Sentences with phrase «ordinary children»

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

While this is a parenting philosophy that can apply to even ordinary children, parent management training helps parents understand their child's capabilities and then develop appropriate expectations based on these abilities.

As has been pointed out, it would have been harder for ordinary children to not let slip that the family was hiding Jews.

Join the children on their wild journeys - ordinary children with extraordinary powers...

I'm a very ordinary children's writer.

Research on creative geniuses shows that many of them seemed like fairly ordinary children.

It is as though the authors, the publishers, the teachers, and the professors of education share a bizarre consensus that ordinary children need to be shaken out of their complacency, stripped of their innocence, and frightened by the horrors that the world has in store for them at any moment.

Through our efforts, we are seeing high rates of achievement and our overriding ethos is to take ordinary children and turn them into someone special.

To qualify for protection under human rights legislation, an employee does not need to prove that work caused a «serious interference» with a substantial family duty, and even ordinary child care or elderly care obligations may qualify.

I will close by saying that we know, from the best social science research, a body of research that is growing every day, that ordinary children thrive most and produce the best outcomes when raised by both of their biological parents.

These classes are not clearly distinguishable from good classes for ordinary children.

Born in 1964, he grew up as an ordinary child in Buffalo, Texas in a middle - class home.

20 «At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child.

It seems they think that baptism is all about Christianity for an ordinary child or man.

Naturally, I then went more deeply into the problem than an ordinary child.»

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

The Battle of the Fruit and Vegetable Soldiers is no ordinary child's sketch.

But what can an ordinary child do to stay alive when the living can be just as bad — and sometimes worse — than the dead?

Nina's case isn't the ordinary child abduction he's used to, the peculiarities of this one brings some of Joe's most suppressed childhood memories to the surface.

Disabled kids find it much more difficult to learn reading than ordinary children.

You might want to include several images of Jewish life before the war (from Lesson 5) to help students remember that before they were persecuted by the Nazis, Holocaust victims were ordinary children, women, and men who enjoyed family dinners and playing with friends.

Their lawyer, former Louisiana schools Superintendent Paul Pastorek, praised Tuesday's decision, saying it «will make all schools in New Orleans stronger and better equipped to fairly address the needs of all children — gifted, special needs and ordinary children.»

Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander, age ten or thereabouts, keeps his siblings in line with gentle nips; Cassiopeia, perhaps four or five, has a bark that is (usually) worse than her bite; and Beowulf, age somewhere - in - the - middle, is alarmingly adept at chasing squirrels.

As a talented piano player and ice - skater, lover of the arts (influenced by her well - educated parents), and devotee of politics, Rice was anything but an ordinary child growing up in racially divided Birmingham, Alabama, during the turbulent 1960s.

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place are no ordinary children, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess, and mysteries abound in this first volume in a new series for ages 9 +.

Lois Lowry's adroit satire will enlighten and entertain winning waifs, audacious au pairs, woeful widowers, punctilious postmasters, relentless realtors, mixed - up mountaineers, and ordinary children and their parents.

In this exquisitely illustrated, wordless book, an ordinary child is launched on an extraordinary, magical journey towards her greatest and most rewarding adventure of all... In time - honoured tradition, this is a wordless adventure of the imagination.

Now assuming the role of an ordinary child, players will struggle to outwit both the dead and the living in situations that will test their morals and control the flow of the story through their decisions and actions.