Sentences with phrase «children work for an hour»

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Parenting will always be a challenge in the life of any ambitious entrepreneur and / or business leader, and there are many ways to raise a child: with hired help, with the support of extended family or working for a company with generous family policies that allow for flexible work hours and parental leave.

A report by the New York - based NGO China Labor Watch says the factories making devices and components for Samsung are guilty of a range of abuses: employees working more than 100 hours of overtime in a month; children under 16 working in factories; failure to provide safety clothing where appropriate.

«Squeezing five days of 10 - hour - a-day work into a compressed 40 - hour schedule can create more rigidity and reduced flexibility for families and children,» he claims.

By loudly owning her choices, Sandberg makes it a little safer for the rest of us to declare that parents working late into the night is killer on families (Mashable points to research «that children are healthier, happier and better performing students when they eat with their families») and on personal productivity and health, making it a bit easier for those of us with less lofty positions to take back our schedules and admit that we need to work saner hours.

«It's so important for families to know that they will not be thrown off the program if they have a change in their work hours or have to change jobs,» she says, «and it's important for the child to be in a stable child care setting even if their parent's work situation changes.»

In New York, for example, the living wage for a family with two children and two working adults is $ 19.01 an hour.

Meet the women who have built businesses around their kids» schedules If you've been part of my world for a while you'll know that I had two small children and a husband that worked 10 + hours a day as a Fedex driver when I started my current business back in 2014.

In January, Esquimalt passed a resolution to draft a living wage document after its community social planning council calculated that a family with two children and two full - time working parents in the Capital Regional District needs to earn $ 17.30 per hour just to pay for the basics.

It's a combination of a few things that are real: the baby won't sleep, I have four children and there aren't enough hours in the day for everything to get done, I have obligations and duties and work and requirements demanding all of my attention and my time just like everyone else — trust me, I'm no special snowflake.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Thus, if a single mother works to support her family and must leave her children unattended for a few hours after school, it could be construed as neglect and must be reported.

Female - headed households are scarce not only on cash but on time, since no second adult is available to supervise the children and since many mothers must work long hours for low pay.

If people had always thought this way we'd still have children working in factories for pennies an hour.

First, because most employees in the US are «at will», meaning, we can be fired at any time for any reason long as it's not discriminatory, we work long hours, are afraid of taking time away from work longer than a week, and certainly not for child care purposes.

Extended work hours, justified by the added financial demands, can also lead to guilt as a new father grapples with the lack of time left for interaction with his child.

Paternity / parental leave, often with a specific «father quota» (i.e. leave which, if not taken by the father is lost to the family) and the ability to work shorter hours and / or more flexibly when children are young have been available to fathers in Scandinavia for several decades.

A study of low - income, urban US fathers, which controlled for age, ethnicity, education, cohabitation and quality of relationship with the child's mother, found that the hours fathers spent «hustling» for work were correlated with low involvement with their children (Cina, 2005).

26 % of men in paid employment have at some point changed their hours or working arrangements to look after someone (mainly children), with 9 % giving up work altogether for this purpose (British Social Attitudes Survey, 2002).

• Where mothers had been depressed AND the fathers had worked long hours (particularly at weekends) in the first two years of their baby's life, this predicted poor developmental outcomes for their child through to age 10, especially among boys (Letourneau et al, 2009).

Research funded by the ESRC and conducted at the University of Bristol has looked at the impact of fatherhood on men's employment and found that although overall fatherhood status is largely irrelevant for men's level of engagement with the labour market, there is some accommodation in work hours in the first year of a child's life.

Recommendations from the study included increasing the quality of child care, especially for infants and toddlers, but also, importantly, educing the amount of time that children need to spend in child care through promoting paid parental leave and flexible working hours, and funding programs that support sensitive and responsive parenting.

Perhaps you can even work with your children to give you and your husband a «date» upstairs while they are downstairs, even if that means hiring a mother's helper for a few hours.

Up to now, I've been working twenty hours a week and going to school full time, which has tended to work out where I am with my child traditional dad hours: I'm home in time for a little play before dinner and bedtime, and we are immersed in each other for the weekend.

It just worked out that gymnastics and swimming hours for my older children increased at the same time as Charlie was born.

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 faWorking 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 faworking fathers do (13.5 hours per week for mothers in 2011, compared with 7.3 hours for fathers).

We need someone to care for all aspects of the children during our work hours.

Rather than have your child or teen work continuously for one full hour on homework, perhaps fifteen to twenty minutes right after arriving home from school, followed by a long break, and then work on homework again after dinner.

Working a few hours a week at this home - based business could be my vehicle to «make a difference», not only for my own children, but for many others as well.»

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He works long hours, night shifts, and usually only has time to sleep when he's home — railroad life He's been home for a couple of days, and now child care and household responsibilities are no longer 100 % mine.

Whether you are returning to work or have decided you just need a few hours to yourself each week, hiring a caregiver for your child can be a very scary and overwhelming prospect.

Christie - Mizell began the research thinking that mothers» work hours — since mothers overwhelmingly are the ones to care for and monitor children — would be more likely to have an impact on whether children exhibited bullying behavior such as being cruel to others, being disobedient at school, hanging around kids who get in trouble, having a very strong temper and not being sorry for misbehaving.

The thought of children having to suffer with asthma or diabetes for their entire lifetime motivated us to breastfeed and express breast milk despite traveling for work and spending long hours at the office.

I only need one or two nights a week to cope and if she does sleep longer than 3 hours my other child wakes getting up for work is too harder some times...

If your child starts paid work for 24 hours or more a week and is no longer in approved education or training, your Child Benefit will child starts paid work for 24 hours or more a week and is no longer in approved education or training, your Child Benefit will Child Benefit will stop.

And many mothers of kids with special needs wind up cutting back their work hours to be available for their child, thus decreasing their income when they need it most.

Some weeks 8am - 3 p.m. and some weeks 9am - 4 p.m. Be flexible with schedules and times Be able to fix nutritious, toddler based meals with provided food Be able to think out of the box with toddler activities and provide outside activities Clean work space area and toys from a busy day Have a reliable vehicle to travel to and from work and be punctual Nonsmoker Must not bring other children or family members to work Limit personal calls and electronic use when working Willing to take online 1 hour CPR hours paid for by provider if not already certified

Having participated in both extremes — staying home, nursing around the clock for years with 2 children and co-sleeping to working 70 hours a week, only seeing my children for an hour in the morning and an hour at night and insisting we sleep apart during the week so I could get good sleep and function at work — I think I have a unique perspective and appreciation for both types of Moms.

For example, if your child is interested in sewing, you can spend a few hours every week working on a project together using the family sewing machine.

You might want to have the party at the weekend to make it easier for working parents to come and a few hours is long enough for a great children's party, as you will find kids will get tired fairly quickly because of all the excitement.

We're much more likely than dads to negotiate flexible work hours to spend more time caring for children or to find a part - time job.

I will need to pump two to three times at regular intervals during my 8 - hour work day to maintain my milk supply and to provide milk for my child.

No advocate of irresponsibly leaving children unattended for hours, Swan nevertheless is aware more and more kids must be alone after school as more mothers work.

Now that the working mom in your life has child care lined up, give her a day at a spa — or even a few hours — to forget her stress for a short while.

So even if you work... MORE full time during the week, you can still earn extra income on the side by caring for other children on the weekends or even during occasional overnight hours.

MARIA DOZEMAN: So you have a little segment for a couple hours long where they show au pairs the baby equipment, right, because it's so different in our country what we use, so they just show them the different pieces they could see in the American family when they get there, from the car seat, how to work the car seat, and how to safely strap in the child, just different sorts of you know, baby equipment.

The messy house, the kids that go to sleep at odd hours, not having much of a social life outside of work and family for a while (unless you find people who parent like you and recognize the need to be social with children), or the toddler latched to your breast or still taking a bottle will have everyone raising eyebrows and placing the blame for any of life's woes at your feet because after all, you allowed it to happen.

We deserve respect at our job and not face discrimination because we asked for a proper pumping room or a flex work schedule or to come in an hour late so we can take our child to the doctor.

And for many of you, you'll grieve for the time you spent cosleeping, because it is so wonderful to have that closeness at night and to stretch the time you have with your child around the clock, instead of trying to fit it in during just the daytime hours when we have other tasks or perhaps work outside the home.

I had longer - term sleep deprivation with a child who would wake up every 2 - 4 hours through the night for two years (I was home with her during the first 2 years and now work full time).