My seven-year-old has now been initiated, asking when we can have a snowball as soon as he spies the bottles tucked away on a shelf.
Hart and Risley also provided examples of various kinds of conversation — mostly, but not exclusively, among the professional families — in which parents prompted and encouraged children to talk: The mother initiates, asking Calvin (24 months), "What did we do on Halloween?
Likewise, internationally, such as in Hong Kong and other cities in China, nurses are more likely to initiate (ask, advise, and assess), and less likely to assist and arrange follow-up [ 13, 14].
In the case of social anxiety, adolescents can engage in in-session role plays to practice activities they find anxiety-provoking, such as initiating conversations, asking someone out on a date, or giving a talk (Albano et al. 1995).
There was no difference between rural and urban nurses in initiating interventions (asking, advising, and assessing), but rural nurses were significantly more likely to assist and arrange follow-up.
The discussion during the focus group was initiated by asking teachers to have read in advance a case study of a Finnish learner, Rosa, who had already undertaken an ECVET mobility in Iceland as part of her programme of tourism studies in Finland (Finnish Board of Education 2012).
However, all FGDs were initiated by asking the informants to discuss what their understanding of an obstructed labour was and what actions they took in case this complication occurred within their community.
To exemplify this we identified two types of information delivery each resulting in different types of patient response; the most marked difference being levels of patient initiated question asking.
The core of the focus groups was an open discussion initiated by asking a few key questions (When do services work at their best? Tell us about situations when a service works really well in terms of collaboration? What characterises the service at those times?).
This could be as simple as introducing yourself and initiating conversation or asking about his interests, or as outrageous as asking him to dance at a party or buying him a drink at a bar.
