Sentences with phrase «tales tell children»

The police still haven't grasped that central tenant of the cautionary tales we tell children: if you cry wolf too many times the public might just go and decide you can't be trusted.

Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.»

Fairy tales tell children that....

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Billy & Son are not that far off the same extreme $ $ $ $ $ $... A right pair of liars, charlatans, con - men telling scary tales to children..

The story told in the Book of Genesis, for example, is just a childrens tale written for a people who weren't ready for the truth.

In the attempt to keep their children «innocent» and «free,» parents tell their children a different type of fairy tale, a modern American story: everyone loves you because you're special, you are good at everything you try, and if you work hard enough and be a good little boy or girl, you'll be successful.

Aronofsky didn't see the happy tale of rainbows and doves told in children's books.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Zealous prosecutors claimed to be stamping out an epidemic of abuse, child - abuse experts coached and coerced young children to tell tall tales, psychologists peddled fantastic theories to juries, and judges caved in to pressures to «protect the children.»

Ransom, we are not the ones who believe, as adults, the fairy tales told to children to scare them into believing..

There is an extraordinary passage in Ezekiel 16, where the history of Israel is told in the form of a romantic tale about a foundling child who was adopted into a rich family and then went to the bad.)

Thus, in the above case, the nonsocial nexus entertains the proposition «baby as crying» as a «tale» that might be told about the child, and this is for the parent a «lure» for feeling.»

Plan to visit the Telling Tales Giant Book Swap and Shop Tent, a place to bring your slightly worn children's books, donate them to literacy and, if you choose, purchase second hand titles for just loonies and toonies.

Mark and Tim's story was told in the video, «A Tale of Two Dads» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh1B9Ni9iEk Beverly Prince - Sayward In addition to being a freelance writer, Beverly is a homeschooling mother to her three children - twins Hailey and Quentin, and youngest son Jared; the non-legally married wife to her partner Kathleen who works for IBM as well as the National Guard; and author of the blog Raising a Child with Auditory Processing Disorder.

In his 2015 album, comedian / writer / senior editor at MAD Magazine Dan Telfer tells the tale of «The Princess Potty» — and how it helped his children decide that ghosts were real.

The half hour animated film based on the much - loved children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler is a beautiful portrayal of the book telling the tale of the happy go lucky father's epic journey across the seasons to make it home in time for Christmas.

Everything I'd read told me that you can't really force children to use the toilet before they're ready (physically and emotionally) anyway, so I kept putting it off and putting it off, waiting for those tell - tale readiness signs every parenting magazine in every doctor's office everywhere always talks about.

You can tell your child some fairy - tale, you can sing a lullaby or just discuss your kid's day and make some plans for tomorrow.

Both my children's bottoms have survived to tell the tale though!

This short, soothing tale tells how animal parents get their children to sleep.

Based on the beloved children's story, How to Train Your Dragon tells a tale of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who instead of embracing his family's long - standing heroic dragon slaying tradition, faces a predicament when he comes face - to - face with a dragon who challenges him and his fellow Vikings to see the world from a whole new perspective.

Except... when we're so exhausted that we can't possibly remember what it is we wanted to do the next time our child climbed on the counter, pulled the dog's tail, told a tall tale, or just wouldn't go to sleep!

A child who is listening to a parent read, or tell a tale, will tend to lie still and focus on the story.

We now know that they are the tell - tale signs of a period in which the child makes a major leap forward in his mental development.

A child who is listening to a parent read a book or tell a tale will tend to lie still and listen.

Some of them are showing all the tell tale signs that another baby is on the way, and some entertainers are announcing their plans for more children on stage.

In the film adaptation of Nesbit's tale, he tells the children:

Only the apocryphal tale about a young George Washington seemed to inspire the kids to admit to peeking: Children who heard the tale in which the future first president is praised for confessing his transgression were three times more likely to tell the truth than their peers who heard other stories.

And then there's «The Butter Battle Book», perhaps Seuss's most pointed parable, a take on the Cold War arms race that horrified this author as a child whose parents dared to tell him what the tale of bigger, crazier guns and differing philosophies was really about.

Instead the Gruffalo's child tests her courage by seeking the Big Bad Mouse that her father tells her tales about to keep her from wandering alone in the woods.

The Lawgiver tells the children of the future a tale of the planet earth and the influence of two apes who went back in time and had a son Caesar.

Akira's popularity obscures the finest examples of the medium, films that manage to balance serious metaphysical musing with actual forward momentum (the two Ghost in the Shell films, for instance); to tell adult tales in affecting ways (Grave of the Fireflies); to redefine genre thriller (Perfect Blue), action (Ninja Scroll), and fantasy (Princess Mononoke); and to present children's fables as artifacts that are as useful for adults as they are for kids (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro).

Although the technical skill of Pixar's work is undeniable, much of their success stems from the ability to craft stories that engage audiences young and old.Whether telling tales of animated insects (A Bug's Life), superhero families (The Incredibles), talking automobiles (Cars) or lonely robots (WALL - E), their features connect with both children and adults, making for a cinema experience the whole family can enjoy.

It tells the tale of an African child soldier (Abraham Attah) who is taught to fight in the country's civil war by a monstrous warlord (played by Idris Elba).

A Little Princess and Fly Away Home also tell tales of children adapting to new environments.

Tells the tale of two children separated by fifty years.

It is presented as a fairy tale told to children, so it makes some amount of sense that its narrative would be relatively simple, but even considering that, the script of

From the producers of Alice in Wonderland and The Sixth Sense comes an adult telling of a children's classic fairy tale.

The Missing [Starz]-- A BBC Production picked up by Starz, The Missing is a haunting tale told over two timelines, about English parents whose child is abducted while they are vacationing in France.

He tells about a tale that his mother told him while he was a child in which she talked about how the devil would occasionally take the form of a human and use this ability to torture a number of unlucky sinners before ultimately killing them.

Arriving an hour late, Falk and company burst onto the scene with excuses and apologies, and somehow, Falk has taken the dinner hostage and begins telling a tale of his time in the Amazon, watching helplessly as Tse Tse flies the size of dogs would snatch up «little brown children in their beaks and fly away.»

Also arriving on VOD this week Wonderstruck, a mystery film starring Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore that tells the tale of two separate children on a quest to find their parents.

Goodbye Christopher Robin will tell the personal tale of beloved children's author A.A. Milne (Gleeson) and wife Daphne (Robbie).

Almost as shocking as its narrative — which tells the story of literally tens of thousands of children, and the terrible abuses they suffered after in many cases being told that their parents were dead — is the fact that it is hardly known in the United States, where tales of adolescent mistreatment and murder are typically seized upon with a white - hot tabloid fervor, grist for the mill of the 24 - hour cable news channels.

Themes of retirement and aging might seem an odd fit for a children's film — and they are — but there's something uniquely universal therein, allowing screenwriters Kiel Murray, Bob Peterson, and Mike Rich to tell a classically Disney tale of mortality without getting into the guts of what it means to get old and die.

Adapted from the classic children's tale by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons tells the story of the Walker children, along -LSB-...]

There was an interesting tale to be told, but it was buried in an avalanche of absurdity, corny dialogue, and awkward humor coming mostly from the highly unlikable child characters.

Possible signs of dyslexia Throughout their school career a dyslexic child may display certain tell - tale signs.

Using a traditional tale from Burkina Faso, children can learn how to develop their story - telling skills Use in conjunction with the Interactive Wh...

Throughout their school career a dyslexic child may display these «tell tale» signs.