Sentences with phrase «teach habits of»

Paul Marble, associate director at Sturgis, said he attributes the high test scores to the school's international baccalaureate (IB) program: «We teach habits of mind like being reflective, caring and taking risks.

We have to do more to teach habits of tolerance, knowledge, and awareness of other cultures.»

Scientific education is part of that heritage, fostering the «spiritual values of humanism» by teaching the habit of questioning arbitrary authority.

We never picked her up because we didn't want to teach the habit of crying = get picked up.

The school takes an organic approach to learning, teaching habits of open - minded inquiry that can help student be resourceful when faced with life's challenges, big and small.

«The group taught me habits of helping and conceptualizing other people's work,» she says.

Not exact matches

Because our hat is the first of its kind, teaching people a new habit of separating the bills proved challenging.

«I'm the youngest of nine kids, and my mother taught me a lesson that is the basis for one of my primary daily habits.

I'm looking to eventually teach theology, but in between my personal studies, an obsessive reading habit, and spending far too much money on coffee, I started a blog called New Ways Forward as an outlet for some of my random thoughts and a way to interact with others who share a passion for theology, Biblical studies, and social justice.

The main reason a church might want to consider letting prayer meetings cease is that even when prayer meetings are healthy and people don't learn bad types of praying, they still teach people bad habits about prayer.

The patient is next invited to be seated in a reclining chair, taught to relax all his muscles, calmed by soothing words, and in a state of physical relaxation and mental quiet the unwholesome thoughts and untoward symptoms are dislodged from his consciousness, and in their place are sown the seeds of more health - giving thoughts and better habits.

But the names of Christ and Christianity are too overwhelming, and the habit of submission to them is too deeply ingrained after centuries and centuries of teaching.

2 The overseer should therefore be irreprehensible, a husband of one wife, moderate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach, 3 not a drunken brawler, not a smiter, but reasonable, not belligerent, not a lover of money, 4 a man presiding over his own household in a fine manner, having children in subjection with all seriousness; 5 (if indeed any man does not know how to preside over his own household, how will he take care of God's congregation?)

The ceremonies symbolize the book's moral teaching, and the book's morality grows out of the liturgical habits it instills.

Such a system had serious drawbacks because the teaching materials were several centuries old, the study of Arabic — and no Chinese — was inadequate, so the students could read only a limited amount and could not speak the language, there was no general educational background for the religious courses, and the freedom allowed to the students often led them to form bad habits.

It is not the teachings of Jesus Christ or Christianity which is to blame for our behavior, Christianity is a victim of our tribalistic habits which we bring into it.

Phillip Johnson, law professor at the University of California at Berkeley and author of two earlier books on Darwinism, hopes to teach readers to spot those bad habits and restore rational debate.

I would not say that seminary taught me much that was helpful for life outside of seminary, but I would say that seminary taught me study habits and disciplined thinking patterns that have served me every day since graduation.

Since there has been no habit of reflection and no clarification of how Christians are to think about anything, Christians suppose that their gut feelings represent normative Christian teaching.

I too have felt the machinery of Christianity, its rituals and teachings and habits of mind, remote from the way I lead my life and, in that sense, if not absurd, then certainly useless, because I didn't (and still often don't) use it to guide and govern my life.

John Paul II took Catholic social doctrine in a new direction by teaching that, in the post-industrial world of the twenty - first century, Adam Smith's «wealth of nations» resides, not so much in stuff (as in natural resources or land) as in human creativity: in ideas, skills, work - habits and entrepreneurial instincts.

This was an excellent social opportunity and I met the lion's share of great friends, found some great study partners including an honorable mention for a graduate student and Mensa member that taught me some great study habits.

Maya Nahra is a behavioral registered dietitian teaching emotional eaters, binge eaters, and chronic & yo - yo dieters how to achieve permanence in health and peace of mind in life through Habit and Behavior Change.

He puts the exercise saddle on the horse, rides him at a walk to the track, steadies him with the feel of his confident hands on the reins and withers, calms him, reassures him, hangs on when he bucks or shies, teaches him manners, corrects his bad habits, gets him used to standing up straight in the starting gate, gallops him a slow mile or gives him a fast workout that is a marvel of split - second timing.

We teach players how to learn, apply themselves fully, develop habits that will make them successful, and how to play the game of volleyball.

But running a program that can claim just five winning seasons since 1980, hasn't won a league title since 1985 and still seeks its first NCS playoff victory, Walters understands that his goal isn't simply to win — it's about teaching the habits and characteristics of winning.

The result was a report titled «Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners,» published in June 2012, which for the first time represented noncognitive skills — or «noncognitive factors,» as the report called them — not as a set of discrete abilities that individual children might somehow master (or fail to master), but as a collection of mindsets and habits and attitudes that are highly dependent on the context in which children are learning.

We need to teach our children to make healthy choices regarding foods (not sneak vegetables into all of their meals and assume that will help them develop healthy eating habits).

Making this a habit will teach your baby the patterns of turning the page and anticipating what comes next in a story.

Make healthy eating habits a part of your child's life by going shopping with him and teaching him to read nutrition labels.

Short of that, it may be another excuse for our schools to inadvertently teach poor eating habits.

They are taught to become aware of their eating habits (such as portion sizes) as well as their activity levels.

Whether you are transitioning a young child from their crib to a bed, trying to keep a child in bed through the night, needing to convince your child not to wake up at the crack of dawn, or struggling to sleep - train a child of any age who is on the Autism Spectrum, sometimes a parent just needs a little help teaching healthy sleep habits.

When you start to teach your baby good sleeping habits always start at the beginning of the day so that he will have several practises before night time.

You can, however, help break him of this habit and teach him some nursing manners.

Second, it teaches them about healthy sleep habits and the benefits of a good night's rest.

For a longer stay, I'd pass, for reasons like: a.) we've come too far to regress and send the taste - buds back to industrialized hell for 3 squares a day for a length of time b.) my asthmatic child legitimately has an adverse reaction to artificial dyes and processed foods c.) if a camp cuts corners these days when it comes to food when fresh produce & clean drinking water is so widely available, it would make me wonder what else are they cutting corners on d.) I'd feel like a hypocrite for teaching them healthy eating habits, only to send them away for... say 3 weeks or a month....

And for that reason, it is the perfect time of year to teach our kids healthy habits.

She said it was because she wanted to teach her kids the habit of daily vegetable - eating.

In this episode of the Happy Bite Podcast, I talk about best practices for packing school lunches so you can use what you pack to teach your kids healthy eating habits.

I remember several people telling me when I brought my daughter home that I should do cry - it - it as she didn't need the same level of care as she had in the hospital, that I needed to undo the habits that had created a baby that expected to have her needs met whenever she wanted them, that my baby was being taught to manipulate.

Some picky kids will indeed grow into picky adults (my brother does most of the cooking in the house because his wife found it impossible to cook for him when there are so many foods he won't touch), but if you teach good habits now, even those picky adults with limited diets can be healthy and happy.

From teaching your child healthy eating habits to helping them prepare for their first day of preschool, here's some helpful advice for day - to - day care.

One of the best ways to ensure that your kids are eating well at school is by teaching and reinforcing healthy eating habits at home.

At Joovy, we believe teaching children early about safety and creating good safety habits is an essential part of parenting.

Taking some time to understand the basics of child nutrition can help you avoid common mistakes, make healthy choices, learn about new things, like probiotics, and teach your kids healthy eating habits.

For your kids you always want better than what your parents did with you, and for me that it is teaching them to be in the habit of Bible time.

Make a habit of identifying in your own mind the value you wish to teach the child based on the particular behavior.

Getting a newborn to «flip» his schedule so that he sleeps primarily at night and is more wakeful during the day helps teach a child healthy sleep habits and allows the rest of the family a better chance of being well rested as well.

If you get in the habit of doing skin checks at least daily and teaching your child appropriate transfer techniques as she gets old enough to move around on her own, it is not that difficult to prevent skin breakdown.