Sentences with phrase «less time than parenting»

As working parents, we feel that doing research and striving to make the best decisions on behalf of our children takes far less time than parenting a chronically ill child.

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Millennial parents, a group The New York Times labeled «parennials,» are less likely to turn to friends and family for advice than older generations.

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.

In less than a week over 600,000 four - year - olds will start school for the first time with the research also showing over half of parents want more help in preparing their child for the start of school.

For our time when one of the great human advances is the gender revolution, the need for her symbols of love, parent, love and friend, for God can be accepted with less tentativeness than characterized in her bold book.

«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.

The rest of us, the parents who introduce and reintroduce broccoli the recommended 15 times — with less than stellar results — will find safe haven here.

Most of the whites, by contrast, said their parents would give them a hard time if their children came home with anything less than a B - minus.

Although the end of the day is a time when most parents are really itching to have some alone time, it helps to approach bedtime knowing that it might take up to an hour and rarely takes less than 30 minutes.

Some parents feel that using leashes is actually less restraining than keeping kids cooped up in a stroller all the time.

Parents who spend less time with their children tend to make sure that the time they do spend with them is better quality overall than that of those who are with them all the time, so it evens out.

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.

Some advocates argue that infant toilet training is less messy than diapering, because diapering forces the parent to clean up every time a baby poops (DiaperFreeBaby.org 2006).

Make it clear, if you can, that it takes a lot less effort to use the toilet than to pee on the floor or sofa and then have to change clothes, and have the parent spend time cleaning up.

For the first time in history, the current generation will be less well educated than their parents.

And because cohabiting unions are much less stable than marriages, the vast majority of the children born to cohabiting couples will see their parents break up by the time they turn 15.

This parenting lark doesn't seem to get easier it's just that the challenges are different — less avout sleep deprivation than attitude - induced mental torture — and I don't think I could juggle all the challenges of all the children at all the ages at the same time.

I asked her recently to write up a few things about what it was like breastfeeding at a time where even less women breastfed than today and there was no internet, no Google to search things up, no information except the odd parenting book or La Leche League meeting.

The time married parents spend visiting with friends and relatives outside the nuclear family has declined dramatically: Married fathers spent almost 40 percent less time and married mothers spent almost a third less time socializing in 2000 than they did in 1965, according to Bianchi, Robinson and Milkie.

For example, parents who say it is hard for them to strike the right balance between work and family are far less likely than parents who don't to report that being a parent is enjoyable all of the time (36 % vs. 50 %).

Second, pediatricians agree that breastfed babies are sick less often than bottle - fed babies as they grow older; therefore, parents will spend less time caring for their sick children if they have been breastfed.

«I have seen computer printouts of «the schedule» in the hospital room with parents trying to follow it with babies less than 24 hours old — the baby left to cry in the bassinet because it was «not time to feed yet.»»

Life in a single - parent family can be much less stressful than in a conjugal one if parents quarrel all the time.

But by working as a team to relieve each other for naps, for exercise, and for «downtime,» parenting couples might find that even though they share less «quality time» together, they may actually feel closer than ever.

By the time the kids were 3 years old, those who had their pacifiers sucked clean were still considerably less likely to develop eczema than kids whose parents employed other cleaning strategies.

Since breastfed babies are statistically healthier than their formula fed peers, the parents of breastfed babies spend less time out of work taking care of sick children.

Even though life is less conducive to unusual parenting practices this time around, I am doing ec much earlier and more often in the day than with baby # 1!

Parents feel somewhat less stressed during their time with children than their time at work.

If a child knows what happens before nap time and bedtime, fighting off sleep may be less of a problem in structured households than in homes where parents are always changing things up.

Married and unmarried parents hold similar views about this comparison, although unmarried parents are more likely than married parents to say that they spend less time with their kids than their parents spent with them (22 % vs. 15 %).

One - third say they spend about the same amount of time, and only 17 % say that they spend less time with their children than their own parents spent with them.

Any baby whose less than 37 weeks of age, although lot of times, we just supplement those babies, but, in parent's we'd rather know absolutely, we can test.

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They are less strict than authoritative parents at times, but are not as consistent.

Today's parents have less time than ever, so we're focused on becoming a go - to resource for easy, accurate answers — whether it's for raising babies, disciplining toddlers, traveling with kids and everything in between.

«People with children are parenting much more intensely than ever, and people who don't have kids are working more hours than ever, so we spend less and less time alone with our spouses.»

A team of researchers from Cornell University, the University of Minnesota, and Minnesota Population Center have used time diary data to find that mothers are less happy than fathers with their parenting duties.

Eligibility has been defined to focus on the most vulnerable families: first - time pregnant women, and first time parents with a child less than 6 months of age.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

A team of researchers from Cornell University, the University of Minnesota, and Minnesota Population Center have used time diary data to find that mothers are less happy than fathers with their parenting duties.

In this poll, parents whose child did not get a flu shot this season were three times more likely than parents of a vaccinated child to say their child's doctor recommends flu vaccine less strongly than other vaccines (32 percent versus 9 percent).

Despite half of children spending time in homes with firearms, less than 13 percent of the parents asked playmates» parents about household firearms.

For an adolescent participant whose most educated parent received a bachelor's degree, the odds of completing a MOOC with enough points to receive a certificate were roughly 1.75 times those of an otherwise similar adolescent in the same course whose most educated parent held less than a bachelor's.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, the leading professional organization for pediatricians and the publisher of Pediatrics, recommends that parents limit all «screen time» (including video and computer games) to less than two hours per day.

However, there is not a single group of people on this world that has less free time than single parents.

The story centers on Jude as he comes to terms with finding out he's adopted, works to overcome his less than stellar parents, and spends an inordinate amount of time finding new ways to experiment with drugs.

«Internet technology keeps leaping ahead,» Dawson's character soberly intones, sounding less like a savvy detective than a paranoid parent who's just read an alarming, 2001 Time magazine study on chat - room stalkers.

Today, children spend less time playing and learning outdoors than what their parents did at a similar age.

I'll ask parents why they think it's important for kids to be in 10 different afterschool activities — why time with their families is somehow less important than music lessons and traveling soccer and a third language.