I write for all the parents (and others
who spend time with children) who want to think about how they can best help kids be the best they can be.
Pam Leo's audiotape, «Healing the Feeling Child,» is a great resource for parents and anyone
who spends time with children.
That is the power of one adult who really cares,
who spends time with a child, and who believes in her.
Denver, CO and London, England About Blog Joyful Toddlers was founded in 2010 by Faith Collins as a resource for parents, grandparents, nannies, home daycare providers, early childhood educators, and anyone
who spends their time with children ages 1 - 5.
Not exact matches
With the aid of an executive assistant who's a former statistician, Smith tracks everything from the number of hours he devotes to interviews to how much one - on - one time he spends with each of his child
With the aid of an executive assistant
who's a former statistician, Smith tracks everything from the number of hours he devotes to interviews to how much one - on - one
time he
spends with each of his child
with each of his
children.
An employee
who spends 250 days a year
with his employer,
who spends more
time at the office than
with his or her own
children on any week day, is investing most of their human experience
with that employer.
Not only is she setting an example for her daughter as a busy executive
who prioritizes
spending high quality
time with her
children, her son sees his father helping in the kitchen and
with other household matters.
Thus, it's no surprise that in the past 20 years, the number of dads
who stay home
with children has dramatically increased and men in general are
spending significantly more
time parenting their
children.
Those
who did work less were mostly parents
with very young
children and teenagers
who otherwise would have
spent more
time in school or studying.
Anyone
who has
spent time with a kindergartner knows that really connecting
with one is no
child's play.
Chubb backs employees
who want to volunteer, offering
time to do everything from helping out at their
child's school to
spending weeks away
with Habitat for Humanity.
Grown - ups
who spend time here
with Pineapple comment on the confidence
with which she uses her assertiveness to issue little orders like this to the other
children.
Research indicates that we should be wary of the motives of adults
who show an acute interest in our
children, and
who want to
spend a lot of
time alone
with them.
He writes about the sixteen days he
spent sailing the Pacific Ocean
with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the
time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream
with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman
who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan
children from prison.
He defines the «new man» as the father and husband
who supports his wife's work outside of the home,
spends time with the
children, washes the dishes, attends Johnny's soccer games, helps
with the school work and brings home his share of the cash.
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.
Make the church available after school for
children who otherwise would be
spending their
time with TV; provide tutoring, play activities, reading.
In a world where the religious
spend a signficant amount of
time pointing out the sins of others while claiming that they are in relationship
with the One
who has set the moral standards... and then a significant number of them commit one of the most heinous of crimes against
children and have leaders
spend significant effort at covering it up...
Moms
who are able to
spend adequate
time with their
children are statistically better employees, better moms, and more productive.
«A grown - up can only
spend so much
time with a
child,» says Dale Eggeling, a pro
who has a two - year - old son, Dustin.
She started
spending more
time in South Korea — seemingly trying to find out
who she really was after being sent as a
child to live
with a nanny in the U.S. so she could develop her golf skills.
1 Doubles ranking of Jacco Eltingh, 28,
who retired after winning the world doubles championship on Sunday to
spend more
time with his newborn
child.
It is critically important that parents
who are separated from their
children spend very focused and intentional
time reconnecting
with their
child after separation
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.
• Swedish fathers
who take longer leave are more satisfied
with time spent with their
children (Haas & Hwang, 2008).
A working parent has to be aware that attachment takes place
with only one person, that one person being the person
who spends the most
time with the
child.
• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can
spend more
time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their
child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those
who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital
with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading
with their
children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging
with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.
Parents and caregivers
who don't get to be
with their
children during the day because of a busy work schedule will enjoy the
time they get to
spend bonding
with baby while using a baby sling.
Examples might include a
child who visits
with the other parent,
spends a lot of
time with friends and going out, or otherwise
spends time away from parents or caregivers.
Dads
who spent time alone
with their
children and
spent childcare
time at least twice weekly had the most compassionate
children of those followed in the study.
Parents
who spend less
time with their
children tend to make sure that the
time they do
spend with them is better quality overall than that of those
who are
with them all the
time, so it evens out.
Or, a
child who doesn't
spend a lot of
time with his parents may cope
with loneliness by using his toys and electronics.
Dr Steele found that
children who as babies did not
spend quality
time with their fathers — particularly those not regularly bathed by dad, experienced friendship and relationship difficulties three
times above the national average.
It's now clear that even a father
who spends little
time at home or does not live
with his
child can have an impact as much by what he doesn't do, as by what he does (Amato & Sobolewski, 2004).
a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads
with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11,
children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers
who spend more
time playing
with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth
Men
who take
time off after the birth
spend more
time with their
children later on and this contributes positively to their development, according to research reviewed in an EOC report published in January 2005, Shared caring: bringing fathers into the frame (Margaret O'Brien).
This means that where security classifications differ between parents, as they so often do, the secure attachment is not necessarily
with the person
who spends most
time with the
child (usually the mother).
I
spend less
time intensely parenting the teen at night (and in general) than some parents
who worked to minimize nighttime parenting
with their infants and young
children.
Find people
who have lots of experience
with small babies and have
spent time with crying or fussy
children.
With an older child who is already living in the United States, you can get a sense of the child's general health by spending time with him or her before the adoption or by serving as a foster parent fi
With an older
child who is already living in the United States, you can get a sense of the
child's general health by
spending time with him or her before the adoption or by serving as a foster parent fi
with him or her before the adoption or by serving as a foster parent first.
All kids
who play sports can develop an overuse injury, but the likelihood increases
with the amount of
time a
child spends on the sport.
Spend time with him: Studies show that
children who eat at least one meal a day
with their families and share at least one weekly activity are less likely to drink.
Let those
who have travelled the seas share
with you, «the
time spent nursing a
child is short», so short, Momma.
Such programs -
with at least 16 under way in Illinois and others planned - provide
children with creative and fun ways to
spend their
time, while giving schools a means to deal
with students
who show up early each day or stay long after classes are over.
I just have more limited office hours in order to
spend more
time with my
children,
who are growing up rather quickly!
Burgess also holds that fathers
who interact
with their
children have more influence over their
children's lives than fathers
who do not
spend as much
time with them.
She is a former branding expert
who spends her spare
time with her two
children, and enjoying all of the amazing restaurants the city has to offer.
On the other hand, parents
who have
spent a long day at work may crave more
time with their
children than bedtime allows.
Though we live in a culture that often fails to give
child rearing the credit it deserves, mainly because it doesn't earn much in the way of income, anyone
who has
spent a significant amount of
time alone
with their
children knows how difficult it can be.
Once your
children are off to school, if you're a full
time parent, use this
time to run errands, get things done around the house, or
spend quality
time with children who are not yet school - aged.