Sentences with phrase «on listening to my kids»

I think that branding still matters, and I come to this conclusion based on listening to my kids, who both own iPods and assorted Sony electronics,...

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«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.

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).

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.

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.

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.»

Who has energy to sit at the kid table and listen in on the grown - up conversations when we've got our own lives and communities happening right now?

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.

Kids could learn Bach on tiny violins and cellos at absurdly young ages, sounding like prodigies by listening to CDs for two hours a day.

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.

Admittedly, plopping down in a soft chair on a Sunday morning, after having deposited the kids in a room where someone will care for them, then listening to some songs and someone talking to us (which we will not remember a few hours later) is easy.

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!

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Mary, who was home in Kentucky with five kids — William was born in March — listened to the game on the car radio.

I remember one thing so clear about listening to Joe Louis fight on the radio when I was a kid.

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.

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.

And how would the parents know what was going on with their kids if they didn't listen to them, even if just to hear them complaining?

Away from the stage, kids work on crafts in the family tent, while musicians form jam circles in the woods along the river or listen to an instrument contest or workshop in the Wildflower Tent.

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.»

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».

When our kids doesn't listen to us we might feel unimportant, like our meanings doesn't count and so on.

It depends on their specific chronological and developmental level, because if you listen carefully, kids ask us specifically what they want to know.

I'm wondering if any readers know of any books specifically about caring for babies that take the same calm, matter - of - fact tones that Between Parent and Child by Haim Ginott (and two excellent books based on Ginott's work, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Faber and Mazlish and Playful Parenting by Lawrence J. Cohen) does.

We're sharing some listening games that help kids work on listening to others — a skill that's necessary to be a good friend.

-LSB-...] your kids on an outdoor sound hunt to help kids listen carefully to the sounds outside, naming all the sounds they hear.

On the other hand, some kids engage in habits when they're relaxed, such as before falling to sleep or quietly listening to music.

Listen to the piece of music entitled The Viennese Musical Clock on the Classics for Kids website.

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Wear your baby so she can see out and touch and listen to the wind chimes on display; tour the orchid hot - house; and watch the koi in the water garden pond (the bright - colored fish swarm up to greet kids because they expect food).

When you listen to the other women with kids at play group, you'll hear a lot of, «We decided to go with cloth diapers,» or «We just started her on solid food.»

I would bet if you were to listen in on a conversation between Guatemalan parents they would mention how polite their kids are or how polite they want them to be.

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I got four days of being waited on, having food brought to me, and not having to listen to my other kids fight and ask for things.

Many pediatricians and psychologists fear that the rapid oscillating between different stimuli will make kids unable to focus, especially when they start juggling listening to music, playing a video game and texting on their cellphone at the tender age of five.

And kids will enjoy «walking on water» in the Cabana Pool, listening to a free story hour through a partnership with Random House, and trying out the shaved ice cart.

It was so fun listening to the stories the kids made up about where they were going and what they were going to see on their road trip.

If you are looking for a step by step guide on how to be a good parent to your toddler and teenager, you should read the How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk book.

It was hard for me to stand there and listen and not interject, or instruct the kids to put the toys, «Not there, on THAT shelf,» but I held my tongue for a reason.

In fact, some kids, who have a strong need to be on the move, listen better when they are in motion!

When kids don't listen, remember that they respond swiftly when you do not put undue pressure on them to hide their feelings.

Head over to the Science for Kids Community on Google + and share pictures of your listening explorations.