Sentences with phrase «of listening to kid»

A longtime elementary school teacher, Jack is trained in the art of listening to kid - driven ideas.

Just because you find yourself spending more time behind the wheel with your child doesn't mean you're doomed to a decade or more of listening to kids» music.

Not exact matches

Parents of the new crop of digital natives are struggling to manage what their children watch, listen to and play, creating strong demand for better tools to regulate how much time and money children spend online — and giving developers whose apps have robust controls an edge in the hyper - competitive business of digital entertainment for kids.

My kid already uses Siri to send most of his texts and emails (except when he's in school; there he still uses the «hands under the desk while pretending to listen attentively» move perfected by students everywhere.)

Meanwhile, that kid in the storage unit constructing bag after bag of swag for an upcoming conference has got the right idea: he has his earbuds in and is listening to tunes as he racks up his hours, inching ever nearer a goal of 9,000 — 15 gift bags an hour.

Reading a typical biotech press release is kind of like listening to a sugar - high kid gush about the latest superhero blockbuster.

«President Trump, I think that it is really important that you listen to us because we are your constituents, you are working for us and kids are dead,» Sofie Whitney, a survivor of last week's shooting, said on CNN's «The Lead» with Jake Tapper.

After the morning tech workshops, the kids and their parents will come together for lunch and ice cream, and listen to some words of wisdom from Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff and Code.org founder Hadi Partovi.

I've been known to sit on the lawn in the sun and make doctor appointments, and I listen to fun audiobooks while driving to pick up kids and while cleaning the house (I just listened to A Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes and I highly recommend it).

When I was 7 years old, my dad used to listen to a CD with me called For Our Children, which was a compilation of kids music performed by Bob...

Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

In fact, I remember when I was a kid and listening to our pastor basically justify abuse of wife & kids at the father's hands because the bible says the family must be obedient to the father (and it does say that about the obedience part).

God is an adult version of any kid's imaginary friend so let's not get carried away by complex meanings here; it was just a bunch of ignorant people listening to a great movie director rambling for 12 minutes.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

I remember listening to some of the kids talking about their writing groups and poetry troupes and saying, «If it wasn't for this group, I don't know if I would've survived.»

«I still feel disgusted with myself for letting some punk kid in a pizza shop and a police officer who couldn't take a second to listen rob my friends and me of our dignity that day.

You have more time on sunday to play with your kids and go to the park or go to a market or work at the food pantry — all kinds of things you can do instead of keeping your mind weak and talking to make - believe people in your head and listening to really boring music.

What if I told HIS kids what kind of car to drive or what kind of music to listen to...??? Of course, then he'd get all puffed up and angry and would tell me to leave HIS children alonof car to drive or what kind of music to listen to...??? Of course, then he'd get all puffed up and angry and would tell me to leave HIS children alonof music to listen to...??? Of course, then he'd get all puffed up and angry and would tell me to leave HIS children alonOf course, then he'd get all puffed up and angry and would tell me to leave HIS children alone.

We must accentuate the positive of high art, telling our students and kids and friends not «The music and movies you consume are junk,» but «Today, let's try The Magnificent Ambersons, not Breaking Bad,» or «Let's listen to Mahler's Fifth, not Classic Rock — just for a change.»

Again, he uses another intentionally loaded turn - of - phrase: «Oreo» is a pejorative that kids use against black kids who «act white,» that is, they live outside of black stereotypes by doing anything from listening to classical music to wanting to pursue higher education.

Linn quotes Joel Babbit, former president of Channel One, on the advertising clout of this network: «The advertiser gets kids who can not go to the bathroom, can not change the station, who can not listen to their mother yell in the background, who can not be playing Nintendo.»

However, I bet you might be interested in hearing what I have to say about it from Genesis 1, so if the kids are out of listening range, start listening!

I was tempted at first to give maybe a 10 point list of advice for parents going through deconstruction in front of their kids... things like let them see the books you read and answer their curiosities about them; teach your kids how to think, not how to believe; tell them everything you're going through and let them deal with what it means for them; ask them what they believe and listen objectively and engage in conversation about it; openly share your struggles with what you're going through with the church and let them process it themselves, and so on.

I wish they'd section of the United States so those of us who didn't have kids don't have to listen to your kid scream or wait behind slow busses.

Richard, it's so through... Dominican Republic Sunday morning... moms and dads carrying their kids on their back, some walk more then an hour in the burning sun... Church is... on a piece of land stretched out blankets under the tree... they took of their flip flops... its a holy land... they don't have to fight about the color of the carpet, either the washrooms vanity or chairs style and colors... the have no chairs, no washrooms, no piano, no lights, no AC... they are sincerely seeking God, listening to the preaching and in the middle of the darkness they see the light, they hope for better... they ARE what I call the REAL church.

The latter is my favourite way to cook (sans wine most times of course) and kids always ask me why am I listening to Christmas music?!

Simple enough to where your kitchen isn't turned upside down trying to make a healthy dinner, while your kids listen to «Let It Go» on replay 456 times and mess up the rest of the house.

«My mission is to make hemp such a common occurence that our kids will grow up listening to us gripe about how the kids don't respect the changes we made, while they roll their eyes, storm out of the house in their hemp jeans, stealing the keys to the bio-fueled car, blaring tunes while they munch on a hemp powerbar, on their way to the cafe to meet with their friends to smoke a joint, have a coffee and listen to «real, up - and - coming culture jammers, not like the ones our friggin» parents» claim to be.»

Billows of smoke, listening to the birds chirp, watching the kids catch butterflies, admiring the beauty of the white blossoming flowers on the fence vines are part of the grilling atmosphere.

As most kids, Elsa is crazy about animals, and since there aren't very many goats and cows running around on the streets of central Stockholm, visiting a farm is her only chance to listen to some muu and maa.

Flicking away mosquitoes with a wave of a hand, listening to the creak of a kid pumping back and forth on a swing set all alone, overhearing the drama of some poor folks down the way have a shouting match (He my baby!

In my car this week I've been listening to an old school reggae mix tape I downloaded, it takes me back to being a kid and reminds me of christmas and my uncle playing the likes of Beres Hammond, Buju Banton and the legendary Bob Marley and all my family being together... Good Times!

When I'm not talking, watching, or coaching baseball, or listening to MLB on Sirius XM, I'm just hanging out with my wife and kids most of the time, watching Alabama football (huge fan of the Tide, and that's where I started on SB Nation on Roll Bama Roll), or watching / reading Game of Thrones.

Back in the old days — before everything got so loud and shiny and kids listened to proper music, not like that noise you hear nowadays, coming out of their phones — Match of the Day didn't even bother with a league table for the first few weeks of the season.

Is it Henry who flopped at a whole Champion League final, and jumping up at suggestion, mere suggestion of being given the role like a kid get a candi bar, that is worth listening to.

I've been at camps and watched 250 kids listen to [Bucknell coach and Native American] Sid Jamieson bring greetings from the People of the Long House and talk about honoring your environment and playing for the Creator.

I've been pretty against processed foods in general for awhile so we don't even buy «organic» or «healthy» processed foods, for the most part (but for the sake of honesty my kids split a fruit roll up — the Betty Crocker kind — today so don't listen to me).

With the skyrocketing cost of education, many kids listen to parents discussing the stress they feel about college tuition and then take on that stress themselves.

But on this Father's Day, consider the wisdom of Carol's message and make time for the stuff that matters most to kids — time to eat together, time to talk, time to do stuff together, even time for what my friend calls «separate togetherness,» where family members do separate things (read, draw, cook, listen to music) but are physically together.

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.

Wrinkles said that a mother called him up and said that her son was misbehaving a lot, and because she knew he was afraid of clowns, she decided to hire Wrinkles to get back at her kid for not listening to her.

Hopefully more new parents will listen to those of us who love traveling with our kids and make it happen no matter the obstacle, and they will not be put off by those who say it just can't be done, or is too much of an inconvenience to OTHER people.

We have a natural instinct to teach our children to succeed, but when we show up to do the intense listening, ask the hard questions, and make the choices, instead of expecting our kids to do these things for themselves, it teaches them precisely nothing — except that we'll always be there to live their lives for them.

By middle school, many kids have either heard the words related to pornography, listened to the whispers of friends, or been exposed to a variety of images.

Being a woman in her thirties with two kids means that I spend an inordinate amount of time listening to other women moan about the men in their lives (come on, it's a fact of life that MOST women moan about their fellas).

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.»

Only 30 percent of kids had parents who set rules about which video games they can play and only 26 percent had rules about what music they could listen to.

Your child has up to a 1.7 % chance of having this outcome, and that's partially based on whether you have good nutrition, have high levels of vitamin k, have a c - section, take antibiotics during your labor... Do your research, ladies, instead of listening to this doctor call people who raise their kids without medicine «crazy».

First, I'd say to read Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish (the authors of How To Talk So Kids Will Listen...to read Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish (the authors of How To Talk So Kids Will Listen...To Talk So Kids Will Listen...).

One of the hardest things to do is listen to your kids because often they are reaching out to you.