Sentences with phrase «kind of attention span»

Not exact matches

A 100 - year flood has a 1 in 4 chance of occurring in the 30 - year span of a typical home mortgage, he said, adding that's the kind of time scale that gets people's attention.

During these two years, your little one will go from taking a few tentative steps to running, jumping, and moving with increased coordination; from using a handful of words to having a broad vocabulary (and talking up a storm); and from being able to focus for three minutes or less to having an increased attention span that opens the door to all kinds of new toddler activities.

As the parent of a newborn, you're bound to spend countless hours watching how your baby responds to you and everything around him and wondering whether his fussiness or short attention span is a foreshadowing of the kind of person he will become.

Though many different kinds of kids will do well at such a program, Ms. Raymer says play - based schools tend to be good for «the very young, the energetic and those whose attention spans are still in development.»

In my defense, I objected to this kind of demonstration before I became intimately familiar with the attention spans of young children.

Others with a shorter attention span, you might say, will be happy at hopping around and are more interested in the earlier stages of something: what are the essentials of this, and then leaving the elaboration of that to people of a different kind.

It's almost as if his attention span wasn't large enough to bring the heavier musings to any kind of fruition, or he didn't have faith that his audience would want them, but Sunshine's individual parts, particularly the mesmerizing visuals and score, aren't enough to create a sum meaningful enough to match them.

This is the kind of thing I imagine being foisted on literary readers by those who would defend flash fiction as something that appeals to the short attention span.

Older pups have a longer attention span than puppies and often thrive on this kind of one - on - one time with their owner.

Not at all the kind of thing someone with a short attention span would like.

These young guys were spanning the spectrum of this history of art production in Los Angeles, and there really was a sense of a sort of renaissance, where not only were they receiving a great amount of attention but they were simultaneously paying a kind of a homage to a certain group of artists who had not received the international attention that they deserved.