Sentences with phrase «do about being a parent»

I chat regularly with the moms of girls and they have the same struggles and fears that I do about being a parent.

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And when I say procto - parents, I mean parents who are totally into minding their kids» and everyone else's business, but don't know the first thing about effective education, or how to build the kind of self - sufficient, self - starting students that we actually do need to compete in the global marketplace.

Although the T. Rowe Price survey found that 69 percent of parents are very or extremely concerned about setting a good financial example for their kids, 40 percent are relying on a «do as I say, not as I do» attitude for teaching their kids about money.

It turns out that parents spend far more time arguing with their kids about how much time they are spending online than they do discussing with them what they're doing online.

Unless you're living in a society with arranged marriages, however, this is much more about your children's choices than anything you can do for them as a parent.

«Probably the mistake parents make most is that they don't have conversations about money with their kids,» said Laura Levine, president and chief executive of the Jump $ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy.

LinkedIn career expert Nicole Williams says entrepreneurs and individuals working in new fields such as social media or technology can especially benefit from inviting parents into their working lives, as their parents are most often confused about what their children working in these new fields do for a living.

«We want to be thoughtful about what we do, giving parents the right tools to oversee their kids» use of our products,» USA Today quoted Diwanji as saying.

Diabetes is a lifelong disease, and they worry too about what their children will do when they no longer have their parents» insurance covering them.

Parents are actually doing a disservice to their children by teaching them about finances solely via cash, Carmichael said.

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Parents are perplexed about what you do.

As for Google and its parent company Alphabet, cloud computing business is growing — although the company did not provide detailed quarterly information about the unit's financial performance because of its relatively small size.

But that doesn't mean reverse psychology should be consigned to the dust bin of failed parenting tricks entirely once your kid is beyond the arguing - about - whether - to - wear - pants phase.

This is all very fascinating if you're an education professional or a parent, but does this science have anything to say about how to handle Millennials in a professional context?

Sure, they care about money — but they're used to the idea that they might not make as much as their parents did.

While most of us think about our time in 24 - hour blocks, Vanderkam thinks that «anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's church, a strategic thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.»

Another great thing all of our VAs do is really care about the client and ask about their kids and parents.

How much do kids tell their parents about what is happening in their digital lives?

Sadly, you also often hear about suicides, and there are few parents I know who don't despair when they see the blue glow from the bedroom where their child should be asleep.

But for the families we serve, we have seen that it is important for parents and children to get on the same page about why decisions (like who is doing the taxes) have been made.

«When you think about things at scale that we do to get people to care more about Messenger, this is one that addresses a real need for parents,» say Facebook's head of Messenger David Marcus.

Parents were able to get the housework done and other small chores without having to worry about their babies because they were right there at all times.

The first thing many parents have to do, he adds, is come to terms with whatever ambivalence they may harbor about their offspring's leaving home for good.

Why should the parents care or do anything about it if there are no consequences?

When you guys have an opportunity to sit down and talk about what went wrong that day and what you can fix, communicating to these parents has got to be done.

Hi I am a 22 year old Healthcare Admin graduate with $ 6k in savings and about 15k in student debt (which i didn't start paying back yet seeing as I'm going for my masters) I make about 4k a month and live at my parents house rent / bill free.

Google's parent company, Alphabet, famously doesn't give much detail about how its individual businesses are performing.

But the next time you see a gay or lesbian person and think to yourself, «They are sinful, they are lost, they are wrong, or they are an abomination...» understand that you may very well be speaking about your own partner, your own child, your own parent or brother or sister... and you don't even know it yet!

They complain about everything they don't like, including how others take care of their yards (though theirs is hardly well - maintained), and they have repeatedly tried to convery the neighborhood kids without the knowledge or consent of their parents.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

«I know that Ofcom have produced results showing that 15 percent of parents have not even had a conversation with their children about what they do on the internet, so it's a huge problem.

I'm going through Chemo therapy now, and in the depths of my pain and the worst that the chemicals can do to me, I wandered about my house crying before the photos of my children, my long dead parents, and my sweet wife.

kendallpeak I'd say that about 90 % of parents end up keeping pets that their children have picked up as strays and fallen in love with, but that doesn't mean that keeping the animal was a sound choice, or will ultimately prove to be.

Then in 2015 Mr Page gave an interview to the BBC about freedom of religion where he reiterated his original position, saying: «My responsibility as a magistrate, as I saw it, was to do what I considered best for the child, and my feeling was therefore that it would be better if it was a man and woman who were the adopted parents.»

«It's as if there were a child who complains about all their Christmas presents, then tells his parents that he doesn't believe they exist.»

So, just because of the situation that someone was born into, in your example a person born to Muslim parents in a different part of the world than you, where that person took on the religous traditions and practices of their parents (as many of us do when we're children), and just never had an opportunity to learn about christianity and Jesus, again only because of where they were born... you contend that person is going to «burn» in an eternal lake of fire?!

The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

Can one person out there who is ranting about abortion honestly tell me they have done one thing to help a single parent?

Well, heck, bttmstr, why care about children who are beaten or deprived of a happy childhood by parents who don't care?

Talking to the bullies parents might not do much better, because most of the time kids who are bullies have parents who are either bullies themselves, or just don't care that much about their kid.

For the first time since becoming a mother, I was thinking less about how I didn't want to parent and more about how I did want to parent, particularly as it concerned my child's spiritual formation.

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

My parents were decidedly anti-establishment when it came to religion and politics, particularly my father (don't ever get him started about Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau....).

For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).

I felt like maybe this was a way to write about how God parents me as I parent — without selling my tinies out — so I will try to do more of it in the future.

(CNN)-- There's one detail about the Adrian Peterson child abuse charges that no one seems to be noting: his alleged crimes didn't happen simply under the guise of «parenting» but rather «Christian parenting.»

The parents are urged to teach the children how to pray so that by the age of nine they should know everything about the prayers, including the proper ablutions to be done before prayers.

In doing so, we will be no more guilty of indoctrination than the parents who let their kids «make up» their own minds about religion, because all reason is tradition - based.

But more and more, I'm realizing if you're able to receive constructive feedback from a boss, parent, spouse or teacher and then implement what's needed to do it better the next time, you care more about learning than your ego.