Sentences with phrase «parents catch their breath»

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Here she recounts story after story of natural horror — of parasitism, of insects devouring their own eggs and of young devouring their parents — until she catches her breath and says, «Just think: in all the clean beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.»

The company grew so quickly it took us a few years for us to catch our breath and realize that we had made something wonderful, something that is better for our planet, for babies and saves parents a lot of money.

And while we would like to encourage any parent who is letting their child view 32 hours of anything to cut it back, we also know that, as moms, many of us depend on those breaks so we can make dinner, send an email; catch our collective breath.

But once the dust clears and you catch your breath, you'll look back in awe at a book that explores mental illness and strained parent - child relationships while also setting up arcs for an entire series.

«It's to give the child a break — a chance to catch his or her breath and to give them just a few days not to be torn between the two parents,» says Ted Horowitz, a veteran social worker with Family Solutions.