Sentences with phrase «as work and family life»

However, it is not always possible to be «in tune» with children one hundred per cent of the time, especially when faced with competing demands, such as work and family life.

Not exact matches

While my family and I love our community in rural Maine, my work as a professional speaker necessitates living closer to an international airport, so we made the decision to move closer to Portland this summer.

In this column I've shared how much my experiment not flying has improved my life, which I say as someone with family all over and work that I used to think required flying.

Our Members are successful individuals who have committed to working with other business leaders and our Group Leaders to develop action plans for improving their success on all levels — in their businesses, as well as in their personal and family lives.

It can also work the other way around, and you may find your work life creeping into your home time, such as if you can't help but answer the business phone during a family dinner.

With the motto «God first, family second, career third,» she encouraged sales reps to take control of their work lives — «They are presidents, literally, of their own little companies, and they can make them as big as they want,» she told Inc. — an enlightened attitude, particularly in the hardscrabble world of MLM.

It's for my family to live in and for writers to use as a creative space to work on their manuscripts.

When the expectation from the top down is that people's personal or family lives have to be sacrificed for the job as evidenced by 50 - hour - plus workweeks, little or no vacation time, and 24/7 availability for work communication, you've reached the height of a toxic workplace.

Many reported that they lived with their parents — and that the experiment made them realize they counted on work as a daily escape from their families!

But relatively recent trends — urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of big business — have found us more frequently living and working alongside strangers rather than neighbours; as Cain writes, «facing the question of how to make a good impression on people to whom [we] had no civic or family ties.»

Handouts such as the old age living allowance and low - income working family allowance had also eased the aggravating impact of the aging population, he said.

I like work flexibility because it enables me to spend more time with my family and gives me extra time to make healthy living choices, such as clean eating and exercise!

Through real estate I feel I'll be able to have the freedom to make my own path; choose what type of business model i see could work; education myself in the subjects that are actually important in life; and finally the ability to choose family over work as opposed to hoping to find time for family.

Remote jobs are highly coveted these days as busy Americans try to balance work and family life.

«Women with children are often excluded from full participation in the labour market due to challenges in balancing work and family life, or they work part - time, which often means lower wages and fewer benefits, including lack of a pension, paid vacation and sick leave, as well as less job stability,» the document states.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

End Scene Matthew Loftus lives in the Sandtown - Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore and works as a family physician.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

It looks upon the daily work to support one's family and to improve the life of the community as an obligation as important as prayer.

A young Catholic should be aware that each person has a mission in life and should fulfil it, and that true fulfilment involves looking at the whole of life's responsibilities - home and family and community as well as just work.

By working to get these recognised as social evils akin to racism or sexism [2] it has been possible to get towards the goal, which is that homosexual behaviour is firmly accepted in society and that society should be indifferent to the form of relationships which individuals choose to enter or make the basis of their family lives.

I am no longer on birth control for medical reasons (higher risk of clots in my family), but when I was on it, I used it because I didn't want to get pregnant while working full time, writing full time, and living as a single woman.

We see these scenes repeated throughout life: in a friend's confession of her deepest secret, as an estranged family member asks for forgiveness for an old, hurtful action, or perhaps even in strangers — as we pass a man with a cardboard sign and a tattered blanket every day on the way to work.

as a little girl all she wanted to do was come to the US and live and work and raise a family.

We all work hard, have things we enjoy doing, love our families and try to get on as best we can in life.

So make choices and work at your job and live with you family in such a way as if you have your whole life ahead of you.

The study also indicates that when adults experience a sense of personal well - being, they have been helped to integrate faith with life and to see work, family, social relationships, and political choices as part of religious life.

As many of you know, my brother - in - law Dave, his wife Maki, and their family live in Cebu City, where they have been working closely with Samaritan's Purse in relief efforts.

The author addresses this in her introduction, stressing that this work will focus instead on «those around her who would describe themselves as «lesser souls» compared to Therese, but who nevertheless put into practice her «Little Way», those who were part of her life, both in her family and in the monastery.

I explore ways in which Jacob's work reflected life as it was in the beginning in my booklet Work and the Christian Family.3 Here, though, we take as our starting point the text from the third chapter of Genesis that focuses on the entry of suffering into our family relationshwork reflected life as it was in the beginning in my booklet Work and the Christian Family.3 Here, though, we take as our starting point the text from the third chapter of Genesis that focuses on the entry of suffering into our family relationshWork and the Christian Family.3 Here, though, we take as our starting point the text from the third chapter of Genesis that focuses on the entry of suffering into our family relationFamily.3 Here, though, we take as our starting point the text from the third chapter of Genesis that focuses on the entry of suffering into our family relationfamily relationships.

But old - line feminism still has a tin ear for listening to women with children, as evidenced by their main solution to the problem of combining work and family life: the socialization of child care.

I was born to work and take care of my family and want to live as long as God gives me.»

Clashes within the family or the work situation that cause resentment, hard feelings and then severance; anonymity and rootlessness in an overcrowded but lonely world; uncertainty as to the future and even as to whether there will be a future — these elements in our society rob many of what ought to be the rich satisfactions of living.

Of good family, he was early orphaned, and was obliged as a boy to go to work for a living, journeying with caravans of Meccan merchants sometimes to distant places.

All I know is I am the same as everyone else, I care about my family, I am occupied with living and working and making something of my life, and of leaving a legacy behind me.

I would work to avoid trivializing the wind and the fire in that upper room by bringing these primal elements through my hearers» lives as the upheavals in marriage, family, and careers that jar us into new possibilities for wholeness.

Integrates faith and life, and sees work, family, social relationships and political choices as part of religious life.

Before I could take such words as a sign of disappointment, Brett would already have begun asking about life, my family, and my work.

Conservative preaching included such mundane topics as work, family life, and church programs; but they were treated in terms of utopian visions — getting rich, always being happy, finding the perfect church.7

If, for example, «conscience» can command me to use artificial means of contraception because of my life circumstances, why couldn't conscience permit, or even require, that I continue to defraud customers if my business is in debt and my family would suffer from its failure, even as I work my way into a better, more honest financial situation?

Edith, in contrast, lost her working - class father when she was just two, and had more challenging relationships with her siblings, as she reveals in her autobiography, Life in a Jewish Family.

This is not to say that there is anything evil about working, as most persons must, to make a living for themselves and their families.

As U.S. Sen. Obama's adviser on faith issues on Capitol Hill, as candidate Obama's religious affairs director on his 2008 campaign, and as President Obama's director of the White House faith - based initiative, I have had the honor of seeing firsthand the life and heart of a president who cares deeply about his country, his family and his God, in times of prayer, conversation and diligent worAs U.S. Sen. Obama's adviser on faith issues on Capitol Hill, as candidate Obama's religious affairs director on his 2008 campaign, and as President Obama's director of the White House faith - based initiative, I have had the honor of seeing firsthand the life and heart of a president who cares deeply about his country, his family and his God, in times of prayer, conversation and diligent woras candidate Obama's religious affairs director on his 2008 campaign, and as President Obama's director of the White House faith - based initiative, I have had the honor of seeing firsthand the life and heart of a president who cares deeply about his country, his family and his God, in times of prayer, conversation and diligent woras President Obama's director of the White House faith - based initiative, I have had the honor of seeing firsthand the life and heart of a president who cares deeply about his country, his family and his God, in times of prayer, conversation and diligent work.

As you're trying to balance, work, family and a social life, it's hard to figure out how to find the time or energy to «invest» in one more thing.

He regarded Muggeridge as a «failed novelist,» whose foray into intelligence work during the war permitted him to escape the unhappiness of family life for a life «where things were deceptive and dishonest by definition.»

Orderly living was far more the result of positive planning and working as a family than of negative restraints and punishment.

Elizabeth Schiltz (chapter eight) looks at the tensions between family and work, an increasingly difficult issue for many families today when, as Erika Bachiochi says, «the financial power of the two - income family has driven up the price of all life's necessities».

It is fear, it is torture, it is the impact on the family, it is the loss of work and income, it is the tragedy that affects children when they see the violence used in taking their father away and demolishing him as a person, it is the amazing deterioration of life's possibilities, it is losing one's dreams to become a professional and independent person or becoming someone who could participate more actively in democracy.»

As Betty Friedan concedes in the June 3, 1996 issue of the New Yorker, feminists thus distanced themselves from the concerns of the great majority of women» who were and are trying to juggle work and family life under difficult circumstances.