Sentences with phrase «larger than either of the parents»

The one I have is growing larger than either of the parents (5 lbs and 6 lbs) so I think he probably has throwback genes.

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(See Making Student Debt Less Sticky) While the very uniqueness of each loan and each employee's situation makes it inefficient and uneconomical for any one business to take on the problem, in the aggregate this problem is a large source of growing concern for more than 40 million student and parent debtors (as well as their employers).

Because the EITC is a tax credit, rather than a deduction, even low - income parents who take the new, larger standard deduction of their tax returns would still benefit.

It's Houston, Texas - based parent has been angling to build what would be one of the largest carbon capture and storage facilities in the world near its Fort Nelson gas plant - which released more than a million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2009.

The parent company of Ontario's largest electricity utility reported its fourth - quarter profit was up more than 20 per cent year - over-year.

The ties between Christianity and corporal punishment are so strong that a large number of conservative Christians parents simple deny studies that suggest spanking does more harm than good.

Hughes was described by more than one parent as a «great guy» who provoked no strong suspicions over the large amounts of time he was spending with the boys.

Rather than using rewards or punishments to cajole or direct behavior, Kohn suggests we put the relationship at the center of parenting to attend the larger aim of meeting a child's basic need to feel loved unconditionally.

The decline in marital satisfaction in the transition to parenting is larger among women than among men and is especially large for mothers of infants (Twenge 2003).

With more than 20 years of experience and more than 1,500 babies born, Circle Surrogacy is one of the oldest and largest surrogacy agencies serving LGBTQ + and heterosexual parents all over the world.

This adds to the concern that Chartwells, whose parent company recently settled a $ 18 million court case for its failing to pass on rebates to NYC schools, is more concerned about earning a large profit margin than about the quality of the food it serves.

The velcro straps for this product are extra strong for carrying the extra weight, and it also fits larger handlebars than most other models (20 inches), making this the best stroller organizer for parents with loads of Lil» ones.

Regardless of why, I trusted my partner to take a larger share of the parenting duties with our daughter than with our son.

13, 2015, among 1,807 U.S. parents with children younger than 18, also shows that in two - parent families, parenting and household responsibilities are shared more equally when both the mother and the father work full time than when the father is employed full time and the mother is employed part time or not employed.1 But even in households where both parents work full time, many say a large share of the day - to - day parenting responsibilities falls to mothers.

And a large 2013 study found that breastfeeding babies younger than 3 months who bed - shared with adults were five times more likely to die of SIDS, even when their parents were not using tobacco, alcohol, or drugs.

It's true that this product is bulky, and parents who use it should get in the habit of buying their child's pants one size larger than normal.

MommyCon, a first - of - its - kind natural parenting convention, returns to Washington, DC with a larger than ever event at the Walter E Washington Convention Center on Saturday, July 23rd, 2016.

One mother recently said in her review that the City Mini is recommended for parents who want a product that is larger than an umbrella stroller but still doesn't take up a lot of space.

If they feed the baby, it is on a parent - imposed schedule that does not take the child's needs into consideration (e.g. giving 2 large bottles of formula per day to a newborn rather than smaller more frequent feedings throughout the day).

This finding was replicated in the second cycle of the study (CIS 2003).40 Another large Canadian study41 found that children who were spanked by their parents were seven times more likely to be severely assaulted by their parents (e.g., punched or kicked) than children who were not spanked.

A large study in the U.S. found that up to 22 % of 1 - month - old infants were bed sharing and that breastfeeding parents were three times more likely to bed share than parents who did not breastfeed.

Pitman, Teresa THE OVERWEIGHT CHILD Firefly, 2000 Originally titled All Shapes and Sizes, this book is an excellent resource for parents of larger - than - average children.

That group makes up the largest proportion of parents in public schools, and they want their children to have a different upbringing than they did.

In spring 2015, the boycott grew so large — with parents pulling more than 200,000 students out of testing in English language arts and mathematics, about 20 percent of those eligible statewide — that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for a sweeping review of the state's academic standards and exams.

An advantage among new enrollees doesn't necessarily translate into an advantage among actual voters for Democrats, as young adults tend to be both more liberal and less likely to vote than their older neighbors, but the current trend doesn't appear to be driven by an large number of 18 year olds who filled out registration forms to please their parents and have no intention of actually voting.

As the Oct. 7 deadline fast approached, educators at almost 350 public schools across New York City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff — including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002.

Low - income, working parents and the family child care providers who take care of their kids were dealt a heavy blow when Mayor Michael Bloomberg cut child care subsidies for more than 16,500 New York City children, the single largest cut to city funding for child care since the 1970s.

In April, parents pulled more than 200,000 students in grades three through eight out of state tests — the largest boycott of its type in the nation.

It was the first Kepler planet found in the habitable zone of its parent star, but the world is considerably larger than Earth — about 2.4 times our planet's size.

Researchers tested a number of hypotheses, among them whether more unexpected births and larger families might be associated with parents being less happy than child - free people.

This period was apparently associated with increased meteoric impacts (around 100 times more frequent than today) associated with the break - up in the Main Asteroid Belt of the L - chondrite parent body — the largest documented asteroid breakup event over the past few billion years.

The investigators discovered that the original male parent was a large cactus finch of the species Geospiza conirostris from Española island, which is more than 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) to the southeast in the archipelago.

Though my parents, who are not scientists, don't always understand exactly what it is that I'm doing on a day - to - day basis, they are supportive at every step, encouraging me to be the best version of myself in scientific pursuits, but reminding me that the world is larger than just science, and that it's important to stay grounded in my personal values.

The discovery of Kepler - 186f is a landmark achievement in the hunt for potentially habitable exoplanets as, until now, the only exoplanets to be discovered within the habitable zone of their parent star have been at least 40 % larger than Earth.

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Intimidation often looms large for a legendary director's son who wishes to follow in the footsteps of his famous parent; perhaps for this reason, more than a few opt to establish themselves in another field.

These responses raise the question of why parents and teachers more frequently express support for technology in schools than does the public at large.

Under his leadership of more than 30 years, ASG gained widespread recognition for being one of the largest non-profit friendly societies in Australia, encouraging parents to save for their children's future education.

A larger percentage of students in Connecticut than in other states attend schools where an administrator reports that absenteeism, tardiness, classroom misbehavior, and lack of parent involvement are not problems or are only minor problems.

Parents who live near a charter school are more supportive of charters than the public at large (and know more about how charters work).

It is substantially larger than differences between the growth rates for children of high - school dropouts and the children of parents with graduate degrees as well as those between blacks and whites, differences that are the focus of considerable concern.

We find substantially larger effects for the proportion of peers with unreported domestic violence (that is, those whose parents had not yet filed for the injunction) than for those with past domestic violence.

More than half of the roughly 5,000 parents polled by the United Federation of Teachers reported such conditions in the nation's largest school district.

Last spring, as part of an education - reform package, the South Dakota legislature approved a «family option» measure allowing parents in districts with high - school enrollments of fewer than 45 students the option of sending children to larger schools in neighboring districts.

The much larger group of parents who are purchasing center - based care for four - year - olds, in contrast, includes many families who are voluntarily enrolling their child for less than a full - time preschool experience and have options for the care of their child for the rest of the week, including having a family member care for the child at home.

The results illustrated in the graph suggest that family support in the form of putting more money in the pockets of low - income parents produces substantially larger gains in children's school achievement per dollar of expenditure than a year of preschool, participation in Head Start, or class size reduction in the early grades.

Four - year - olds from professional families have larger vocabularies than the parents of the poorest three - year - olds.»

All else being equal, endorsing voting as a mark of good citizenship boosted anticipated engagement by about one - eighth of a standard deviation - a slightly larger impact than resulted from an increase in parents» education of one standard deviation.

The interactive whiteboard is still largely a whiteboard, albeit including a large TV screen in its capabilities; feedback to students and parents still takes the written form, even if it is emailed or recorded electronically rather than posted or written in exercise books; and of course textbooks are still textbooks, whether in digital or print format.

The personal information of more than 350,000 students, teachers, and parents was compromised in a data breach involving the Florida Virtual School (FLVS), the nation's largest state - run online K - 12 school.