Sentences with phrase «normal family»

But recent improvements in splash - safe finishes, impact resistance and scratch protection mean it will easily cope with the wear and tear of normal family life.

The agency works to keep families together in order to promote development of normal family relationships.

, Normal family processes: Growing diversity and complexity, 4th ed.

There are many «picture perfect» families that are really just normal families with basic problems.

Pictures on the wall and normal family activity are naturally fascinating.

Let's use my seemingly normal family as an example.

One must be aware of how much one's practice is influenced by one's personal ideas about normal family functioning and activities that are age - appropriate.

Often, contractors work inside a client's home, disrupting normal family life.

The definitive dysfunctional family (which is really just a polite way of saying normal family these days) holiday movie.

I love the fact that she's from an entirely normal family, not noble in the least.

Violence and the threat of violence at home creates fear and can destroy normal family functioning.

Depending on which member of the family unit is experiencing difficulties, it can nearly bring normal family life to a grinding halt.

I am lucky there's a similar dynamic in my new normal family too.

Its aim is to keep children as close to normal family life as possible and to restore them to the point where they can take their place there.

Anderson, S., Piantanida, M., & Anderson, C. «Normal Processes in Adoptive Families», in Normal Family Processes, 2nd Edition.

I am a nice respectful, caring, faithful happy, normal family man... not perfect but then no one is... seeking my new love here... a faithful girl to share my life with a honest caring relationship leading to more in time... children are most welcome and age / status is not important but loving hea...

Adapted from Normal Family Processes: Growing Diversity and Complexity, Fourth Edition By Froma Walsh PhD MSW

For those who haven't been keeping up with movies for the past decade - plus, The Incredibles follows the adventures of the Parrs, a seemingly normal family who happen to have superpowers.

A recent Washington Post story details how these technologies are potentially distorting normal family relations.

The Lusko family — now a family of five, with three daughters: Alivia, Lenya and Daisy — sat around wrapping Christmas gifts and otherwise doing normal family stuff.

-LSB-...] know it was luck that I won the Hallmark giveaway at therhouse, but it couldn't be more perfect for the Beyond Normal family.

In cases of «institutional autism,» those children would be later diagnosed with «real» autism or, more often, their behavior would gradually morph into normal family - oriented and acceptable patterns (see my article Institutional autism in children adopted internationally: myth or reality?).

Tough working dogs, they're hardwired to herd things by poking, barking, nudging, and nipping, and this can intrude on normal family life.

Children of the palace: These include runaways, abused, alienated children from deprived and poverty stricken families who are unable to maintain normal family units.

Minuchin's stress on the importance of the flexibility of structural relationships within normal families was borne out by a study of Lewis et al. (1976) in Texas, where effective family functioning was associated with an adaptive flexibility of the structure.

Unfortunately, they recognize their marriage is over, but Melissa and David want to part as friends and remain as normal a family unit as possible for their children.

While Brent saw these challenges as normal family challenges, there was much more going on under the surface of these issues.

is the founder of I.N.F.O. for Families, a ministry designed to help «Imperfect & Normal Families Only.»

Yet even as Moon interrupts normal family relations and appropriates the authority of parents, church literature refers to family values, clearly referring not to the church family but to the traditional nuclear family.

Thereafter breastmilk or normal family milk can be given.

Food should get gradually lumpier until they're eating normal family food by 17 - 18 months.

God bless New York when prisoners get college educations for free and normal families cripple their own financial stability in hopes to send their children to school at a college level.

Respondents who were brought up in normal families managed to have a happy family, unlike the volunteers with a difficult childhood.

The Parrs are prone to normal family squabbles, but the children's special abilities add another level of complications.

Instead, the film's most touching moments stem from unprovoked moments of intimacy between Gaga and her shockingly normal family.

Dogs that have realized that they are restricted to the length and entanglement of a chain usually become sedentary and listless while on their chain with intermittent bouts of barking out of frustration and boredom... These same dogs are reported to be uncontrollable in normal family situations.

Oddly, the Guggenheim's one glimpse at a relatively normal family comes from a male, Thomas Struth.

In the article entitled We're in touch with everyday life, says the cycling judge, Lord Philips, who bikes to work [there's a lovely photo of him on his bicycle, helmet and all], explains that many of his colleagues «travel on buses and Tubes and bicycles; we push trolleys around supermarkets; we have normal family concerns and commitments and neither are judges immune from the impact of crime».

Sure, you want to discuss the children's needs, your parents» vacation plans, and other normal family topics, but make sure that you and your spouse have more - interesting discussions from time to time.

Nobody designing a system for resolving divorce related legal issues arising during normal family restructuring would design the one we've got.»

Real homes with real people and ideas that most normal families can afford and make reality is exactly what everyone needs:)

I didn't think about the people living there, normal families with dreams and hopes, living during this terrible time just trying to exist, find love and take care of their own.

He reports that his parents» home «turned out to be a profoundly healing place» for his son and him, providing «the rhythms and routines of normal family life.

It's not like in normal families where you sit down and have conversations.»

His practice of hypnotism to treat his patients is chortled at by students (the board is none too pleased either) but Gamble is under strict instructions to quit the habit because her disapproving boyfriend, a sort of nervous and bespectacled version of William F. Buckley, wants her to appear as normal as possible to his highly respectable, conservative, very normal family.

Normal Family Processes, 2nd Edition.

Rather, it is frequent and aggressive arguments or those that disrupt normal family functioning that have traumatic effects on kids, explains psychologist Suzanne Phillips on PBS's «This Emotional Life.»

Asked why they're so giddy about going after a seemingly normal family, one of the villains sums up their entire ethos in two chilling words: «Why not?»

See, Ricki left her family to chase her music dream, leaving Kline and his second wife Maureen to provide a sense of normal family life.