Sentences with phrase «less parent at»

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Researchers at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom found that parents who set super-high expectations for their teenage daughters — and who constantly reminded them of those expectations — had daughters who were less likely to become pregnant, drop out of school, or wind up in lousy, low - wage jobs.

The researchers at the University of Essex found that girls whose «main parent» — that's usually the mother — consistently displayed high parental expectations were far less likely to fall into the traps that made the girls less likely to succeed in life.

As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

The policy also covers leave to care for a sick parent, child or partner and may be taken throughout a 52 - week period in no less than three business - day increments at a time.

Baby boomers have most of the wealth and the housing, so «millennials are doing less well than their parents at the same age.»

So before you make 100K, you must live at your parents house and after, I guess you don't live an interesting life with less than 1K / month in NYC or San Francisco?

«First - time homebuyers tend to be younger, may have less available for a down payment, may need a gift from a parent for that down payment, and they likely have student loans,» said Andrew S. Weinberg, a principal at Silver Fin Capital Group, LLC, a company that offers mortgages.

We invest much less in young children, and that stems largely from the fact that most other advanced economies view early childhood education, child care and other benefits targeted at parents with young children as «public goods,» meaning investments that, absent public support, would be insufficiently made from the perspective of society's well - being.

Parents were less likely, at 36 percent, to use savings for an unexpected expense than the childless, at 43 percent.

It is no accident that children have to be indoctrinated with their parents religion at an early age, as it means they are less likely to switch sides as adults...

Parents of large families in which older children have already moved on to adult life report a «squash and a squeeze» effect where each child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older children spend the day at school, then they're off to university and adult life, and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.

But compared to the population at large, members of mainline churches were significantly less likely to be single parents age 40 and under, young single adults or married couples without children.

Children of parents with less education watch more, and, at the fourth - grade level, boys watch more TV than girls.

So she conducted her research at two sites, one of them a more or less typical second - generation congregation (which she calls «Grace») that meets in the same building as its parent Korean immigrant congregation, and the other («Manna») a predominantly Asian American but remarkably multiethnic congregation that meets in a building owned by an African - American congregation.

Some Christians continue to characterize fathers who share parenting responsibilities or stay at home with their children as «man fails» and «worse than unbelievers,» instructing women to intentionally avoid earning more money than their husbands, even if it is less practical for their family to do so, or else they will injure their spouse's ego.

Shaken and disillusioned, my parents abandoned the charismatic church, and during my later elementary school years we shuttled between Lutheran and Methodist churches, finally settling for prayer at home as schedules grew busier and church worship less fulfilling.

I have attended several meetings at which national leaders and mission board executives tried to find ways to make the national churches less dependent on their parent churches abroad.

At one point in this chapter, she mentions that a child is less likely to run away from home if he or she has two parents who are married to each other.

It should be a crime to allow some people to parent at all, much less before they're ready.

There will be no more prancing around along with all the other gay activities that homosexuals like to do... More importantly, we as parents can now sleep a little better at night just knowing there will be less gays out there wandering the streets trying to molest our children.»

One is reminded of the boy Jesus, how, according to the story in Luke 2:46, asking and answering questions in the Temple at the age of twelve, he threw the teachers of his people into astonishment, and not less so his parents: «Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?»

43 % Of parents say their child knows less about cooking than they did at the same age.

«Since I was 15 years old, when I left my parents, I knew that I would not come back as anything less than a professional, someone who always tries to do his best at every moment, even though at times his best isn't enough.

Don't be disappointed if it does not work out at first, as new parents report the scheduled date strategy works less than half the time.

When are we going to getting mad at the companies that set out to sabotage our efforts, by buying our personal information from maternity and baby stores and sending us free formula and coupons, that buy ad space from every baby, pregnancy and parenting website, that sell cans of their formula for $ 20 + and contain less than 25 cents worth of ingredients and for selling formula contaminated with bug parts.

Related to point # 2, in the Parenting as an Entrepreneur episode, Alicia Ybarbo said something that really stuck out to me — that women get very good at narrowing in on solutions and making split decisions because there is basically no time to labor endlessly over camp options or put up with working with someone crazy when there is a less crazy alternative.

Research has shown that when parents behave harshly or unpredictably — especially at moments when their children are upset — the children are less likely over time to develop the ability to manage strong emotions and more likely to respond ineffectively to stressful situations.

I often think that the difference between a good parent and a less good one is not that they are good at it but that they do better tomorrow

Children whose fathers were highly involved with them at ages 3 - 5 and 7 - 9 hold less traditional views as adolescents about both parents working and sharing childcare (Williams et al, 1992).

Fathers were much less likely to be involved after the birth if their baby's mother lived with her parents during the pregnancy — and of course the very young mothers were more likely to have been living with their own parents (or with one of them): 63 % of the youngest group of mums lived «at home» while only 13 % of those aged 22 or over did so.

On the other hand, when both parents are involved with the baby's daily care, they will wake up at night less.

The first parent will respect that their partner is holding the line, and at the same time will see the effectiveness of doing it in a less commanding tone.

-LSB-...] may think this is counterintuitive, but Kara at Extremely Good Parenting proves that using the word less frequently actually makes it more -LSB-...]

So for those of you who can't stop looking at new diapers, don't feel like you need to have less than 30 diapers to prove you're a modest cloth diapering parent.

Not only is this baby gift set stylish, it also offers convenient features for parents such as 4 snaps at the crotch of the romper for easier changing and full snap on front for easier dressing; easy - on, easy - off bib and tag-less care label for less irritation.

And so in order to be compliant for those 10 % or less, which we sell at a deeply discounted rate to the school, the 90 % + of parents are looking at us and saying, «What in the hell are you doing?

Not only is this Baby Gift Set stylish, it also offers convenient features for parents such as 4 snaps at the crotch of the Romper for easier changing and full snap on front for easier dressing; easy - on, easy - off bib and tag-less care label for less irritation.

Parents who find a person who is found by word - of - mouth rather than going through an agency may come at a lesser fee.

Many parents — both those who follow his program and those who don't — would likely be surprised at some of the lesser - known points of his theory.

And the idea of letting kids catch up on sleep on weekends doesn't work because some kids wake up early anyway (as many bleary - eyed parents will attest), or they sleep in really late and then are even less likely to be sleepy at an early bedtime during the school week.

Argyle Baby Gift Set - Blue 4 pc offers convenient features for parents such as 4 snaps at the crotch of the Romper for easier changing and full snap on front for easier dressing; easy - on, easy - off bib and tag-less care label for less irritation.

Children whose parents talk to them regularly are at much less risk for experimenting with cigarettes, alcohol and drugs.

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

I spend less time intensely parenting the teen at night (and in general) than some parents who worked to minimize nighttime parenting with their infants and young children.

At Rhoost, our goal is to create products that allow parents to spend more time having fun with their kids, and less time worrying about them.

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My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at school cafeterias are great when outside of school many are seeing and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before: classrooms, athletic practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods and more.

Parent's Functioning: Sleep deprived parents have reported trouble concentrating at work, feeling drowsy and exhausted during the day, being less efficient in completing tasks, losing things, and being forgetful.

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Breastfed babies wake their parents less often at night with earaches and stuffy noses.