Sentences with phrase «often than a friend»

If you feel like you're feeding your little one more often than a friend whose baby is formula fed, you might be.

We have our own washer / dryer now and with 15 gPants and 12 gCloths, we're doing laundry SO much less often than a friend that uses BumGenius dipes.

We purge much more often than our friends with bigger houses and try to stick to the new thing in, old thing out rule.

Not exact matches

Crowdfunded money from your family and friends — and, if you are lucky, their networks — is often provided for quite a different reason than the fundamentals of the idea: They love you!

Often, how we treat our friends says much more about ourselves than about them.

Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management professor Lauren Rivera's research found that relatively untrained interviewers often look for «potential friends and «playmates» rather than those with the best work experience or job - relevant skills.»

We're often better at evaluating the strengths and experiences of others than we are at examining our own, so Clark suggests you «ask your friends to identify the most fascinating elements of your biography, your interests, or your experiences....

It often seems as the «share» the details of this relationship that Jesus is more like a child's imaginary friend who is always on their side when any conflict occurs with others rather than the Jesus who loved people enough to tell them, without accusing or withdrawing affection, the hard truths they needed to know to encourge them to make more meaningful choices.

Very often patients need more than anything else a friend to show personal sympathy and interest, to encourage them, and to make sure they are following the prescribed directions.

I need more than the resources of Bible, theological tradition, and my own commitments if I am to understand my faith and the world in which it is set; I also need the ethical insights of my secular colleagues, the political and psychological analyses of my friends and foes, and the prophetic jab of nonchurchmen whose degree of commitment so often puts my own to shame.20

He was always moving on to the next project, more often than not conceived of as brilliant but in idiosyncratic ways that both thrilled and baffled his friends.

Inability to decide is one of the commonest symptoms of fatigued nerves; friends who see our troubles more broadly, often see them more wisely than we do; so it is frequently an act of excellent virtue to consult and obey a doctor, a partner, or a wife.

Samuel Pepys (pronounced Peeps) was a successful seventeenth - century British civil servant who chronicled nearly every day of his life for almost nine straight years, from 1660 to 1669, including his business interest in ships and the British navy, his run - ins with the nobility, his merry meals with friends and family, his nightly prayers, and his «towsing» (ruffling up, disheveling) of women other than his wife (the latter two activities often on the same day).

Indeed, all too often even a spouse is not really a «friend,» yet there may be no others whose friendship is more than superficial.

And I, like Christian's friend Hopeful, have tried to be a faithful companion, though often I've been able to do little more than cheer or wince at the twists and turns of a life in science...»

Even Christian thinkers who did continue to use the language of friendship turned more often to the language of brotherhood, «preferring to represent themselves as brothers united in Christ by virtue of their faith rather than claim the name of friend on the basis of their own excellence.»

They wanted to know how they could address this dismissal of their moral and religious convictions — with their son's friends, and with their own, grownup friends, whose cocktail party polemic was often far more aggressive than any sleepover dispute.

The holidays are a wonderful time of year for catching up with the ones we love; however, preparing large family and friend gatherings often keeps us in the kitchen for longer than we would like.

Both of these often parallel topics are ones that I feel a little more called to having a conversation about with friends over a good meal, rather than brushing them under the table and pretending everything is just okay.

Almost every fall, I end up with a whole bunch of apples from my Mum (usually from the tree of a friend of hers), and more often than not, those apples end up in one of my very favorite things to make: apple pie.

My friend Caelin is Carrie Bradshaw; she loves shoes, drinks out, writing, and she may or may not use her oven as a sweater warmer more often than for food.

While I'd love to be the kind of person who can put together a magazine shoot - worthy picnic set atop a chic table in a bag, more often than not, my picnics consist of several friends huddling around a cooler, passing around Pyrex containers of food.

But the thing about staycations is, they allow you to really live, and put responsibility aside when other things come up — things like invitations for patio drinks at 2pm / 4pm / 8 pm on a beautiful summer day, a sporadic trip to the park to sit and read a good book, sleeping in way later than necessary, random backyard / living room yoga, or quick little road trips to visit friends that you just don't see often enough.

forty looks good, and i am reminded, often, that though the days blur sometimes, that there's more disappointment than enough fingers to count them, it can be balanced with kindness, thoughtful friends, mindfulness, and cookies.

We are often more critical of ourselves than our best friend or partner would ever be.

I do not comment here often now but trust me I have seen more about pogba here than I have heard from my united friend.

Although Toral is often a part of the Arsenal pre-season tours and has made appearances, he is still yet to feature for the first team on a competitive basis and he'll be hoping to be a part of the Arsenal squad, alongside his close friend Hector Bellerin, rather than be shipped out on loan again.

However, when they start growing up, you find that they tend to make their own friends and more often than not you end up making friends with their parents as a result.

Happy babies are ones that wear cloth diapers - their diaper rashes occur less often than their disposable wearing friends.

However, unlike adults who may find making new friends more of a challenge, kids more often than not will quickly find common ground with someone.

Sharing that she and fellow author and friend Ann Patchett both had older husbands who absolutely adored them (Patchett's second husband is 16 years older than she), she said they often joked that if they couldn't make their marriages work, well, no marriage would work.

A friend of mine who graduated beauty school once told me that it's better to spend less on drugstore mascara and replace often than to invest in a higher end product.

Also, contributing Boston Mamas writer Heather (a mother of toddler triplets) suggested that your friend ask the nursing staff about support groups since the nurses often are plugged into community offerings moreso than the doctors.

That's not to say that your partner, friends, or relatives (whoever you've chosen to be present) aren't with you; but, more often than not, they need to take breaks.

We're all human, and exposing that humanity to friends we can trust is, more often than not, exactly what we need.

They're often just talking about their morning routines, playing pranks, or giving advice, and they seem more like your funniest, coolest friend than like a celebrity.

Are their friends more often in the grade ahead rather than the grade your child is in?

Part of that transition is that friends take a preeminent role in their lives — often becoming more important than parents and family.

Sometimes it takes more than our own resources to pluck up the courage to follow our hearts, whether it is your mother, grandmother, teacher or best friend it seems there is often a certain individual that above all others has inspired us or spurred us on to make more of our creative lives.

As time went on however, women began to choose physicians more frequently than midwives, and physicians would often prohibit relatives and friends from being part of the birthing process.

The change from wearing professional clothes, sleeping well, spending lots of time with your partner, eating out, going to movies, travelling, and visiting with friends to sleeplessly dropping personal ambition and drive to take care of little people who are more often challenging than fun is very stark.

Too often partners feel they do not have to take care with each other and therefore communicate more thoughtlessly than they would with colleagues or friends.

Very often a child chooses such a friend on his own, he just becomes attached to one of the toys stronger than to the others.

Often those parents who view themselves as their children's friends or peers more than the parent - child relationship.

Medical professionals, family, and friends often recommended against it and less than one - third of new mothers even attempted it.

I often stop by Trader Joes or Costco to pick up a bouquet of flowers (less than $ 10) before meeting a friend for a birthday lunch or for drinks to celebrate a promotion or engagement.

Very often one friend will need another friend more than she is needed in return.

Babies do not just want silence, and enjoy friends and family other than mom or dad talking to them often.

New fathers often find themselves orbiting a different world than their friends who do not have children.

These parents do not expect mature behavior from their children and often seem more like a friend than a parental figure.