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For children refusing school in pursuit of rewards outside of school, treatment often takes a family-based approach, using family-based contingency contracting and communication skills training. [ 14 ] [ 2 ] In some instances, children may also engage in peer refusal skills training.
I make concessions on doing things for my kids that I don’t particularly enjoy about a zillion times a day — meals, cleanup, hygiene, scheduling, etc. — and I wholly accept it because these ...
The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]
Peter Pan: A term describing a grown adult, typically a man, who behaves like a child or teenager and refuses, either actively or passively, to act their true age. It is also used as a positive way, even as a compliment, depending on the context and circumstance.
When my family goes out to eat, I’ll happily accept the booster seat, crayons, special placemat and plastic cup for my toddler. But when the kids’ menu arrives, I pretend it doesn’t exist ...
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Denialism is an essentially irrational action that withholds the validation of a historical experience or event when a person refuses to accept an empirically verifiable reality. [ 2 ] In the sciences, denialism is the rejection of basic facts and concepts that are undisputed, well-supported parts of the scientific consensus on a subject, in ...
Another view, for example, is that the biblical verse "Be fruitful and multiply" in Genesis 1:28, is really not a command but an expression of blessing. [96] Alternatively, some Christians believe that Genesis 1:28 is a moral command but nonetheless believe that voluntary childlessness is ethical if a higher ethical principle intervenes to make ...