Sentences with phrase «make conversations with our children»

You venture to make conversation with your child's friend, since the silence is palpable.

Not exact matches

Here's a sample conversation you could have with your child (Notice how the questions actively encourage your child to agree with you by making positive comments about their growth!)

In response, your child will also try to carry out the conversation with adorable gurgles that'll make your day!

While it's a serious topic, keeping the conversation free from judgment or threats of punishment will make it easier for your child to discuss cigarettes with you — and even let you know if she's offered one someday.

This means not just hearing what your child says but getting involved in real conversations with her: Ask questions, make comments, keep the chat going, and give her plenty of opportunities to speak her mind.

Mobiles, wind chimes, and glitter jars are all great calming visual aids, and making your own glitter jar with your child can be a fun project that also allows you to have a conversation about calming themselves when they're already in a calmer state (A quick Pinterest search can steer you toward some great glitter jar recipes).

Also make sure children are not in listening range when telephone conversations are being held with the other parent.

Just make sure you have a conversation with your child about what constitutes respectful language so your child understands what the rule means.

Time always makes everything better, but even then, it can still take a couple of conversations with your older child or children to help them understand this new adventure.

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From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

Even if shy and clingy in the toddlers years, most children, if not pressurised to make friends, will gradually become more outgoing and able to carry on a conversation with other people.

During our wide - ranging conversation he talked about making his feature debut (he previously helmed the miniseries Top of the Lake), the challenge of casting a child actor, balancing fact and fiction, how he collaborates with his cinematographer, what he learned from test screenings, filming in India, and more.

Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

On the second day, Thursday 19, workshops will include: «Managing honest conversations with employees», delivered by Schools» Choice; «Making school meals count» by the Children's Food Trust; and «Operational Effectiveness», by Chris Hallmark of OEE Consulting.

While this is obviously a made - up conversation ~ based on my experience with gifted children ~ I am sure some of these concerns - as well as others - would come up.

On the second day, Thursday 19, workshops included: «Managing honest conversations with employees», delivered by Schools» Choice; «Making school meals count» by the Children's Food Trust; and «Operational Effectiveness», by Chris Hallmark of OEE Consulting.

We should make achievement for our children one theme in the larger composition of a life, and we need to understand our own feelings better so we can have more authentic conversations with our children about their achievements.

The conversation focuses on the Play - Doh gifts the children have made, with the teacher encouraging them to describe how they think people feel when they get a nice gift.

They will be engaged in conversations to understand and work with states as they try to make the change from where they have been to where they need to be under No Child Left Behind.

It provides a foundation for conversation with teachers about how to make sure that their child succeeds throughout their education,» says Susan Beltz, the chief technology officer at OUSD.

In this A Word conversation, he defends the importance of setting high expectations for all students, measuring to make sure that students are on track, and preparing educators with actions and interventions designed to support the success of all children.

«Once we make the decision to focus on leading children to excellence and turning around low - performing schools, we have an opportunity to change the conversation about public schools with the media and the public.»

This Measures of Success framework serves several functions: it tells a story about the systems - level work to better serve children and youth across multiple initiatives, it provides accessible information that can be used to inform cabinet - level conversations and discussions with potential partners and funders, and it can trigger conversations and collaborative action to improve capacity to use data for effective decision - making.

Research shows that there is much less adult - child interaction and conversation with e-books, so much of the read - aloud benefit is also lost, and children spend more time on «making the book work» then settling in and enjoying the experience.

Parents often have to engage in hard conversations with their children to help guide them from making poor choices.

So this year to mark Safer Internet Day, we want to help parents start a conversation with their children about technology and the choices they make when they go online.

Consequently, standing up a recruiter or client; failing to stay engaged and communicate promptly and professionally; lying or refusing to disclose mistakes you've made in your career; failing to set expectations or disclose the stage and nature conversations with other employers; or saying you'd relocate when, at the end of the day, your children would never talk to you again — that kind of behavior destroys your credibility with retained executive recruiters.

Similarly, conversations with your child about mental illness can help them make sense of their experience.

This tip sheet provides child welfare professionals with a framework for how to talk with older youth about permanency, including key considerations and suggestions for starting a conversation as well as ways to make these discussions more effective and meaningful.

Children with internalizing problems often struggle with initiating contact or conversation, talk very little and make infrequent eye contact.

Provides child welfare professionals with a framework for how to talk with older youth about permanency, including key considerations and suggestions for starting a conversation as well as ways to make these discussions more effective and meaningful.

Research supports that children who have frequent and open conversations with their parents about sex and sexuality are more likely to make healthy and responsible decisions about sex.

Pure Edge, Inc. builds partnerships with school districts, academic research institutions, and government entities to influence the national conversation around the impact of health and wellness on children to develop policies that make health and wellness an essential component of the education system.

Use Emotion Coaching and empathy in your conversations with your child, and see the differences it makes in difficult moments — experience the growth of your relationship and the deepening of both your and your child's understanding of your emotions.

Display this poster and begin conversations with your community of learners about, children's skill development and ways to support it through making curriculum decisions and developing relationships.

Educators in the first instance need to have a conversation with each other, a decision if you like, an active decision, to value families as their children's first teachers and if that is clear and understood and articulated then shared decision - making is the enactment of that commitment, and shared decision - making obviously needs to happen in various ways for different children at different times.

Children observed and had conversations with each other and adults as a way to process their knowledge and feelings and make sense of what was happening.

Thinking about tomorrow... what will you do to make time for meaningful conversations with staff, children and families?

All raw data, including but not limited to test forms, handwritten notes, scribbles in margins, records of telephone conversations, observations of parent - child interaction, observations of parent - parent interaction, consultations with other professionals, or any audio or video tapes must be saved and made available for review, if necessary.

I would have to think that this kind of therapy works best when it does not feel forced, when the parents and the children find a way to make a real connection with one another vis the play method and can begin to have a real conversation with one another with the help of the therapist as a mediator.

«The district court found that, although [court - appointed custody evaluator Mindy] Mitnick opined that the children's poor relationship with appellant was due to respondent's attempts to alienate the children from appellant, the district court had listened to tapes made by appellant of parenting exchanges and phone conversations and was not convinced that alienation was occur - ring....

Family conflict can be extremely difficult and we often handle conversations with our children and spouses in ways that do not make us proud.

Finally, having the withdrawal provision in place encourages the parties to slog through difficult conversations and issues (with the support of the collaborative professionals on the team) rather than easily giving up and punting to a judge who does not know them or their children to make an important (perhaps life - changing) decision for them.