Sentences with phrase «increasingly independent child»

Your cuddly little crying (and eating and pooping) machine of the past year is finally a toddler, but getting your increasingly independent child to potty - train, behave in public, and actually like vegetables is no small feat.

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Parents» control over their children is increasingly challenged as the young people become more independent, rely increasingly on their peers, and often rebel openly.

Those two simple questions will help the two of you maintain a sense of closeness — as well as provide a window into your child's increasingly independent life.

Around others Acknowledge the importance of your child's increasingly independent relationships.

Following are some smart strategies to try: At home Acknowledge the importance of your child's increasingly independent relationships.

In fact, as your child becomes increasingly independent, you will likely also notice that she will be more inclined to assert herself.

Your child will also be increasingly more independent of you by now.

As your child moves through the elementary school years, he'll become increasingly independent and show an even greater comfort level with separating from you and your partner for sleepovers, visits with grandparents, and out - of - town field trips.

While watching your child grow increasingly independent can be bittersweet, learning to take care of himself is an important part of your child's personal and social development.

Nigerian troops have won back territory from Boko Haram, but in response the jihadists have increasingly resorted to suicide bombers — many of them young children — to wage war for an independent Islamic state.

ALBANY, NY (05/12/2011)(readMedia)-- As unions around the country are increasingly under attack, more than 250 independent child care business owners who belong to VOICE / CSEA, Local 100A, have a very different perspective on the importance of organizing a union.

Even as robots are increasingly able to drive our cars, clean our homes and help us care for our children — the goal for three researchers focused on the elderly is to design robots and cyber systems that do not do tasks for people, but instead keep the elderly active, safe and independent.

Wells points to how children become increasingly dependent on the aid of parental figures and that this is limiting their abilities to be independent thinkers.

As an experienced teacher in private schools, I have seen what a positive impact sport can have on young children, yet as a parent of two in state education, I am flummoxed by the red tape that seems to be denying the chance for independent schools to offer the outreach so badly needed in a society increasingly polarised between the haves and the have - nots.

Calvert's 6th Grade homeschool curriculum helps your child become an increasingly independent learner as the Middle School years begin.

Children between the ages of 13 - 18 are going through the process of becoming increasingly more independent of their parents.

Regarding the child, the importance of the intrauterine and early postnatal environments for metabolic programming and modifications of the epigenome is increasingly recognised, 12 — 14 particularly for metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes.15 Thus, GDM is related to macrosomia at birth (> 4 kg), to excess body fat and (central) obesity and to insulin secretion in infants and children, the obesity being in part mediated by maternal body mass index (BMI) or birth weight.16 — 23 Intrauterine exposure to GDM also doubles the risk for subsequent type 2 diabetes in offspring compared with offspring of mothers with a high genetic predisposition for type 2 diabetes, but with normal glucose tolerance during the index pregnancy.24 Maternal prepregnancy overweight and excessive gestational weight gain also predict high birth weight and adiposity during infancy.12 25 This is highly relevant, as up to 60 % — 70 % of women with GDM are overweight or obese before pregnancy.26 Finally, maternal lifestyle behaviour such as a high fat diet or lack of physical activity during pregnancy can influence offspring adiposity independent of maternal obesity.12 27

One possible mechanism may be that obligations associated with having more strains related to child care - taking may act as a barrier towards leaving the relationship during the early parenting years, but a long term association with low relationship satisfaction may eventually end in dissolution when the children become increasingly independent and the commitment towards them are decreasing.

I took a picture of that message to remind myself that although my children are becoming increasingly independent, they still need me to be present in their lives.