Sentences with phrase «of playing with their children»

The study, by researchers at Israel's Bar - Ilan University, measured first - time parents» brain activity when they watched films of themselves playing with their children.

I know some families who feel the need to be involved in nearly every moment of play with their children.

I didn't get much of that kind of play as a child, I therefore didn't do much of that kind of play with my children or my grandchildren.

Sensing could also be remote in time: You might record the visual, audio, and tactile sensations of playing with your child, for example, to play back later.

Hey there are good parents who forget about the importance of playing with their children.

Topics include identifying individual parenting styles, how offering choices enhances self - esteem, suggestions for non-violent discipline, communicating with children in a positive way that strengthens relationships while solving problems, avoiding backing children into corners that result in power struggles, using family meetings to implement parenting strategies as well as teach values, and the often - over-looked importance of playing with children... The information is current and relevant to today's families and will be a terrific help for parents from single, dual, blended, or multi-generational families.

Creating experiences can involve buying actual stuff: baseball equipment with the intention of playing with your children, for example, or a camper to hit the woods with your family.

Not exact matches

He knew I'd helped a couple of women with a children's play space in Brooklyn.

«Because if a child were playing with these things, some of them would end up upside down.»

This fall, our team members in and around Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia volunteered with Cradles to Crayons, a national organization that provides children from birth through age 12 with essential items — all free of charge — to help them thrive at home, at school, and at play.

As a father, you have to bend a knee and start seeing the world from the perspective of a young child playing with Lego blocks.

In free play, ideally with kids of mixed ages, the children decide what to do and how to do it.

So they pulled out all the stops by experimenting with an in - store cafe, free Wi - Fi, monthly book swaps, a children's play area, entertainment, more than 200 in - store author readings a year and community forums on topics of interest to customers.

One possible benefit to holograms is their potential to give old - school toys the capability of personalizing responses, depending on the age and development of the child playing with the old - school toy.

«The Rock - a-Stack recognizes that the youngest child is playing with the toy, and it knows that he has never been able to stack all the rings onto the toy,» explains Kevin Young, senior vice president of product experience at Continuum.

As they eagerly describe a young Alison staging plays in the family living room and leading neighborhood children on make - believe safaris, the subject of their recollections sits quietly, as though detached from a past that has little to do with who she is today.

As exciting as presents are, shopping can be as painful as getting two lumps of coals for children, so Toys «R» Us has gamified the in - store shopping experience with its AR app Play Chaser.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

You can read all about the design day here, but this project is in concordance with Dr Pepper Snapple Group's Let's Play initiative, working to increase the availability of play for children throughout North AmerPlay initiative, working to increase the availability of play for children throughout North Amerplay for children throughout North America.

A highlight of the afternoon, Jeremiah Reitz, a nine - year partner and Coast Guard veteran, explained the role Starbucks played in his employment stability as he pursued his sociology degree and became a counselor for children with autism.

2014.11.26 RBC and the Public Health Agency of Canada in partnership with ParticipACTION commit $ 8.2 - million to the RBC Learn to Play Project Knowing how to make that perfect throw, kick a soccer ball or hop over a speedy skip rope is just as important to a child...

2014.04.16 RBC challenges top PGA TOUR members to play it forward In support of children's charities #RBCGolf4Kids launches with $ 300,000 in prize money...

The community - built playground at Parque Agua Santa will not only provide thousands of children with a safe place to play, but also engage the residents with the city of Puebla, AMA Mexico, Parques de Mexico and families from surrounding neighborhoods in a transformative partnership to improve the entire community.

Just to be clear about the incident when I was 18: some of the members had been refusing to associate with non-members, or let their children play with them, on the assumption that «those people» didn't share our same values.

Today, most participants in the debate about welfare reform» at least those outside the realms of the ACLU and the Children's Defense Fund» agree with Olasky that the government has not and can not offer this kind of effective compassion, and that consequently we must enlarge the role private charities play in the lives of the underclass.

Professor DiIulio again: «It is reasonable to suppose that by doubling or tripling the number of officers on regular duty in and around drug - infested, crime - torn neighborhoods, and by deploying them in accordance with the precepts of community policing, the streets and sidewalks of even the most blighted inner city could be made safe enough for children to play and adults to stroll.»

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

When my children were small, the mommy in me always played tug - of - war with the minister in me.

I shared the reservations of Elton Trueblood, who wrote of exclusivism: «Such a scheme is neat and simple, but it is morally shocking... A God who would thus play favorites with his children, condemning some to eternal separation from himself while admitting others, and distinguishing them wholly or chiefly on the basis of the accidents of history or geography, over which they had no control, would be more devil than God.»

For example, experiment in role - playing with various ways in which a couple might handle a breakdown of communication on a subject such as disciplining children.

I've known I've been called to ministry since I was a child and played pastor with my stuffed animals by giving them pieces of bread and grape juice enacting the Sacrament.

The God we encounter there is the God in whom we live and move and have our being, the God who rejoices over His children with signing, the God who spreads Her wings over Her children like an eagle over her chicks, the God who loved the world enough to experience all of its pain alongside of us, the God who — as Nadia Bolz - Weber puts it — «would rather die than be in the sin accounting business anymore,» the God who loves to watch us play.

The writer of Proverbs asserts that «hatred stirs up dissension»; the Israeli mother who raises her child to hate Saddam Hussein (as opposed to his heinous acts) is playing with fire.

Artistry is important because teachers who function artistically in the classroom not only provide children with important sources of artistic experience, they also provide a climate that welcomes exploration and risk - taking and cultivates the disposition to play.

Now Matthew and Luke continue with Jesus» apt comparison of the men of that generation with children in the marketplace, peevishly complaining that their companions will not play either a happy or a mournful game with them (Mt 11:16 - 19; Lk 7:31 - 35).

Here's a thought: rather than following a group of men who play with little boys or believing in a religion which has you eating flesh and drinking blood every sabath or believing in a divine being that calls for you to stone disobedient children, why don't you simply think for yourself.

One is the reality system of face - to - face encounter with other people, working at the office or store or home, taking care of the children or visiting with neighbors, playing with the kids and tending the yard, reading books and telling stories and remembering the past and planning for the future.

Comparing with the building of pyramid, building of the ark was child play.

Set on top of a hill, it had French gardens stocked with magnolia trees, a music hall and outdoor theater, a restaurant, a day - care center, a pool in the shape of the letter J, a miniature golf course, and children's play areas with water slides, games, and rides.

Here's a fuller synopsis of the play: The Jeweler's Shop is a meditation on marriage by the future pontiff, told with warmth and wit through the stories of three couples: a young couple torn by war, an older couple tempted by infidelity, and lastly the children of these two marriages who themselves are called to love.

The old house, in full light now, A shuffle of feet stutters apology for the mystery of darkness, With the children at play in not quite innocent blood.

Oh yea, that's the book where god creates a pair of children, gives them a package of razor blades, tells them not to play with them, leaves them alone and then abandons them when they get cut

Outside of her house with so many children laughing like light and playing with hope, Grandma Em and I know exactly what to do: we hold on to each other, enfold and encircle each other, and we keep turning to see each other.

He adds: «In partnership with parents, schools have a vital role to play in the formation of our children.

Instead of switching off, he advocates «co-viewing» and «parallel play» — finding ways to play with or alongside your child and to talk about what's happening on screen.

A gang of children beating and eventually stabbing a boy they played with a year ago.

If one rides the downtown bus in one of our large cities through the slum areas in which children play in dirty alleys behind saloons, and then passes a housing project with clean, sunlit yards.

If you're not familiar with the T.A. concept of the inner Parent, Adult, and Child, see Eric Berne, Games People Play (New York: Grove Press, 1964), chapter 1 for a succinct overview.

He lounges at an open window and looks out on the square on which he lives; he is interested in everything that goes on, in a rat which slips under the curb, in the children's play, and this with the nonchalance of a girl of sixteen.

This spirit of romp exists in tension with a deeper seriousness, just as an odd solemnity is noticeable when children are at play.