Sentences with phrase «kids lose interest»

If you feel overwhelmed by the quantity, a great approach is to put most of the toys away and rotate through them as your kids lose interest.

Every year, thousands of rabbits are purchased as Easter gifts for children, only to end up neglected or abandoned days, weeks and months later after kids lose interest and parents realize the bunny is a lot more work than they thought.

Ages: Toddler and up Sounds obvious, but any parent who's sifted through the toy box just after the holidays knows how quickly kids lose interest in their toys.

Before long, however, Carol's kids lost interest in church school and the youth group to which few of their best friends belonged.

My kids lost interest, even though I still would happily eat one!

The kids lost interest as Hubby and I looked over the schedules for the coming weeks, but we got their attention when we mentioned only three weeks of preschool before summer break and swimming lessons.

Not exact matches

As those kids grow older, they lose interest and move on to new programs.

I can watch the practice and see none of the kids trying hard, none of them are interested... I can predict that we will lose our next game, and likely be correct based on past performance... but through shear luck, they might just win one, so predicting the future?

When both pizzas were ready I had completely lost interest in that cheese pie that I originally craved (kids loved that one though).

We were tripping over each other to get tasks completed, and the kids quickly lost interest in what we were doing.

I have also noticed that my kids quickly lose interest in the «one - hit - wonder» electronic toys, but they return repeatedly to the toys that grow with them, let them make up their own rules, and use their imaginations.

We have a very nice swingset, and it serves to entertain the kids for about fifteen minutes before they lose interest and want something new.

But in any case a woman is not going to say, «go away kid I'm not interested in the fact that you're lost and you need help.»

For school - age kids, this is usually evident when their grades drop or they lose interest in activities.

Most kids that age will lose interest if you push it further.

Sometimes parents lose sight of the small details like what's in the best interest of their kid.

But, studies show again and again that kids who are praised for their behaviors tend to become more hesitant and unsure of themselves, less interested in trying new things, and worse, they actually lose interest in the activity they were previously praised for - once the praise stops coming.

Rather than getting a bunch of big toys that the kids will lose interest in within a day, we selected toys that have lots of a ways to play and didn't take up a lot of space.

All my kids were BF for years, and boy was I sad when the last one lost interest.

Worse yet is the gateway effect: Kids who develop a taste for chocolate milk tend to lose interest in the plain stuff, progressing to harder drugs such as Yoo - hoo, Pepsi and Red Bull.

«If it is too easy, the kids will lose interest right away, so make sure it is a challenge,» Saunders says.

Kids will usually pass the toy on in their own time, or lose interest and walk away.

Quite often people lose their friends in a number of ways, including moving to other cities, changing priorities and interests, getting married and having kids.

But the subject of real interest here - how a kid might come to terms with authority even if his boarding school weren't taken over by Colombian terrorists - gets lost in the showdown.

I never played as a kid and while I get excited to go to games now I tend to lose interest rapidly once sitting in the stands.

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!

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Then the education can be tailored to the individual students» needs, and the students may take the time they need to learn a particular topic, instead of forcing all kids to the pace of the mean (slowing quick students who may lose interest and going faster than some students can handle).

Because Tim O'Reilly may have been kidding us all along or he might have lost heart or interest somewhere along the way.

But out of fear of losing revenue to people who aren't going to ever buy anything, publishers have put themselves in the interesting and losing position of making authors» works almost completely inaccessible — like closing the ice cream store and shutting out thousands of potential paying customers, just because one kid stole a sugar cone.

After you do this a couple of times, you'll probably notice that if you just allow it to be there, it'll lose interest pretty quickly, kind of like a kid having a tantrum, while you're just waiting patiently until it's over.

[00:04:58] KP: Yeah, I think I've mentioned a program before the interesting reaction I get, when I teach personal finance and we talk about stocks and that in my course, the kids go home, they talk to their parents and the parents go, «What is he doing telling you get into stocks, everyone lost their retirement!»

An adult in the house needs to be willing to take responsibility for the dog (for the next 12 - 15 years) long after the kids may have lost interest of moved out.

With scenery this beautiful and so many interesting ways to get active, the kids will quickly lose interest in their screens and embrace this mountain winter - wonderland.

Either way, by time the board is laid out the kids may potentially already have lost interest already.

As a kid, I always lost interest in things very quickly, especially when the going got tough.

Maybe it only fooled a few parents into buying it for their kids, but once you lost interest in the two -LRB-!)

It's easy to get lost in your local art store, pacing the isles, looking for some new exciting medium that will keep your kids interested.

One of the group's most interesting arguments is that kids have more to lose when it comes to global warming than adults do — because they will live longer.

The money quote by one Alfie Kohn, author of Punished by Rewards is «The more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in what they are doing to get the reward... Paying kids for grades is a reward for a reward — it doubles the damage.

Whether you have several kids in Bloomfield Hills schools, or your spouse just lost her job as an auto plant executive, and you need to recalibrate how to pay for your health insurance, this essay can provide some basic strategic guidance as well as interesting ideas to help you save.

I spend the least possible time with the smart phones (Unlike my kids who feel my advise is from a 45 year old man who has lost all interest in world)

There are some interesting features like find my phone (track the phone in case its lost / misplaced), Hindi keyboard option, Kid's corner (give access to certain apps and kids can have their own screen) and smart shoot.

When you're married and kids are on the scene, your hobbies and interests often get put on the back burner, and you can begin to lose a sense of who you are without this other person.

In litigation, the best interests of your children sometimes get lost in the battle, as kids become the prize to win or lose.

Kids often lose interest quickly and shift their attention to the next thing that captures their imaginations.