Sentences with phrase «having fewer children when»

Family planning experts used to say that women only started having fewer children when they got educated or escaped poverty.

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Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

I didn't buy «Japan is Number One» when that was the mantra two decades ago, because Japan had severe demographic problems» as in, very few children; its lack of the most basic form of people power in the most elementary form, I thought, would soon become evident in economic weakness (as it has).

Few years later when I had my first child and bought all the baby books, had unltrasound, etc..

Robert Coles, author and child psychiatrist at Harvard, met and had several conversations with Karen Horney when he was a medical student and she was hospitalized in New York City, a few days before her death.

I'll do the drag racing for you and when I get there., well that's when I'll have a drink or two and may be a dab or two and may be a few old fassioned joints will be passed around after the family affairs are done and all the children have gone into sugar cookie, new toy and gift wrap induced sweet dream filled blissfull sleep.

It's sad that him having been a Mormon for a few years when he was a child is newsworthy enough for him to be considered more likely or less likely to further his political career (depending on who you ask).

Consequently, when I see people reading an article or a news item on Israel, I react like a conscientious parent whose only child has developed an addiction to junk food; I want to sneak a few vitamins into the soft drinks and candy bars.

Let a child be physically maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually maimed by having to grow up in hunger and fear as in war - torn lands, or in squalor and crime as in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear, not a few pious Christians will say that God in his inscrutable providence willed it to be this way.

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

(It's an uncomfortable reality, but if complementarians were as consistent in their application of biblically - based pastoral qualifications as they claim to be, a few of their most prominent spokesmen would have had to resign from their pastoral positions when their children left the faith.

When I hear the expression, «God is in control,» I tend to think about the Asian tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands in 2004, the countless women who have been raped in the Congo over the last few days, and the many children who will die of hunger and preventable disease this year.

He took along his camera for the occasion and had taken pictures of the children just a few hundred yards from the house when they heard the air raid sirens begin to sound.

there was a story a few years back, when i was in the army, when the army sent 100 soldiers behind enemy lines to bring back body pieces of israeli soldiers, just so the parents could have a place to bary their child.

You are assuming that that is the reason people don't have kids or have few, when the majority of people I know who limit their number of children or adopt or foster do so at least in part for society and the environment.

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

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The contractual amateurism displayed by our management team, the planting of seeds in the press to negatively sway fan opinion regarding our best players, the glaring lack of tactical nuance displayed by our manager, the continued failure to address the most obvious of deficiencies and the utterly disrespectful way this manager has treated the fan - base, especially when it came to the child - like manner in which he handled his own contractual situation, are but a few of the legitimate reasons for his immediate dismissal.

This is a bit of a generalization based on children I've known over the past few years, but it seems that children who are over the age of 15 — 18 months or so when the milk dries up have such an emotional attachment to nursing that they want to continue to do it even though there's no more milk for them.

Now we're finally home and this last few nights my frustration level with all this breastfeeding stuff has been escalating significantly, to the point that I dread the moment my wife will feed our child and when the feeds take over an hour at 11 pm and we have to wake up again in about 1.5 to 2 hours my frustration becomes more like rage against both the baby and my wife.

If a woman had a deliciously exciting sexual time in her 20s, or a few long - term committed relationships or perhaps a combo, and then had a dearth of partners in her mid - to late - 30s, when she may be thinking about having a child, the definition of the «right man to marry» may change, clarity be damned.

For instance, many do not require that coaches receive training in recognizing the signs and symptoms of concussion, or require that parents be notified when their child is suspected of having suffered a concussion, and few penalize those who violate their provisions.

It reminds me of when I graduated in 1980 with an MBA and the few women in the program were cautioned not to have pictures of their children on their desk at the risk of people assuming we didn't take our careers seriously.

Watching kids and animals grow up together is amazing, the bond they create with one another is truly magical and you would be surprised at how much more you love your animal when a few years down the road you all of a sudden realize how much your animal loves your child now.

When parents have mild to moderate conflict that involves support and compromise and positive emotions, children develop better social skills and self - esteem, enjoy increased emotional security, develop better relationships with parents, do better in school and have fewer psychological problems.

When I became a mom for the first time, I realized this: I would only be able to control everything my child was exposed to in the first few years of her life.

Pick the best time of day for you (when you have the most time, fewer children, fewer chores, etc..)

You already know that reading to your children is important for their development, but when you have a tiny newborn or a baby that's only a few months old, it feels like teaching them to sleep and memorizing their feeding schedule is more important.

The well meaning advice and thoughts of naysayers just don't bother me anymore... well, okay sometimes they do... like when they insinuate that my choices on vaccines or positive discipline border on child abuse or neglect... then I have a few choice words to say.

Because a few months ago there was another case where somebody tried to take off with their little kid at the grocery store and that's so that's my point is that if you have the tether available it's in the same way that when you put your child in a car you strap them into a car seat.

Although many have quit breastfeeding before their children reach the one or two year recommended milestones, for the few women who do continue to breastfeed their babies into toddlerhood it can be very difficult to make the decision about when to wean.

-- other kids can also help engage your child when they first come in — you can ALWAYS call 10 minutes or so later to see how your child is — this is very important to go ahead and do a few times, as it gives you the peace of mind to actually have a good day at work.

Researchers have found that parents and children ask fewer questions when reading an e-book together, and children have more trouble following along.

In the past few months, when friends have come to visit and their children have used some of her outgrown gear (booster seat, Moses basket, blankets) she's been INSANELY possessive.

But in my experience drop offs can go in cycles — so your child may be fine the first day, but then not for a week, then okay for a month but suddenly crying again.a few tips for goodbyes: — have a bit of routine (this is something you can try now, when leaving your child with anyone else)-- blowing kisses, and extra big hug, something easy and non-place specific — be quick!

After a few days, when your breasts begin to fill up with milk, your supply will adjust to feed both of your children in the same way that it would for someone who is breastfeeding twins.

Feinberg et al (under review) and Feinberg and Kan (2008) have found that when the couple are supported to develop positive «co-parenting», mothers are less depressed, boys exhibit fewer «externalising» behaviour problems at ages three and seven, and children of both sexes and at both these ages, exhibit fewer «internalizing» problems.

So I apply a sense of humor with my children all of the time, so much so that my children have now begun to adopt the same sense of humor with me when I make the very few mistakes that I make as a parent.

Graco's new stroller folds in just a few seconds, which is great when you have little children.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first feChildren's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first fechildren arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

However, there are a few fit requirements: your car needs to have a headrest, and your child's ears must be on the headrests when he or she is sitting down.

Studies show most home school students have fewer «problem behaviours,» when in mixed groups (of home schooled children and non-home schooled children), and home schooled children are much more likely to be better developed socially, more capable of functioning in the real adult world, and less affected by negative peer pressure.

I have been known to have a few brazillian waxes in my time (you know that time pre children or in - between children when you have a blip in time to do extra things like wax and sleep).

But the researchers did find two positive associations between working motherhood and well - adjusted children: kids whose mothers worked when they were younger than 3 were later rated as higher - achieving by teachers and had fewer problems with depression and anxiety.

This may be because the dysfunctional impact of divorce has a longer time to harm the child, or because the child had fewer cognitive resources to handle the impact of the divorce when they were so young.

When my second child showed signs of being ready, I needed a few more weeks to mentally be ready to be all - in for potty training and muster the patience I knew I'd need for those frustrating first couple of days.

Some experts suggest that, particularly young children exhibit more anxiety and stress when they have permissive parents who give little guidance or set few limits.

Investing in a savings bond or buying a few shares of stock for a child now can mean she'll have a tidy little nest egg when she's older.

«Our findings suggest that children had fewer behavior problems over time when their parents were less stressed (and had more satisfying couple relationships),» Farr said.

Jodi Mindell, our sleep expert, has a few things to say about the developmental issues to consider when moving a child from crib to bed.