Sentences with phrase «mothers of small children»

If you are the stay - at - home mother of small children, and / or a home educating mother, then that is your first priority.

Upon publication of MP's expenses in 2009, Ward defended her choice to fund a second home in Westminster from her parliamentary allowance, citing her need to balance her public duties with her duties as a mother of small children.

As the wife of a white man, thrown in jail while pregnant, a mother of small children, who becomes the driving force behind changing archaic laws that forbid a white man bedding down with a black woman, Negga virtually disappears into the character.

Although the financial value of care giving is often overlooked, the truth is that should the mother of a small child suddenly pass away, her role would quickly need to be replaced.

Not exact matches

Jackson has heard bullets fly through her front door; lost sleep due to the noisy drug - dealing going on nearby; shared her small apartment for months at a time with children taken from crack - addicted mothers; calmed hysterical young women beaten by their drunk boyfriends; wept at the funerals of young boys; and battled obstinate government bureaucracies to get a swingset for the rusty and littered «playground» at the center of the Smith Homes.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

Lisa Beamer, mother of two small children and six months pregnant with the third, was widowed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001.

Its experience of the extent to which human brutality can go, of the fury that can be unleashed when the human animal is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the venality of great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men, individually and in the collective.

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

«Even when I was quite small,» writes Alexei Sayle, the child of Liverpool Communists, «we would be out shopping and my mother or father would gesticulate towards some harmless - looking individual and say in a whisper: «See him over there trying on gloves?

Jessica Gress - Wright is the mother of three small children and is currently writing a book on family policy.

I have a good friend among the sisters there, and that afternoon she gave me a small, laminated icon of a medieval Mother and Child, and a little cross.

Actually, the grave of Jesus, son of Joseph was located in 1991, the 10 small stone caskets have been identified as him, his mother, some of his brothers (Jesus was a middle child of seven), his wife and his child.

A catechist and mother of three small children described her prayer for peace when the terrible violence had only recently broken out: «I prayed to God for peace; in my fear for my children, I asked him that all the evil men in the different gangs would kill one another off.»

Famously, Dostoevsky supplied Ivan with true accounts of children tortured and murdered: Turks tearing babies from their mothers» wombs, impaling infants on bayonets, firing pistols into their mouths; parents savagely flogging their children; a five - year - old - girl tortured by her mother and father, her mouth filled with excrement, locked at night in an outhouse, weeping her supplications to «dear kind God» in the darkness; an eight - year - old serf child torn to pieces by his master's dogs for a small accidental transgression.

Pronounced «Deenk», as in dinky and small, she is the youngest and smallest of four children whose father gave her the nickname and mother gave her the phonetic spelling.

Now this mother of two not only shares baby travel advice, trip reports, and helpful tips, tricks, and resources for traveling with small children, she is also a passionate advocate of the value these experiences can have for everyone in the family.

Is Wilde's Glamour breastfeeding image the commodification of fantasy - style mother - child moments or is it a small step towards telling mothers that they deserve to be seen and that their stories matter?

I could circle around how hard it is to work so much with small children (and then I'm reminded of single mothers who work 2 jobs and I promptly stomp on this thought).

The mother of three children and a teacher of many more, she truly believes in the power of using small moments throughout the day to build character and make the world a better place.

These approval awards also give customers the satisfaction of knowing that their breast pumps are just some manufactured product that is allow to be sold to expecting mothers, or mothers with small children.

However, as we often do these very same tests on children, even small babies, and the potential loss of benefits if the mother stops breastfeeding are considerable, the mother should, in my opinion, continue breastfeeding.

As a mother who has formula fed two children (one of whom is still getting some formula at 15 months of age because he is very small), I truly hate these kinds of stunts.

As the mother of three small children, I am eager to implement the ideas.

Sometimes, it's the small details that make the biggest difference: a hopeful adoptive father who reminds the expectant mother of her own father; the golden retriever in the waiting adoptive couple's family photo that triggers a memory of the dog the expectant mother had when she was a child; or the fact that the hopeful adoptive mother is an graphic artist, just like the expectant mother always wanted to be.

The swim - lesson study, for instance, which focused on a small sample of parents teaching their kids to swim, found that «fathers tend to stand behind their children so the children face their social environment, whereas mothers tend to position themselves in front of their children, seeking to establish visual contact with the children.»

Some of us had a difficult time finding the time to actually read the book, because, well, we're mothers with small children.

Beth Molyneaux, a mother of a 2 - and a 4 - year - old, said she is concerned about the safety of small children.

In fact, some mothers report being able to express small amounts of breast milk long after their child has stopped nursing.

'' Do you really, really think it's ethical to see something that has the potential to ruin a child's life — and a mother, by extension — and not recommend a course that would avoid the risk when the risks of the exchange are so small in comparison?»

And since you liked me asking you what you think so much, let me ask you another question: Do you really, really think it's ethical to see something that has the potential to ruin a child's life — and a mother, by extension — and not recommend a course that would avoid the risk when the risks of the exchange are so small in comparison?

Lori Taylor is an academic currently disguised as a homeschooling mother of two small children, running two home - based diaper businesses.

Verbal IQ deficits among children of mothers with lower education compared with those who completed university were somewhat smaller in the intervention group than in the control group: 5.2 (95 % CI: 3.1, 7.3) vs 6.5 (95 % CI: 5.6, 7.4) points deficit among mothers with partial university education and 10.7 (95 % CI: 8.4, 12.9) vs 11.7 (95 % CI: 10.2, 13.2) points among those with secondary education or less.

- The percentage of children of single mothers who are in the care of fathers while their mothers work remains small, but it also grew - from 2 percent in 1988 to 7 percent in 1991.

A 1990's evaluation of the Parents as Teachers (PAT) program also failed to find differences between groups on measures of parenting knowledge and behaviour or child health and development.17 Small positive differences were found for teen mothers and Latina mothers on some of these measures.

Pregnancy — is a wonderful event, completely change the life of every woman.Adjusting to the beat of a small heart, the mother tries to do everything to make your child feel comfortable during all nine months.Unfortunately, for many weeks, forty expectant mother has to experience not only the joy of emergency meetings with the baby, but also a lot of unpleasant sensations that accompany pregnancy.Some of the inevitable companions of pregnancy do not carry any hazard to the fetus, while others require constant medical supervision.One of the most serious complications in the waiting period is a child gestational diabetes — a condition in which increased levels of glucose in the peripheral blood.

«Beware the woman who takes even a small glass of champagne at a birthday party,» Badinter writes, hinting at the sinister modern framing of motherhood as a constant trade - off between the needs of the child and the selfish desires of the mother.

However, as we often do these very same tests on children, even small babies, and the potential loss of benefits if the mother stops breastfeeding are considerable, the mother should continue breastfeeding.

And while mothers with young children already face a long list of demands, Hesketh said it's important to know that even small increases in activity can benefit not just the mothers themselves but also their children.

Many to most members of crunchy - mom mafia tend to identify as «feminist,» which has proven to be a remarkable shield that largely prevents observers from noticing that each new item on the must - do list increases the burdens and demands on mothers, who already have a full plate living in a sexist society that doesn't really do much to make it easier for women raising small children.

New York becomes the third state to safeguard the civil rights of nursing mothers who don't want to hide in the house while their children are small.

Esther Simon, MSW is a professional organizer and expert in time management, as a mother of seven children she has an unbelievable amount of experience in organizing large and small family home.

No doubt, if a mother wishes to nurse her child beyond the first few months when her baby is small, she will need to prepare herself mentally for the likely disapproval of a misinformed public that still is not at all accepting of the many benefits of extending the breastfeeding relationship well past a child's first birthday.

Breastfeeding is a cost effective way of feeding an infant, and provides the best nourishment for a child at a small nutrient cost to the mother.

The folks who express horror and shock at a breastfeeding mother will try to tell you it's sexual and oh dearie me, think of the children, but at the end of the day, we all know there's nothing sexual about a small child eating their lunch.

Married after the war and the mother of three small children, she trained to be a judge and worked on changing the law for adoption and prison reform.

I hope the family members of the young mother and her small children can find some amount of closure in knowing he has been apprehended.»

A small number of children are already born to mothers over 50 every year, by IVF using donated eggs.

Both the KUDOS (Kansas DHA Outcome Study), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm birth.

«When mothers are highly controlling of small children's play, those children are less likely to want to engage with them,» said Jean Ispa, co-chair of the MU Department of Human Development and Family Studies and a professor in the College of Human Environmental Sciences.