Sentences with phrase «instead engage their children»

Experts advise parents not to avoid difficult topics, but instead engage their children to help them make sense of scary events.

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Instead, it comes from connecting with the world and getting away from yourself, as when you enjoy time with friends, family, and children, are engaged at work, or do all - absorbing tasks such as art, writing, crafts, athletics, or helping others.»

Those believers who are engaged in willful habitual sin run the risk of becoming children of the devil instead of children of God, thus severing their relationship with God and «eternal» life itself.

Instead, teachers engage in detailed parent conferences and write extensive reports on each child's progress.

Instead of teaching your children that technology is «all bad» or «all great», show them that it is possible to engage with electronics in moderation.

Engaging children's hearts in the wonder of reading instead of just training their minds in its mechanics.

She's learning to cooperate with other children and play with them, instead of engaging in the parallel play that dominated interactions until now.

Instead, a child engaged in this type of play tends to stay in one place and often makes seemingly random movements or gestures.

In fact, the law is clear that we will not clog the courts with charges against parents who swat a child's backside but the law is still giving parents permission to engage in a negative form of child punishment instead of positive discipline.

Instead, focus on keeping literacy activities fun and engaging, and enjoy the few pages your children will read.

So how do we engage our children's hearts in the wonder of reading instead of just training their minds in its mechanics?

Instead, think of the meal as an opportunity to be engaged with your children.

Instead, research and studies have found that co-sleeping and bed - sharing give children the capacity to fully engage with others, develop problem solving skills that children who sleep alone may not possess, and that human development is too complex to link with one particular idea or notion, whether it's bed - sharing or sleeping alone.

The parents» complaint against the government's primary curriculum is that children find it «crashingly dull», urging teachers instead to teach «stuff that actually interests and engages children».

Parents who directly and actively engage their children in healthy living behaviour — instead of passively «supporting» the behaviour — are significantly more likely to see their kids meet Canadian guidelines when it comes to physical activity, healthy eating and screen time, new research from Public Health Ontario (PHO) has found.

If your baby isn't so tiny anymore and lifting them up is too intense, try this pose instead of Chair Pose to build your arm strength and engage your child at the same time.

And since putting the emphasis on test scores, instead of on educating children, overwhelms schooldays with memorizing and boredom, the efforts that go into improving poor children's test scores necessarily take away from efforts to provide them with a demanding and engaging and worthy education.

Instead, school may start to look more like a community hub, where children can come and go depending on their learning needs, their families» needs, and the mix of in - school and out - of - school learning experiences they are engaged in at a given time.

The snapshots do not rank or grade states but instead provide data points aligned with each of the five whole child tenets — which contend that each student must be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged — so that each state can measure its individual progress and compare its successes and challenges to the other states and to the nation as a whole.

For example, in 2011, AFT engaged the NAACP, now on the union's payroll, to file a lawsuit to keep some children in Harlem in their failing traditional public schools, instead of allowing them to attend nearby superior (non-unionized) charter schools.

But the federal initiatives around education seldom take such a holistic approach; instead, competing departments engage in bureaucratic turf wars that, while fun within the Beltway, are tragic for children in our neighborhoods.

Forcing children to engage in age - inappropriate tasks in preschool instead of play creates a stressful environment that undermines learning and social development.

Getting back to liberty instead of death, which would also make a good slogan, I made a poor impression upon all of my children who eventually became more and more engaged in the political process.

It teaches parents who can not effectively co-parent to instead engage in parallel parenting, or a disengagement from one another while keeping a positive focus on the children.

He is asking them to engage in parent / child time instead of husband / wife.

Children who engage in externalising behaviours experience difficulty maintaining the ability to self - regulate their feelings and behaviours and tend to react instead by doing things like hitting, screaming or crying uncontrollably.

Instead, as children develop, they purposefully engage in a variety and an increasing number of relationships, actively shaping their social environment by selecting the significant individuals to include within their social networks (Cauce, 1986).

Meanwhile Lily, who was looking unhappy because her son was busy trying to get a computer to work instead of engaging with her, began to smile because Tasha's child was crawling up to her.

Instead, therapists need to work with the children in the settings where these difficulties occur — that is, in groups of peers engaging in age - appropriate recreational activities such as organized sports.

Play therapy games should engage your child on their own terms, instead of demanding that they conform to yours.

Sometimes, a child isn't focused because they're zoning out; instead, they're focused because they're engaged.

Instead, validate the fear and then engage your child in finding a solution or developing a plan on how they overcome it and empower themselves, Mellenthin suggests.

Because play allows children to relate through something other than the confusing terrain of adult language, and instead engage in a mode of being that they've already mastered, family therapists could be more effective if they added it to their repertoires.

You want to «save your energy and breath,» instead of engaging in nonproductive dialogues with your child.

For healthy parent - child relationships and adolescents» psychological well - being, it is advised not to use guilt - induction, but instead to engage in more autonomy - supportive practices.