Sentences with phrase «friends after having children»

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Nearly three hours later, at 8:45 p.m. on Friday evening, five days after he and his brother had blown apart men, women, children, friends, and families near the finish line of Boston marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was finally in custody.

Alex told me about a gay friend who had been booted from his position in Hillsong's children's ministry after he came out and another who, after coming out to Hillsong leadership, was relieved of his duties as an usher.

High school students and parents who had just buried their friends and children asked agonizing questions to lawmakers, ones often repeated after mass tragedies: Why did this happen, and what can be done to prevent it?

I value my loved ones, my close friends, my child, the effect that I have on the lives of those around me, and the potential effect I can have on teh lives of those who come after me.

Inzoli, a friend of Francis's friends, who had been defrocked in 2012 after his conviction for child molestation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

For documentation see Genesis thirty - eight, which tells of Judah's affair with Hirah, an Abdulamite who is described only as his friend, even after he has had three children by her.

Many of her friends» daughters had also returned home from a broken marriage with a child or two that they dumped on their parents while they were out «catting around» in a futile tragic attempt to heal their bruised egos and Mother was quite thankful that I spent my after work hours in my room reading my bible.

She refers to the man in his 40s who divorces his wife because her commitment to church and to gardening and her dislike of tennis make him doubt that she will be a sufficiently amusing partner to cheer his retirement years; a young mother who admits that her husband is her best friend, but who divorces him because she no longer feels very romantic toward him; a woman who marries someone she doesn't especially like because she fears she may never find anyone better and then, after having several children, does find someone more to her liking.

After 7 months of hospitalization of our youngest child we have been discharged today into a strange city with few acquaintances and fewer friends.

I have a friend who was a child integrating a white public elementary school after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

Every year at Christmastime back when I was a child (just after the dinosaurs died) my mother's best friend Mrs Houston would make a giant batch of Nuts & Bolts and give our family a big bag of it.

Yesterday he told me he asked all of his friends and they stopped having sex after the children were born and they don't miss it at all.

During my natural birth classes they were pretty much attachment parenting advocates (within limits) but they showed balance by saying that sometimes after you have done everything to calm and comfort a crying baby to no avail, if it you gets to the point where you are frustrated to the point of snapping and possibly harming the child, it is better to put him or her down step back and possibly call for help (grandparents, trusted friends) if available.

Coffee has always been my morning friend, but now (after children) it is my morning savior.

We are busy every day after school, I have a baby to look after in the daytime and weekends are filled with more children's sporting activities, parties and catching up with friends.

You may spend hours pouring over your friends» Facebook profiles wondering how they manage to look so fabulous after having three kids, or how the neighbor's children are always so quiet and well - behaved, while yours are running around outside with their shoelaces untied.

Unless you suspect that your child's safety is in question, resist the urge to try and squash this relationship (or any friendship), as this may only result in your child digging in his heels and developing a defiant posture, perhaps even maintaining the appearance of a connection with this friend even after it has already cooled and is headed toward its natural conclusion.

Even if men and women don't have children of their own — and many married couples nowadays choose to be childfree — almost everyone has someone who will likely need to be looked after at some point, from a parent to a close friend.

In 2010, a few years after her passing, friends and family of Dianne Engelhardt determined that the best way to honor Dianne would be to establish a permanent fund at Wachusett Meadow that would further work that touched her heart and inspired her to take action: teaching children about nature.

After supporting my sister through the birth of her first two children and attending the births of a few of my friends, I realized that I want women to feel empowered and knowledgeable to have the birth experience they desire.

As your child gets older, they make more decisions and about more complex things, a five year old can make five decisions in a day, what to wear to school (if they don't have a uniform), what to have in his sandwiches, which friend to have home after school, whether to wash or dry the dishes, for example.

It seemed our friends were having children without an issue, but after trying for some time to get pregnant on our own with no success and enduring a litany of tests with my gynecologist, we sought help from a fertility specialist.

I went back to work shortly after the birth of my first child, and though I tried to build up a network of mom friends on my maternity leave, I didn't have much success.

Long after we are gone our children will have siblings, friends and spouses to feel connected to.

After a couple relationships that involved children, Kayti finally understood why her friends had warned her about taking on a stepparent role.

After months of searching, deliberating and deciding, you've finally chosen a name for your baby only to find your neighbour / cousin / best friend's sister have got in there before you and given their child the same name!

After one of our very first play therapy appointments, which all of my professional (I have a Master's in education / child development) friends and even my mom (a certified psychotherapist) were against because there is not a lot of research to support play therapy, I took the kids to a farmers market and there was a book exchange table.

Of course, I think of my friend A., who had a big scare right after her first child was born (they called a «code blue» and, well, let's just say she's lucky to have been in a hospital, since time was of the essence; her baby was thankfully okay in the end).

It's not that I'm against learning from other mothers or against bouncing ideas off of each other and talking about what's worked and what hasn't (because I am) and it's not that I don't value the friendships I've made with other women who have kids (because I do), but after having my son I was in search of friends who would give me something outside of my child, who would remind me that motherhood wasn't the only characteristic that defined me.

After my friend had her first baby ten years ago, she asked me if I would photograph the birth of her second child as she wished she was able to have me photograph the birth of her first kid.

Also, I wore Spanx to a party some friends threw for me 9 days after I had my second child, and people were amazed that I didn't look like I had just had a baby — my tummy really looked flat.

Even getting a few hours to yourself while a friend or relative looks after your children can have a beneficial impact.

Let your child have the cutest Valentine's to pass out to their friends at school and after school activities.

After seeing this high chair in action on a family camping weekend, I bought this as a present for a friend about to have her second child.

After I wrote about the danger of dressers falling on children, my friend Anne of Zephyr Hill Blog asked if I had any furniture safety tips or recommendations for tethering.

I had researched various treatment options for years, and after a friend of mine made plans to have her children see Dr. Li, I realized it could actually be a reality for us, as well.

AAS the children get older, opening gifts after dinner o the 24th and then they are «free» to have fun with their friends the next day without hurrying through a family event.

I hate that I have friends and even my own husband who have lost their parents before me and will lose their parents after me; spouses, children, family members and close friends.

My best AP friend and I may have ultimately made different decisions about which vaccinations our kids would receive — or whether they'd receive them at all — but both were made after careful consideration of our individual children and circumstances and with all the information we could reasonably collect.

President Obama said he'll stick around the D.C. area for a couple of years after he leaves office in January so his 14 - year - old daughter Sasha can finish high school at Sidwell Friends — an exclusive school that for years has educated the children of Washington's elites.

They calculated that it would take $ 220,000 annually to raise someone's happiness to pre-death levels after a spouse dies, $ 118,000 for a child, $ 28,000 for a parent, $ 16,000 for a friend and only $ 2,000 for a sibling.

I have friends who noticed a drastic difference in their children's personalities after removing dyes and who can immediately tell if their children have consumed a food with dyes by the drastic behavior change.

A close friend of mine has a child -LSB-...] after a couple of weeks on Oceans Alive myself and noticing the calming effect on my own mind, I suggested to his parents that they give this a try, in the hope that it might make the child less stressed and therefore hopefully, maybe reduce the severity of symptoms (I can not begin to describe how extreme these symptoms were).

My friends and I all got married within a few years of each other and most of them started trying to have children right away or a few years after that.

Firstly, finding the time to get out and socialise when you've got the children to look after can be a challenge, unless you have family and friends who are willing to help out.

We've got the poster for «Gus,» a comedic drama starring Radha Mitchell and Michelle Monaghan as a pair of close friends, one who desperately wants to conceive a child but can't and another who winds up pregnant after a one night stand.

And until then, the film is so remarkable at synching its picturesque style to Moonee's seemingly limitless freedom that the one time they do fall out of sync feels jarring, almost offensive: In long shot, Moonee and her friends charge past a series of stores and toward the promise of ice cream, and even after the children have exited the frame, the camera lingers on the sight of an obese person on a scooter riding in the other direction, the sound of the scooter going over a speed bump nothing more than a punchline, an easy potshot, at the expense of a person who isn't even a bystander to Moonee's life.

After all, she and Truman Capote had been best friends as children, and it is apparent that the characters Scout and Jem in «To Kill a Mockingbird» are based on the two of them.

As education researcher Patricia Lauer has found, the amount of time that children spend hanging out on street corners with their friends after school is actually a better predictor of poor academic performance than is family income.

Their relationships are described by Babe with great insight on page 191...... when she reminisces about how she and Millie «have been best friends since the first day of kindergarten» and «love one another with an atavistic ferocity»... though she also acknowledges «these days perhaps they do not much like one another»... then she compares friendship to marital and parent - child relationships After this she examines her thoughts and interactions with Naomi, African American in service to Grace, with shame.