Sentences with phrase «parenting less work»

Not exact matches

It's that having your kids do chores doesn't necessarily wind up being less work for you as a parent.

When I opened up, work started feeling less and less tough and parenting felt less and less exhausting.

Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

But unemployment or underemployment has further knock - on effects: parents in that situation are less likely to invest in education and training, since they aren't working or work sporadically.

The idea worked well, because it created a safe space for kids to communicate with their parents, rather than feeling stuck in a less than optimal situation.

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.

By loudly owning her choices, Sandberg makes it a little safer for the rest of us to declare that parents working late into the night is killer on families (Mashable points to research «that children are healthier, happier and better performing students when they eat with their families») and on personal productivity and health, making it a bit easier for those of us with less lofty positions to take back our schedules and admit that we need to work saner hours.

When employees are underpaid, they have less incentive to continue to work when other demands — becoming a parent, for example — cause them to weigh their costs of living against the monetary benefit that the paycheck would provide.

In reference to how Millennials were raised by their boomer parents, mentors and teachers, he says: «We would have been much better off hearing a little less about how special we were or how super diversity is, and a little more about how much it costs to own a house and how interests rates work.»

The death of parents will be less traumatic, though still very painful, if this growth work has been accomplished and the inner dependency on them relinquished to a considerable degree.

I think the ban on contraception harms men, because it means women want less sex and it leads to more children that the parents have to work to support.

It also tells lesser - known stories about Alinsky's parents, his lifelong ambivalence toward the university, his prison work, his acceptance by mob figures, and his marriages.

Our work as parents lies less in planning which plant our kids should grow into, than in doing what we can to let their gifts — whatever they are — grow.

Don't be disappointed if it does not work out at first, as new parents report the scheduled date strategy works less than half the time.

Related to point # 2, in the Parenting as an Entrepreneur episode, Alicia Ybarbo said something that really stuck out to me — that women get very good at narrowing in on solutions and making split decisions because there is basically no time to labor endlessly over camp options or put up with working with someone crazy when there is a less crazy alternative.

Can you PROVE that the long - term harm from a few nights of CIO is GREATER than the long - term harm caused by sleep disorders or excessive crying in an infant who (for whatever reason) sleep training would have worked after just a night or two (or even one longer bout of crying for less than 30 minutes on one day, which some parents claim worked for them)?

Children whose fathers were highly involved with them at ages 3 - 5 and 7 - 9 hold less traditional views as adolescents about both parents working and sharing childcare (Williams et al, 1992).

This usually leads to more interesting experience for them and less work for the parents.

Practices and games may be on the weekends and in the evenings, so these can present less of a conflict for a parent whose work schedule isn't particularly flexible.

And the idea of letting kids catch up on sleep on weekends doesn't work because some kids wake up early anyway (as many bleary - eyed parents will attest), or they sleep in really late and then are even less likely to be sleepy at an early bedtime during the school week.

I spend less time intensely parenting the teen at night (and in general) than some parents who worked to minimize nighttime parenting with their infants and young children.

The absolute most rewarding thing about my job is when we start working with new parents and you can see their shoulders relax, hear their laughter and know that they are less stressed and able to enjoy the journey of pregnancy.

Parents are less likely to work together well if the arrangement has been forced on one of them.

As working parents, we feel that doing research and striving to make the best decisions on behalf of our children takes far less time than parenting a chronically ill child.

Parent's Functioning: Sleep deprived parents have reported trouble concentrating at work, feeling drowsy and exhausted during the day, being less efficient in completing tasks, losing things, and being forgetful.

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Less work for parents = brilliant!

While Perry believes kids need to work up a healthy appetite before meals, she's really arguing for a return to a time when kids were less hovered over by parents generally.

Perhaps my work of parenting would be much less daunting if I viewed it with more of an eye toward mutual trust.

From my experience, at least part of the problem is that parents want to change their discipline techniques but either don't know how or don't trust that anything less than punishment will work.

In my view, the ideal solution is for both moms and dads to work less, to achieve a balance between their jobs and their family responsibilities, so that children can benefit from two involved parents.

The warmer also helps make night feeds easier (something all new parents need) and the teat and warmer work together to help reduce air bubbles meaning less risk of your baby getting colic.

If a parent chooses the activity, there is less likelihood the child will feel as connected and he or she may not want to work as hard to be successful.

Did she run out of work early to get to the daycare before it closes, but called back in because she knows that her parenting status made her less desirable as a hire and makes her more likely to be fired than her colleagues who don't have kids?

In my role as an advocate for athletes involving coach - athlete sexual abuse, athlete - on - athlete sexual abuse, athlete cyber-bullying, athlete sexual hazing as well as many forms of athletic abuse in general, much of the work I do with Safe4Athletes tends to be less with the athletes than with parents of young athletes who have been abused, bullied or harassed.

Programs like FIND, which trains parent coaches to work with low - income, stressed parents, focus less on pointing out what parents do wrong and more on what parents do right, in order to nudge parents toward behaviors that help their kids.

For example, parents who say it is hard for them to strike the right balance between work and family are far less likely than parents who don't to report that being a parent is enjoyable all of the time (36 % vs. 50 %).

I have two small sons (7 and 5) and I try somehow every day to work into our conversations that my job as a mom (and the job of their other parents) is to make them socially constructive, decent human beings... Who understand common courtesies, who remain compassionate and show empathy for those less fortunate, who have work ethic and a moral compass....

Breastfeeding families are sick less often and the parents miss less work.

Human Development Experts Recommend Tuning in to Family, Not Devices Combined with increasingly hectic work, school, and extracurricular schedules, the advent of wireless technology has led to less quality time between parents and children.

As a result, they say, parents of breast - fed babies are less likely to miss work.

These infants «have less neurological development and attain a lower IQ during childhood and adulthood,» he says, adding that parents, until further research provides conclusive answers, should work closely with their pediatricians to monitor their babys» weight and make sure they don't gain too much or too little.

Parents of breastfed babies are less likely to miss work and lose income because their babies are sick.

But by working as a team to relieve each other for naps, for exercise, and for «downtime,» parenting couples might find that even though they share less «quality time» together, they may actually feel closer than ever.

They also tend to do lots of field trips (while this is less work for us parents, I think it is only interesting to the children, because they are learning a lot from the field trips).

Since breastfed babies are statistically healthier than their formula fed peers, the parents of breastfed babies spend less time out of work taking care of sick children.

Kinda works if it's a 50/50 situation (or less, many, many men seem to end up with a gradually diminishing percentage of their children's time, but that's another discussion entirely), but even there, if parenting time is split 50/50, that means that you have to squeeze a week's worth of your work and life into half a week of time.

Breast - fed babies are believed to have greater immunity against ear infections, respiratory infections and other common childhood ailments, and the less a baby is sick, the less likely a parent is to miss work, Connor said.

Michele Hutchison, co-author of The Happiest in the World: How Dutch Parents Help Their Kids (and Themselves) by Doing Less, talks work - life balance.

Parents feel somewhat less stressed during their time with children than their time at work.