Sentences with phrase «raising kids at home»

My girlfriend has just entered the workforce after raising kids at home for over a decade.

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When we were raising our young kids at home, we would try to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, just for the experience of it all — gingerbread house kits at Christmas, school projects on the kitchen table, taco night with all the fixings prepped in bowls.

The kids eagerly raised their hands to share their projects from the morning activities as well as things they'd created at home.

instead of allowing children to be born into abject poverty and instead of allowing kids with down syndrome to be born into the homes of junkies and illiterates, we can abort the children OR every person who shows up at an anti abortion rally gets a free baby to take home and raise.

Most Mormon women of my generation are college educated (actually were my mother and grandmother), working women or if they are at home, are active in their schools, communities, etc. while they raise their kids.

i completely agree... i may yell at times, but i never strike my kids... i was raised in a home where the backhand was king, i rose above but i always said i would never lay a hand on my children in anger!

«At the bottom is a negative feedback loop, with kids raised by single mothers in unstable, low - investment homes finding themselves unable to adapt to today's economy and going on to create more unstable, single - mother homes.»

You're alsop speaking of people born in a day and age where the Mother stayed at home to raise the kids and multiple children were born to enable the parents to have helping hands.

But by the time I go to the grocery store to buy the acai, my kids all of the sudden act like a pack of wild kangaroos raised them, I forgot my list at home, and the store feels like it's 115 inside and I begin to sweat profusely.

She struggled financially, frequently living from one government check to another, determined to remain at home while raising her kids.

Many stay - at - home moms continue to work in some capacity to cover their employment gap while being out of the workforce full - time to raise kids.

Staying at home and raising the kids full - time isn't it.

If kids are raised with healthy eating habits, no fast food, minimal processed foods, home cooked meals, farmer's market produce, and numerous organic options, they no longer look at soda, «Froot Loops», Happy Meals, and frozen burritos and pizzas as treats.

Marcie is a stay - at - home mom who writes about raising her three kids on Obviously Marvelous.

Stay - at - home moms: Do nt fall for the media chatter that opting out of work to raise kids will sound the death knell for your career.

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Who was earning the pay check while you were staying at home to raise your 6 kids?

Makes me think of the 50's and 60's, where kids born with mental difficulties (Down's, etc) were sent away to homes to be raised, hidden away from society at large.Hide what's not ideal and pretty, screw whoever gets hurt from it.

For some, having a nanny who's a stranger, at least at first, seems like too much stress on top of raising kids and managing every aspect of your home.

«When Success Leads to Failure,» The Atlantic «The Gift of Failure,» New York Times «If Your Kid Left His Term Paper At Home, Don't Bring It To Him» New York Magazine «Books That Changed My Mind This Year,» Fortune «New Book Suggests Parents Learn to Let Kids Fail,» USA Today «7 Rules for Raising Self - Reliant Children,» Forbes «Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This,» Huffington Post «How Schools Are Handling an Overparenting Crisis,» NPR «Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard,» Time «The Value of a Mess,» Slate «4 Reasons Why Every Educator Should Read «The Gift of Failure,»» Inside Higher Ed «Why We Should Let Our Children Fail,» The Guardian (UK) «Shelly's Bookworms: The Gift of Failure,» WFAA Dallas «Why I Don't Want My Kids to be Lazy Like Me,» Yahoo Parenting «Jessica Lahey,» Celia Walden for The Telegraph (UK) «How to To Give Your Child The Gift of Failure,» Huffington Post «The Gift of Failure,» Doug Fabrizio, Radio West «In the Author's Voice: The Gift of Failure,» WISU / NPR «The Gift of Failure,» The Good Life Project «Giving Our Children the Gift of Failure,» ScaryMommy «Lyme Resident's Book Challenges Parents and Kids on Failure,» Valley News «The Gift of Failure,» The Jewish Press

At home, parents do a lot to create stress for their kids all the time: How we react to their mistakes, how we talk to them, how we raise our voices.

Depending on what your beliefs are, you may swing one of two ways — you either get bugged by mentions or suggestions of women whose «place» is at home, raising kids and preparing warm meals for her man, or the idea of women in power suits climbing the corporate ladder makes you feel sorry for her kids at home in the afternoons.

«willing to raise their own kids instead of throwing them off on someone else» Seriously??? lol I will guarantee almost every working mom would love to be able to be a stay at home mom and take care of their kids full time.

No matter how appreciative your partner might be (and I'm not taking Steven's appreciation for granted), at the end of the day or when your kids are grown and will leave home, if you didn't make the time to also raise and nurture yourself, your passions and dreams, you'll end up feeling emotionally broke and living with regrets is something neither you or your husband can afford.

Being able to be happy whether they're in a room full of people or sitting at home alone is a life skill they can use in high school, college and even in their own marriage when they're raising a house full of kids.

My husband and I were born and raised in The Netherlands where two of our kids were born at home (about 30 years ago).

From coloring pages to dot - to - dots, Raising Whasians offers free Finding Dory activities to keep the kids busy while you're out to dinner, or at home on a rainy day.

As a developmental psychologist and co-author of the new book Raising Can - Do Kids: Giving Children the Tools to Thrive in a Fast - Changing World, I recommend trying these simple steps at home to encourage chores:

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I like camping and fishing, cooking, going muddin», watching movies at home and at the theater, and playing cards, I have raised 5 kids of which 2 are...

TROOPER PASSED ON STUDIO: Warner Horizon / Jerry Bruckheimer TV TEAM: Aron Eli Coleite (w, ep), Jerry Bruckheimer (ep), Jonathan Littman (ep), Jason Ensler (ep) LOGLINE: A recently divorced female state trooper is as unconventional at work as she is at home raising her three kids.

As a stay at home mother to step kids Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard, The Back - up Plan) and Cecil (Mason Cook, Raising Hope), her battles turn to the domestic front.

Families can test their nutrition IQ, learn how to raise healthy kids, and participate in activities that promote healthful eating at home.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

It's more important that kids are getting proper medical attention before they are born, that their mothers are getting the right nutrition at that time, that kids are read to at home, and that they are raised in an environment that values education.

At home, her mother, Miranda, is more concerned with environmental and social awareness than with raising her kids.

Alexis, a 46 - year - old stay - at - home mom who recently returned to full - time work for an accounting firm, spent the last 18 years at home raising her three kids, ages 18, 16 and 11.

After 10 years of staying home to raise her 3 kids, she entered back into the work force here at Yorkshire.

At home she was raising three kids, all in 4 - H.

Or maybe you're a stay - at - home dad, keeping the household together and raising kids.

I thought I'd send my resume again, just in case you didn't get it this morning!I'm re-entering the workforce after 13 years of staying at home and raising 3 kids.

When returning to the job market after taking a leave of absence to raise kids, job search expert Amanda Augustine recommends leveraging what you've been doing at home.

Many families choose to have one parent stay at home to raise the kids.

If you're a stay - at - home mom, having a telecommuting job can help balance paying the bills and raising your kids.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) schome (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) schome (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) scHome Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) scHome Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) scHOME - SF) scHOME - SF) score.

You get a kid with conduct disorder, and you look at their home, and they've been raised in a chaotic, abusive, neglectful home, and you don't think this kid's got a bad brain.

Specific individual interventions with a (trend) significant effect on preventing or reducing child maltreatment that were examined in at least two independent studies were: MST - CAN / BSF (intensive family therapy), Triple P (a parent training), ACT - Parent's Raising Safe Kids Program (a short - term parent training), and Healthy Start (a home visitation intervention).

For some women, it can be that she left her career to stay at home and raise the kids and didn't really handle too many of the marital finances, and now she's getting divorced and she's completely overwhelmed and frightened.

Then take a look at the storied history of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting program (MIECHV), which prepares young parents to raise physically and emotionally healthy infants and toddlers, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which gives millions of working class parents the comfort of knowing their kids can get the check - ups, immunizations and other medical care they need.

To those guys, they would leverage and take just about any calculated risk on their investment properties, but would NOT for anything risk their personal home... to them, that is not about investment but personal sacred ground for them and their spouse and where they raise their kids that is not to be tampered with or put at risk, and I guess it gives them a certain peace of mind that if everything in their business goes pear shaped, at least they always have their home that won't be taken away.