Sentences with phrase «on teaching adults»

That program works on teaching adults to promote caring, respect, and responsibility in children and teenagers.

Our emphasis is on teaching our adult students correct, safe driving habits.

Not exact matches

Flatiron School, a programming institute that teaches adults and high schoolers how to code, is on the rise.

Many popular and famous speakers got a quick - start on their careers by teaching at adult learning centers throughout the U.S. People like Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad), Barbara Sher (Do What You Love and The Money Will Follow), Wayne Dyer (Your Erroneous Zones), and Cheryl Richardson (Take Time for Your Life) built their businesses this way.

Older frat men receive childlike compassion, teaching, and parental care away from home, while younger on average gang boys receive shame, charges as adults, and prisons away from home.

A friend of mine who teaches on the collegiate level recently told me, «I don't meet any young adults who've grown up in the church lacking at least one story of spiritual abuse.»

I have been taught this less by my feminist professional colleagues than by the students who have attended my classes on passes from hospitals or after therapy sessions, in which they are being treated for wounds inflicted by men (and sometimes women) who abused them as children or as adults.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

In this, her second book on marriage during a career in Adult Religious Education in the Diocese of East Anglia, Anita Dowsing seeks to bite a very big bullet indeed: the gap between the Church's teaching on key aspects of marriage and the actual beliefs and practice of many lay Catholics today.

I wrote The Secular City after having lived for a year in Berlin, where I taught in a church sponsored adult education program with branches on both sides of the barbed wire.

It reinforces the CONTROL that all adults feel compelled to exert on children, and each other, because they were «taught» when they were young.

13For the Church's teaching on marriage, see Gaudiam et Spes, 50, Catechism of the Catholic Church 1601 - 1658, The Teaching of Christ: A Catholic Catechism for Adults, pages 28teaching on marriage, see Gaudiam et Spes, 50, Catechism of the Catholic Church 1601 - 1658, The Teaching of Christ: A Catholic Catechism for Adults, pages 28Teaching of Christ: A Catholic Catechism for Adults, pages 281 - 284.

As a young adult, I began to pursue a purposed life of faith centered on the teachings of Jesus.

On Saturday, well, you know... I would like to go over there today, but I'm teaching the adult Sunday School class tomorrow, and I have to prepare for it.

This I couldn't bypass, filled as I was with the memory of hot, nausea - producing (if you moved too fast) days filled with knocking on doors, talking with adults, and playing with and teaching children at the Freedom Center.

They attend to scripture; struggle to discern the gospel's call and demand on them and their congregations in particular contexts; lead worship, preach and teach; respond to requests for help of all kinds from myriad people in need; live with children, youth and adults through life cycles marked by both great joy and profound sadness; and take responsibility for the unending work of running an organization with buildings, budgets, and public relations and personnel issues.

I think this has gone off on an irrelevant tangent as what a father teaches his child until they are an adult is their choice as long as they don't break any federal or state laws when it comes to child abuse.

Janet Baxindale, who lectures around the country on the spiritual potential of Catholic traditions like the Liturgy of the Hours, comments, «Among the adults I - teach, more often than not, a simple presentation of the theology of the liturgy and the role of all the baptized in the liturgical prayer of the church is greeted with «I never knew that.»»

These teleconferences have focused on a range of topics: the drug crisis; the Church as seen through media; teaching sexual morality; what's really working in adult religious education; the Church and rural communities; dwindling priests and church finances; and many other topics.

Thank you Pleasanton Seahawks Swimming for teaching me as a youth, and reminding me as an adult, that I benefit every time I stand on the deck in the pouring rain.

Our camps offer fabulous adult programs in the morning focusing on the arts, wellness, and nature taught by experts in their craft while kids are entertained by counselors in traditional camp fun.

The entry point into using the Kano system are the instruction booklets which show the user (adult or child) how to connect up all of the equipment and get the pre-loaded Kano software literally telling you what to do (using the speaker of course) Once you have (satisfyingly) managed to boot up the Raspberry Pi, Kano's built in software installed on the operating system guides you through increasingly more complex tasks teaching you how to use the computer and start to write your own code.

If you haven't already done so, read one of the many excellent books out there on sane parenting — Raising an Adult, Overloaded and Underprepared, The Blessing of a B Minus, Building Resilience in Children and Teens, Teach Your Children Well, or Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be — to name but a few.

I was about to comment on how I think punishment is important to teach children about consequences, but in writing my response I started thinking about how I would handle a similar situation with an adult.

Mothers are expected to nurse on demand until the baby decides to wean itself, sleep with their infant, and continuously teach and prepare them for adult life.

Your child will likely not thank you now for letting her struggle on her own and suffer through a consequence, but she may surprise you when she's an adult by telling you that your coaching, teaching or limit setting made a positive difference in her life.

Practice water safety: teach your child to swim, do not let your child play around any water (lake, pool, ocean, etc.) without adult supervision (even if he is a good swimmer), always wear a life preserver or safety vest when on a boat, and childproof the pool by enclosing it in a fence with a self - closing, self - latching door.

Kim Shufan, executive director of the iCan House in Winston - Salem, an organization that offers programs that teach and coach youths and adults with social challenges, cautions that special needs children, especially those on the autism spectrum, may mask their behavior at a doctor's visit.

Kids mistreating each other has become the norm on most playgrounds, so it is crucial that adults teach children the tools to deal with these situations.

Sarah stays busy teaching camps and classes for all ages pre-k to adult, consulting on puppetry projects for theaters and cultural institutions, and running the theater's «Hatchery» program for new works development.

Much to our misfortune, there is not a single school (that I am aware of) in the whole of the United States or elsewhere that has taken on the responsibility of teaching young adults about the principles of conscious procreation and parenting.

Home schooled children get a lot of one - on - one communication time with at least one adult, with the parent that is teaching them (it has been pointed out by John Holt, that most children in schools don't even get 15 minutes of direct one - on - one teaching time per week).

The Opening Bell 3/27/17: Children Learn About Climate Change & the Next Steps for Sears - WGN Radio - March 27, 2017 After a hands on experience at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Steve sat down with Kristen Pratt (Director of Sustainability at The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum) to talk about the new exhibit that will be teaching young children and adults about the basics of climate change.

Babies as young as eight months old are taught, with their mother's help, to greet each person when coming into a room and say good - bye to each person, kissing adults on the cheek, before leaving.

Because today's kids are growing up fast and generally experience stress from high demands early on, and because too much stress can be detrimental for kids and for their future (adult) selves, it's never too early to teach stress management techniques to your children, and help them practice them regularly.

Taught by the media and radical feminists to be ashamed about their maternal, nurturing and intuitive side, mothers are too often afraid to follow and act on their intuition even though it tells them that a youth sports system which too often emphasizes winning and competition over fun and skill development, treats children as young as six as adults and cruelly and unfairly saddles so many as failures before they have even reached puberty because they weren't lucky enough to be «early bloomers» or have a January birthday, is not the kind of nurturing, caring and, above all, inclusive environment mothers believe their children need to grow into confident, competent, empathetic, emotionally and psychologically healthy adults.

Over the past three years, Ms. Vuolo has taught classes for young adults on various wellness topics including time management, stress reduction, sleep hygiene, physical fitness, nutrition, mindfulness and study skills.

* Positive Discipline * Positive Discipline for Developing Capable People * Building Self - Esteem through Positive Discipline * Keys to Developing Self - Reliance: A Gift to Our Children * The Significant Seven: Life Skills for Adults and Youth * Positive Discipline: Practical Application * Why Children Misbehave and What to Do About It * Parenting Teenagers: · Empowering Teenagers — and Yourself in the Process * Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: * Classroom Management: Shared Responsibility through Class Meetings: Eliminating your Role as a disciplinarian (The Kids Can Do It Better Anyway) * Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training on class meetings) * We've Got to Keep Meeting Like This (teacher in - service on class meetings) * School Administrators: Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training with Bill Scott, principal of Birney Elementary School)

I feel that confrontation is not desirable with children or adults, however teaching boundaries and setting guidelines on acceptable behaviour is crucial to survive into adulthood, and as a mother I feel that a have a bigger role than endless love, I believe it's my job to teach my children to be good adults in society.

But it's our job as the adults in their lives to help keep them on track, to teach them responsibility, and to show them how good it feels to reach the finish line.

Plus, sadly, we know that some adults prey on children, and teaching your daughter about consent early on can help her understand her rights, know when lines are being crossed, and when to go to you for help.»

Democratic schools like Longview School focus on teaching the whole child, so they not only learn rigorous academics, but also develop into more independent, responsible young adults.

On September 7, 1919, when the «Independent Waldorf School» opened its doors, Dr. Rudolf Steiner stated, «It is not our intention to teach growing human beings our ideas or the contents of ourworld - view» Today, Waldorf schools continue to seek to develop the perceptions and capacities for creative thinking in young adults so that they can shape society for the advancement of humankind out of their own insights and experiences.

When a child experiences a trauma that teaches him that he can not trust or rely on that caregiver, however, he's likely to believe that the world around him is a scary place and all adults are dangerous — and that makes it incredibly difficult to form relationships throughout their childhood, including with peers their own age, and into the adult years.

Having once carried 510 pounds on his 5 - foot - 10 frame, Mitchell is on a mission to teach healthy eating to adults as well as kids in this North Side neighborhood.

Based on the best selling Positive Discipline books by Dr. Jane Nelsen and co-authors Lynn Lott, Cheryl Erwin, Kate Ortolano, Mary Hughes, Mike Brock, Lisa Larson and others, it teaches important social and life skills in a manner that is deeply respectful and encouraging for both children and adults (including parents, teachers, childcare providers, youth workers, and others).

«As caregivers, one of our tasks is to teach children how to gradually take on more responsibility, be organized and ultimately grow into adults who can take care of their own basic needs,» says Yolanda N. Evans, MD, MPH, a pediatrician at the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Seattle Children's Hospital and co-author of parenting blog Teenology 101.

Issues, such as one on Teaching Self - Trust, illustrates how AP leads to self - confident children and teens who grow into emotionally healthy and happy adults.

Recognize time may teach them this lesson once they grow up and reflect back on childhood, understanding it with an adult's perspective.

I agree with most but would lighten up on the «stimulate your baby»... Babies are hard - wired to develop at their own pace and don't need adults showing / teaching them.