Sentences with phrase «less power struggles»

For parents this is good news because it not only promotes healthy development it also means less tantrums, less power struggles and less whining.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

But the history of our time is no less the stage upon which the drama of salvation is played out than was the history of the fifth century B.C. or the first century A.D. Accordingly, the Christian does not doubt that God is moving with power in the world today — the world of African nationalism, thermonuclear politics, metropolitan planning, and space exploration, The Christian's problem is rather to discover when, where, and how God is moving with such decisiveness as to create a crisis of decision for the church and to summon it and its resources into the struggle.

Husbands and fathers are assumed to be dishonest and struggle to prove the contrary; less than honest affidavits and statements are regularly sworn by vengeful parties; and wives and mothers are encouraged to demand to the full the use of the very liberal and ample powers that the courts now have to oust fathers from their own homes and deprive them of any but the most minimal contact with their children.

But when I did, power struggles became less frequent and our household became more peaceful.

When your rules are clear, you'll be less likely to get into power struggles.

I used a lot of the strategies Schafer suggests and my daughter is a lot happier and there's less of a power struggle.

But once you stop playing this particular game with her, you can go back and give Satter's book a more thorough read, and introduce other strategies (proper meal and snacktime spacing, optimizing her nutrition via the few foods she eats, chilling the eff out overall, etc.) that will make mealtimes more pleasant and less of a power struggle over... well, whatever thing your toddler has decided to turn into a power struggle this week.

Parenting has become less and less about survival and power struggles and more and more about enjoying my kids.

Proportional representation often results in smaller parties enjoying disproportionate power as the big boys struggle to form a majority, and this may in turn result in less stable government.

What began, however glossily, as an ambiguity - laced power struggle between two people from separate social and sexual worlds has devolved into a far less intriguing victory lap for an exquisite couple that wants, and can afford, most of the same things — at least until the pesky matter of baby - making gets in the way.

Would she say their relationship devolved into a power struggle as Reynolds became less flirtatious, more despotic?

The other two sections are by their very basic premises — power struggles between drug lords and overmatched law enforcement, teen substance abuse — darker and hence less open to offering more standard genre satisfactions, but the performances make them instantly absorbing.

Struggle in the Shadows Harvard Gazette, 12/10/15» «They grow up watching Barney and The Power Rangers, they pledge allegiance to the flag, they lose their accent, and they become more like their peers and less like their parents,» said [Assistant Professor Roberto] Gonzales.

Q1: So, is this because, after a cetain RPM, the movement of the piston is very fast and so, it struggles to breathe the air from the environment, so in the power stroke, it is producing very less power?

Even younger and less experienced in the ways of battle are Thomas and Kate, accidentally drawn into this war between good and evil, this struggle against Demurral that brings them face - to - face with the powers of darkness in an epic battle.

So thinking back over the last couple of years as the Long Island Power Authority has struggled along with local environmental groups in New York to educate the public about the clear environmental benefits of clean energy and what could be the first offshore wind farm in the US, it seems apparent to me that if area schools had access to a program such as KidWind 15 - 20 years ago the resistance they've encountered today might well be less intense and better informed.

This was less an interview than a rigorously polite power struggle between a professional reductionist and a pluralist

But when I did, power struggles became less frequent and our household became more peaceful.

In our couples therapy practice, we work with couples to break out of the linear power struggle around being more or less rigid — about money, sex, intimacy, planning, etc. — and instead, look more creatively about how couples might coexist as two people with different relationships with rigidity and structure.