Sentences with phrase «of the hurried child»

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Think of an area in life where you tend to hurry — work, children's bedtimes, commutes, or some other obligation?

And the children, when they climbed down from the trees and hurried home, were ordered by their frightened parents never to speak of what they had seen — at school, with friends, in shops, anywhere.

«What grieved me and many others so much wasn't just the abruptness of saying we need to hurry up and get Todd Bentley back in the pulpit after he's just left his wife and three children in Canada and got married to this younger woman, it was the lack of remorse on the part of those who were involved in the process,» says Grady.

We might note that the day of Christ's birth was most definitely celebrated when it first occurred — angels singing, shepherds hurrying to see the baby... and Mary and Joseph fulfilled the law by taking the child to the Temple to give thanks, so should we not give thanks too?

And an admittedly hurried examination of several texts intended for use in courses of instruction before confirmation or in «religious studies» in schools for adolescents has made it plain that this whole set of ideas is either entirely absent or is so «muted» (to put it so) that it plays no really significant part in what children or confirmands learn as they are introduced to the Christian faith and its theological implications.

Tommy works alongside both father and mother, sharing warmth and chores and conversation; he is the opposite of the «hurried child» that David Elkind worries so about.

We're in such a rush to hurry our kids up, make them independent, move them on before they are ready that seeing a mom actually listening to her child's needs seems out of place.

«The rest of the world is giving children the message that they need to hurry up and do better; there's no getting away from that message.»

And yet we have a society that doesn't want to accept that each child has his own developmental schedule and that to hurry any of these stages results in disappointment and frustration all around.

You can feel a lot better about your child eating yogurt or applesauce when you are in a hurry instead of the convenient and often not - so - healthy crackers and cereal.

And I'm willing to bet by their teen years they will have developed other interests and won't be in too much of a hurry to breastfeed their own children right away.

In our frenetic world, where pushing children to «hurry up or fall behind» has become the norm, Waldorf Education takes the point of view that childhood is something to be savored.

Don't Start Too Early «The idea that parents should hurry reading, spelling, writing, or math ahead of children's normal development is not supported by a single replicable research study in the world or by any clinical experience in history...» - so read this to find out what you should do, when and how to start.

I know that this can be easier said than done, especially when you're in a hurry, but you will get out of the house sooner and with a calmer child if you can stay calm too.

It is not inspired to subject children to the hurrying job of running, running youngster baby strollers could still be made use of for normal strolls till your child is old ideal to preserve her head.

If you are in a hurry because you want your child trained so he can go the nursery school, you will have to put more of yourself into the effort - gently, said Flint.

One of the worst things that you could do while choosing new baby names for your child is to hurry into it, thinking that your baby is soon to be born and you don't have a name yet for him or her.

Names do not stay unusual for long, particularly if a celebrity joins the party, so parents have to keep raising the bar if they want their child to be called something that won't be forgotten in a hurry (or, from the grandparents» point of view, can't be spelt, pronounced or taken seriously!)

Anything frozen in a bag: You're in a tearing hurry and your baby just doesn't stop wailing — just bundle up some crushed ice in a piece of cloth and hand it over to your child, for instant toddler delight and teething relief.

You don't have to hurry off to see a child who might already be awake and fussy, and you won't have to wake up in a state of worry because you haven't heard anything on the baby monitor for a long time.

If you are doing all the things in front of your child in a hurried way, anxiety in child develops.

When he didn't come out, she went inside to hurry him up and found two of her children barely conscious.

Today's teenagers aren't hurrying up to grow up.The authors of a recent studypublished in the journal Child Development examined 7 large, nationally representative surveys of US adolescents between 1976 — 2016, or

Although the Thunderbirds are ably dispatched, The Hood doesn't realize that the youngest children of the fighting force, who are too immature to be part of the team, must come of age in a hurry to not only save their family, but also the world from unbridled villainy.

Hurry Sundown (1967), based on a best - selling novel, stars Michael Caine and Jane Fonda as the children of privileged Southern aristocracy trying to parlay the only thing of value they have left — the family land of a former plantation — into a new fortune.

The central conflict of writer - director Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird lies in the space where restless children want to hurry toward adulthood.

Chuck owes Larry the biggest of favors, which Larry decides to cash in when he needs to get married in a hurry to prevent his children from falling victim to a loophole that would see them left with nothing should they need beneficiaries for his life insurance, since they won't have a parent or guardian for it to be left to.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, in its 2006 report, warns of what the comment refers to as a «hurried and pressured» lifestyle cutting into children's time for free play.

To hurry through the day, to hurry through classes, grades, and a timetable of achievements is contrary to the nature of children and will do irreparable damage to their minds and souls.»

Hurry there is only two weeks left to enter Jet2holidays Ultimate School Trip competition which will give these conscientious children the educational trip of a lifetime

-- David Elkind, Professor of Child Development and author of Reinventing Childhood and The Hurried Child

While Lawrence makes things with his hands in an after - school program at the Utopia Children's House in Harlem, readers are treated with glimpses of his 1930s neighborhood: street vendors hawking wares, men playing chess and checkers, mothers hurrying to work, and more.

The most interested passers - by were children, so our story is told from the perspective of a young boy who is enchanted with the violin music, even as his harried mother tries to hurry him along.

She hurries straight to the door with the anticipation of a child at Christmas.

The man and child continued as if oblivious but they conjured each lost seed each swooping thief each wound bereft each poisoned droplet — the coming hurry of winter.

To win one, hurry and take part in their green Hallowe'en contest: send in a photo of your clever costume or homemade Hallowe'en treats, and who knows, your child may be the proud owner of an adorable new shirt.

However, other than comparing our children with those of our relatives / friends, we need to think twice because such a decision could lead to disappointment if taken in a hurry.

In a case of arson, especially when there are children involved who need to get out in a hurry, you won't want to be worried about your personal property.

Don't hurry to include yourself into one of these four large categories — you may be looking at your relationship with your child in a subjective manner.

And once you hear the laughing and crying in your house because of the little one you will KNOW that you would not have wanted to have hurried and missed your child.

My favorite book to give mothers of young children is «Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry» by Katrina Kenison.