Sentences with phrase «rather nurturing the child»

Nor do they direct the child, rather nurturing the child's trust so they feel safe, trusting and stimulated to interact more, which is their key challenge.

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Rather, it calls us to the historical tasks of rearing, nurturing, and civilizing our children.

Truth be told... others would call me critical, and negative and cynical, but my heart bursts for the church, I just wish leaders would realize how mistaken we have been to treat the church so much like an organization and a business rather than allowing it to grow and be nurtured as we would a child!

The Christian nurture and education of the children of the village was by no means an institutional task, but rather a parental one.

In our saner moments we know that parents today are far too eager to use the methods already available — chiefly in the realm of controlling nurture rather than nature — to shape the lives of their children.

The authors are able to make some rather complex science easy for parents to understand and apply in providing the nurture, guidance and structure children need to -LSB-...]

We hear it from our family members, our schools, our pediatricians, our politicians, parenting books that continue to be published influenced by this old - fashioned thinking despite the mountains of research to the contrary — ideas of how children should be raised, based on personal opinion rather than research - backed fact, subtle revelation of how our society is still scared of giving «too much» nurturing to our children.

Not through legal paperwork, but rather in the everyday physical and verbal nurturing of your child.

It's natural to worry about whether or not what you are doing is pushing rather than challenging or nurturing your child.

Children need abundant nurturing and an authentic, open bond with their parents based in trust rather than in fear.

While there's no doubt that it's a challenge having a child who seems to challenge everything, there are ways to work with them rather than against them to preserve and nurture their unique gifts.

Lahey's book is surely a gift to parents, a wake - up call that reminds us that our job is not about making our children happy or successful today, but rather helping to nurture future adults who can do this for themselves.

Rather than advocating a vice-like grip on the umbilical cord by projecting your own unmet and unfulfilled needs of childhood onto the parenting experience, the end - goal of attachment parenting has always been growing and nurturing your child to healthy, timely, age - appropriate independence.

Young children are unpredictable when it comes to eating, and as parents it's important that we don't assume, that we stay calm and rational, and that we react in a way that will nurture long - term healthy eating habits rather than create bigger issues.

Modeling staying cool and taking a breath rather than flying off the handle helps those around you, especially children, to feel more nurtured and connected to you, especially when things are challenging.

There is also a theory in psychology that the declining number of children per family in modern times has led us to think of our children as «precious treasures to be protected» rather than future helpers to be nurtured.

Our program is more what Alyssa mentions above - more play - based, very nurturing and child centered rather than teacher directed.

Children will no longer be treated as a thing that must regurgitate the correct information and be defined by a grade, but rather as a whole - person that needs to be loved, nurtured and developed to their full potential.

Rather than nurture those roots, we hand our smallest children machines and then gush about the power and control they display over that rarefied environment.

These studies provide further evidence that education can not be postponed until children reach school - age; rather, nurturing early educational environments employing research - based practices provide a critical foundation for children's later achievement.

But rather than cut the grandparents off, the custodial or surviving parent should engage them in constructive dialogue so that grandparent contact will have the desired effect of nurturing the child, rather than causing confusion and distress.

Importantly, family stability is defined not as a specific family structure or condition, but rather as a family environment in which caregiving practices provide children with the consistent, nurturing care they need to thrive.

By remembering and restoring educational practices that nurture — rather than negate — the whole child, an entirely new world of learning, growing and becoming could be within our reach.

The findings suggest that nurturing parenting may be a specific, rather than global, protective factor for peer victimization in child anxiety.

Adults do best for their children when they nurture this unexpressed potential rather than ignore, reject, or try to train it.

Rather than prepare children to simply follow directions and do well on tests that focus on limited knowledge and skills, we must nurture creative, critical thinkers who are free to make mistakes and encouraged to learn from them.

Augmenting Perez - Olivas et al.'s (2008) arguments, Mills et al. (2007) propose that parental overprotection is not a sign of nurturing, but rather shows a tendency toward exerting psychological control over the children, which seems to be triggered by the parents» own psychological instability.