who played the game daily started to
have a better attitude toward school.
We may be overdiagnosing LD, but it is also possible that we are simply more aware of it when we see it, better able to test and assess for it, and
have better attitudes toward it, so that parents of LD children and the children themselves no longer have to try and hide it.
It seems like
you have a good attitude toward the headaches and you keep your end goal in the front of your mind.
Not exact matches
The interview format used by the Oliner team
had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as
well as parental values,
attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as
well as self - described personality characteristics;
d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment,
attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions
toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.
My wife and daughter both say I'm doing pretty
well, but I
have to admit that sometimes I slip into the status quo of the prevailing
attitudes toward girls and women and how to relate to them as
well as how to treat them.
In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western
attitudes toward nature is one of the
best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics
have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians
have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).
After the issue was decided by this public Jerusalem Conference, it
would have been
well nigh impossible for James to take the restrictive Jewish
attitude he did
toward the Christian gentiles in Antioch (Gal.
For those who hold the dialectical
attitude toward evil,
good can not exist in solitary splendour, nor is it opposed by a radically separate evil with which it
has nothing to do.
All of them alike, to the question of the
attitude of the gods
toward mankind
would have responded that while these could at times be most beneficent, their relation with man was on the whole little
better than one of indifference.
Unless a minister
has sufficient training, deep religious experience,
good common sense, and a healthy mental
attitude toward people and
toward his work, he is not likely to make much of a go of his job.
(3) We
have observed that physiological changes as
well as cultural
attitudes toward alcoholism (which regard it as a question of willpower rather than a sickness) probably contribute to the perpetuation of the addiction once it is established.
The first change Ehrenhalt identifies is a new
attitude toward choice: choice today is universally considered a
good thing; the more choices we
have, the
better.
When Eisenhower came to Washington, the Century welcomed him with praise for both his stern anti-communism and his evident piety, two qualities that
would characterize the magazine's
attitude toward domestic and foreign affairs as
well as religion and politics for some time to come.
Schubert Ogden
has written an essay on «The Strange Witness of Unbelief» (included in his book The Reality of God, SCM Press, London, 1967), in which he demonstrates how often it is the very negators of meaning whose way of life,
attitude toward others, and struggle for a «
better world» exhibit a dim yet pervasive feeling of significance in the world and in their own existence, a sense of meaning that (as Ogden argues and as I believe) is a hidden working of divine Love in their hearts.
They might
well consider whether they wish to identify with her
attitude toward death and the meaning it
has for her.
Good aging involves recognizing that every mature person
has the opportunity, as
well as the need, to decide what his / her
attitude toward death will be.
The new middle class, I
would argue,
has a number of morally positive features, especially in its
attitudes toward race and
toward ethnic or other cultural differences; it is a racially and ethnically tolerant culture, and this is
good.
At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural
attitude toward cities: although we now
have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build
well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.
Having done this, we can then ask ourselves how much of that teaching is reflected in our own decisions and deeds, as
well as in the
attitudes we take
toward others.
This is the distinguished seventh - century prophet Zephaniah, who pictured Yahweh as a kind of sinister Diogenes, holding aloft a lamp and searching out in Jerusalem all who, like coagulated wine,
have «thickened on their lees,» lost all their covenant sensibilities, and whose
attitude toward Yahweh is the ultimate denial of prophetic Yahwism «Yahweh will not do
good, nor will he do ill» (1:12).
The more we talk math, the
better chance infants and toddlers
have to build a positive
attitude toward math learning and learning in general.»
The effect of these kinds of supports on home visitors
has not been
well studied, but some research on similar interventions indicates implementation of evidence - based practices with fidelity monitoring and supportive consultation predicts lower rates of staff turnover, as
well as lower levels of staff emotional exhaustion relative to services as usual.29, 30,31 Moreover, a supportive organizational climate
has been associated with more positive
attitudes toward adoption of evidence - based programs.32
If your child
has developed a bad
attitude and is being rude and disrespectful
toward you, one of the
best things you can do is not take the bait.
Some barriers include the negative
attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as
well as health care professionals,
toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies
have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive
attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding,
has been shown to
have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.
The 72 - question survey asked for demographic information, as
well as why respondents
had marched and what they thought about government policies and public
attitudes toward science.
Norman Lederman, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, said, «It
has long been known that actual research experiences in science and mathematics impact students»
attitudes toward science and mathematics as
well as the STEM career aspirations of pre-college and college students.
The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)
have published guidance for employers aimed at helping them
better understand the implications of marijuana use on the workforce as
attitudes toward marijuana and laws restricting it continue to change.
They
have lower
attitudes toward water conservation and less confidence in their ability to adopt
good landscape irrigation practices and technologies.
Well, Superdrug
had some of the same questions, which is why they surveyed more than 2,000 people in Europe and the United States to get more insight into the human experience of sexuality and our
attitudes toward it.
Although it's not normally what a doctor
would prescribe, it appears that something as basic as cultivating a patient and understanding
attitude toward ourselves may actually make all the difference to our general
well - being.
Having a positive mindset
toward working out may even help you get
better results from your workouts According to a new study carried out by researchers at the Freiburg's Department of Sports Science, mindset and
attitude matters.
«Nothing in my situation
has changed but my
attitude toward my life
has changed for the
better.
(Sorry, but I
have a bad
attitude toward health care providers, because all I
have had over these 18 - years is Medicaid — the reason for getting
better educated and seeking law school — for
better health care as I get older.
Plummer is proud, deliberate but all too keenly aware that time is passing - not just the cultural
attitudes toward the war, politics and race, but his own time as
well as his health
has deteriorated to the point where he
has decided to retire.
Emmett, played by John Gallagher, Jr., is a goofball out of Dazed and Confused who
has kind of a blithe shrugging
attitude toward the end of the world and delivers the movie's
best line, an aside about Howard
having made a pilgrimage to Waco, Texas.
PBL Research Review: Studies
have proven that when implemented
well, project - based learning (PBL) can increase retention of content and improve students»
attitudes toward learning, among other benefits.
Students who
had experience in the project work performed
better in basic math, word problems, planning capabilities, and
attitudes toward math.
When parents get involved in their children's education, children are more likely to do
better in school, be
better behaved,
have more positive
attitudes toward school, and grow up to be more successful in life.
He further suggested that prior to establishing a community of practice, PD developers should
have well - prepared activities and support to help teachers change their beliefs and
attitudes toward technology.
Given the state of our understanding about distributed leadership, therefore, policymakers and leadership developers
would do
well to adopt a more conservative
attitude toward the concept until more evidence is developed to move the term beyond the obvious and provide a clearer understanding of its actual impact on schools and students.
Her main areas of research are
vested in the cognitive process of writing, literature - based reading, the socio - cultural aspects of literacy as
well as teachers»
attitudes toward diversity.
A 2016 report highlighted the evidence linking social and emotional skills, such as self - control, to school quality.71 Furthermore, a 2015 study found that students with parents who were highly satisfied with the school environment, including the school's disciplinary practices,
had higher levels of perseverance and
better attitudes toward school.72 As a result, research - validated culture - climate survey tools may serve as a proxy for students» social and emotional skills.
Across all groups of elementary students, evidence strongly suggests that retention policies rarely produce improved learning and often
have negative effects on learning as
well as
attitudes toward school and learning (McCoy and Reynolds, 1999; Westbury, 1994; Darling - Hammond, 1998).
It
has been found to encourage positive
attitudes toward school, increased academic performance and empathy as
well as reductions in stereotyping and aggression.
Our pasts
have been replaced many times over, and you as you might
have been able to tell by 41's
attitude toward me, those changes haven't all been for the
better.