Our last Under the Sea themed book based activity for Storybook Summer is a wonderful paper plate fish collage from Nicola at Crafty
Kids at Home who is bringing alive the book Tiddler by Julia Donaldson one of our favourite under the sea - themed books.
Our last Under the Sea themed book based activity for Storybook Summer is a wonderful paper plate fish collage from Nicola at Crafty
Kids at Home who...
That being said up front I am a nurse with 2
kids at home who enjoys cooking, gardening, camping, quads, and horses!
Not exact matches
I use this time to mentally prepare for the day ahead and for the four exuberant
kids who are waiting for me
at home.
Click (buy online) and pick (drive to the store to get it) has become amazingly popular — especially with moms
who'd rather throw the
kids in the car and make three quick pickups
at her favorite stores, without parking, instead of sitting
at home and hoping for the delivery guy to show.
Campaigns have spotlighted a stay -
at -
home mom playing with her
kids in the park, a young entrepreneur working hard (and playing harder) and a runner
who wants to go the literal extra mile.
, those with an anxious
kid at home have a more immediate concern — how should I handle a child
who is too fearful to enjoy a playdate, order a slice of pizza, or get through a math quiz without distraction?
«I really wanted to stay
at home, sewing and being with my
kids,» says Rebekah Scott, a mother of four
who runs an 11 - year - old custom - handbag company in Valley Springs, South Dakota.
They're whiz
kids who are too young and inexperienced for corporate culture and geniuses
who are too old and unhip to feel
at home at a start - up.
Only about 6 % of fathers
who are married or living with a partner stay
at home and take care of
kids and the house, compared with 30 % of mothers in a similar arrangement.
When you return
home in ten years you won't recognise your
kids and your spouse will look
at you and say «
who are you again?»
So, in a sense, believers really are like live
at home adult
kids who aren't really taking responsibility for their lives like we
who understand that we don't actually have a divine parent to help us along.
Am I like the angry drunk
who comes
home from the bar and yells
at his
kid for no reason... or like the pedophile
who ruins the life of a young person to fulfill his lusts?
But I also want to say, if you had been here (I'm in Birmingham) and read some of the stories of people's
kids being killed by this storm (so many had lost power already by earlier storms and had no idea F4 and F5 tornodoes were about to hit, and their
kids were
at friends» houses... and then those friends» houses were totally destroyed, and several parents lost all of their
kids - I also know of several people
who lost their wives AND all of their
kids because they were
at work while their family was
at home)... anyways, if you could read some of these stories,
who are you guys to tell them that their loved ones are not going off to a better place?
I've been snowbound since Sunday evening, stuck
at home with
kids who resent the fact that there are no snow days in homeschool, a wife
who wonders why I don't have a job in south Florida (but only on cold winter days), and two animals (a neurotic dog
who keeps asking to go out and then to come in, and a kitten that is constantly hunting my various appendages).
instead of allowing children to be born into abject poverty and instead of allowing
kids with down syndrome to be born into the
homes of junkies and illiterates, we can abort the children OR every person
who shows up
at an anti abortion rally gets a free baby to take
home and raise.
And
at the same time, I see our
homes and our travels, our tears and our laughter, I see him standing in the room and weeping over tea - towels with never - babies inside, and I see us holding the now - growing - up babies as they learn to walk, and I see him looking
at me across our old bed that he built with his own hands and I see us as
kids and I see us as lovers and I see us as best friends, and I see us just last night as we staggered through a sleepless night with lanky
kids who couldn't sleep well and I think, God, we grew up together.
She was an academic - turned stay -
at -
home - mom writing a dissertation, and I was a full - time teacher - mom driving 45 minutes to and from work with 2 young
kids, one
who puked regularly out of carsickness.
Should've been «R» rated, but there we were —
kids who should've been
at home watching Peter Pan or Bambi.
April 1999), which shows that
home schooling families are
at least as involved in civic activities and the building of «social capital» as those
who send their
kids out for education, and she ends with this thought: «I don't think we need worry much about their socialization in the narrow sense, either.
Thought of you when hearing yesterday of Rocky Braat, the twenty something
who went to India to photograph but when there, spent most of his time
at a
home for orphan
kids with HIV.
Well, fortunately this is a college and not a nursing
home, which means they are dropping coverage for
kids who SHOULD be
at the healthiest times in their lives.
They provide a low cost preschool / day care for struggling families, help restore
homes, support local business with cheap and sometimes free rent, have an after school program to help
kids who do not have the support
at home complete their homework and behave in school.
Marty Stewart - any man
who stays
at home with his
kids while his wife goes off to work to provide for his family
I've given a couple to my older
kids who don't live
at home anymore, I've served some up
at a dinner party we had recently and I've kept a couple in the fridge to satisfy a sweet craving.
But with two little
kids, a husband
who works hard
at his job then lost his job then immediately interviewed for and got and is working even harder
at a new job, my own part time pay / full time hours work from
home job, and all that was involved with a relocation to a new state, plus the holidays and vacations and conferences, you would have to be uber - organized and efficient and, you know, maybe have 36 hours in your day and eight days in your week to really be ahead of the game.
For someone
who works full time and doesn't get
home until dinner time, or even for the stay -
at -
home mom
who's day is consumed with running around after
kids, shuttling them to and from school and sports, a slow cooker is a saving grace.
«Some people
who keep playing after concussions maybe don't have the wife and
kids at home like I do,» Humphries said recently.
Diaz brothers have so many other things to them, two vegeterian triathletes
who came up from the lowest of the lows, nothing to eat
at home, in a rough neighbourhood saying no to all the drugs, later on to all the roids, serving their community, teaching
kids,... they have been awarded many times by their local authorities and all... but all UFC wants people to think of a Nate Diaz is a mexican gangster
who smokes weed and does not give a damn...
He will forever remind me of the metal
kids in high school
who were really cool with me when we were one - on - one together, walking
home or something, but
who would flick their lit cigarette butts
at me when they were with their friends.
And
at the end of the day, we will be like a feeble school
kid who's beat by a bully and cries
home to Momma
(Of the 20 or so
kids who graduate every year, all but two or three go to Israel and study in a yeshiva for
at least a year before starting college in the U.S.) On Tuesday morning the rabbis tell Katz they want the
home game against Capital Christian, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. that day, to be moved up an hour, before school lets out, to keep the crowds smaller.
It might seem aggressive, but in all reality the
kids who show up in my classroom as freshmen
who are having those conversations
at home don't need to be convinced that school matters.
The decision to stay or not really has nothing to do with finances although if a person — male or female — stayed
at home to care for the
kids by mutual agreement and gave up career opportunities to do so, you bet s / he should be compensated no matter
who cheated or even if there was no cheating.
Women
who exclusively breastfeed are also more likely to be stay
at home mothers whose children get to avoid daycare and all the germs that come with it so those
kids may tend to have less infections earlier in life.
I had a friend
who shared her parental leave with her partner, so they each got to spend 6 months
at home with each of their
kids.
It's true that more men are
at home caring for the
kids than ever before — there are about 2 million stay -
at -
home dads — but, and this is a big but, the largest number of stay -
at -
home fathers, 35 percent, are
at home because of illness or disability, according to the Pew Research Center, not by choice, versus 73 percent of stay -
at -
home mothers,
who either are choosing to be
at home (presumably with the blessing of their partner) or
who have had to opt out for any number of reasons (the cost of child care perhaps).
I wonder why so many more men are disinterested in caretaking, especially since many men
who stay
at home to watch their
kids work part time and see it as a temporary phase; is it because caretaking isn't valued all that much?
We need caring dads and other men
who are involved
at school and
at home to help
kids recognize that a good education is often a major factor in propelling them to long - term success in life.
However, a
home fire escape plan isn't just for older
kids who need to learn that they should meet you outside
at the mailbox, for example.
Kids who are experiencing some anxiety — separation anxiety, (usually in younger kids), or worry about tests, what's happening at home, or whether or not they'll be picked up that day, e
Kids who are experiencing some anxiety — separation anxiety, (usually in younger
kids), or worry about tests, what's happening at home, or whether or not they'll be picked up that day, e
kids), or worry about tests, what's happening
at home, or whether or not they'll be picked up that day, etc..
We aren't just feeding
kids who don't have enough to eat
at home.
• The type - A working mom
who totally dismissed me because I told her that I currently worked part - time from
home... and the stay -
at -
home sanctimommy
who whispered to me how she thought that the
kids of working moms weren't as well behaved as those of stay -
at -
home moms.
Then Jenna Pepper, a vegetable and nutrition enthusiast
who blogs over
at Food With
Kid Appeal, brought up the point in her excellent article that if we continue to feed them junk food and don't collectively teach our
kids,
at home and
at school, about the joys and benefits of eating real food, children will pick the crap over the good stuff when given the choice.
It's so cute that she associates that with public places and knows that we don't use one
at home unless there are other
kids around such as our older son's friends
who might have not been exposed to nursing
at home.
But when it starts to really add up, or where it begins to interfere with my OWN feeding of my
kids (sugar - overload
at school = mean mommy
at home who denies treats), then I start to get really ticked off.
At home, of course, we have friends
who can either join us or to whom one of the
kids can duck out rather than go somewhere they don't like, but on the road, there's no «plan b», no - one else to help out.
However, I've read in recent years about how the progressive parents,
who would rather their teens and their friends drink safely
at home instead of driving out to a bonfire in a field somewhere, have gotten in trouble with other parents, and thus the law, for providing alcohol to others»
kids.
Because we are a culture convinced that
kids are the ones
who need fixing (thankfully this trend is changing), it's reasonable that parents place the discord in the
home at the feet of the
kids, rather than on the state of the individuals doing the parenting.
I've recently founded a whole new approach to baby gear rentals, we are democratizing
kids gear, giving parents
who own baby gear
at home, have it stored away or just laying around unused, an opportunity to earn from the items they already own!