Sentences with phrase «older than my mother»

But they wore their youth and bright future so carelessly, and I found myself applauding until my palms tingled for the men and women like my brother - in - law who had to battle through school with so many other demands on their attention, for the women older than my mother who have finally finished their degree long after their nests emptied, the middle - aged men with a circle of whiskers on their shining bald heads.

I recall a mystery in cosmology in the early 1990s whereby it appeared that there were stars older than the universe itself — the daughter was older than the mother!

«It's clear to most people that you can't be older than your mother.

She was English, older than my mother would have been, skilled with a feather duster and clumsy with teenagers; sometimes, looking at her too - compassionate, long - toothed face over the dining table, I felt she must be thinking of my mother and I hated her for it.

Not exact matches

The letter comes after more than 9,500 people signed an online petition started by Shannon Fest, the mother of a 15 - year - old Douglas High student who struggles to make it through a full day of school.

The Jorgensens were married less than a year, and when Bezos was 4 years old his mother re-married, to Cuban immigrant Mike Bezos.

The 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 people in Parkland last month was thought to have few assets, other than a Kia owned by his dead mother.

The mother - daughter realty team of Sandy Bodnar and Rayissa Palmer of Sutton Group Old Mill Realty in Toronto collected more than 100 pairs of gently used shoes in the 22nd annual Ron White Shoe Drive recently.

Mar. 12, 2013 — A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young has been cracked by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

A person could do much worse than to imagine God as an old mother hen or an overzealous «Jewish mother.»

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act provides that unless a physician can establish that he «reasonably believes» an unborn child is younger than 24 weeks, or, if the child is older, he can establish that continuing the pregnancy will result in either the death of the mother or «the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function,» the physician can not perform a late - term abortion.

The intelligence that one's runaway daughter had given her life to Christ, been baptized in a bathtub, and taken up residence with a bunch of barefoot, long - haired, guitar - strumming, tongues - speaking twenty - year - olds in a place called Maranatha House was only marginally less disturbing to the average Methodist mother than the news that the same daughter had moved in with a professional tabla drummer and changed her name to Windflower.

The best thing about having a best friend who is 72 years older than you are is that they sometimes outrank your mother in terms of what you're allowed to do.

Of course, a child born to a responsible mother in her 60s will get a better start in life than the child of an 18 - year - old crack cocaine addict.

Other than the fact that I'm old enough to be your mother, have blue eyes, blonde (insert grey here) hair and am fair I don't think anyone would know the difference.

I don't blame Giroud for have very little talent, or Mert for being slower than my grand mother, or Flamini having the control of a 2 year old in a bumper car, or Sanchez getting injured when he is played whilst being burned out, or Cazorla for getting injured and left on the pitch playing with knee ligament damage God knows prolonging his return date by how many weeks.

Graeme, who has a 19 - year - old sister, Angela, first asked his mother to caddie for him in 1995, and since then she has been on his bag at every important tournament, more than 100 in all.

His mother and father split when Janes was less than a year old, and Janes never saw his father again.

Three years ago his uncle Anthony Booker — Richard's younger brother and Bob's stepbrother, but only two years older than Rohan — returned from a trip to Jamaica complaining of headaches and a powerful fear that people were trying to kill his mother.

Though many football people acclaimed him as a genius, and everyone accepted him as a man of integrity, no one would dare hire him in the big time, because Bull Cyclone sure as shooting wasn't going to be a football assistant for any mother's son.It's apparently true that Norm Van Brocklin, an old pal of his, did once ask him to take over the Atlanta Falcons» offense when Van Brocklin was head coach, but Bull Cyclone declined, saying, «Now, Norm, why should I come up there and work for you when I already know more football than you do?»

In a study of smoking households in the Midlands containing infants under three months old, two - thirds contained a smoking father (many more than contained a smoking mother).

• The need for professional support does not diminish over time: fathers of older disabled children, like mothers, feel less supported and in greater need of services than fathers of younger children (Suelzle & Keenan, 1981).

The older generation, whether it be our Mothers, Grandmothers, Great Grandmothers or simply the old lady who you always seem to run into at the bus stop, were more than likely to have been brought up with this lingering idea that babywearing was for the lower classes.

They discovered that at 1 year old, the 68 babies taking in marijuana through their mothers» milk had lower motor development (less maturity in motion) than the 68 who were not.

When my oldest was a baby, my OB told me that for me to breastfeed to 6 weeks old would be longer than most mothers ever make it.

The mothers who had slightly older babies, 8 - 10 weeks old or so, were much better off than I was.

As the mother of 7.5 - month old twins, I learned more about double strollers than I ever would have imagined.

Maybe on Planet Boob all the older children respect nothing more than the need for a pristine breastfeeding relationship between the mother and the new baby, but in the real world, older children couldn't care less.

But as an attached parent (I breastfed my son until he was almost 2 years old, we still share a family bed, and aside from daycare, he has never had a babysitter other than my mother) I can tell you that daycare and attachment parenting can live happily together.My son is also very cautious and quiet, but he has always been happy at «school,» and even more, he is the one who befriends the children who cry easily and who need extra comfort at daycare.

Only 55 % of infants, whose mothers return to full - time jobs when the baby is less than six months old, are securely attached to the mother.

The American Academy of Pediatrics advised that the healthy, full - term breastfed baby needs nothing other than mother's milk, including supplemental formula, water, juice, cereal (spooned or in a bottle), or other solid food, until he is at least six months old.

For instance, one study of 36 middle - class mothers and their three - year - olds found that securely - attached children scored 12 points higher on the Stanford - Binet intelligence test than did insecurely attached children (Crandell and Hobson 1999).

That is the way that the companies can get round the rules, because they are not advertising to mothers with a baby who is under six months; they are advertising to mothers with babies who are older than six months.

To test that theory, Parkinson is recruiting British mothers with babies less than 18 months old to participate in the «Feeding Your Bub» survey.

However children whose mothers were employed when the child was 1 or 2 years old had higher academic scores than kids with full - time moms.

The audience for the new Mommy Lit taps into a fairly new demographic: older, well - educated mothers looking for more than «how - to» parenting information.

In a study of more than 3,400 five - and six - year - olds, reported in the journal Pediatrics, researchers found no evidence that the children's behavioral problems were related to their mothers» caffeine intake during pregnancy.

Mothers have found that even babies older than three or four months can still learn to breastfeed.

As the chart below shows, a 35 - year - old woman with less than a high - school degree, for instance, was more than five times as likely to be both never married and a mother than a woman with a bachelor's degree or more.

My friend Carol has been a single mother since her older son was in elementary school and her twins were less than a year old.

But the point of fact is that mothering beyond lactation and / or raising children older than a couple of years has no biological basis and is poorly analyzed by the school of psycho analysis up to now.

my mother in law was talking about how her husband ate when he was 3 months and how her son ate when he was 3 months and how my two month old «looked hungry» for something more than his milk.

Daughters born to teen moms in inner - city Baltimore in the early 1960s were 3.6 times more likely to be on welfare than those with mothers older than 25, according to the study in this month's issue of the journal Pediatrics.

We should care when a rabbi tells a mother she shouldn't nurse her 9 - month - old more than once a day and he hopes to see her with a new baby in a year's time.

Some important statistics: Teenage mothers are depressed 2.5 times more than older women and African American women suffer from PPD twice as often as white women.

An epidemiological study published in the journal Pediatrics found no higher SIDS rate for co-sleeping babies older than 11 weeks — unless the mother smokes.

Single fathers are also somewhat less educated than single mothers, older and more likely to be white.

When my twin sons were babies, we lived a block away from a day - care center, and just as I was setting out with the stroller for the first walk of the day — usually at 7:30, right after the first segment of the Today show ended — I would see mothers dropping off their children, many of whom were infants no older than mine.

On first look, children born to mothers over 35 did appear less healthy as adults than those born to 25 - to 34 - year - old moms.