Sentences with phrase «kid about all sorts»

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nolan says he was only aware of Styles thanks to his kids, but had no idea of the sort of global appeal the singer - whose about to embark on a solo tour across the world - had with pop music fans.

Lo and behold, they started learning all sorts of interesting things about how kids decide which games are interesting and not interesting to play.

Pretty soon the likes of Einstein, Kepler, Maxwell, and Newton will have to be a fuzzy ambiguous creature of some sort so all the non-white non-Jewish kids who aren't Asian (i.e., the black kids) don't get any wrong ideas about ethnocentricity or Western cultural superiority producing such sheer conceptual and mathematical genius century after century.

Letting kids make up their minds about religion implicitly makes up their minds for them, because it teaches them that they have the sort of minds that Enlightenment rationality assumes.

We talked that day about growing up as Christians sort of the same way kids grow up — you'd never expect a five year old to act the same way as a twelve year old or as a twenty year old, but sometimes we expect our Christian lives to be quite static, and quite similar to one another.

And then, when, like most of the kids in the youth groups or Bible colleges, we found ourselves in a rather usual sort of life, surprisingly not preaching to thousands on a weeknight, we were left feeling like failures, like somehow we weren't measuring up, we weren't serving God effectively, we must have missed it because isn't our life supposed to be about doing big, successful things for God?

didn't know anything about blogging before i started a food / family one this summer (sort of been in a time freeze since 2001 having 4 kids), and i'm glad i didn't.

I'm a new mom so I by no means know it all about babies / kids and sleeping BUT I did purchase a great sleep reference book called Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child that I have found very useful so far and expect to get lots more use out of it in the future with it's easy - to - use reference section where you can find guidance sorted by age and / or specific issues you're dealing with.

Anyways, I'm sure these two teams are more excited about their rematch than I am (I'm only sort of kidding).

I'm not very used to this sort of rushing about (kids are an entirely different kind of rushing about), so all of this makes me a little nervous.

«a day in the life» is the rambling monologue of a housewife (not a million miles from myself;) juggling with household chores and sorting out the kids, answering the phone while cooking dinner and worrying about the economy — but at the end of the day when the jobs are done, you can escape from everyday worries by going for a run, a bike ride or for a swim — where you're alone to think stuff through or think of nothing at all — and certainly not about the phonebill or the mountain of ironing that needs doing.

Adding speed to the equation is clearly not a good strategy amongst the distractions, so think about pulling over to sort out your kids needs and it is better to arrive late than not at all, so think about your speed and slow down.

It seems like most families have some sort of rule about the consumption of candy, such as allowing the eating of sweets only once a week, or no more than a certain amount per day, or maybe taking an Ellyn Satter approach and giving kids free reign so long as candy - eating doesn't interfere with meals.

But I've found that this doesn't seem to affect most kids in a serious way — in fact, I suspect my kids sort of grooved on the «drama» and relished telling me about what mean Mr.. So and So had done that day.

It seems like most families have some sort of rule about the consumption of candy, such as allowing the eating of sweets only once a week, or no more than a certain amount per day, or maybe taking an Ellyn Satter approach and giving kids free reign... [Continue reading]

and I hear you about being charged for one overweight bag when you only have one bag in total and can't reasonably pack around 3 separate bags just to avoid the weight charges — we try to pack just one bag for the 3 of us and are always having to weigh it before we go... you'd think they could have some sort of «share your weight allotment with your travelling companion» if you're flying with kids...

First of all, the privileged kids that I wrote about first are, you know, sort of likely to go to schools like yours, to be in positions of authority as they grow up, policy, policy decisions.

We are talking about all sorts of Christmas activities for kids, but these are especially activity - ish.

So far I have freaked out about doubling the amount of children in our house, where the babies are going to sleep, cloth diapering, starting completely over with baby clothes instead of trying to sort through what would be usable, nursing two babies at the same time, buying a bigger house, how I'm going to drive four kids around (thank God we just replaced my husband's car in January with a full size SUV with a usable third row), traveling with four kids, what happens if my husband has to start traveling for work, getting the big kids to and from school with two babies in tow, how the big kids are going to feel once there are two new babies in the house, how I»M going to feel with two more babies in the house, and so on and so forth.

On her blog It's Not About Nutrition: The Art and Science of Teaching Kids to Eat Right, she dishes up helpful advice on dealing with all sorts of feeding dilemmas.

I'm sort of kidding about this but sort of not.

I bet half of the «negative» comments come from people who don't know much about breastfeeding and didn't have many kids... or they just forgot that kids come in all sorts of sizes:)

Teach kids about animal habitats while Sorting Animals on a Venn Diagram.

The kids (and Steve) sort - of - kind of know about these «surprise» Solstice sweaters, but they still play along with the silly element of surprise about it all.

As anyone can see, I'm doing what moms do: rushing about, trying to keep the kids content and attempting to maintain some sort of personal sanity.

Kids as young as 2 years old can begin to learn about sorting.

I LOVE making agreements with my kids — we make them for all sorts of things, It is an opportunity for the expectation to be help as a given, while the kids get to make some choices and distinction about how the expectation is met.

Cooking lets kids learn about counting and sorting concepts, which is the precursor to math skills.

Most of the follow - up questions (again, in my own experience, YMMV) tend to be about be more about the different «types» of families they know (two moms, two dads, single parents, couples without kids, etc.) and other things that sort of directly impact / involve themselves.

(I can also remember absolutely fuming because the other parents at my husband's job were telling revisionist stories about how old their kids were when they did all sorts of things.

Besides, when you sit around the dinner table 20 years down the road, what will you laugh about if the older kid doesn't throw some sort of parent - embarrassing fit or try to poke the younger kid's eyes out every five minutes?»

-- To which my husband always answers: «Yes, our kids watch it all day» — Not actually, I just finding it astonishing what folk think is okay to ask us but would nearly faint if we asked them the same sort of questions about their private lives and choices.

The other is and you are very unlikely to want do this is, is my guess but if there are groups or information about fathers and kids that, do you have special needs to see that connecting your husband with them or you going and checking them out to see what sort of group resources or information there are, because you are certainly not the first person to be on this situation.

About half of kids develop an attachment to some sort of lovey (also called a «comfort object»).

I don't have kids yet, but I've been reading a lot about the power of positivity in managing all sort of relationships.

Every parent knows what sort of body image messages are in popular media, so keep tabs on what your kids are watching, and talk to them about what you think is appropriate.

I would say just talk to them about the potty read up on babycenter about the different things to help the process along because even if they are not talking that much they still may give off many non verbal clues of having to go potty.However if they are really not ready try potty training keep a onesie on in the day time with their clothing and a blanket sleeper on at night that way they hopefully won't be able to get to the dirty diaper before you.My dd is 19 months as well and I have been training her sort of by letting her sit on the potty I have only let her use the one that goes on the big toilet but she peed in it once and she often will say she has to pee when in the bathroom but will sit and not do anything and get little pieces of tissue off the roll and push it into toilet this is her renditon of wiping even though the tissue does not really come in contact with any areas that need to be wiped I have slacked off on the training because she can not pull her pants up and down which is on the list of things kids need to be able to do to go by themseleves.Maybe just get them a few books and videos and a potty chair and talk to your dd's and see what happens you may be surpised.HTH

I think this is what has sort of screwed us, and we'll definitely be smarter about that for our next kid.

«If schools play an important role in residential segregation, then breaking that link and making it less important and sort of alleviating parents» concerns about where their kids are going to attend school would reduce income segregation,» Owens said.

You know there's this term «videophilia,» that's sort of kicking around, this idea of, you know, the more kids spend in front of electronics [of all sorts], the less connected they [are] to the lands, that they're less likely --[and] it's just, [they're not even] going outside and playing, right, [it's not like they have to go [hike] in the woods, just going outside [and playing]-- and so the less connected they are, the less they're going to care about these things.

«When I was a kid learning about science, I sort of had this assumption that all the cool stuff had already been discovered,» Trautwein says.

For you mothers out there, for you fathers out there who are competitors, who do these sorts of things, if you're always talking negatively about your physique, don't you think that your kids don't see that?

Haha, you weren't kidding about it, we seriously have some sort of outfit connection!

The sad part is the majority of kids watching this will wind up thinking Big Fat Liar invented this sort of sequence, and really, isn't that just about as bad as it gets?

A cinematic time capsule of sorts in that you're essentially watching a kid (both the character and actor playing him) grow up before your very eyes, the film has some really poignant things to say about adolescence, parenting and life in general.

Regular Show, the Cartoon Network series that was sort of a kid - friendly stoner comedy about a bird and a raccoon, just ended its run recently, and Deadline is reporting that TBS has given the greenlight to a new animated series from Regular Show creator J.G. Quintel.

Supporting Actor (I really try, but don't always succeed, to focus on the SMALLER parts that blow me away): Christina Bale — The Fighter — amazingly appealing and interesting as a real scum bag — he makes him fascinating, understandable, and sympathetic AND he does so with flair and power Andrew Garfield — Never Let Me Go — I know, I'm supposed to prefer him in Social Network, but I didn't — in fact, he sort of didn't do it for me in that film but in Never Let Me Go he was moving and had a lost, hopeless but yearning aura about him that I found very haunting Mark Ruffalo — Kids Are All Right — very joyous, very charming, very sexy, and totally believable — he made me want to sleep with him and then have a nice long heart to heart with him too!

It's sort of like Pleasantville where the kids introduce the parents into twentieth - century ideas about gender relationships, except that North Country isn't set inside a 1950s situation comedy.

Prince, as Moonee, has a sharp mouth (her defense mechanisms have been well - honed) and a maddening smile, the sort that admits guilt while also saying, «I'm a cute kid so you can't do anything about it.»

«Original» would seem the last word one should use to describe a current kids» movie about the friendship between a boy and his dragon that is both a remake and a sort of «E.T.» clone, but it is what it is.