Sentences with phrase «who plays with their children»

What may look ideal in other mothers - like someone who plays with their children a lot - is not necessarily so.

Not exact matches

He has seen this trend play out both in his research and with his own children, who are in their 20s.

And studies point to the myriad creativity benefits to children who use their decidedly unconnected Legos to play in an unstructured fashion — as opposed to using Lego sets that come with bells and whistles and precise step - by - step instructions.

As they eagerly describe a young Alison staging plays in the family living room and leading neighborhood children on make - believe safaris, the subject of their recollections sits quietly, as though detached from a past that has little to do with who she is today.

What it's about: Based on the acclaimed play, «South Pacific» is about a nurse who falls in love with an older French plantation owner with mixed - race children she has trouble accepting.

Anyone who has spent time with a kindergartner knows that really connecting with one is no child's play.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

The Amazon Alexa stories, aimed at children aged 2 to 5 who play with Lego's Duplo building blocks, include The Plane Story and the The Rabbit Story.

Hoon chose to work with NTY after meeting Ron Olson, NTY's cofounder, who'd started the franchisor now known as Winmark, a Plymouth - based company whose franchise brands include resale stores Once Upon a Child, Play It Again Sports and Music Go Round.

There are individuals, yes, who do hold beliefs not in line with Church teachings — I was stunned, for example, when I was 18 to hear the leadership chastising members for not allowing their children to play with «nonmember» children, because «they don't have our standards.»

I was appalled to learn that people — I suppose in the more insular Utah and Idaho communities — would refuse to allow their children to play with kids who weren't LDS.

He sounds like a little kid who's playing house with 4 women for short term gratification, but doesn't consider or acknowledge the long term affects on the children or on society.

In this argument Charles plays the Baby Boomer (born 1948) who plays Jenga with civilization and doesn't know why his children blame him for the rubble.

Meanwhile, the slightly - older - than - middle - age grandmother who doesn't play the piano so well — or the forester who loves to study the Bible but can't make it every Sunday — or the welder and his wife, who homeschools their 3 children with the desire to minister to their kids and their friends but can't because they ticked off the pastor's wife on the last trip — they'll just sit and wait, or wonder if they should leave and re-enter.

I shared the reservations of Elton Trueblood, who wrote of exclusivism: «Such a scheme is neat and simple, but it is morally shocking... A God who would thus play favorites with his children, condemning some to eternal separation from himself while admitting others, and distinguishing them wholly or chiefly on the basis of the accidents of history or geography, over which they had no control, would be more devil than God.»

Even those children who didn't open their gifts until Christmas morning had now done so, and would be playing with their new possessions, more or less discreetly, in the pews.

The God we encounter there is the God in whom we live and move and have our being, the God who rejoices over His children with signing, the God who spreads Her wings over Her children like an eagle over her chicks, the God who loved the world enough to experience all of its pain alongside of us, the God who — as Nadia Bolz - Weber puts it — «would rather die than be in the sin accounting business anymore,» the God who loves to watch us play.

The writer of Proverbs asserts that «hatred stirs up dissension»; the Israeli mother who raises her child to hate Saddam Hussein (as opposed to his heinous acts) is playing with fire.

Artistry is important because teachers who function artistically in the classroom not only provide children with important sources of artistic experience, they also provide a climate that welcomes exploration and risk - taking and cultivates the disposition to play.

Here's a thought: rather than following a group of men who play with little boys or believing in a religion which has you eating flesh and drinking blood every sabath or believing in a divine being that calls for you to stone disobedient children, why don't you simply think for yourself.

Here's a fuller synopsis of the play: The Jeweler's Shop is a meditation on marriage by the future pontiff, told with warmth and wit through the stories of three couples: a young couple torn by war, an older couple tempted by infidelity, and lastly the children of these two marriages who themselves are called to love.

Mr Wallen said: «Today, there will be children who are expressing appalling things on Facebook, they will be listening to music with explicit, violent lyrics, they will be playing violent video games, they will talk to one another in pretty derogatory and unpleasant terms but they won't kill their teacher at school and they won't kill anyone else.»

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

But that we old fools march around in bishops» hats and with clerical pageantry and take it not only seriously but as an article of faith, so that it must be a sin and must torment the conscience of anyone who does not venerate such child's play — that is the devil himself.

Make the church available after school for children who otherwise would be spending their time with TV; provide tutoring, play activities, reading.

One can indeed say that there is no wholly bad man — each has somewhere some good in him — like that atrocious Chinese bandit leader, who relentlessly slaughtered thousands, but nevertheless played heartily with children as though he were himself an innocent child.

The buyer signed the contract smugly sure The guarded walls he'd bought would keep away The street - game children, noisy in their play; The beggars, hungry, hideous, and poor; The Bible salesmen coming door to door; Annoying relatives, who'd overstay; Do - gooder activists, with things to say....

I had cousins to play with, aunts who seemed so much more lighthearted than my mother, though I know now that that was just the viewpoint of a child, and a grandfather who seemed to adore me (that was Popper).

The child who whenever they see a glass full of liquid HAS to dump it all over my open and perfectly working computer... And then play with it.

Mesut Ozil: the guy has a heart as small as a fist of a 3 month child the only position he can play is CAM and only under certain circumstances, he came with an incredible assist record (for the team with someone who scores for fun) full stop.

Recently when ever i watch AW on TV giving an interview i don't know weather to laugh or vote for him for the next president of France, he has become to arrogant, predictable robot like with his answers but most of all his undermining his supporters treating them like Children who don't understand, its possible you can do this if your decisions or play is always correct but to fail and pretend it like its anything ells but a failure is wrong, Arsen man up and say we fuc ed up and show your disappointment at players who are not giving all or just sub them if they are having a bad day its normal,

Every Wednesday, Ostertag — who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., with his wife, Heidi, and their three children, Cody, 17, Shelby, 11, and Bailey, 14 — straps on size 16 skates at the Ice Den, where he plays in a rec hockey league, no checking allowed.

Budd, there Arsenal experts who have never played the game even as children, who have not accomplished anything, adults who live with Mummy yet scream that they know more football than Wenger, Bould and all the coaches at Arsenal.

One of the parents who complained had learned that Tavares had been convicted in 1974 in New Bedford of «unnatural acts with a child under 16» following an encounter in a swimming pool with a boy who played on a youth football team Tavares had coached.

In fact with a vision-less and passion-less board as ours, Wenger as arrogant and as past it as he might is the only semblance of sanity, I don't support Wenger I believe he is currently doing a marvelous job, I support him because I can see a couple of moves ahead already, if Wenger leaves and the board stays the same, we are massively effed, Newcastle will be child's play, Kroenke's other teams are mid table contenders, he will simply look at another money making model for Arsenal, even Usamanov believes Arsene needs backing, if Usmanov came in today, he will not fire Wenger, he will seek to work with him, give him a clear mandate, back him up without pointing at the balance sheeets and if he still does not deliver, looks like a guy who would fire Wenger mid s - season, legacy or not.

Someday, we will be able to tell our children, grandchildren or even great - grandchildren: «I saw Rafael Marquez play, that tall player, full of great technical skills, smarts, who effortlessly made passes 60 meters long, who crossed the field with his head held high and the ball glued to his shoes.

«Since I was a child I have dreamed of playing in the black and yellow for this club,» said Reus who was born in Dortmund but made his Bundesliga debut with Borussia Moenchengladbach.

«Often I'm asked what my definition of autism is and, of course, there is the standard definition: children who have problems with communicating, repetitive motion, abnormal toy play, social skills, are delayed,» says Dr. Kartzinel, «But really what I look at in a child is how many responses to stimuli the child responds to abnormally.»

My children have been arguing incessantly over who gets to play with the truck, which shows you just how great it is and how wide the appeal.

I identify with the «Cusp - ers» like me who may remain standing on the sidelines while others of our generation procreate, trying to fulfill our desire for children by playing the role of Auntie and Uncle to our friends» offspring.

«We try to particularly encourage friendships and play dates with children who have a different background than we do: being raised by two moms, coming from a different country, being of a different race,» Messersmith says.

One group received hour - long home visits once a week from a trained researcher who encouraged the parents to spend more time playing actively with their children: reading picture books, singing songs, playing peekaboo.

Others chimed in to tell Katona — who has five children — that toddlers should not be allowed to play with scissors.

Here's the point: if your child sleeps in her cleats, nags you to stay late after practice and shows up in the team meeting room with a face full of cotton two hours after breaking her nose saying she's «good to go tomorrow» (true story) you know you have a kid who wants to play.

Prior to killing his sister — a child who wasn't old enough to tie her shoes — the boy had been, according to CNN, «playing» with his gun.

My wife and I found the lack of small children (and their parents) isolating, and we felt sorry for our son who rarely had anyone to play with.

Have you got a child who enjoys sensory play with sand, water, dirt and other similar substances?

Let me start by saying, Evan is not the type of child who sits and plays with something for an extended period of the time.

Between needing to accommodate the uninhibited movement necessary for playing with (and occasionally swooping in to rescue) your children (not to mention those moms who nurse and need easy access to the boobiez) and needing to be OK with whatever you're wearing inevitably becoming covered in dirt, snot, food, and general child schmutz, it's completely understandable that many moms dress practically rather than fashionably.

But I have to say, bloggers who perpetuate this idea, and who have contributed to creating this myth that moms are «being moms» when they are laughing with and cuddling with and playing with and enjoying their children, (and are, by logical extension, NOT «being moms» when they are doing other things) are doing a disservice, in my opinion.