Sentences with phrase «really listen to your kids»

NO CELL PHONE RULE: Put your electronics down and really listen to your kids even if they're being assholes.

These may be the only pauses in a busy day when you have a chance to chat with and really listen to your kids.

Schedule it once a month, grab some take - away and really listen to your kids.

«It's a wonderful time for parents to really listen to their kids — to hear about their hopes, their values, their expectations for college, and to learn what kind of adults they imagine they'll be,» Weissbourd says.

These tips on how to really listen to your kids help parents understand how to validate and empathize without needing to lecture or provide advice.

Not exact matches

«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.

Hi Sam, I listened to your podcast with Noah Kagen (twice:p) and one thing really stuck out was you saying all these kids who has only seen a bull market might be caught holding too little when the stump hits.

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.

I'm getting really hyped for these fights time to listen to some 6xn9 or whatever his name is the kids listen to now.

If you're sitting there thinking, «My kids don't really seem to listen to me; they just tune me out,» or if you're even wondering if your parenting style is working very well at all, start by asking yourself, «Is what I'm doing with my family effective?

Are we really listening to what are kids are trying to tell us?

It puts kids in really difficult positions if they want to or have to take sides, or listen to negative things said about one of their parents.

How you decide to bring up your baby is your choice and it is totally fine to listen and respect how others raise their kids but if you really want to do something a certain way then be confident in your decision, own it and don't let anyone make you feel bad for your decision.

But love prevails and what I really love is how much HE loves his music right now and I could listen to this kid's passion all day.

If you want to get really sly, you can even quickly purchase these goodies while the kid is off listening to music in the audio section.

Kids really do know how to heal from their emotional hurts — if we can be there to listen and support them through the process.

And so, I think it's really important to listen to the people who are involved in that relationship when you make a change and so if the kid says keep on, that's what we are doing and that's what we are doing.

The kids aren't listening to you, the baby won't stop crying and it would be really, really nice if someone would help you out.

I will try really hard to listen if the kids let me.

From my experience, kids really love Savasana and will be especially quiet and still if they know a foot rub is coming, or are listening to a favorite song or story.

Constantly to be aware of what I say to them, what I want them to do and also just to really listen to what they are saying; I've worked with kids for over 15 years and what I have found is that kids know what they want and who they are better than any adult, we can learn a lot from them if we just listen and follow in their footsteps.

This is no daringly outrageous, Kid A-esque «progressive» music that nobody really enjoys listening to.

But kids, especially in kindergarten and first grade, really need to play, so every once in a while, I'd pick up a puppet just to make things more interesting than the kids just listening to me all day.»

«Kids will really listen to elders when there are specific, important steps to putting something together,» she says.

So it was really a rebranding of everything that just made such a difference to the way kids did things and listened and engaged with the curriculum really.

Unlike in the corporate world, where businesses spend tens of millions researching what their consumers really want, when it comes to how we structure and organize our kids» education, we generally don't make the slightest attempt to listen to, or even care, what students think about how they are taught.

«I think that's really important for kids to know that they have a supportive group of peers — and an adult — that will listen,» says Davis.

But who listens - really listens — to what kids have to say?

All it really takes is one adult not listening to make a kid feel like nobody cares.

Student voice is only useful if it exists in an environment that's willing to listen [because] so often nothing happens to the voice of kids because no one is really listening.

I remember... listening to the kids talk on the school bus on the way home from school... and really being interested in what the 3rd graders were doing (I was in Kindergarten)... they were learning to multiply!

Don't we really want our kids to share, listen, cooperate, be thankful and respectful because these behaviours will help them gain friends and get along better with others (not to mention make parenting easier!)?

I'd seen this film a long time ago but when I saw it again this time, I had a much better appreciation of the Aboriginal way of being and the thing that really struck me in this film was there was a section of the film where they were going to do this aeroplane song and dance corroboree and they were getting ready for it and you know there are all these Elders and you know very wise and respected Elders you know making their costumes they were gonna wear, talking about how it was gonna be and in amongst all these people there's little children you know of one 1 or 2 or 3 years old who were just crawling around and you know watching and listening, trying on their head - dresses and they were completely welcomed into that adult community, there was no sense of, you know this is grown up business, you kids go off and play which is very much the western model.

When kids talk back, are fresh, or sassy with us, it's difficult to keep cool and really listen.

We try to take time once a week to spend time together without the kids, we usually go to Starbucks and have coffee and just talk, and really listen.

The other is really for older kids — when they're ready to listen to (or read to themselves) chapter books.