Sentences with phrase «now have fewer children»

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This statistic, which has been going around for a few years now, in fact refers to single, child - free women under age 30 and living in metropolitan areas.

A few days earlier, I had the chance to talk with Norma — a woman who had once been a sponsored child and who is now responsible for leading all the programs related to women's empowerment in Colomi, where World Vision has just started making an impact.

Now while the child was being delivered the mother might have had a few choice things to say...

Mintz attributes this pattern to the fact that children and youth now have very few ties to adults other than parents and teachers, and even fewer opportunities within the broader culture to demonstrate and exercise their developing maturity.

I don't recall ever have tomato soup or macaroni and cheese as a child either (which is probably why I never turn down a serving now), but grilled cheese was a basic staple that I had ignored for a few years into my adult hood because I associated it with tasteless cheese and soggy bread.

Hi there Yvonne and Julie, I Just stumbled across your beautiful website when searching for alkaline recipes, My eldest Daughter who is 5 has been having a few little cold sores here and there, and after much searching I have discover that the virus causing it, can not survive in an alkaline body, Would your recipes be suitable for my children, they are all under 5, she is taking a magnesium supplement now.

Now we're finally home and this last few nights my frustration level with all this breastfeeding stuff has been escalating significantly, to the point that I dread the moment my wife will feed our child and when the feeds take over an hour at 11 pm and we have to wake up again in about 1.5 to 2 hours my frustration becomes more like rage against both the baby and my wife.

While a few of my middle - aged divorced friends are now in cohabiting relationships, I don't know many long - term couples who never married — just three, and of them only two have raised their children without «a piece of paper» or a ring on a finger.

Watching kids and animals grow up together is amazing, the bond they create with one another is truly magical and you would be surprised at how much more you love your animal when a few years down the road you all of a sudden realize how much your animal loves your child now.

However, because some parents have voiced their concerns over some of these mind numbing games in the last couple of years, the toy developers have now come out with a few educational games that your child will enjoy playing.

But in my experience drop offs can go in cycles — so your child may be fine the first day, but then not for a week, then okay for a month but suddenly crying again.a few tips for goodbyes: — have a bit of routine (this is something you can try now, when leaving your child with anyone else)-- blowing kisses, and extra big hug, something easy and non-place specific — be quick!

So I apply a sense of humor with my children all of the time, so much so that my children have now begun to adopt the same sense of humor with me when I make the very few mistakes that I make as a parent.

Investing in a savings bond or buying a few shares of stock for a child now can mean she'll have a tidy little nest egg when she's older.

Mom, if you're reading — I really get how much you loved me as a baby, a child, and now as an adult — and I do not feel bad about having cried myself to sleep a few times learning to sleep through the night.

And despite fully appreciating how honoring this is of the child's emotional needs and my own strong desire to maintain whatever level of secure attachment I can while being away from my children so much now that I'm working full - time, over the last few weeks I've been hearing myself thinking and even occasionally saying out loud, «I want my boob back.»

Now I will admit we only have one child so far, but I know we would still make it work with whatever we had, and the few items we do have will last for many children

I miscarried again and had a D & C. Now, it has been a few years and we are blessed with 2 children, but I appreciate reading about other people's experiences.

Ideally, you want your child to try using the potty training underwear for naps on the big day; however, if you are concerned about her sensitive skin, I would suggest a pull - up - but in a different brand - because she is all grown up and now only wears underwear - and then the pull up goes on just before nap and comes off right after the nap - most of us urinate within a few minutes of waking up and you don't want to give her the opportunity to go in the pull up because it causes confusion - so try to remove it before she urinates and try and have her urinate in the potty.

now, nevermind he has no idea whether his child has any interest or inclination toward engineering (and science in general): that is what said child will be pursuing in a few years.

Now that the working mom in your life has child care lined up, give her a day at a spa — or even a few hours — to forget her stress for a short while.

Especially now that we are finding out about the toxins in paints and plastics — a few natural, quality toys are worth more than a mountain of plastic junk and your child will grow up to recognize and appreciate things that are well - made and have lasting value.

My son now has seven teeth and a few more attempting to come in and YES he has bit me multiple times and every time he does I feel like my heart has stopped because I fear another chunck of skin will be removed from my breasts, but it has not been so bad and he seems to be a lot more gentle with his jaws than my daughter was... and bonus, we no longer have a cat to scare the pants of my children by knocking things over (R.I.P Ozzy) he will be missed but not by my breasts haha!!

I am now CDing my third child, and after my diapers have been in storage for a few years, they were all a bit funky and took some time to get them clean again, EXCEPT these hemp prefolds.

Now that I have had three children, I've learned a few things.

My husband and I welcomed our second child a few months ago (you can read his birth story here) and now that we have officially passed the fourth trimester, I've spent some... continue reading...

Now that our child is older and attends preschool for a few hours a week at home, I think I would try him at a kids» club for an hour or two.

Dr. Spock has been blamed for a generation of lax parenting, a charge that must have seemed more credible in the 1960s than it does now, when parents are told that banishing disobedient children to another room for a few minutes will damage their self - esteem.

Now that my older children have switched back and forth a few times regarding which parent they prefer, I know that it's only a matter of time before my youngest ditches me for dad, too, so for now, I will take all of the baby snuggles I can get and enjoy being his MVP (most valuable parenNow that my older children have switched back and forth a few times regarding which parent they prefer, I know that it's only a matter of time before my youngest ditches me for dad, too, so for now, I will take all of the baby snuggles I can get and enjoy being his MVP (most valuable parennow, I will take all of the baby snuggles I can get and enjoy being his MVP (most valuable parent).

Now, there are people who think kids should always be supervised, and react the same way to an older child or young teen looking after themselves for a few hours as they would to a baby or toddler left at home without a parent.

«With this breakthrough we now have a working technology whereby anyone can pass on their genes to a child by using just a few skin cells,» he says.

But until now, few birth cohorts have investigated the paternal environmental contribution to reproductive success and child's health and development.

It is hard to argue that a simpler life with more exercise, fewer processed foods, and closer contact with our children may well be good for us, but rather than renouncing modern living for the sake of our Stone Age genes, we need to understand how evolution has — and hasn't — suited us for the world we inhabit now.

Psychologists, doctors and special - education teachers now realize that a diagnosis at infancy does not necessarily mean a child will have few options in life — as long as he or she receives special training early.

«Only a few decades ago, no one would have believed that we could see individual atoms, but our capabilities now not only allow us to see them, but manipulate them, like a child building with Lego ® bricks.

I made these pancakes a few weekends ago when my sister and her boyfriend came to visit us, and my children decided these would be the only pancakes I make from now on.

Isn't it funny how your lives change when you have children, a few years ago it would have been a weekend full of wine, nightclubs and late nights but now it is totally differnt.

im a 49 yr old man divorced / i only have one child a daughter 16 yrs old i have sole custody of her so she lives with me / i have been single now for a few yrs and im drama free / i do not tolerate lies cheating or being used or played / im honest no matter what its abt and i expect the same in ret...

well, im drew, im 35, and well I suppose I am tamer now then I was, I started and organised the highway child tribe, we still have a few buses kicking around the states, Im got three kids, genesis, aura sunshine and Elias zion.

Because the nerves have grown numb now, there are scenes of cruel torture in the picture — the kind that a troubled child would enact on his action figures after a few days of standard play: Dr. Strange at the mercy of glass needles, Nebula (Karen Gillan) bloodlessly segmented like a plasticine exhibit in a sadist's medical museum... The atrocity escalates because there's nothing at stake here.

It's a dark echo in there, side - by - side with Jimmy's grim dedication to buying up lakefront property and turning this prelapsarian wonderland into an exclusive, members - only club, but the film explores neither beyond their mention and contents itself to wrap up with a few scenes of mayhem, three insipid montages set to horrible music, and the same finale involving the birth of a child it seems like Martin has done now in a good half of his films.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

Reassuringly, despite what was said a few years ago when children's publishers were beginning nervously to address the prospect of a digital revolution, books have taken on a newfound novelty for young readers, offering a tactile respite from the screens through which many of us now lead our lives.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

Mobile phones with cameras had already produced a major change in cyberbullying behaviour when they became widespread a few years ago, but now we are moving on to a world of constant internet access, GPS location devices, Bluetooth and Apps which even allow companies to harvest personal information from a children's game.

Now consider that a study reported in U.S. News & World Report estimated that the current generation of children, with its legions of struggling readers, would experience one - third fewer face - to - face conversations during their school years than the generation of 30 years ago.

New studies published in medical and psychiatric journals, and some that are now in press, suggest that, for the most part, young children who were exposed to cocaine in the womb appear to have few impairments distinct from those common among children born of poverty.

Given a choice, relatively few parents have absolute loyalty to the school their child is in right now.

Now, that will mean that today fewer children would pass them; but that's because they've not yet been taught what it takes to do so.

But now a few private schools and charter schools, which are independent public schools exempt from ordinary rules and procedures, have set themselves up as boarding schools for low - income students who want many of the advantages and the support given to bankers» and lawyers» children at Groton and St. Mark's.

A group of teachers and parents are now suing him, saying that school is starting in a few weeks and they have no idea what to teach the incoming children now.