Sentences with phrase «on spending time with your kids»

They Grow Fast The major regret of our fathers» generation is that they missed out on spending time with their kids.

Considering its focus on spending time with your kids and saving your marriage (coupled with a few good laughs), the points in favor for this flick may still outweigh the penalties.

On spending time with the kids — that's a great motivator.

Not exact matches

For some, this may mean a quick workout before heading to the office and for others it could mean spending some time with their kids, reading the morning news or catching up on work - related emails.

FIRE means having more time on your hands so you can spend more time with your kids, your partner, and other important people in your life.

In a previous interview on «In Depth with Graham Bensinger,» Branson revealed that he was able to spend ample time with his kids when they were young because he's a «great believer in delegation and working from home.»

The week kicked off with some debate over just how much Apple is doing to safeguard kids who are spending too much time on their iPhones and not enough time communicating with others.

In the process of escaping from Czechoslovakia [Reitman left with his family in 1950], we spent some time on my uncle's farm in France, and I would put on these circus performances where I would get all the local kids to participate.

With the average commute time of nearly an hour each day on top of the eight or more hours spent on location, as well as other necessities outside of work hours of looking after kids, housework, maintenance of vehicles, etc., people simply don't have enough time and energy to exercise and sleep regularly, give their best to their personal relationships, or relax and have fun — that is, until Saturday mercifully arrives.

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).

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

I definitely know that my job and spending time with my wife and kids is ministry and there is lots of teaching go on there, but I also feel an urge to write and blog.

As a minister's kid, I always subscribed, in theory, to an Eden - like eternity spent with Christ, while simultaneously harbouring a secret resentment that my time here on earth could be cut short.

Tell me why it would be good to let my kids spend some one on one time with one of those good priests.

I put my corporate career on hold to spend time with my kids, and like many moms I became an obsessive label reader in an effort to find the healthiest foods to feed my young family.

I've spent so much of my journey focused on my own nutrition and training, but because so many mommies reach out to me for help with their own kids & family I figured it was about time to expand my posts, stories, and recipes even more.

For our 20th, since we didn't get to take a big trip or anything (he taught for the summer session of school), he surprised me with a bunch of my favorite concerts over the last month, including New Kids On The Block / Paula Abdul, David Archuleta, the Utah Symphony and GENTRI and we got to spend some time together in Salt Lake City.

On Wednesday night, after his speech, Long spends time with the Summer Search kids in the cafeteria.

On this trip, I got to spend some real quality time with my kids.

It enrages me because it is a tacit declaration that it is my (or someone's) job to clean up after him, and the end result is that I have far less «spare» time to spend doing fun things with the kids or working on my career or heck, just relaxing with a good book on a couch that isn't covered with his smelly discarded socks.

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 CHILDREN.

Kids seem to spend most of their time getting into who - knows - what and winding up with what - on - earth - is - that rashes.

Parents are encouraged to find time to spend playing with their kids on a regular basis.

In addition to trying to keep a normal schedule of activities, whenever possible set aside some time for your kids to spend with friends and family without focusing on the illness.

Being a woman in her thirties with two kids means that I spend an inordinate amount of time listening to other women moan about the men in their lives (come on, it's a fact of life that MOST women moan about their fellas).

This item also includes ultra-soft, cotton, and polyester cover with a breathable mesh, so your kids will feel cool and fresh throughout the time they spend on their couch.

When your kids are with their cribs mattress and spend their most of the time of a day on it, the temperature of the room is a major issue.

Families with kids on travel teams will, of course, spend additional time traveling to and from games and tournaments.

Nursing, changing diaper, changing spit - up clothes (baby's and yours), made a cup of tea, spent an hour trying to get in 10 minutes of Tummy Time so the baby won't be a dolt, spent 40 minutes getting the baby down for a nap which ended up lasting 20 minutes, made lunch and spilled half of it on the baby's head, clothing changes all around, nursing, found now - cold cup of untouched tea and drank it anyway, more nursing, baby falls asleep on you but wakes up if you try to move him so you just stay slumped on the couch with one leg forward and the other bent uncomfortably under you because this kid needs to sleep or we'll all diiieeee, nursing, realize you forgot about the weekly mothers» meeting which was your only adult outing dammit and now who will be your friend?

Kids nowadays seem to spend a lot of time on their mobile devices rather than with their friends outdoors.

In my free time, I enjoy cooking new international dishes, exploring the outdoors on nature hikes, and spending time with my wonderful husband and kids.

As I highlighted earlier when your infant spends a lot of time on TV, he / she will not have any interest to engage in self - play, and the kid will miss all the benefits that come with it.

All kids who play sports can develop an overuse injury, but the likelihood increases with the amount of time a child spends on the sport.

There are so many demands on us, so many things pulling at our time and energy, that we may feel bad for not spending enough time with our kids, or «being» enough for them.

I feel the stroller is a great one for on the go parents who want to spend time with all their kids.

I'm going to spend my time playing with my kids, hanging out with good friends, eating strawberries, spending lazy days on the beach and perhaps even have the time to be a little bit bored once in a while.

It's true that a lot of moms spend way too much time on their phones instead of playing with their kids.

In fact, it appears the sheer amount of time parents spend with their kids between the ages of 3 and 11 has virtually no relationship to how children turn out, and a minimal effect on adolescents, according to the first large - scale longitudinal study of parent time to be published in April in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

I find that these tips are essential both so you can enjoy time with your kids during the break and so that the time you do get to yourself (e.g., while the kids are engaged in other activities) is not spent entirely on household minutia!

Spending quality one - on - one time with your kids allows you to develop a unique bond that may actually be stronger than it would have been if you were not a single parent.

Many people bring babysitters or relatives on their vacations so they can spend time with their kids, but also have some adult time to relax and go out for nice dinners.

For instance, kids in first grade are usually not expected to spend more than a half hour on homework each day; if your child is having difficulty with the workload, find out what the problem may be and schedule some time to meet with your child's teacher.

Please, forget on endless hours of time you think you need to spend with your kids during the day.

The letter recommends limiting the time kids spend on TV, computers and video games, and told parents with concerns to speak to their children's teachers.

I love every part of Camp Kesem, but I must say nothing beats spending time with the kids and of courseeee feet - on - da - bed!!

She has conducted numerous parenting workshops around the country on topics such as keeping kids safe from predators («live» and Internet), bullying, cyberbullying, raising nonviolent kids, sexting, anger management in kids, coping with back to school angst, how to avoid spoiling your kid, shaken baby syndrome, how to be a positive role model, teaching children how to be charitable, finding family time, girls and puberty, grand - parenting, holiday etiquette, traveling with kids, how to limit spending on your kids (particularly during the holidays), Halloween safety and money management.

If you are one of the working parents out there struggling on how to spend time with your kids, the ways below are the simplest ways that you can nourish their physical and mental aspects in their life.

Along with taking their kids to the slimy awards show, the family was spotted spending time at the museum together on Martin Luther King Jr. day.

What he found is that it was children's perception of how much time they spent with their fathers that had the most impact on bullying behavior, such as being cruel to others, being disobedient at school, hanging around kids who get in trouble, having a very strong temper and not being sorry for misbehaving.

And when you've spent time with her children - as a babysitter or a teacher or just as a passer - by - offer her a genuine compliment on her kids.