Sentences with phrase «old crutches»

I'm not confident either, often falling back to my old crutches, like feeding or rocking him to sleep, which seems so much easier in the short term, even though I know it's probably the wrong decision in the long run.

Not exact matches

I'm feeling like a hoax when Dianah slightly moves her crutch that lays between her and mother and murmurs it like a prayer, the living and active words of the Old Book that keep her living, and the words sound the opposite of trite when she speaks them under the beat of the African sun:

Now more and more churches are building ramps and designing new structures or renovating old ones so that persons with crutches or in wheelchairs, persons who have suffered coronaries, etc., can enter easily.

The Bible is no more that a 2000 year old best sell which people use as a crutch for living period.

As reported by The Sun, the 35 - year - old was seen wearing a leg brace and using crutches in Pittsburgh as he makes the first steps towards a recovery.

After the draw, the veteran defender left the stadium on crutches and a scan on Monday further revealed that the 35 year old former England international will now miss Friday's match against Liverpool at home.

The United star injured himself during a Champions League clash against FC Basel on Wednesday at Old Trafford and was seen going out of the stadium on crutches.

In case you find yourself in the middle of the sleep regression, then, try your best to soothe your baby by being responsive and avoiding creating new sleep crutches, or turning back to the old ones.

They will not expect daily desserts, a crutch often used by districts in the past to meet the old regulations» calorie minimums.

[Gallo's] 14 - year - old son, Derek, has spina bifida and gets around [off the ice] with a wheelchair or forearm crutches....

Be careful that you do not create a new sleep crutch (or revive an old one).

The older your baby is, the more resistance you are likely to be met with, as older babies have had longer to learn habits and often rely on sleep crutches to get them to sleep.

If you have a baby / child who is older than 6 months with no precluding medical issues, who is waking frequently through the night, takes a long time to settle or go to sleep, who relies on sleep crutches to go to sleep every time they wake, and — this is the critical factor — you as the parent are wanting to change this behavior, but do not feel able to do it alone, you may want to consider hiring a sleep trainer.

It'd be one thing if we were talking about a (much) older baby or toddler suddenly regressing into nursing - as - sleep - crutch or nighttime - game - playing territory, but a four - month - old?

Respond to each of her wakenings, gently offer assurance but don't resort to your old sleep crutch!

As you give extra time and attention to your older child who is experiencing some sleep regression, be careful to not create a new sleep crutch such as holding his hand till he goes to sleep, lying down with him each night, or letting him listen to an audiobook at bedtime till he goes to sleep.

Go to his cribside to check on him and make sure all is well — just be sure not to restart an old sleep crutch during this check.

She is 6 months old now and more and more people keep telling me I should stop nursing her to sleep, that I am creating a sleep crutch.

Laying against two of the five trash gates were assorted bottles, cans and plastic bags, an old hiking boot, an overturned mail crate and a metal crutch.

Being in a heavier body and trying to reenter my old life without my eating disorder as a crutch was much more difficult than I had imagined.

For me, my motivation is knowing that I won't need a crutch when I get old and I will still look like I'm 30 years old even though I am 80 (ok, maybe not that young but you'd never know).

Yep, there's the grumpy, old penny - pincher killjoy, Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer) and by contrast the charming sickly little guy, Tiny Tim, (Pearse Kearney) with his crutch.

RIM is in a spot not terribly unlike where Apple was in the mid-90s: their old OS was creaky, and the new OSX needed both a crutch (Carbon) for Mac apps with lots of legacy code, while they developed Cocoa that is the going - forward approach.

Surprisingly, the Karmic streaks never get old but they do tend to become an easy crutch to rely on which makes the normal melee attacks seem tiresome.

As I grew older, FFVII would become my crutch.

So, it's up to Resogun to be to the PS4 what Mario is to every Nintendo console in existence: a crutch, an old reliable, a staple.

To date da Cunha's work has reinvested these prosaic semi-retired objects with a sense of purpose such as the hockey stick that becomes a crutch or the old t - shirts and golf clubs that become a tent.

In a nod to the aspirations of Frieze Masters to bridge the old and the new, Ziegler has rendered the subjects in Brueghel the Elder's painting The Cripples as giant aluminium, three - dimensional, cubistic figures, looped around supporting timber frames instead of crutches.

With no intention to fuel the age - old Android vs. iOS debate, the fact that Android allows more freedom to its developers, sometimes becomes a crutch rather than a helping hand.

So one has to question whether the older workers really do have trouble finding employment, or whether they are using this excuse as a crutch to explain not getting a job.