Sentences with phrase «harried parents»

In The Good School, Tyre, a former Newsweek reporter and author of a best - selling book on boys, offers a look under the hood for harried parents worried about getting their children a top - notch education.

Media blitzes kids and harried parents who don't understand even the small amount of nutritional info that I might.

Most harried parents rely on a patchwork of caregivers — family, babysitters and daycare programs, among others — to look after their children while they work.

While back - to - school may dredge up pictures of harried parents rushing their children through the store to gather up last minute supplies of crayons and glue sticks, back - to - school today often means online classes, business people purchasing huge textbooks and moms dropping their children off at grandma's house while they head to a late - night college class.

Instead, sales tanked during the 2017 holiday season as harried parents chose to buy gifts online, and the company continued to be crippled by debt.

It's a typical family unit, consisting of harried parents Cindy (Christina Hendricks) and Mike (Martin Henderson), their jock son Luke (Lewis Pullman, son of Bill) and surly teenage daughter Kinsey (Bailee Madison), who naturally doesn't stop complaining or looking at her phone.

While hyper - time may still be a storyline gimmick, the ability to move that fast will appeal to harried parents everywhere.

KING OF THE COURT We've all said it — especially harried parents torn between workplace and home, with precious little time to themselves: «If only I had the time to practice, I could get really good at (fill in the blank).»

Many groceries are rolling out online ordering and at - home delivery to spare harried parents and on - the - go millennials the time - consuming trip to the store.

The more harried parents are, the less likely they are able to engage positively with their children.

I used to think the humour referred to how harried the parent was from handling the needs of three kids, but now I realize it refers to the parent's comfort level with raising children.

I have reviewed many «sleep training» practices and have found yours to be the most developmentally appropriate, adaptable to each unique child and the examples are great for harried parents!

The definition or meaning of the term is immaterial; what is important is that many believe white noise to be beneficial for those sleep deprived, harried parents who wish for their little one to have a restful sleep.

Listen introduces parents to five simple, practical skills even the most harried parent can use.

But while refueling his glossy black Hummer in a gas station, he finds his gaze drawn to the family across the pumps from him — the runny - nosed kids, the harried parents, and above all their battered station wagon — and in that instant decides that it's better to have his fiancée killed than to accept the constraints of life outside the mafia.

Harried parents, often of multiple young children, who spank (but usually refer to it as an occasional «smack» or «slap» rather than spanking).

Diapers are a passionate subject for harried parents, and babies «bottoms are big business for a few powerful companies such as Weyerhaeuser Co. of Tacoma, Wash..

Too much diarrhea can lead to a severely dehydrated and frustrated baby, and an exhausted and harried parent.

He points out the endless list of processed and chemically based ingredients, packed up in a convenient and kid - appealing tray, marketed to harried parents, BUT, all at the expense of children's health.

Harried parents will find that baby has nodded off to sleep when they return from a brief ride.

No longer will harried parents be late for after work soccer games, and truckers won't lose valuable time sitting in traffic.

Improved self - control can help diminish stress, an important skill for harried parents.

Popping in a DVD for a baby or toddler can provide a brief but blessed break for the harried parent, and playing an educational video takes some of the sting out of the guilt.

And she's not right to overlook how much of the pushback that she cites comes not from «harried parents,» but from formidable interest groups that really don't want to change how they've always done things, whether or not such change would be good for kids or the country.

You see them everywhere, chock full of car seats and errant Apple Jacks, screaming kids and harried parents: minivans.

Part child's playhouse, part home - within - a-home getaway for harried parents, Manuel Villa's Habitable Polyhedron is like an escape pod from outer space.