Sentences with phrase «other than the chores»

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Rather than using screens as digital babysitters while they get on with other chores, parents should watch along with their little ones if they want their kids to get any educational benefit out of what they're viewing.

There have certainly been times that I have desired such a life, quiet devotion, simplicity, responsible for nothing more than my own daily existence and the shared chores that sharing space with others required.

They may do a chore together, go to a car show or museum together or some other activity that is shoulder to shoulder rather than heart to heart.

While an exersaucer seems to be fine to entertain a child while cooking dinner or doing other short chores, no child, especially a child with underlying special needs related to motor development (high or low muscle tone) should use this piece of equipment for more than a short period of time each day.

Doing dishes, laundry, grocery shopping, cleaning and «chores» are daily maintanence needs for ANYONE who lives somewhere other than a box.

She would also prepare meals, throw in the laundry, pick up the toys, and do other odds - and - ends so that when I took a break from the project, I could spend it giving undivided attention to my kids rather than on some chore.

Household chores for kid are considered to be more important in your child's success than any other factor, including IQ.

Other than having great entertainment, I also try to run it in chunks of 3 or 4 miles with household chores in between.

I can do all the household chores, other than this I can love and be gentle and caring.

The study examined a variety of different household tasks — including shopping, laundry, and housecleaning, and found that, for women in heterosexual relationships, it's more important to share the responsibility of doing the dishes than any other chore.

Since the world looks good, walking around didn't feel like too much of a chore at first, but eventually, you must backtrack for quests and collecting items and it would have been a huge help to have a faster mode of travel other than running.

Pacific Rim: Uprising Slightly better than the last one — it's shorter for one thing — this film will nonetheless be a chore for anyone who doesn't relish computer - generated monsters fighting each other and overturning office buildings.

A pair of texts in French about household chores, one more detailed and more complex than the other.

One was that the owners perceived their relationship with their dog to be pleasurable rather than difficult or a chore, and the other was that they offered fewer treats to their pet, preferring to offer attention and affection instead.

Hay - making was just one of the standard crop - harvesting chores for most farmers (the ones which had cattle), and was usually not thought of as any more «cyclic» than the other seasonal harvests.

For the rest, you have to flip through the list of apps until you find the app you're looking for, and while you can double tap the Recents key (the one other than the home and back buttons on a Samsung / Android device) to quickly jump between the last two apps, it can be a chore when you want to go to an app that is higher up in the recent apps list.

Tough because up to this day, some people still look down on women as if they're incapable of doing things other than menstruating, giving birth, and doing household chores.

Whether you're arguing over chores or fighting about finances, the ways you and your partner talk (and listen) to each other during disagreements is even more important than the topics that trigger them.

That said, even among couples that do split the workload, chores tend to fall to one partner more than the other (in heterosexual relationships, usually the woman).

The picture is less clear for women; parenthood has been linked to greater happiness in some studies and to less happiness in other studies, likely because women tend to engage in child rearing tasks that center upon both routine and play, while men tend to spend a greater proportion of their caregiving time on play.2 In addition, married parents tend to have relatively greater happiness than their non-married counterparts given the increased social support available to married adults, lower financial strain, and greater help with chores and housework.

Under such circumstances, the kid is subject to expectations and chores more strictly in one house than the other.

If you have a child who you describe as «the responsible one» you may inadvertently start to give that child more chores or responsibilities than other siblings.

It causes more fights than sex or household chores, and conflict over money predicts divorce better than other topics of dispute.

One other memorable Valentine's Day, I determined that rather than getting some generic (expensive) gift, she might appreciate a few chores handled around the house.