Sentences with phrase «are some grandparents who»

That could be a grandparent who the child is staying with over the weekend, or it could even be a babysitter who's just home in the afternoons with your child and something comes up while you're unavailable and they can't reach you.

There are some grandparents who do not get to see their grandchildren very often.

Interestingly, 66 per cent of students come from outside the school zone, a fact that staff ascribe to the large number of students whose primary carers are grandparents who live within the zone.

So, for instance, if you're a grandparent who opens an account for your grandchild, the child's parents won't automatically have access to the account — i.e., the ability to check balances, change investments, or withdraw money from the account.

I think the kids would recognize that it was the grandparents who were able to afford it and not the parents.

If you are a grandparent who is being refused contact with your grandchild, you can make an application to the Court for a Contact Order.

There are a significant number of grandparents in Scotland who are denied contact with their grandchildren, and there are grandparents who provide kinship care for their grandchildren when their parents are not able to look after them.

This information session, hosted by Vera Hardiman, Principal Solicitor at Casey Cardinia Community Legal Service and supported by the Berwick Family Relationship Centre is for you if you are a grandparent who:

A lot of kinship carers are grandparents who are struggling on a pension when they take on the responsibility of a child and suddenly have to budget even further.

Not exact matches

Thank God I'm just a grandparent these days, without school - aged kids who are trapped in an increasingly bizarre and irrational world run by adults - mostly parents and otherwise unemployable administrators — where the rules, the procedures and the approved behaviors vary daily and the changes come so rapidly and abruptly that the characters in Alice in Wonderland would be totally jealous.

Tamerlan's grandparents had been native Chechens, who had been deported to Kyrgystan by the Stalin regime.

While I for one am absolutely thrilled about a reduction in time spent doing laundry (as it continues to feel like a treadmill of tedium today, I can only imagine the hours our grandparents wasted on the task), you could be excused for asking, who really cares?

Canadians who support a parent or grandparent who is 65 years of age or older, and living with them, can no longer make a claim.

However, it's not technically a ghost town because it has a single resident named Philip O'Connor, who has lived in the same house that his parents and grandparents occupied.

«I, myself, was born in a family of migrants; my father, my grandparents, like many other Italians, left for Argentina and met the fate of those who are left with nothing.

Small, who remembers his grandparents and parents teaching him early lessons of money management when he was a boy, said it is never too early to open an account.

But his parents and grandparents, who are helping outfit that dorm room, might also be audiences.

His biological mother had two more children, who were eventually also adopted by his grandparents due to his biological mother's substance abuse problems.

Try to find a grandparent, a sibling, or a friend, perhaps someone who's gone through a similar situation.

For grandparents who want to contribute to their grandchild's college education, a Roth IRA may be the best choice.

But it does not recognize the amazing diversity of ways that Canadian families come together to raise their children - the grandparents who spend their retirements pushing strollers, the parents who juggle shifts so that someone is always home for the kids, the single parents and blended families and other complexities of modern life.

«Your choices in character have nothing to do with your education level or who your parents and grandparents are,» Miles says.

Campaigns included an initiative started by college students called «Students with Puerto Rico» and the «Mirta & Angelo hurricane relief» — a campaign created for a woman's great - grandparents, 80 and 84, who are living «in the shell of a home» they have left south of San Juan.

Having 2 grandparents at home who are on the brink, these themes are things we talk about on a daily basis.

«I don't know if the reason for my anger is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents were too, and as much as all of them loved Ireland they knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»

To the person who said Obama is half white: It is an ugly but longstanding «tradition» in our country, especially in the South, to consider people black if they have even one great grandparent who was black.

I mean, who would let their children find out the truth about things when their 8th grade educated grandparent still believes the world is flat and doesn't want any liberal mumbo jumbo trying to contradict them.

, grandparents who died without ever knowing where she was or if she had even survived, and the nights of loneliness and devastating grief she endured as a four - year - old, taken from the only life she knew and dropped into a whole new world.

If we are to speak truly to our age, therefore, we can assume, not (1) the complete ignorance of Christian principles, such as existed in the decaying civilization of early Greece and Rome; (2) the thoroughgoing knowledge and acceptance of Christian principles, such as existed in the time of most of our grandparents; or (3) the vigorous antagonism to the gospel, such as now exists among those who accept either the Marxist or the Fascist interpretation of history; but (4) a vague and tenuous residuum of Christian piety, devoid of any intention of doing anything about it.

Alas, we now have a few generations of Catholics, parents and grandparents themselves, who have somehow missed out on or been short - changed by the catechesis they received in their homes, schools or parishes.

It's like comparing someone who shoots a murderer, and his wife, and his children, and his parents, and his friends, and his cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents.

@ Brigette — yeah, I don't want to be a Hare Krishna either... I do like what you say regarding thinking about your parents and grandparents teaching you the prayers — nice sentiment there even for folks like me who don't pray anymore.

My grandparents were Greeks who suffered terribly under the Nazi occupation.

I'm not sure how that relates to the topic anymore, except thinking about the praying morning and evening and table prayers, brought down through the generations, makes me think of my parents and grandparents who taught them to us and prayed them with us, diligently and who certainly would be hurt by our going from them to a thousand Hare Krishna's every day.

Clearly it's all a big joke, a poke in the eye of those repressed types who wouldn't want to talk about sadomasochism with their grandparents around the game table.

Pastor Jordan Gadsby, at the Apostolic Church in Nipawin, said more than 100 people had gathered at the church, including parents and grandparents of the players who were on the bus.

Our communion of saints is a more familiar crowd — those who died in our congregations in the past year our own parents and grandparents.

Many of the people in the group are my parents», and even my grandparents» age, and I'm not sure I can or should be teaching people who are my elders.

These working - class Trump voters were not poor, and their own lives were not a mess, but they were the neighbors, siblings, parents, and grandparents of those who were struggling to form families.

The grandparents of today who accepted this consent with relief became in some cases the «condoning generation» with regard to abortion in difficult cases with the result that many mothers today, even within our own community, carry the burden of a decision that was sold to them as a solution to their problem pregnancy.

With the Queen now 91 and the Duke of Edinburgh 96, the choice will be especially convenient for Harry's ageing grandparents, who spend a great deal of time at home in the castle.

If my grandparents had been beaten or lynched for the colour of their skin, if my parents had suffered under oppressive segregation, if I had a friend or relative who had been shot down in cold blood by a police department because that is just way more likely if you're Black in America, I'd have been angry, too.

• Do members understand why a pastor would refuse to baptize the babies of couples who do not participate in the life of the congregation even though the grandparents are members?

Those whose parents and grandparents were mainline Protestants aren't carrying on the family tradition like those who align with other Protestant denominations.

To make the point more strongly, I know of at least four priests who have come from families who were not practising when they were brought for baptism as infants, but who through the influence of a school, or priests, teachers or grandparents were led to strong and deep faith and then to ordination.

However, i have approached it as fiction, and before that when i was young — it was fact, then i learned what a fact was... and started breaking down the bible — around age 7 - 9, confessed atheist at 10, explained my disbelief to my grandparents — who almost puked... and i made my step - mother cry when she found out... she is a ccd teacher

My faith was also influenced by my Grandparents, who I was very close to, and it was from them more than anyone else that I learnt how to pray.

As pumpkins, witches and faux cobwebs have taken over much of North America for Halloween, Clare Slaney - Davis is preparing an October 31 feast that some would consider much spookier, with table settings for her grandparents, a great - aunt and other relatives who have passed away.

Hmmm... let me see... Richard Dawkins had a grandparent who used slavery as was common at the time.

She knew her grandmother was sick, but didn't understand why my time with her was cut short, why her normally energetic grandparents couldn't play, or why she only spoke by phone to her daddy who was at home, three hours away.