Sentences with phrase «spend talking to this child»

Based on these observations, language development specialists found that, for all speakers combined, the time spent talking to a child under the age of four was less than one minute per hour.

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In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

«We need to prepare our children for the day when we're not there and we do that gradually giving them more and more responsibility as they get older and we do it by talking about them and by spending time with them - putting those boundaries in place.»

We've spent 14 days of the transfer window trying to negotiate peanuts for a player that MAY but equally MAY NOT be the next midfield beast we need meanwhile Man City have brought in Bony who is a player that we could have done with and probably could have got before he upped his value with Swansea, I hear people on here talking about Wanyama and we could have got him prior to his move to Southampton, there's talk of Dybala who will undoubtedly go to either Man united or cheski in the summer, we are missing a trick with virtually every player that is strengthening our opposition and we sit and quibble about # half a million for some unknown child from Warsaw.

Transparency simply means they understand what it costs to live as a family and usually, children are cavalier about the cost of almost everything, because they assume that you have endless supplies of money; it's not until there are really concrete ways a family to talk about: «Where we're going to spend money, where we're going to save it, where are we going to give it, what are we going to do together?»

16 to 18 is also the time when children really need to become much more future oriented, when you're projecting what they're going to spend out in the future, this is the time when you're putting your college plans together, sit down and talk with them about what is going to cost for them to be away for 4 years.

What if you spent just a couple of minutes every morning thinking about how to parent well and a couple of minutes every night talking to your child?

I can recall spending many nursing sessions reading to the older children or talking to them about the day at pre-school, simultaneously keeping them in view, engaging them and soothing feelings of jealousy toward the baby.

You can also talk to your pediatrician about how much time your child actually needs to spend with other children at her age.

Spend some time talking to your child about his day such as what he liked and what he might have questions about.

If your child is spending a great deal of time on their homework each night, more than 10 minutes per grade level, talk with your child's teacher to see if the work needs to be reduced or if there is a different approach to doing the work that your child needs to try.

The first person to talk to about your child's addiction is your family doctor, but you may need assistance from someone more experienced, and the best option for your child may be spending some time in an institutional environment.

We spend a lot of time talking about child sleep over here, but it's important for adults to pay attention to their sleep habits as well.

Make sure you spend plenty of quality time reading, playing and talking to your children.

They spend more time with their children, set clear rules and consequences, talk with their children more often and engage them in back - and - forth dialogue, and provide experiences for them (such as high - quality child care) that are likely to boost their development.

Be sure your middle schooler establishes a strong academic footing and be sure to spend some time during middle school to talk about high school and to prepare your child for the final years of his or her education.

In this way, you probably spend more time talking to your child, which is one of the best ways of helping speech develop.

My husband and I spent many hours talking about parenting, how we wanted to raise our children, how we would deal with discipline, with schools, with rebellious teenage years, far more than any of my friends who conceived naturally.

Solution: If our child seems stressed about homework and is spending hours in first or second grade doing his assignments, talk with your child's teacher about what you can do to help.

Chicago Public Schools has increased property taxes the past two years, a move Emanuel has justified in part by talking about cost - cutting initiatives at the central office and the need to emphasize greater spending on the city's children.

I've spent a lot of time over the past few months talking to parents and teachers in many different settings, and they've been very responsive to the idea that character matters in a child's success.

Instead, until our children are teenagers and outright start asking for cash from us, few parents talk to our children about how much money we have, how hard it was to earn, and our priorities for spending it.

Sit down and talk with your spouse about the amount of time you each expect and want to spend on various tasks like child care, work, personal time and together time.

I am a parenting speaker and author who has spent her entire career talking to parents about physical punishment of children.

While counselors might have to spend a lot of time focusing on individual education plans, testing, and other educational issues, school personnel should also be available to talk with children about emotional issues that affect their performance and demeanor at school.

If you spend time talking about your own feelings with a caring adult who you trust, to offload your own fears and upsets, you'll speed things along and tame your own intense feelings as you reach for your frightened child.

You need to spend time talking about what goals you have for your children, what their childhood should be like, what you want them to be like both as children and adults, and what each of you can contribute to these goals.

It distracts the parent and decreases parent - child interaction.30, 31 Infant vocabulary growth is directly related to the amount of «talk time» or the amount of time parents spend speaking to them.32 Heavy television use in a household can interfere with a child's language development simply because parents likely spend less time talking to the child.33

For example, a child starting to want to spend the night at other people's homes raises, no matter how much we don't want to talk about it, the fact that your child could be subjected to inappropriate touching from the friend's family members, including and most commonly, from an older sibling of the friend.

Remember that road trips are a time to bond and spend time together, so don't be afraid to actually talk with your child if he's feeling bored or begins to get tired during the trip.

«If you want to know what your child is thinking, you have to spend time with her, to allow her to talk,» says Klungness.

No matter which one of the methods you try to use first, it's essential not to overlook your child's frustration from unsuccessful communication and to try together to find means that suit her best — and spend time with your child talking, reading aloud, mimicking sounds, singing... These small steps can go a long way.

When we spend most of our time with children under 4 feet tall, SAHMs do tend to talk in shorter sentences and have limited topics to talk about — we're not exactly spending our time watching the latest news on CNN or sitting around memorizing the Oxford English Dictionary for fun.

If you are moving your child to a new room then I would suggest you decorate it, spend time in his room with him and talk about the change a couple of weeks before you actually change rooms.

I'm no expert, but in addition to the vast amount of research I did before my 2nd child (homebirth), my experience with an ob before I switched to a midwife with that same child, my experience with a medicated vaginal hospital birth w / my first child, my experience in talking to dozens of women that have had surgical births, in addition to all that anecdotal «wisdom», I have taken a graduate level Sociology of Medicine class that was an in depth look at our current medical system from a sociological perspective and we spent a couple of weeks talking about the medical model of birth and the alternatives.

As one who spent five years of his childhood living in Spain, and quickly learnt Spanish so as to be able to talk to the other children in the street, I heartily agree that a good standard of English should be a prerequisite for studying or living here.

«I spent a lot of time last year, when the parents came and the said «well I want to opt my child out of», I had a talk with them,» said Owens.

Spend time nurturing a loving, joy - full relationship with your womb child — talking, singing, reading, listening to music, or massaging your belly.

It's funny how nutritionists always reference thermodynamics, drawn to as children to amusement parks, but physicists who spend decades studying thermodynamics never, never, never talk about calories.

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Howie likes going to his group therapy meetings, shared with other parents that have lost children, even though the majority of them spend too much time talking about God.

We spend so much time talking to our children about the physical world, yet this doesn't seem to apply for online safety.

«Spend some time thinking — and talk to other adults you trust — about how to talk to your child in a way that will help them understand and make sense of events that may otherwise feel unpredictable and overwhelming.»

When we talk about poverty and you are trying to feed your children well and all you have to spend is $ 5, it is very much a socioeconomic issue and it's very much an environmental issue.»

Nine out of ten parents responded that homework offers the opportunity to talk and spend time with their children, and most do not see homework as interfering with family time or as a major source of familial stress.

Students whose parents reported «spending time just talking to my child», «eating the main meal with my child around a table» or «discussing how well my child is doing at school» daily or nearly every day were between 22 per cent and 39 per cent more likely to report high levels of life satisfaction.

«It's great to have these incredible sporting ambassadors come down today to spend time with the children and talk to them about the how our healthy Snack Heroes — like bananas, rice cakes or apple slices — can help to keep them energised.»

She spent eight months observing and documenting infants between the ages of six - and 18 - months use signs to talk about internal states, to have conversations with their caregivers about their emotions, and to communicate with other children.

It expects to have Chicagoans on its side because, after all, these are teachers we're talking about, dedicated professionals who spend their energy in classrooms across the city, educating children.

Decoding experts suggest that for most children, about 30 minutes per day is necessary to teach decoding in grades 1 and 2 (more and with greater intensity for struggling students).23 Where schools spend 90 — 120 minutes per day on reading throughout the elementary grades, that leaves at least an hour per day that could be devoted to imparting the language and world knowledge that is most important for competence in listening, talking, reading, and writing.