Sentences with phrase «be the parent trying»

It was the parents trying to make a difference.

At the end, we are all parents trying to do their best to raise well adjusted kids.

If you are a parent trying to decide whether to breastfeed or formula feed your baby, or if you are a healthcare provider who educates parents on feeding choices, you need to read this book!

Recent viral pranksters have mostly been parents trying to see just how gullible or easily terrified their...

It's worth checking out if you're a parent trying to bring about change at the local level.

Tomorrow, as I get the kids ready for school, I will be the parent trying to explain why the news matters so much to me.

Some of the plaster molds show two people embracing; another appears to be a parent trying to protect a child; still another shows a pregnant woman.

Imagine, for a moment, you are a parent trying to limit how much dessert your sugar - craving young children can eat.

There were neighborhoods that are about 60 km large and somewhere in those neighborhoods there were parents trying to save their children a few steps from demolished or burned houses.

Emily Blunt and John Krasinski are parents trying to protect themselves and their children from alien invaders that hunt by sound.

If you're a parent trying to figure out whether one school in your district is better than another, well, there's no clear way to do it.

If you're a parent trying to save for your child we've pulled together some easy hacks for saving for college that can help.

If you are a parent trying to teach your child about investing, opening a Roth IRA and matching their earnings for them may be a step in the right direction.

Whether you're looking for a solid party game to play with your friends (online or off), or you're a parent trying to find a board - game - slash - babysitter without the mess of missing pieces, Sorry!

If you're a parenting trying to fight for custody of your child in any of the Probate and Family Courts in Massachusetts, what you will hear a lot about is the «best interest of the child» standard.

If you are a parent trying to cope with feeling depressed, overwhelmed with family responsibility, therapy can help.

Not exact matches

If there's one thing parents of newborn babies lack, it's free time — the kind of time you'd need to, say, spend 30 - plus minutes on hold trying to cancel an unwanted subscription.

Unbeknownst to Jones, however, the parents are actually trying to save their son, who has a neurodegenerative disease which is causing his brain cells to decay.

It was during this time where she tried to convince her parents to allow her to adopt a seven - year - old boy name Kelvin.

Another parent named JH wrote: «We've tried a couple of different brands, but this is the best... First, the string is pretty strong and doesn't usually break.

«But no matter how hard we tried to avoid our parents» recommendations, it is likely that they ended up influencing [our] choices.»

Have you actually tried being the parent tasked with nagging a 13 - or 14 - year - old daughter?

The final months of mat leave or pat leave are often spent in a frenzy trying to secure a daycare spot, and families are put in the difficult position of choosing any daycare that will take them — licensed or not — at a time that's already pretty emotional for some parents as they transition back to work.

The company is best known for online list - based articles and quizzes and is trying to better attract more young internet - focused audiences who have different consumption patterns from their parents.

But in a recent interview, he also says there's something parents should definitely try to do if they want to spend time with their children and be there to help them grow into healthy, successful citizens.

«The biggest mistake I see is parents who try and pay 100 % of a child's college costs and screw up their own retirement because of it,» says Egan.

Some speculated that President Trump might try to stop the deal because of his feud with CNN, whose parent company is Time Warner.

As the parent of a teenage daughter, I can tell you that one of the most complex parts of my life is trying to keep up with her schedule.

The salient takeaway for readers in business settings is to stay mindful of the way Martin persuaded McCartney to leave his comfort zone, like a parent urging a child to try a new food: «Let us try it and if it doesn't work we won't use it and we'll go with your solo version.»

Some may think I'm on the young side to be managing so much money, but with multigenerational clients — everywhere from millennial parents looking to enter the market all the way to boomers trying to secure their savings — my age is one of my strengths.

McDonald's is not trying to keep kids from using their phones or help you become a better parent.

You seek validation from your parents, you try to live up to their expectations, but sometimes their expectations are unrealistic.»

Parents and kids alike are trying to deal with the addictive pull of their devices.

The look at a man trying to find the birth parents he lost as a child is a memorable work.

BabyCenter, which is still the leading site for pregnant women and new parents, was started by two guys without kids — so we needed to go out and try to understand what it's like to be a pregnant woman.

But the movie is very self - aware of how problematic these parents are, and goes out of its way multiple times to shame the adults for trying to shame their children.

Other activists are trying to oust the board of Rubbermaid's parent, but Carl Icahn says he hasn't decided which side to support.

When we fall for somebody, Strauss says, it's often because they embody the best and worst traits of our parents — so we're trying to get our unmet childhood needs met by this new person.

Corcoran isn't the only affluent parent trying not to raise kids who act entitled.

«Parents were frantic running about trying to get to their children,» she told Reuters.

I was trying to make my parents proud by going to college but I looked at it — being told what classes to take, the amount of debt I'd be in — and it wasn't for me.

Make a plan and create a budget, like these millennial parents who are trying to pay off $ 600,000 in five years.

«When these kids and their parents realize there is tuition reimbursement, it shows we aren't trying to retain them in the fast food industry forever,» Selfridge says.

Doug Lockwood, a financial planner at Hefty Wealth Partners in Auburn, Ind., says he is having many more conversations with clients lately about young people saving money — although mostly these involve affluent parents expressing their fears over how their grown children will get by in more trying times.

Deliveroo, which, according to Maple's announcement, is absorbing some of the startup's team, is one of the highly funded competitors trying to take on incumbents like Seamless parent company GrubHub and UberEats.

«Also, do not try to compare yourself to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram — those are the exceptions, not the rule, and parents know it.»

Often this turns into a parent — particularly a mom — that P&G is trying to reach with their marketing.

At the end of the tour, there was a moment of awkwardness as parents — many of whom had just spent considerable energy shushing their tiny curators — tried to signal appreciation and respect with elaborate body language.

If you tried to do that with our level of costs, you would have to make people divert like 20 % of their income, because those forced savings accounts are also for your kids, they're also for your parents, and that would only pay for some of your care.

«We tried to refocus what he was thinking about, made sure he called his parents so they knew he was alive and just tried to keep him calm,» said Lt. Pekora.