Sentences with phrase «parent spends more time with the children»

They may feel a range of emotions — jealousy for parents spending more time with the child with the disability, guilt for complaining about the strains that the child with the disability puts on the family, or joy when their brother or sister accomplishes something new for the first time.

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Thus, it's no surprise that in the past 20 years, the number of dads who stay home with children has dramatically increased and men in general are spending significantly more time parenting their children.

Those who did work less were mostly parents with very young children and teenagers who otherwise would have spent more time in school or studying.

It is an established fact now that many children spend more time in daycare facilities than they do with their parents.

One group received hour - long home visits once a week from a trained researcher who encouraged the parents to spend more time playing actively with their children: reading picture books, singing songs, playing peekaboo.

Two fifths (40 %) of parents say their children get a better understanding of geography by travelling on train and 34 % say their children benefit from spending more quality time with their family.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

Many parents, myself included, struggle to balance the widespread use of electronic media devices (tablets, computers, etc) at many schools and at homes, with a desire that our children spend more time reading, playing with friends, and creating.

They spend more time with their peers, away from parents, than younger children do.

If it's a timing issue, consider whether changing your parenting time routine might help your ex spend more time with the children instead of leaving them in the care of others.

After - school care may be a good child care choice for a work - at - home parent's family, even if one of the reasons to work at home is spending more time with family.

• 8 out of 10 people (80 %) think fathers should feel as able as mothers to ask for flexible working • 8 out of 10 women (80 %) and more than 6 out of 10 men (62 %) agree that fathers are as good as mothers at caring for children • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 42 % strongly, that society values a child's relationship with its mother more than it values a child's relationship with its father • Almost 6 out of 10 (59 %) agree with the statement that society assumes mothers are good for children, fathers have to prove it • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that there should be a zero tolerance approach if fathers do not take on their parenting responsibilities • Almost 7 out of 10 (67 %) agree that dads should be encouraged to spend time in school reading with their child • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that dads should be able to stay overnight with their partner in hospital when their baby is born.

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

The early years period is also the time when fathers, like mothers, are most child - focused: this is the period when parents of both sexes spend more time caring for and interacting with their children than they ever will again.

«While daytime nappy changes are largely the responsibility of the mother, likely due to mums spending the daytime caring for their child whilst on maternity leave, Britain's dads are taking the lead with night - time nappy changes where men are increasingly occupying spaces previously thought of as «feminine» — spending more time on housework and taking a more proactive role in parenting.»

These men — and their parenting partners — may have intended that there would be a very limited parenting role, but as the child grows, they find that they are spending more and more time with their child.

The more time parents spend talking with their child the richer the language development of that child.

On the other hand, parents who have spent a long day at work may crave more time with their children than bedtime allows.

And work at home parents win by getting to spend more time with their children and by receiving some enthusiastic help.

The fact of the matter is, parents need to spend more time with their children when they reach adolescence, not less.

A lot of parents get old and think they should have spent more time with their children before.

With parents today juggling careers and children involved in multiple sports and activities, family time spent around the table is becoming much more rare.

Many parents start to avoid spending time with friends, to go to the theatre, or at the gym because they want to spend more time with their children.

I think a child that is only allowed to spend the time the judge found appropriate with his mother wants to be with her as intense as he can, and therefore most children would prefer to stay in bed with the parent he misses more.

The study found that fathers spend more time with their children when their wives work and that couples spend more time together in child care when both parents work.

With shared parenting, the children may live primarily with one parent but they may spend more time with the other parent than is normal in a non-shared parenting arrangemWith shared parenting, the children may live primarily with one parent but they may spend more time with the other parent than is normal in a non-shared parenting arrangemwith one parent but they may spend more time with the other parent than is normal in a non-shared parenting arrangemwith the other parent than is normal in a non-shared parenting arrangement.

But as I spend more time with other parents of children with special needs, I know I haven't.

Instead, the school is encouraging parents to spend more «quality, unstructured time» at home with their children in the evenings.

The median amount of time child spends in foster care is one year, with more than half of all children returning to their parent or primary caregiver at some point.

When asked to compare the amount of time they spend with their children with how much time their parents spent with them, about half (49 %) of adults with children under age 18 say they spend more time with their kids than their parents spent with them.

The more quality time a parent spends with his or her child, the better.

Fathers, in particular, are spending a lot more time - 59 minutes a day - with their children than fathers spent with their children in the 1960's, when they averaged only 16 minutes a day of time spent parenting.

It may not make sense, given that 46 % of Millennial parents in the 2010's are both in the workforce, vs. 31 % in 1970, but Millennials spend more time than any previous generation with their children.

This means that the more time a mother spends engaging with her child in daily activities, the lower level of stress she may experience and the more energizing she may feel as a parent.

«People with children are parenting much more intensely than ever, and people who don't have kids are working more hours than ever, so we spend less and less time alone with our spouses.»

Although the Australian work of McIntosh (2010) found that infants under two who spent one night or more a week and toddlers who spend 10 days a month of overnight time in their non-primary caregiver's care are more irritable, more severely distressed and insecure in their relationships with their primary parent, less persistent at tasks, and more physically and emotionally stressed, this study has been largely discredited by a recently published consensus report endorsed by 110 child development experts (Warshak, 2013), which found that McIntosh drew unwarranted conclusions from her unrepresentative and flawed data.

The more time that a child spends with a non-custodial parent, the greater the expenses that parent incurs to support the child.

Fathers who spend more time with their children report having more confidence as parents.

For example, Ohio's child support calculations call for reduced child support obligations when the parent paying support spends more time with the child.

This doesn't mean your child loves the other parent any less or wouldn't ultimately benefit from spending more time with him or her.

Many times clinginess becomes less and less as the parent spends more one - on - one time with the child.

[27] That is, the amount of time that a parent or teacher is willing to spend teaching, listening to, playing with, and exploring with the child the more socially, emotionally, and educationally developed the child will become.

Children of low earners not only lose out on spending time with their parents but they are also more likely to be sick.

Guilt - ridden busy moms and dads take heart: Mothers — and fathers — across most Western countries are spending more time with their children than parents did in the mid -»60s, according to a University of California, Irvine study.

Students whose parents reported «spending time just talking to my child», «eating the main meal with my child around a table» or «discussing how well my child is doing at school» daily or nearly every day were between 22 per cent and 39 per cent more likely to report high levels of life satisfaction.

And while children are spending more hours in structured programs, it's still «quality time» with parents that really matters, according to Sandra L. Hofferth, the lead researcher for the study, which was released last week by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.

Over the past 35 years, the time British parents spend doing homework or reading with their children has increased four times, which shows that there's a real desire for parents to be more involved with their child's education.

I also believe in the long run that our children will achieve their full potential only when parents have more time to spend with them.

Research from several parts of Africa and south Asia finds that children in low - cost private schools are from families that are better - off, get more help from parents with homework and have spent more time in pre-school.

Upper - middle - class parents have the means to spend two to three times more time with their preschool children than less affluent parents.