Sentences with phrase «like teaching our children»

It's like teaching children a lesson on the importance of not smoking, and then handing out ashtrays and lighters to the kids who did the best job listening.»
As parents, we know the importance of parenting from our principles, things like teaching our children to own up to their actions and face the fallout when they make poor choices.
It's kind of like teaching children to cross the road safely, and then claiming that's teaching citizenship.
It's like teaching your child to play hockey by buying him a cool stick rather than showing him how to pass, shoot and backcheck.
Certain challenges still remain, according to the study's findings, like teaching children to cope with pet loss, the cost of ownership for teachers, and responsibility for the animal when school is not in session.
Dogs are family and training is like teaching our children manners.
He liked teaching children, feeling that their pure unfiltered responses to their art helped him to capture the essence of emotion and form in his own work.
Just like teaching a child to ride a bike or cross the road, digital resilience is another way to highlight the need to help children cope with whatever the online world throws at them.

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Out of that drive for answers came the idea for Scherf's 12 - year - old company, PrioHealth, and a program called MeMoves, which uses music, patterns and movement to help teach children and adults like Rowan to calm their nerves and make connections.
You're based in Chicago, and you have a bold mission of teaching a billion children worldwide, so what does the rollout look like in your mind?
As for teaching growth mindsets, writer Angie Aker summarized Dweck's work and put it like this on Upworthy: «Praise your child explicitly for how capable they are of learning rather than telling them how smart they are.»
CEO Eugene Izhikevich says teaching robots enabled with Brain Corp.'s AI technology «is like teaching an animal or teaching a child by giving instructions, but very instinctive, very intuitive.»
That's just common sense, of course — you don't need to be an accomplished dog - cognition researcher like Horowitz to realize that children should be taught limits when it comes to the family dog (or cat, or bird, or whatever).
For me, it was a like a real eye opener, right from how it's very important to have a Financial Plan and have an objective for investing, to Goals, having Patience and confidence on your stocks, when is the right time to invest, valuations, how and why small investors should invest, how to not let your judgment be clouded by others, teaching investment as an ART to our children, and how to avoid the pitfalls of investing.
Scott I agree with you there are «christians» like myself who preach and teach the truth and try to restore the good name of a child of god
@Jake — that sounds like a better thing to teach our children, right?
There are very public examples, like Neo-nazi parents that teach their children to hate.
It is an important issue and if you look around, the fanatics are the ones who put their faith in theories like evolution and they are forcing themselves on every aspect of life and Bill said it himself, he wants your child taught evolution and the evolutionist will fight to indoctinate every child.
They try to force their religious ideas on everyone else through legislation, like trying to force children to pray to the Christian god in school, force the teaching of creationism nonsense in the schools and denying a woman's right to choose.
Unfortunately, there are many others like him in the uneducated pockets of our country who actually want his fantasies taught to our children instead of real science.
Instead, why don't you teach your children to study hard and get a good education at a «real» college where they can learn «real» subjects like biology and astrophysics, instead of relying on a priest or a minister to teach them that mythical being created man and the universe?
Sad when people want lies like a «young earth» and that «evolution is a myth» or that «some god caused» the big bang taught to their children in their schools, paid for by their tax dollars.
The goal with race, we've been taught, is to «not see color,» to treat everyone exactly the same, to avoid the topic altogether like it's the imaginary lava in a children's game.
Lord God, my dignity as a man forbids me to shut my eyes to this, like an animal or a child; therefore, lest I succumb to the temptation to curse the universe, and the Maker of the universe, teach me to adore it by seeing you hidden within it.
Reacting to the findings, Rev Dr Sandra Millar, head of life events at the Church of England told Premier: It can feel like the pressure to do something material for them [children] is overwhelming but actually, in the long - term, when we look back at our parents, what we remember about our mums are those values [they taught].»
There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.
I teach my children to never get in a relationship like that.
Indeed, it is You who is Knower of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»
I like Bill Nye's science shows but he can not decide what everyone else should teach their children any more then they can tell him what to teach his children.
He just sounds like a cruel dictator, more concerned with the teaching than the child he used and abused for the lesson.
Think about it like this, do you have to teach your children to lie, to steal, to hit other kids?
Doomsdayers aren't hurting Christianity, Mr Jeffres, as much as people like you are; you stole books from the Wichita Falls public library because they were trying to teach the children of gay people that their parents might be normal, loving human beings, and you accompanied it with a media campaign that raised $ 1 million that same year for your church through bigoted, close - minded sermons.
While it is true that knowledge is learned and therefore a child is not aware of the construct of God, atheism is a belief that is learned or taught just like any other belief.
I think its bad for children to teach them that anything imaginary is real if you believe in it hard enough, that's why Christianity is like Santa clause for grown - ups.
I personally like Mr. Nye, but to say that for the sake of scientific progress, creationism should never be taught to children is a misjudgement on his part.
I teach my children to treat others the way they would like to be treated.
You mean like when a parent who knows their teenager real well and would know what the outcome would be if their child makes certain bad choices, but decides not to stop the teenager from making those choices, perhaps as means to teach that teenager a lesson.
I would like you theists to just ONCE use your idea of teaching children the «stengths and weaknesses» of something and apply it to your religions.
Our children are taught less and less actual history because too many special interest groups (like some Christians) want their version of history taught.
If the people like those whose posts we read here, are the ones whose views, teachings and counsel our children will inherit, what will their destiny end up to be?
Then there are the dangerous questions that challenge the tradition itself, like why can't women teach men, why can't I teach your children in Sunday school if I'm not straight, what's this head of the household crap, why can't we have marriage equality, why is the church so myopic, and isn't it possible that the whole human race is connected and one and that there is no separation illustrated by the ancient paradigm of heaven and hell.
How about things like taking better care of the environment, advancing medicine, teaching children to be kind to other people and animals, and so forth?
If you want to educate the citizens about Islamic culture, perhaps you could use these days as teaching tools and head down to the schools and clear up some misconceptions people have — like the Jewish parents and Islamic parents did when I was a child.
But there is a further point: the maxim «Like father, like child» holds good here, and it is in the application of this principle that we can recognize an emphasis which is characteristic of the teaching of JeLike father, like child» holds good here, and it is in the application of this principle that we can recognize an emphasis which is characteristic of the teaching of Jelike child» holds good here, and it is in the application of this principle that we can recognize an emphasis which is characteristic of the teaching of Jesus.
As a small project, why not photocopy those words from the Catechism, and send the copy to your Member of Parliament with a brief note, saying that this is the message that you will be teaching the children in your Confirmation group / parish youth group / RE class and you would like an assurance that it is not against the law to do so?
Paintings of bible scenes on church interiors functioned like a children's picture bible; they taught the scenes of biblical and church history.
The Holy Spirit is simply the spirit of God, near to us and speaking to our hearts to teach us well and comfort us, much like a good mother cares for her children.
It was difficult as a child to understand that the people around me didn't like my parents and were teaching their children, my friends, to also dislike them on the basis of «church stuff» that I didn't understand yet.
Although I have never like recited preyars like that, it doesn't teach children to pray, it teaches them a ritual that can very quickly lose it's meaning.
I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...
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