Sentences with phrase «parent than a friend»

Calling her by name not just once but twice, in a manner that sounds more like a parent than a friend, he describes the situation.

For those indicating that they relied more heavily on their parents than their friend for resources (such as receiving comfort and advice or financial assistance), the parent's approval or disapproval predicted how much participants liked the interaction partner.

Not exact matches

It can be a spouse, a friend, a parent, but it has to be somebody that's far enough away from you that they're not in the super day - to - day — like it can't really be a coworker — but they have to be close enough to know you better than you know yourself.

Millennial parents, a group The New York Times labeled «parennials,» are less likely to turn to friends and family for advice than older generations.

Millennials are poorer than their parents, and it restricts where we live, how we interact with our friends and how much of the world we can see.

Perhaps you've been in the midst of people like your parents, your loved ones — your circle of friends who claim to be christians — and they have let you down or proven to be less than you expected.

1) This is not a particularly hospitable place for agnostics 2) Nothing would crush my parents more than learning that their daughter has walked away from the faith 3) I have a book deal with a Christian publisher 4) I want to keep my Christian friends 5) My doubts come and go, so there's no reason to unnecessarily drag the people I love through my drama 6) If I fake it maybe I can convince myself that everything's okay

But as more and more of us find ourselves called upon to provide such prosthetic support to afflicted parents, relatives, or friends, we may find it a challenge to remember that such patients are never less than persons.

Even my friends would feel more comfortable speaking negatively about my parents than I ever would theirs.

But the Lord had chosen a mother for that baby, and a child for that mother — nothing is more loving, our friends found, than helping a parent to receive the Father's gift of life.

For our time when one of the great human advances is the gender revolution, the need for her symbols of love, parent, love and friend, for God can be accepted with less tentativeness than characterized in her bold book.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

Just because parents don't reinforce the belief in the Tooth Fairy when their children start to doubt it, as they do a belief in your imaginary friend, doesn't mean that one has more merit than the other.

All three kinds of love are strong, but while a family's love tends to be unconditional and pure (particularly if you're talking about the love our parents bestow upon us), love between friends as well as that between partners requires a lot more nurturing, the latter demanding much more than the former.

As my parent's friends inhaled the corn cakes even faster than my roommate's boyfriend did the week before, I realized that meals for those beyond quarter - life don't have to be fancy in the traditional sense.

Nothing makes me happier than being surrounded by friends and family and I absolutely loved having the weekend to spend with all my cousins, aunts, uncles, parents and D.

If you're better at sharing than I am, this is a dish you can cook for your parents, a date, or your friends.

My intent is to let other parents know that no matter how much your child loves baseball (that is the most common thing I hear when I ask my friends why they have their kid playing so much travel ball, «but Blaine, he LOVES baseball»... maybe), many kids will STOP playing earlier rather than later if they are overexposed.

However, when they start growing up, you find that they tend to make their own friends and more often than not you end up making friends with their parents as a result.

A list of «advice» like yours, with a recommended response to another mom doing something as simple as saying she's tired being to brag about how awesome your parenting skills are, is nothing more than a way to lose friends and alienate people, while playing into the sanctimonious, holier - than - thou stereotype of crunchy moms.

It's just a simple fact that some children take longer than 3 days to train, but even so, parents still like 3 Day Potty Training, they still refer their friends to 3DayPottyTraining.com, and they will use 3 Day Potty Training with their next child.

The assumption that teenagers need to separate from their parents in order to find their individuality is false, and well - meaning adults easily assume that teenagers need friends more than their parents.

As girls grow, they tend to be more heavily influenced by their friends than their parents.

And I spend a lot of time on various parenting websites connecting with moms there, too, many of whom I feel more free to be «myself» around than my local mommy friends.

FNP's wide scope also draws the dads in, since the programme is concerned with far more than just the pregnant woman's body and covers health, parental role, home, neighbourhood, family and friends, parenting, resources and community and other services.

William H. Caddoo, DC suggests that parents looking for someone to treat their child's soft tissue sports injury consider a doctor, physical therapist, chiropractor, or even athletic trainer certified in Active Release Techniques ® (A.R.T. ®), and, that if they are looking for a doctor of chiropractic, they ask their child's pediatrician or friends for a recommendation rather than flipping through the Yellow Pages.

Braided «dos are super versatile; there are so many variations for different types of hair, they can be dressed up or down, and they're easier than one would think to create (either alone or with the help of a parent or friend).

As a parent, I can't imagine anything more painful than the loss of a child, and I have a few friends who have lost a child.

I'm about as moderate and mainstream in my parenting as you can get, so I know I'm not asking him to raise this child any differently than most of our friends are raising their children.

Constantly attempting to better yourself as a parent is never a bad thing, and who better to learn from than a friend?

Which is why, if you're face - to - face with a friend who parents differently than you do, try asking them these seven questions.

My real friends listened without judgement, even if they had made different parenting choices than I had.

Not their cousins, friends, relatives, or anyone that could love them better other than their parents.

But ultimately, because your child has a different personality than your friends» kids or the other kids at daycare and preschool, even though those tried and true approaches work for other parents, they just don't seem to work when you use them.

-- You want to be their friend rather than parent — Use rewards or bribes to get them to do things

My husband and I spent many hours talking about parenting, how we wanted to raise our children, how we would deal with discipline, with schools, with rebellious teenage years, far more than any of my friends who conceived naturally.

If you're always the only parent who seems concerned about your 6 - year - old playing on the monkey bars at the playground, or you can't stand the thought of your 13 - year - old crossing the street with friends, it can be tempting to assume it's because you're more caring than the other parents.

Your tween daughter is preparing for this when she starts closing her bedroom door or engaging more with friends than parents.

Your child surely needs your help, there no better friend than a parent.

My husband and I realized fairly soon after adopting our first son that we needed to parent differently than a lot of friends and acquaintances around us.

Part of that transition is that friends take a preeminent role in their lives — often becoming more important than parents and family.

The time married parents spend visiting with friends and relatives outside the nuclear family has declined dramatically: Married fathers spent almost 40 percent less time and married mothers spent almost a third less time socializing in 2000 than they did in 1965, according to Bianchi, Robinson and Milkie.

Advocacy More than 65 million Americans provide unpaid care to an older parent, a spouse, a sibling, a special needs child or a friend, serving as the nation's largest volunteer health care army.

Since today's kids are more tech - savvy than ever, video chatting with friends, talking on the phone and texting are things parents need to keep an eye on and limit.

I have many friends who parent differently than I do.

I let off a «holier than thou,» sigh when I got off the phone with a tired friend practicing Attachment Parenting principles.

Seventh, there is a big divide in parenting circles between the «co-sleepers» and the «crib - sleepers» so be aware that whichever choice you make will probably be challenged by more than one of your friends or relatives or even complete strangers who seem to have no issues with giving advice to someone they don't know!

The book was born (like a lot of parenting projects) when a young couple realised that having a baby was a lot harder than they expected... and they really wanted a way of expressing this to friends and families while giving them support and encouragement as they went.

Macfarlane acknowledges that parenting is a great calling, but she found that after she and her friends shared stories of their children's less - than - stellar stunts, they always sarcastically signed off with «kids are the worst».

Often those parents who view themselves as their children's friends or peers more than the parent - child relationship.