Sentences with phrase «better parents than a child»

If daycare is better for children than staying home with Mommy, this means that total strangers make better parents than the child's natural parents!

The humanistic, pleasure - seeking, materialistic society in which we live today repeatedly broadcasts the messages that women need to find fulfillment and financial independence in the workplace and that paid caregivers make better parents than a child's own mother.

Not exact matches

«Parents who respond to their children's emotions in a comforting manner have kids who are more socially well - adjusted than do parents who either tell their kids they are overreacting or who punish their kids for getting upset,» child psychologist Nancy Eisenberg of Arizona State University said in an intParents who respond to their children's emotions in a comforting manner have kids who are more socially well - adjusted than do parents who either tell their kids they are overreacting or who punish their kids for getting upset,» child psychologist Nancy Eisenberg of Arizona State University said in an intparents who either tell their kids they are overreacting or who punish their kids for getting upset,» child psychologist Nancy Eisenberg of Arizona State University said in an interview.

Productivity — the ability to eke out sustained gains in wages and profits — is the thing that determines whether you have a better standard of living than your parents, whether your children live more comfortably than you.

The change could affect the more than 4 million US citizen children under 18 who live with at least one undocumented parent, as well as the approximately 1 million more so - called «dreamers» who were brought the US by their parents as children and remain undocumented.

That expert also said, «The good news is that parents know more about child development than ever before.»

Drive - thrus are valuable to the elderly, the immobile, parents with small children and, believe it or not, are actually better for the environment than cars in parking lots — or so says TDL, the parent company of Tim Hortons.

Parents want nothing but the best for their children, and if you come to them earnestly looking for help, you'll likely find that they'll be more than willing to do so.

As parents, you think the best thing you can do for your children is to encourage them to go to college and get a good education — and, hopefully, that will help them land good jobs with higher earning power than if they had high school diplomas alone.

More questions than answers; however, each individual should assess what their capabilities are fiscally, emotionally, etc. and ascertain their likelihood of being a good parent whose child can and will CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY (those being the key words).

Some of them, maybe most, will have at least one parent or another relative who could take care of them, though the adults sometimes tried to hide that from us; they figure we will take better care of the children than they can, plus they won't have another mouth to feed.

Two parents can be Mom and Dad, Mom and Mom, Dad and Dad... studies prove that children do just as well in same gender homes than they do in hetero homes (the link to the study is listed above in response to another blathering of yours).

Rather, the parent did an awful job and if the child turned out well, it was for some other reason than the parent's efforts.

Parents deposit their two - and three - year - olds for hours at a variety of day - care centers despite voluminous research indicating that there are no «good» child - care arrangements for children of this age other than parental care.

Some family law scholars are now insisting that a child can have more than two legal parents, to «better reflect the dynamics of the modern family.»

This vision of childhood, in which the role of parents is to trust children and the role of children is to keep that trust, to be honest and good and, above all, not duffers, is to me a purer, sweeter, and infinitely more potent vision than any other a child is likely to encounter in literature.

Parents are better at equipping their children to grow up achievers than they are at equipping them to grow up Christian.

Assertions that heterosexual couples are inherently better parents than same sex couples, or that the children of lesbian or gay parents fare worse than children of heterosexual parents, have no support in the scientific research literature.

Furthermore, while an intact family composed of two parents of the opposite sex and their biological child or children may provide the best standard family unit in society (and should, therefore, be given support), we would be naive and cruel to dismiss the possibility that differently configured families (e.g., families with single parents or homosexual parents or adopted children) may produce family situations that are as good as, or, in some cases, better than, those of families that fit the standard.

Our point is that on the whole the nuclear mother - father team in intact first marriages does a better job of raising children than do single parents, stepparents or unmarried couples.

Religion and morality are NOT synonymous, but unfortunately that fallacy is perpetuated and passed on from parent to child as the parent subjects their child to the same brainwashing indoctrination they themselves suffered through as a child and who now actually think that what they believe is actually what THEY believe, rather than what somebody else believed and told them they must as well, or else.

The child's teachers are not likely to know this better than the parents.

If a devoted gay couple wants to raise children together, then you'd think that the children would be better off than those from the single parent, divorced parents households that are common.

In every area - education, law - abidingness, health, and life chances generally - children raised in two - parent families do dramatically better than others.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interesParents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interesparents know and do well and are interested in.

Say: «Come, let me convey unto you what G - D has [really] forbidden to you: «Do not ascribe divinity, in any way, to anything (or anyone) beside HIM; and [do not offend against but, rather,] do good unto your parents; and do not kill your children (born or unborn) for fear of poverty --[for] it is WE who shall provide sustenance for you as well as for them; and do not commit any shameful deeds, be they open or secret; and do not take any human being's life -[the life] which G - D has declared to be sacred - otherwise than in [the pursuit of] justice: this has HE enjoined upon you so that you might use your reason; and do not touch the substance of an orphan — except to improve it - before he comes of age.»

By God's own teaching, his plan required that his creations, having free will, yet no appreciation of hardship or adversary, must, like all children do as they move from innocence to adulthood, think that they know better than there parents and elders and break seemingly arbitrary rules.

Assertions that heterose xual couples are inherently better parents than same se x couples, or that the children of lesbian or gay parents fare worse than children of heterose xual parents, have no support in the scientific research literature.

One perhaps could argue that the 17 average hours that parents spent with their children per week in 1985 could have been quality time and therefore just as good as, or even better than, the greater number of hours they spent together in 1965.

, two - parent families are better for children than single - parent families.

Consider the tremendous response to the Atlantic article (April 1993) in which Barbara Dafoe Whitehead argued that the two - parent family is better on the whole for child - rearing than are single parents and stepfamilies.

If good parents are not evil for deliberately bringing children into this world and inevitably having to discipline them in some fashion or another then neither is God (who is better than any earthly parent could ever be) for creating man.

Those already married, as well as those meaning to marry, could ask themselves no more important question than this: are our children — will our children be — really grateful for what they receive from us, their parents?

He said: «A decade on from the passing of the controversial anti-smacking law in New Zealand, the law has maintained its very high level of opposition, but most significantly the law has had a «chilling» effect on parenting, and rather than tackling rotten parents who are abusing their children, it has targeted well - functioning parents».

Parents correcting their children is the right thing to do to get them on the right track, but we ASSUME that the parent knows better than the child and is right.

Christian children who aren't taught better than to judge by their parents?

While children of gay and lesbian parents don't «become gay» any more than children of heterose.xuals, daughters of lesbian couples do display one very different behavior: They play better with male children and have more gender - neutral views of society.

Do you believe that children are better left to be raised by the government than by a family (whether it's one parent or two same gendered parents) that love them?

It's really funny how children sometimes are much more grown up than adults (their parents) and can handle new situations better than them.

William Carson (Nemo) Herrera was a fronterizo, a child of the borderland like his players, and he probably knew them better than their parents did.

As Nick Clegg denounces «Edwardian» work attitudes, FI tells parenting «experts» to move out of the 1950s The Fatherhood Institute is calling for a major new resource for new parents to be redesigned to reflect the reality of modern families — and powerful evidence that children do best when they are securely attached to more than one caring adult.

Well - off kids have on average more access to books and other printed materials; just as important, their parents speak to them more than low - income parents speak to their children — by some estimates, far more — and the speech they use is more complex.

As a parent, you know your child better than anyone in the world.

Stop bashing young dads — and support them to help their children The Fatherhood Institute calls on government - funded services aimed at supporting parents to identify and support young fathers as well as young mothers, rather than dismiss them as «feckless» and reduce their role to that of cash providers.

I know she would want nothing better for her birthday than to help parents be supported in their attachment with their children.

In many situations, court decisions are made on the basis of what is» «fair and equitable» to each parent rather than what is best for the child.

«My concern is that there could be more than just a good bond with parents, where [the children] are «tied» to their parents.»

• If one parent is better - educated than the other, some children may benefit from the better - educated parent undertaking more care: e.g. in Norway, girls (but not boys) have been found to do better at school when a father who was better educated than their mother took longer - than - average leave (Cools et al, 2011.)

When labels are applied to anything as complex as all of the choices and love and anguish that go into being a parent, that role is immediately trivialized and for some frightening reason parenting is converting into following a set of rules (or «principles») rather than living in the moment, responding to your child and doing the best you can with what you've got.

The sheer ridiculousness of the comments you refer to is freaking hilarious... because obviously these people either a) don't have kids themselves, in which case they have no business intimating that they would make a better parent than you, or b) do, in fact, have children, but SPEND ALL OF THEIR TIME READING BLOGS THAT THEY CAN MAKE DEROGATORY COMMENTS ON INSTEAD OF BONDING WITH THEIR Cchildren, but SPEND ALL OF THEIR TIME READING BLOGS THAT THEY CAN MAKE DEROGATORY COMMENTS ON INSTEAD OF BONDING WITH THEIR CHILDRENCHILDREN.