Sentences with phrase «like being a parent»

AWS has long been a question mark when it comes to Amazon: it's a good idea, and it makes money, but like it's parent company, will it ever be profitable?

It felt like we were parenting upside down.

It's like being a parent you want every child to end up believing they are the favourite.Any...

When schools start acting like they are the parents, or they feel they have to be the parents, that's my signal to get out.

Nothing exposed how self - centered I was like being a parent of a disabled child.

I feel like I am parenting a child — a person in fact — somewhere in the zone between the conscious and subconscious of adulthood.

From what I have read, the child might toilet train earlier than her peers but up until about 18 months it sounds like it is the parents that are trained, not the child.

I really want to read women who like being a parent (even if that's not the case every moment of the day.

They had to acknowledge that but had to find a way that could make formula sound normal and breastfeeding to sound like it was a parenting «extra,» an optional choice.

I feel like you're a parent I'd like to have!?

The Premiership has started again but I'll try and not let it distract me too much, being a Newcastle United fan is like being the parent of the fat kid on sports day, you go there with unjustified aspirations only to have them dashed as he's lapped in the egg and spoon race.

I also love the idea that «the gods» are just «great intentions,» like they're your parents who love you but will be VERY disappointed if you move that character to that tile and get him killed.

Founding and running your own startup is a bit like being a parent: you're going to have something rewarding in the end, but you better be ready to put in some long hours and sleepless nights.

AWS has long been a question mark when it comes to Amazon: it's a good idea, and it makes money, but like it's parent company, will it ever be profitable?

Not exact matches

For pet parents who can't stand being away from their four - legged friends, PetChatz offers a Skype - like solution.

I'm fairly sure my parents paid for that computer, just like I've paid for subsequent Apple (AAPL) laptops, phones and tablets.

If you're unfamiliar, the tech in question is the same as what your parents or grandparents once used to get TV: An antenna that picks up the free broadcast shows that are sent via high transmission tours by the likes of ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox.

Palmer reached out to a wide range of pediatricians to find out how they feel about these parents, and he was surprised to encounter mostly sadness rather than anger on the part of these doctors, who often feel like they've let their patients down by not convincing them to vaccinate.

«I use Facebook, but I feel like I can't be myself on it because my parents and my friends» parents are my Facebook friends.»

Saying that these carriers compete with the national carriers is like saying that WhatsApp competes with its corporate parent, Facebook.

I am so thankful for my upbringing and feel incredibly lucky when I speak to other young women like myself for having such an incredible support system in my parents.

For many who remember what business was like pre-Internet, millennials seem an appallingly sensitive lot, having been protected from the vagaries of the world by helicopter parents, trigger warnings and — to especially cynical critics — sheer narcissism.

But the odds of me working for (parent company) Deutsche Telekom are, like, none, you know.

It's like Yelp for parents.

Now that older millennials are having kids, they're also giving birth to countless new apps for parents like them.

I took my parents to In & Out for the first time and felt like such an insider when I told them about this «secret» that isn't really a secret because everyone wants to tell the next person about it.

«When I first started making videos, it was very much like, my Indian parents this and that,» she says.

«We are so much more like our grandparents behaviorally than our parents,» said Chantel Bonneau, a millennial and financial advisor with Northwestern Mutual.

But parents can take solace in one idea the researchers entertained: The more it seems hectoring them is like pounding on a brick wall, the more it might be working.

Twice a month, Levy holds private dinner parties and TED Talk - like «Salons» in the sprawling New York City apartment he inherited from his parents, who are successful artists now living in Israel.

Millennials are finally starting their own baby boom and heading for the suburbs in big sport utility vehicles, much like their parents did.

That's regardless of demographic factors like race, gender, or parents» income.

Apple has been signing exclusive deals with musicians like Drake and Future to persuade more people to sign up for Apple Music, which it inherited by buying the parent of the Beats Music streaming service for $ 3 billion.

«They're all talking about the bounce, so right now everybody in this room has to like me at least a little bit,» Trump told the CEOs of Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Google's parent company, and other tech titans.

Some of his subjects were worried about sharing things like parent's affections or money for college.

«Millennials delayed home ownership, just like they delayed getting married and having kids, but now they're making very similar decisions to their parents.»

These answers are the correct answer if you're a Kardashian or a brand like Apple or Facebook, each of which have such a huge footprint in the public's consciousness that Zuckerberg or Kim becoming a parent or endorsing a new kind of breakfast sandwich is automatically news.

Marketing is like parenting: Everyone believes they know how to do it effectively (especially those who don't have children).

Ask any parent of a little kid about what it's like to get them up and out the door in the morning.

The client confessed that he knew he would be inheriting over $ 500,000 from his parents, so why not spend like there's no tomorrow?

It's like the sale of any startup to a major corporation: The new parent company offers valuable marketing and distribution muscle, but the scrappy upstart runs the risk of losing its soul.

And like most children who were adopted in the 60's, everything about my biological parents, my genealogy and how I came to be adopted remain cloaked behind a veil of secrecy.

It can be a spouse, a friend, a parent, but it has to be somebody that's far enough away from you that they're not in the super day - to - day — like it can't really be a coworker — but they have to be close enough to know you better than you know yourself.

The other quirky parenting insight she discloses is «when we'd travel in the summers, because I don't like to pack a lot... I'd have the kids bathe in their clothes, and then they change into something else.

I am a successful physician, devoted parent, wife and daughter, yet I let those «no's» make me feel like a failure.

He joined the firm as part of a careful succession plan, in which the founding parents are transitioning control to their sons, aided by professional managers like McArthur as needed.

Led by the likes of Procter & Gamble, parent companies are discovering the value of promoting the corporate brands rather than just the product brands.

The salient takeaway for readers in business settings is to stay mindful of the way Martin persuaded McCartney to leave his comfort zone, like a parent urging a child to try a new food: «Let us try it and if it doesn't work we won't use it and we'll go with your solo version.»

But the «grey hairs» of the investment industry who, like experienced parents, intuitively understand the markets, still tend to be more successful investors over the long term.

Despite these public spectacles, like one that took place September in which Google parent company Alphabet used drones to deliver burritos at Virginia Tech, it's unlikely that the public will see widespread use of drone deliveries in the near future.