Sentences with phrase «parent than other mothers»

Not exact matches

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).

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

Yes, his parents and mine expressed some concern — his more than mine because his mother went to church and my parents were not religious — and both of us felt pretty devastated for a period, but we had no children and therefore we were not seen as «ruining» other lives beside our own.

• If one parent is better - educated than the other, some children may benefit from the better - educated parent undertaking more care: e.g. in Norway, girls (but not boys) have been found to do better at school when a father who was better educated than their mother took longer - than - average leave (Cools et al, 2011.)

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.

Infant deaths that occurred as a result of bed sharing under these circumstances have resulted in health authorities such as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommending that parents not sleep with their infants.6 It is ironic that not only does blanket condemnation of bed sharing potentially make parenting unnecessarily more difficult for some mothers, it also has the unintended outcome of increasing deaths in places other than beds, such as sofas.

This isn't to say I'd be thrilled to join other pumping moms in a communal Mothers» Room, but if work culture continues to skimp on providing supportive environments for raising a healthy family, including flex time, paid leave, subsidized quality care and just the basic humanity that allows us to see each other as more than just workers boosting a bottom line, I'd take the company of other moms like me so I wouldn't feel so alone as a working parent.

i've found that mothers will attack each other and their choices, rather than support and encourage each other in being the best parents they can be in their situation with their resources, choices, and circumstances.

This beneficial exchange allows the baby to be fed by someone other than the mother, while delivering the anti-gas and colic results all parents and caretakers desire.

It follows an announcement last year in which the government said that from April 2015 parents will have a fully flexible choice over how they split their 52 week parental leave entitlement - other than the first fortnight, which the mother must take.

Why should a mother be made to feel guilty about a this one choice more than any other parenting decision??

The simple that some mothers and fathers buy these toys from other deserving parents and kids, and then jack up the prices to be double, triple, or more than the original price makes us sick.

And of course AP doesn't cause any more identity problems in mothers than other parenting styles do.

Wendy Flynn, One Tough Mother Runner [«The Hobby That Changed My Life»] Wendy Bradford, Mama One to Three [«Less Whine and More Wine»] Hallie Lord, Moxie Wife [«The Gift of Imperfection»] Leslie Marinelli, The Bearded Iris [«I Suddenly Have a Mom Mullet»] Michelle Lehnardt, Scenes from the Wild [«Big Kids Need Tucking In, Too»] Nina Badzin, NinaBadzin.com [«Shine and Let Others Shine»] Debbie Koenig, Words to Eat By [«We're All Just Faking It»] Rachel Balducci, Testosterhome [«Words You Shouldn't Be Scared Of»] Kimberley Clayton Blaine, TheGoToMom.TV [«Moms, Don't Be Camera Shy»] Kristen Levithan, Motherese [«It's Not Always All On Me»] Amber Strocel, Strocel.com [«Know What You Need»] Stacie Billis, One Hungry Mama [«I'm Not Above Asking for Help»] Kathryn Whitaker, Team Whitaker [«Learn to Love the Unplanned»] Jill Herzig, Editor - in - Chief of Redbook [«Sometimes It's Best to Do Nothing»] Alicia Ybarbo, producer at NBC's TODAY [«The Secret To «Me» Time»] Dana Points, Editor - in - Chief of Parents [«The Dishes Can Wait»] Rachel Hollis, My Chic Life [«Permission To Be Awesome»] Erin, Home with the Boys [«Our Kids Are Capable»] Rachel Turiel, 6512 and Growing [«The Romance of Gratitude»] Shawn Ledington Fink, Awesomely Awake [«Being Together is Enough»] Danielle Smith, Extraordinary Mommy [«It's Okay to Drop Some Balls»] Ronnie Tyler, Black and Married with Kids [«It's Hard to Forgive Yourself»] Christine Koh, Boston Mamas [«Done is Better Than Perfect»] Ilana Wiles, Mommy Shorts [«Sleep When Baby Sleeps?

Children are more than twice as likely to have no contact with their other parent when they lived with their mother

When it comes to the impact of a father's love versus that of a mother, results from more than 500 studies suggest that while children and adults often experience more or less the same level of acceptance or rejection from each parent, the influence of one parent's rejection — oftentimes the father's — can be much greater than the other's.

Breastfeeding USA Counselors must be comfortable promoting evidence - based information (which means it may not be a good fit for those who strictly follow parenting programs based on the latest trend or one person's opinion), but mothers of all persuasions can learn to help other mothers breastfeed, making it inclusive rather than exclusive.

Other than that we spent Mother's Day at my parents house to cook brunch.

Other than a brief conversation held between best friends Gerry (Elizabeth Olsen) and Lilly (Dakota Fanning) at the beginning of the movie, where they discuss first Lilly catching her father cheating on her mother and then the strange notion of parents having sex in general before moving on to their own unappreciated virginity, there is no real plot to become de-virginized.

Still, Danni's mother and some other St. Louis parents say they feel their children have gained more than they've lost with their transfers from Catholic schools to the St. Louis Charter School — one of the five independent...

Last year, shortly before imposing a criminal contempt sentence on a mother who had repeatedly and blithely interfered with my client's visitation, the judge asked her: «Do you love your child more than you hate the other parent?»

I have watched my ex's council flat out lie to judges over the last couple years to prevent myself any more parenting time than a couple hours a week, I have gotten reports of my daughters worsening behavior and school and in other social activities The few adults that were in her life that I could trust to try and look out for her and be there to provide support have slowly been weeded out of her life by her mother because they dared criticize her treatment of the children.

Parenting a child with ADHD is stressful2, 3 and can lead to feelings of inadequacy and self - blame.4 — 6 In addition, different conceptualizations of ADHD among parents can be a source of conflict as fathers more often than mothers tend to resist the label of ADHD and treatment with medication.4, 5, 7 — 9 Similar to other pediatric chronic conditions, parents play a key role in implementing treatment plans that are made during visits with their child's doctor.

Children with single parents move more frequently than other children do, partly because of economic hardship (which forces parents to seek less expensive accommodation in other areas) and partly because single parents form new romantic attachments (as when a single mother marries and moves in with her new husband).

In the Elmira demonstration, intervention mothers were less likely to punish or physically restrain their children than mothers in the control group.62 Among home - visited families who participated in Early Start, less punitive parenting was observed, though the effect was modest.63 Several other programs have identified reductions in the frequency with which mothers spanked their children at thirty - six months, including Healthy Families San Diego, 64 Early Head Start, 65 and IHDP.66 No effects on harsh parenting were found in the CCDP.67

For 26.7 % of the children, someone other than the biological mother was interviewed when the child was 6 years old; in most of these cases, the respondent was another relative (eg, grandmother or aunt), although some respondents were nonrelative foster parents.

Moreover, other research has shown that even adult children of divorced parents tend to have closer relationships with their mothers than with their fathers.

In almost all instances where mental health outcomes were explored, children of parents with BPD fared worse than control children, even when these control children had parents with significant mental health difficulties, for example, Weiss et al33 found that children of mothers with BPD (mean age around 11 years) had lower Child Global Assessment Schedule (CGAS) scores than children of mothers with other personality disorders, and that the mean of these scores was in the «non-functional» range.

If one parent - for example, the father - has a higher income than the other parent - for example, the mother - then he would be responsible for the greater portion of the child support obligation.

Weiss et al33 reported that children (with a mean age of 11) whose mother had BPD, were more likely to have a behavioural disorder or attention deficit disorder than the children in the control group, whose parents had a range of other personality disorders (but not BPD).

THE BABYSITTER SYNDROME: Some parents (let's be honest, mostly mothers), view the other parent as more of a part - time babysitter than an actual parent.

Using different methods, and examining families in the United States and abroad, the results are encouraging: children who spend at least 35 percent time with each parent, rather than live with one and visit the other, have better relationships with their fathers and mothers and do better academically, socially, and psychologically.

Child Abuse: While children living with their unmarried biological mother and her live - in boyfriend face a higher risk of suffering child abuse than kids in any other type of family, children who live with their own cohabiting parents are more likely to be abused than children of married parents.

Its really hard to discuss this anywhere without hearing «Oh your just trying to turn him against his mother» I know that happens alot and i know men and women are both guilty of it but in fact i had never heard of the term «parental alienation syndrome» until a couple days ago, i was actually starting to think based on everyones reaction when i brought up my feelings that it was all in my head and even my son told me i was dillusional right before he stopped talking to me and cut all contact.His mother moved him away to another state when he was 4 basically without more than a few days noticed after i had relocated closer to him to spend more time together, there was no history of abuse and i was paying support so that was a red flag anyway but hes 29 now and i feel like ive pretty much lost him forever.im in another location i moved to be able to see him more after my parents died in 2008 (about a month apart) but that has turned into a disaster since he no longer wants contact.He has a half brother here by myself and my present wife but my youngest son is mentally disabled and unable to take care of himself, myself and my 2 sons are all that is left of my family i have no other relatives anymore and i feel horrible for anyone else who has to go through this.

You published more than 275 original articles on API's AttachedFamily.com online magazine, Parent Compass enewsletter, the API website, and APtly Said blog, as well as provided syndicated material for Mothering, Moby Wrap, MomsCharlotte, Franklin Goose, Psych Central, and other news sites that reached and encouraged more families and normalized API's Eight Principles of Parenting.

Children are more than twice as likely to have no contact with their other parent when they lived with their mother.

Other versions of PMTO have been evaluated in randomized controlled trials, but these versions were substantively different than the model described above because they were designed to serve different populations — e.g., two - parent families or stepfamilies of children exhibiting conduct problems (in contrast to the above study's focus on separated, single mothers of boys who did not necessarily have conduct problems).

Some families draw more heavily on support from grandparents than others, particularly lone parents, younger mothers and first - time mothers.

The same pattern existed for parenting stress with the exception that mothers with degree - level qualifications reported higher levels than all other mothers except those with no qualifications.

'' [M] aternal custody arrangements appear to be more stable than other arrangements: children who live with their mother after divorce are more likely to remain in this arrangement during the first three to four years after separation, while over half of the children who start out by spending time in each parent's household or who start out living with their father make at least one change (Maccoby & Mnookin, 1992)...»

Twice a month a child aged 5 - 7 is separated from the non-custodial parent one or two days more than they can conceptualize.In such cases, you may want to consider adding dinner on Thursday prior to mother's weekend as well as other times suggested above.

Beyond romance, the security of mothers» internal working models of attachment has been used to predict the secure or insecure category of the infant attachment formed by the mothers with their own infants.37 Research has found that parents with insecure models recall their own parents less well than other parents38, which may indicate a lack of any coherent mental representation of good parenting.

They did not differ in consistent ways from other families, and children in single - mother households did not report any differences in well - being or relationships compared with children in other types of families... Mothers in two - parent biological families reported that their children had fewer behavior problems (but did not differ from stepmothers» reports) and spent more time with their children (but did not differ from adoptive mothers» reports) than did mothers in other types of faMothers in two - parent biological families reported that their children had fewer behavior problems (but did not differ from stepmothers» reports) and spent more time with their children (but did not differ from adoptive mothers» reports) than did mothers in other types of famothers» reports) than did mothers in other types of famothers in other types of families.

Comment: Female older siblings are far more likely than male older siblings to be given child care responsibilities while young; teenage girls are far more likely than teenage boys to hold childcare and babysitting jobs; new mothers are far more likely to have prepared for parenthood by reading pregnancy - to - parenting articles and books as well as talking with (and spending social time with) primary caregiving women friends and relatives and their children; the ever - present months - long pregnancy itself initiates mothers into a mindset of habitual constant awareness of child - whereabouts; and various biological and hormonal factors make mothers more responsive to routine infant cues (other than severe distress cries.)

Stress factors that are more likely to be present and to affect single mothers than happily married mothers include: financial problems, living in a bad neighborhood, juggling increased outside employment and childcare demands, post-break-up domestic violence and harassment, divorce and custody litigation, and interference with family and household routines by nonresident parents and other third parties (i.e. responsibility without decision - making authority).

The greater the number of obstacles, the lower the respondent's socioeconomic status ranking... Compared to children raised by single mothers or both biological parents, men from nontraditional family backgrounds other than mother - headed households are almost twice as likely to occupy the lowest occupational stratum...»

Most couples had also not arranged for any babysitters or childcare again because their infants were young and as first time parents many of the mothers did not feel comfortable leaving their infants with anyone other than the partner or family members.

Across all parent groups, mothers had higher levels of distress and hopelessness than fathers, with the highest levels among mothers of children with CHD compared to mothers in the other groups.

The marital balance was upset when either the child (because of a normal developmental push such as often occurs around age four, for example) or the father (believing that the child is now old enough to relate to someone other than the mother or responding to a change in the cultural definitions of expectations for parents) insisted on increased involvement.

The absence of such an effect for the mothers can be explained by their attainment of marital satisfaction from factors other than parenting.