Sentences with phrase «children spend much»

Children spend much of their time on the floor, requiring more low - level lighting than your other living spaces.

Over the past few decades, the dramatic increase in maternal labor force participation and dual - earner families has radically changed where and with whom young children spend much of their time.

These children spend much of their time keeping teachers and parents at odds with each other rather than working together.

Elementary schools provide excellent targets for interventions to prevent obesity as children spend much of their day and consume many of their calories at school.

«Because children spend much of their time in school, a school nurse is ideally positioned to help.

It is important for state governments and school administrators to consider this evidence and promote physical activity in the school setting, which is where children spend much of their time.»

Because children spend much of their time in school, educational institutions can have a significant impact on diet through the foods and drinks they make available to students.

As a child I spent much time in this workshop, learning how to use tools and build things.

The weather reminded them of the day at Briny Beach when the Baudelaires had learned of the loss of their parents and their home in a terrible fire, and the children spent much of their time in silence, thinking about that dreadful day and all of the dreadful days that had followed.

Not exact matches

With the aid of an executive assistant who's a former statistician, Smith tracks everything from the number of hours he devotes to interviews to how much one - on - one time he spends with each of his children.

Parents have to approve all of their children's contacts, can limit how much time they spend chatting, and receive reports whenever a child flags a message for bullying or other abuse.

After spending much of the year preparing and delivering presents to children all over the world in just one night, Claus takes a much deserved break to recoup and recharge.

«You only get to be a child once, so don't spend it worrying too much about the future.»

Parents of the new crop of digital natives are struggling to manage what their children watch, listen to and play, creating strong demand for better tools to regulate how much time and money children spend online — and giving developers whose apps have robust controls an edge in the hyper - competitive business of digital entertainment for kids.

Given the tax consequences, companies spend millions on some of the best legal and scientific minds in the country to determine how much fun a child could have using a chair.

As a child, Buterin didn't spend much time socializing with other children.

Much of the spending will be on child care and education, reports say.

After recently mentioning that I would consider an investment in the Vanguard Wellington Fund if I wanted to create wealth in such a way that I did not have to spend much time thinking about investments or intended to pass the ownership stake on to someone that did not have much knowledge about investing (i.e. if you wanted to turn your children into trust fund babies in a way that they could not ruin it, you'd want to set up a restricted trust that only permitted the kids to receive the interest and dividend income generated by the fund, perhaps with the instruction that the assets transfer into an S&P 500 index fund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exist).

If these morons spent as much time worrying about their child molester priests as they do bashing their views into other people, people would respect them and they might actually do some good.

He spent much of his life dealing with said anxiety by beating his wife and children before moving on to verbally abusing gay man and lesbians.

As you can imagine, spending this much time with family inevitably leads to conversations about raising children.

I think it's ridiculous that so much energy is spent on debating largely inconsequential parenting decisions when so very little attention is given to the children who DO N'T HAVE PARENTS.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackChildren Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackchildren, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackchildren the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Agreed; we spend too much time and effort worrying about obsessive compulsive religious activities than we do the education of our children.

Good mothers are consumed with caring for their children and rarely have much time to spend on themselves.

People seek the «freedom» to leave their marriages, abandon their children, operate their business for profit and greed, eat as much as they want, spend their time how they want, and treat other people with disdain and neglect.

With important decisions in life like what to study, who to marry, if and when to have children, when to look for a new job or how much to spend on a big purchase, it's vital to consider the cost.

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

My own children have spent so much in Menard's that they have learned to make it fun.

For the most part that doesn't really show all that much, but come Christmas time, it shows big time Once advent is upon us there is usually no stopping me and I spend quite some time baking, crafting and decorating, with and without the children.

By the end of the day I didn't have much to show for my time, other than I kept my child alive and fed and spent quality time with family.

I love spending time cooking delicious food, and desserts for my two children and my husband, who I love very, very much..

«A grown - up can only spend so much time with a child,» says Dale Eggeling, a pro who has a two - year - old son, Dustin.

If I am remembering correctly, the main reason they gave for giving up on marriage is that they spent years taking care of a man and their children and they did not get much back in return.

And if you spend that much time researching, when would you have time to spend with the children you are doing all this research for?

This reflects the finding that fathers are spending as much time engaging directly in the care of very young children as mothers were in the 1960's.

16 to 18 is also the time when children really need to become much more future oriented, when you're projecting what they're going to spend out in the future, this is the time when you're putting your college plans together, sit down and talk with them about what is going to cost for them to be away for 4 years.

In fact, they often spend a great deal of time (even as much as the mother) with their children and are very important to them and their long - term outcomes.

• One factor that, in most cases, over-rides the impact of fathers» leave - taking on fathers» time spent with children later is mothers» employment: the more hours mothers work and the more they earn, the more involved fathers tend to be, whether or not they took much leave in the first year (Baxter and Smart, 2011; Lammi - Taskula, 2008; Yeung et al., 2001).

Parents spend so much thoughtful effort doing the best for their children; to have the makers of Motrin denigrate us for a buck is downright insulting.

Try to spend as much quality time with them as possible and really listen when your children tell you about their days; or when your husband's football team wins the playoffs.

She spent much of that time working with children in the hospital, school and pediatric office setting.

«Parents spend too much money on birthday presents for their children's friends,» says personal finance expert Hunt.

Working mothers spend about twice as much time with their children as working fathers do (13.5 hours per week for mothers in 2011, compared with 7.3 hours for fathers).

Research shows that children are spending half as much time outside as they did 20 years ago.

If we spent even a fraction of the amount we do on our wedding day on the birth of our children and the postpartum periods following, we would all be in much better shape in this season of life.

Then, when your child complains of being bored or you catch her spending too much time on her electronics, recommend she pick something to do from her list.

But, if you spend too much time holding a baby, there will appear one of the main reasons why your child delay in walking.

Forty - seven percent of tween parents and thirty - nine percent of teen parents think their child spends too much time online.