When she isn't spending time with her children or writing, Marlena enjoys hiking and photography.
You're
not spending time with your children or your loved ones, etc., and that causes more stress.
UNICEF's recent report on the well - being of British children paints a depressingly familiar picture of parents who can
not spend time with their children because they have to work long hours for meagre wages in order to make ends meet.
Adults should never feel as if they can
not spend time with children.
I was thus the proud first reader of a FOAF's picture book, though I don't spend any time with children.
What will it be like when you are not travelling,
not spending time with children and grandchildren, not working on your garden because it's winter?
(b) the contravention resulted in a person
not spending time with the child (or the child not living with a person for a particular period);
(b) the current contravention resulted in a person
not spending time with the child (or the child not living with a person for a particular period);
Don't spend your time with the children trying to talk them out of their negative attitudes.
«You can never be a real man if you do
not spend time with your children.»
Not exact matches
You will regret
time not spent with a husband, a
child, a friend or a parent.»
As a
child, Buterin didn't
spend much
time socializing
with other
children.
It's
not enough to «find»
time to
spend with your
children, because the job will always find a way to fill every minute.
Not only is she setting an example for her daughter as a busy executive who prioritizes
spending high quality
time with her
children, her son sees his father helping in the kitchen and
with other household matters.
Allowing parents to
spend time with their newborn
child is such a unique life event that we should treasure that and support that, but I don't know if every business could sustain this,» he adds.
The report argues that: «it would
not be appropriate to include
time spent with children as part of the cost of a
child.
When
not spending time with her husband and two
children, Honaman is busy advocating for women in business.
I wanted the
time I
spent with my
children to be meaningful and
not just trying to get the day to go by.
The IRS does
not clearly specify how long this gap can be — but, for example, if you took a year off work to
spend time with your
children, you will
not qualify for a tax deduction.
After recently mentioning that I would consider an investment in the Vanguard Wellington Fund if I wanted to create wealth in such a way that I did
not have to
spend much
time thinking about investments or intended to pass the ownership stake on to someone that did
not have much knowledge about investing (i.e. if you wanted to turn your
children into trust fund babies in a way that they could
not ruin it, you'd want to set up a restricted trust that only permitted the kids to receive the interest and dividend income generated by the fund, perhaps
with the instruction that the assets transfer into an S&P 500 index fund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exist).
I concluded at the
time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the
Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack
Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents
not to
spend too much
time with their
children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack
children, which even, preposterously, gave
children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack
children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their
child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the
child and the nature of the smack.»
Not only are men supposed to attend morning Bible studies, but they're supposed to get home in
time for dinner,
spend time alone
with each
child, date their wives once a week, and earn enough money so that their wives can stay home
with their young
children.
I read to my
children, I watch them in the slip
n» slide, I
spend time with people whom I feel genuinely know and love us, I get to essentials at work and re-learn saying no, I read books, I get pretty inward and quiet, I go for walks, I sing, I knit, I do ordinary work like clean the house and plan meals and cook.
Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a
child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the
child and
spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than
spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the
child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will
not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the
child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take
time to train the
child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.
If someone told Wendy that she needs to «be more balanced» and
spend less
time cooking and
with children and more
time reading books, she wouldn't do so well.
«We need to prepare our
children for the day when we're
not there and we do that gradually giving them more and more responsibility as they get older and we do it by talking about them and by
spending time with them - putting those boundaries in place.»
I, on the other hand, always felt guilty that I did
not spend enough
time getting to know our neighbors, taking baked - goods over to friends, or playing
with children down at the park the way my wife did.
His faith gave him the guidance to execute the innocent, deprive
children of health insurance, pal around
with intolerant evangelicals,
spend time at his
N ***** HEAD retreat, profiteering, secede from the Union, so on and so forth.
This is as dangerous and misleading a model for working
with youth as a parent's rationalization, «I don't
spend a lot of
time with my
children, but what
time I do
spend is quality
time.»
In later years he regretted
not having
spent more
time with his family, although Goldstein claims that the
children never seemed to complain.
For the most part that doesn't really show all that much, but come Christmas
time, it shows big
time Once advent is upon us there is usually no stopping me and I
spend quite some
time baking, crafting and decorating,
with and without the
children.
By the end of the day I didn't have much to show for my
time, other than I kept my
child alive and fed and
spent quality
time with family.
(The checkout operator in the supermarket the other day, said she bet I couldn't wait for them to go back to school — I told her that actually I like my
children and enjoy
spending time with them!
Today I am enjoying things that I could
not do when playing for a club like
spending more
time in the morning
with my father, visiting my friends, my family members, taking my
children to school and picking them up» Diego Milito said.
Obviously I'm
not going to convince you of anything, but I'm also
not going to back down and say «OMG because she accused me of researching instead of
spending time with my
children I obviously need to shut up».
I try to
spend one on one
time when I can
with all my
children, but S is the most challenging, mainly because she isn't actually interested in anything.
• One factor that, in most cases, over-rides the impact of fathers» leave - taking on fathers»
time spent with children later is mothers» employment: the more hours mothers work and the more they earn, the more involved fathers tend to be, whether or
not they took much leave in the first year (Baxter and Smart, 2011; Lammi - Taskula, 2008; Yeung et al., 2001).
And so the
time that you
spend with those
children is going to have to be quality
time, and that means that when you are present, you are
not on your Blackberry, you are
not doing other things, you are
not on the telephone - you come and you say, «I'm available to be
with you.»
• Better educated fathers are found to
spend more
time with their
children (Flouri, 2005; Yeung et al, 2001) BUT are
not necessarily more engaged in childcare.
• Over a third of parents think they don't
spend enough
time with their
children.
And it's pretty hard
not to form a strong connection and get to know your
child really well when you do breastfeed,
spend lots of
time with them, wear or carry them everywhere you go, are available to them all night, use positive discipline and practice the other principles of attachment parenting.
The sheer ridiculousness of the comments you refer to is freaking hilarious... because obviously these people either a) don't have kids themselves, in which case they have no business intimating that they would make a better parent than you, or b) do, in fact, have
children, but SPEND ALL OF THEIR TIME READING BLOGS THAT THEY CAN MAKE DEROGATORY COMMENTS ON INSTEAD OF BONDING WITH THEIR C
children, but
SPEND ALL OF THEIR
TIME READING BLOGS THAT THEY CAN MAKE DEROGATORY COMMENTS ON INSTEAD OF BONDING
WITH THEIR
CHILDRENCHILDREN.
• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can
spend more
time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their
child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital
with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading
with their
children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging
with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.
Parents and caregivers who don't get to be
with their
children during the day because of a busy work schedule will enjoy the
time they get to
spend bonding
with baby while using a baby sling.
If you didn't have a great home life as a
child,
spend time with other families to see how they interact and solve problems.
But what we often don't realize is that all the
time that we
spent just BEING
with our
child breastfeeding, was also
time spent cuddling our
child.
Between normal life and trying to have a regular date night
with your spouse, regularly getting a babysitter for the younger
children so you can
spend time with the oldest seems like an idea that won't happen because it is too hard to work out.
While many parents lead busy lives, moms need to remember that it's
not necessarily the amount of
time you
spend with your
children, but the quality of that
time.
I have
not let him
spend time with my son because I don't want my
child to become attached.
We believe parents should enjoy their precious
time with their
children not spending hours researching products on the internet.