Act-out Sentence Examples

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  • Children, much like adults, tend to act out when angry.

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  • Those young people with adolescence limited behaviors typically act out in specific defined social situations and usually stop acting out behaviors before reaching adulthood.

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  • However many pre teens act out this way due to the preconceived notions placed upon them by the adults in their lives.

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  • Older Children act out subjects like eating spaghetti or doing up shoe laces.

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  • If your child has pleaded to attend a regular school, they may act out in rebellion.

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  • Hormonal changes and a desire to become independent from parents can make adolescents act out in many ways.

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  • Actors will act out scenes from a crime followed by a workshop where kids can super sleuth to find out whodunit?

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  • Your cat may not adjust very well to a new home and could act out by spraying and scratching.

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  • If your cat is stressed, he may act out with unfavorable behavior like spraying and marking, vertical scratching or loss of appetite.

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  • Because of this, many children will start to act out negatively.

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  • A bad home life has made her want to escape and act out in ways that may bring her more attention (even if it is bad attention).

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  • Identifying the root of the problem causing your teen to act out can help you determine the best way to help him.

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  • Without the ability to talk or make sounds, the charade player has to act out in front of the group, while everyone tries to guess the answer.

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  • Zeus is probably feeling a little disconcerted about the change he senses, and this could very well be leading him to act out by marking territory inside the house.

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  • Freud believed that dreams were a window into the unconscious mind and a way to act out unconscious wishes and desires.

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  • Some people believe dreaming is a way to act out our unconscious wishes, while others attribute dreams to dealing with emotions, creating new pathways in the brain, and committing things to memory.

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  • They may never act out the same things in reality, but this thought and behavior may become aggressive, which affects those around him or her.

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  • Gamers all over their world could finally act out their dreams of embodying giant apes, lizards, and wolf creatures and bring society to it's digital knees, one building at a time, while fighting off wave after wave of the US Military.

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  • The results from those early studies were not surprising - children act out more violently after playing violent video games.

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  • Encourage children to act out aggressive scenarios.

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  • Fantasy play-Play activities in which children act out their fantasies.

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  • Or in play this same child might act out abusive experience by hitting or screaming at a doll that symbolizes the child.

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  • Children act out situations they suspect may happen to them, that they are fearful will happen, or that they have witnessed.

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  • Children act out or dramatize real-life situations.

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  • They act out anxiety and emotional stress from abuse, neglect, abandonment, and various painful physical experiences.

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  • Some children are too angry or fearful to act out their feelings through dramatic play.

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  • Children who have a warm, loving, and supportive childhood are far less likely to act out as a cry for help or to act out in a violent manner.

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  • Teens with life course persistent behaviors act out in violent ways from early childhood on, in a variety of situations.

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  • Some are able to control aggressive impulses without acting on them while others act out in less destructive ways, such as screaming at someone rather than attacking them physically.

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  • They answer trivia questions about the movie, act out a hidden talent or play Truth or Dare as part of their audition to be in the next High School Musical.

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  • And, the kids have fun watching their parents and other adults act out hidden talents like dancing or playing the drums.

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  • Write out titles of different songs for each team to act out.

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  • Fetishism may include a desire to submit, dominate, have someone spank you or simply act out fantasies of multiple origins.

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  • However, if you act out of character in order to encourage another person's emotional attachment, the relationship will be flawed from the beginning.

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  • After reading the story with your child, help her to act out the story using hand puppets.

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  • It is actually more dysfunctional to expect a child or an adult to never act out and become emotional.

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  • Not only are they designing their own dolls and clothing, they're creating stories around them that they can tell and act out for hours.

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  • Young children often have a problem identifying or communicating that they do not feel well, so they may act out in odd ways.

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  • While there is no guarantee that your child may turn to rebellious behaviors, if he or she feels stifled and restricted, he or she may act out and respond through violence and rebellion.

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  • Ask direct questions about how the camp administration deals with campers who are unmotivated, defiant or who act out inappropriately.

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  • Let kids turn their favorite books, plays, or short stories into a skit in which they act out the parts.

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  • Using the masks as a prop, the kids can act out their favorite Pokemon scenes rather than watching them on TV.

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  • Each couple must then act out a scene from the movie while everyone else tries to guess the name of the movie.

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  • Model families, Chinese, Malay, or Indian, act out little playlets explicating the customs of each culture.

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  • Very young children tend to cling to their parents more, while teenagers act out in different ways.

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