Sentences with phrase «parents gave up their children»

You seem to forget or maybe didn't know that during the Depression, parents gave up their children to orphanages or to extended family to raise because they couldn't afford to feed them.

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... Parents know that half of college graduates are unemployed, underemployed or have given up on their search entirely and they want to prepare their children for their future,» says Dan Schawbel, founder of Millennial Branding.

Netflix stirred envy in sleep - deprived parents nationwide by saying it will give its employees up to a year of paid leave following the birth or adoption of a child.

However, the issue of phone addiction among young people has become a growing concern in the United States as parents report their children can not give up their phones.

The most effective use of reverse psychology for parents hoping to push older kids towards wise choices isn't to actively manipulate them towards your desired aim — i.e. by fake nonchalantly asking if perhaps your child would like to give up a sport or AP class - but rather to hand control back to a kid who feels like they're already being pushed toward a particular future.

That $ 14,000 ceiling — actually it just went up to $ 15,000 — is the amount you can give per parent, per child, without setting off what's called «gift tax.»

Parents were put to a cruel choice: either give up their plans for a religious education or forfeit their child's right to the kind of remedial education program Congress provides for all other children.

3 Generous, life - giving spousal love is the antidote to hedonism and immaturity: parents gladly give up frivolous pursuits and selfishness for the intensely more meaningful work of loving and educating their children.

My parents, hoping to find acceptance for themselves and their children as Americans, gave up much of the Germanness that had defined them in the secure ethnic enclaves in which they grew up.

The Bible makes two things clear: God has considered giving up on the human race, but decided not to give up; and, as such he is committed to saving us, much the same way a loving parent is committed to a child, who has lost their way.

There are a lot of studies giving strong evidence that children of same - sex parents grow up well - adjusted and healthy.

All parents know that the time will come when the external supports which they have built up around their children will fall away and the particular admonitions which they have given will be forgotten.

This capacity for treating the sexual identity of children as crucial to spiritual formation is one of the best gifts a Christian parent can give to a child growing up in a world incapable of respecting sexuality.

The way in which any child will differ from its parents will generally be small (such as eye color, height etc.) but, given enough time and enough generations, and provided some external element is selectively favoring specific traits, such as acute eyesight, the differences will add up.

It's in faithfulness that we parent our children, that we build our marriages with love, that we serve the people whom God has given to us, that we show up in our communities with joy and service.

When she was asked about this she said that her parents had had a little Catholic child, and that this was absolutely part of her, and that she wasn't now going to give up thatidentity.

Take, for example, the common contention that Hitler acted coercively when he placed Jews in concentration camps or the claim that parents are acting coercively when they finally pick up their recalcitrant children and make them go to bed or the common contention that a government is acting coercively when it refuses to give its citizens any input into the formulation of the laws by which they are governed.

Luke 18:29 - 30 Jesus said to the Apostles «Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God who will not receive an overabundant return...»

Sure the Gosselin kids have matching clubhouses and cute clothes and constant activities and memories from expensive vacations, but now they don't have a strong marriage to look up to... which is one of the greatest gifts parents can give their children.

The are humans and If had the edu - cations and the proper jobs they would have not became ho - okers since most have children to support... although such job brings up much of the abor - tions that being complained about and many children born father-less and may be mother-less and such as those who did not experience love of their parents, will not be able to give love to their com - munities.

I ask that question not only to this ignorant lady, but to all the parents who give their children these crazy names... WHat if your child grows up to be a teacher, military commander, CEO... STOP BEING SO THOUGTLESS about the potential impact this name will have down the line... For the other parents who do the same thinking it's cute, may the Messiah help you!

To the best of our ability, their father and I raised our children to see both parents working in the home and without as normal, and when they grew up, our daughters, our only children, had no second thoughts about giving time to their careers, nor to the advantages of breastfeeding and the importance of providing healthy, whole foods to their families.

Parenting is very personal, and it's not so easy to describe any approach to raising children given the amount of emotional baggage, future hopes, joys, and trials there are wrapped up in that one word,...

As long as you love your children, give them your time, respect them as you do your friend they will grow up healthy individuals just like their parents.

In other words, they promised the elixir most seductive to parents - the opportunity to give their child an advantage, a leg up in what was assumed to be the competitive world of infancy and early childhood.

However, some parents take a much different approach on other attachment parenting aspects, such as letting a child decide when it's time to give up breastfeeding and get his or her own bed.

it saddens me that there are not enough parents who realise how really special it is to have a child, i wouldnt give mine up for the world.

Remember that the best «leg up» you can give your children is to help them feel good about themselves, eager to test themselves out in the world and confident that there are loving, supportive and encouraging parents standing behind them.

We give the lion's share of parenting leave to mothers — up to 52 weeks compared to 2 weeks (paid at a low level) for fathers — offering scant opportunity for dads to learn how to become confident, independent, hands - on carers in the crucial early months of their children's lives.

I think parents should be checking up on their child after a major infraction — and giving them stern consequences — as an obligation and as a responsibility.

Yet each Independence Day, thousands of parents don't give a second thought to giving their children sparklers — lighted sticks that can burn at a temperature up to 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit.

He gave a talk on hospitalized children in which, as a pediatrician, he encouraged parents to never leave their children alone in the hospital and to stand up for their right to be there with them.

Other parents get worn down by their child and simply give up; they let their child become truant or drop out of school because they've had it.

When this happens, the parent typically responds by picking up the child to make her stop, or, they respond with a reprimand such as «don't hang on me», «don't be so whiny», or even «I'll give you something to cry about.»

In her new book, Positive Parenting: An Essential Guide, Rebecca shares her hard - won insights on giving up the conventional parenting paradigm to reconnect heart to heart with her Parenting: An Essential Guide, Rebecca shares her hard - won insights on giving up the conventional parenting paradigm to reconnect heart to heart with her parenting paradigm to reconnect heart to heart with her children.

The parents should also give you a heads up if children who are rowdy, disobedient or have behavioral issues are likely to appear.

Issues with self - esteem can multiply because the child feels they must have been bad to be given up by their birth mother / parents / family.

The way I teach potty training, we learn our children, teach our children, and help them wrap up the process - giving them the gift of self - actualization and their dignity back - and we, the parents, initiate this training when WE are ready (not the child).

Hundreds of thousands of Baby Einstein videos were sold to parents eager to give their child «a leg up» in verbal skills.

I don't see myself as a martyr, just as a mother who, like most parents, has to give up some of my own personal comfort for a time for the benefit of my child.

If you are giving it as a gift then why not accompany it with a set of Kindness Elves and sign up the parent of the child you are gifting it to receive the emails so that they can join in with the challenges especially (our favourite) the Kindness Elves Christmas Activities a time when in my experience children especially need to be reminded about giving to others and kindness to all.

«You give parents with a screaming child an «I - know - the - feeling» look instead of a «Can't - they - shut - him - up?»

In my experience, it's very easy for parents to give up too quickly, or turn mealtime into a battle or power struggle, when a child refuses a food.

Now, I'll give the readers here credit for catching the part where they flashed up on the screen a nice graphic stating that you COULD put an extra ice pack or two into the lunch and probably «decrease the risk,» but I think talking about how not even an ice pack, or refrigeration at many day cares, is enough to keep your child from possibly coming down with foodborne illness could be enough to make some less conscious parents throw up their hands in disgust and say «I give up.»

Baby Trend Expedition Jogger Stroller, Millennium makes up by giving you a child's as well as parent's tray with two cup holders each.

In a study from the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, college students who had been given greater food choices from their parents while growing up made better choices that college students whose parents strictly controlled what their children ate.

Keeping a set schedule means that children tend to wake up at the same time every day, eat their meals at the same time, and give parents less trouble when going down for naps and bedtime because they know what to expect.

It is normal to feel anxious over whether we, as parents, are doing enough to give our child the loving home we hope to be giving, especially having grown up in a home with abuse.

And yet, Chua has it right when she talks about teaching children to do anything, which includes, in my opinion, spiritual things: «This often requires fortitude on the part of the parents because the child will resist; things are always hardest at the beginning, which is where Western parents tend to give up.»

Gone, for the most part, are the days when women were forced to give up their babies, when adoptive parents raised their children as if they were their own, and when the children themselves knew neither who they were or where they came from.