Sentences with phrase «of ordinary children»

Takala gave most of her prize money (# 7,000) to a committee of ordinary children (aged eight to 12) from a youth club in Bow, east London, and facilitated their collective decision - making on the project's scope (http://the-committee.org).

Students will be taught about the impact of conflict on the daily lives of ordinary children and their families.

Past that age, Courchesne found, the rate of brain growth slowed in autistic children, falling behind that of ordinary children.

The parents of ordinary children had an average of six rules, like specific schedules for homework and bedtime.

Not exact matches

Critics want to know where Sheryl Sandberg, the Harvard - educated, billionaire COO of Facebook, gets off pressing ordinary women with ordinary educations, ordinary bank accounts, and ordinary access to child care to work harder and seize the reins of their careers.

«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»

If you're out of ideas, think back to the toys you used to collect when you were a child or any arts and crafts you're into can be great sources of out - of - the - ordinary objects.

There is an airy unconcern here, a lack of empathy with ordinary Canadians, that runs so deep in the soul of this government that, in the midst of the holiday season, a Minister of the Crown can snicker about child poverty and evidently be surprised that an outcry erupted.

He died east of Brest, deep in the woodlands of Huelgoat, a place that had been a frequent retreat when he was a child and where his imagination had first begun to float free from its moorings in ordinary life.

Too many ordinary people on the street, who are frankly worried and concerned to do the best for their children, would not support these policies if they were aware of the evidence.

wants to kill all the human and they never win as from the beginnin» until the end only the ordinary men as well as their families and they be called the Lamb of God» s children will carry on.

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

At the same time, however, this universe, safe and ordinary, extends to its children a fund of imaginative potential.

Russell Hittinger Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

In his most recent book, Ordinary Resurrections, Kozol continues his account of the children of Mott Haven.

And it seemed, nestled as I was among the shopping malls and the subdivisions, that the priesthood was, in the Christian sense, ordinary: Priests saved our souls but were powerless to save our culture, which, it was clear to even a child, was in desperate need of saving.

Or more subtly, they speak of the mass pathology as something passive, portraying ordinary people as (in Jim Garrison's words) «victims of a compelling nightmare, hypnotized and magnetized» in a dreamlike state like that of children following the Pied Piper (Darkness of God, p. 3) Interestingly, this view reverses Caldicott's formulation, in which the people were seen as adults and the leaders were the children.

This is a cheerful, readable book which aims to encourage ordinary Catholic women with busy lives, with homes to run and children to raise, with responsibilities and with jobs and worries, to live in the presence of God and to make prayer part of their daily lives.

To put the point another way, if 9/11 drove to church for weeks on end millions of Americans who had not darkened that doorstep in years — as it did — imagine the even deeper impact on ordinary mothers and fathers of a sick child or the similarly powerful desire of a devoted spouse on the brink of losing the other.

But the ordinary things they long for, and the things that they find funny, and the infinite variety of things they dream of, and the games they play, and animals they wish they could have, and things they like to eat, and clothes they wish they could afford to buy, are not as different as the world seems to believe from what most other children in this land enjoy, or dream of, or desire.

So, Zari may look like an ordinary Muppet, chumming it up with Elmo and friends, but she actually is a symbol of both female and child empowerment in a country that shows little value to either.

While natural law and Augustine's moral theology might be difficult for some, the rules derived from them were understood by ordinary Catholics: Sexual intimacy is permissible only in a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and the purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.

The simple fact that you have an issue with a mother feeding her child the way that «everyday - ordinary» (yes pun intended) mother were designed to feed them shows your ignorance and lack of maturity.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

The reason for this overwhelming consensus is clear: ordinary Catholics actually believe the teaching of the Church on the necessity of baptism for salvation, they therefore know that it is important for a child to be baptised and they also have an immediate perception that it is simply unjust for a child to be deprived of baptism and therefore of God's grace because of the spiritual defects of its parents.

She said Chancellor Philip Hammond should use the Autumn Budget to invest in helping families with children, and that ending the benefits freeze is the first step he should take to re-balance the finances of ordinary families.

But it's also possible to understand the concern of popes and rabbis and just ordinary folk that, for some people, the decision to have no children or a small family represents a decision to indulge yourself without a thought for anyone else, a decision to take sandalwood - scented candlelit baths without the danger that there might be stray Legos left in the tub to poke you in the backside.

I didn't even know there were sugar cane plantations in that parish I just thought I was going to be baptizing children and marrying couples and burying the dead — what any ordinary priest would do in his parish even if I knew it was in the context of poverty.

The mother - child relationship needs to undergo a renewal similar to that in the ordinary process of maturing.

While the Mass was offered in the Ordinary Form, we prayed the Gradual from the Missa pro Sponso et Sponsa for the fruitfulness of our marriage, beseeching that the Lord might bless us with children.

Instruction is given to children of distinguished families by a teacher — called a guru — who visits them at their home; children from ordinary families of the common people go to the guru's home or to a place of worship.

But «moonies» who must be «deprogrammed,» Children of God who must be parentally «kidnapped,» or devotees who are «forced» into mass marriages are additional instances of our inability to think of cult members as just ordinary church members.

So the company «knocked» the ordinary milks, claiming that «beta casein A1 may be a primary risk factor for heart disease in adult men, and also be involved in the progression of insulin - dependent diabetes in children».

Instead of removing children from their day - to - day lives for treatment, both The Wright School and Hope Creek Academy emphasize helping students develop skills within the context of ordinary activities: academics, chores and, of course, fun.

In recent years, parents have been motivated to find names that are out of the ordinary, looking for their children to stand out and avoid choosing classic and common names.

In that ordinary yet profound moment, I appreciated that all of the patience, compassion, responding with sensitivity, and positive discipline I have practiced raising my children.

Each project includes instructions on how to conduct the experiment at home using ordinary toys and household items as props, an easy - to - understand explanation of the experiment's significance, and suggestions on how parents can incorporate these principles into their interactions with their child.

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When I teach students in the relatively new discipline of infant mental health, which brings together researchers at the interface of developmental psychology, neuroscience, and genetics, I tell them that almost everything they need to know to support young children and their families can be found in the essay «The Ordinary Devoted Mother» by pediatrician turned psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott.

«Patty is the epitome of an ordinary individual doing extraordinary things for the children and families of Hammond, Indiana,» said School City of Hammond Director of Food and Nutrition Services Christine Clarahan.

Looking at the experiences that my kids went through I can say confidently that these signs will depend on the personality of a child and also how he or she behaves on ordinary occasions.

At worst, this tyranny of unrealistic standards can cause the only child to be intolerant of ordinary performance, unforgiving of mistakes, being extremely hard on himself or herself when it comes to matters of achievement.

One or two spoonfuls are to be put into the pap saucepan, and stood on the hob till the heat has softened it, when enough milk is to be added, and carefully mixed with the food, till the whole has the consistence of ordinary cream; it is then to be poured into the nursing bottle, and the food having been drawn through to warm the nipple, it is to be placed in the child's mouth.

Children already appreciate the simple beauty of the ordinary, so Wabi Sabi will just feel right.

Although these two toys at MSRP might be priced out of the range of ordinary home use, they make a perfect addition to any classroom or therapists office and may be worth it for families with a child with special needs and may be found on sale.

Extolling the virtues of «wholesome neglect» and treating breastfeeding as the norm, Deborah Jackson shows us how ordinary parents can raise extraordinary children.

Don't you just love when your child's creativity takes over the play and turn something totally ordinary to their own vision of ways to use a medium!

Diana A. West, lactation consultant and director of media relations for La Leche League International told Yahoo Parenting, «it's shocking to people in Western countries, but worldwide, children are weaned when they're between 2 and 6 years old on average, so nursing a 6 - year - old is not out of the ordinary.»

A quick visit to the Invisible Children Facebook page reveals the extent to which «ordinary people» are raising pertinent questions about the organisation's use of funds, agenda and purpose.

Through the influence of ordinary working people, children where given opportunities to go into education with no cost and work attracted pay.