Sentences with phrase «rather than on the floor»

Celebrate your child's success any time he gets a «hit» on the potty — meaning that some amount of pee or poop, even a few drops, goes into the potty rather than on the floor.

This comfortable, smaller seat fits onto most adult - sized toilets and offers a pee - guard so that pee actually ends up in the toilet rather than on the floor.

This groovy shaped bowl works better than a bib and funnels runaway food back into the bowl rather than on the floor.

Sitting on a chair, rather than on the floor, requires less flexibility, making it easier to achieve the tilt.

There also is a small stowage compartment in the center console between the two front seats, a cell phone or iPod holder, plus a power plug and iPod jack in the console and another power plug under the gearshift lever now in the lower dash rather than on the floor.

Chins prefer to sleep higher in their cages, so place the house on the highest shelf rather than on the floor of the cage.

She paints her canvasses vertically rather than on the floor, but comparisons to Jackson Pollock still come easily.

Not exact matches

Rather than continually running between store floor and stockroom, clerks could build expertise in products like those on the «It List» and develop more of a rapport with customers.

The adversaryism was drying up as well: Rather than working on only one machine, for instance, shop - floor employees moved from one to another to help jobs get out the door more quickly.

«We talk to the people on the floor rather than to the CEO.

The lesson: Rather than try to time the market, buy stocks with good fundamentals at a good price, so you'll be on the ground floor if and when good news arrives.

This proves inconvenient, some say, as even though a few feet of cord are between the connection with the blanket and the controls, depending on the placement of your outlet, you still may have to set the controls near your feet or on the floor rather than have them near at hand.

When the head of the company is just down the hall rather than on the 30th floor or in a faraway city, talking to him or her is a simple matter.

Those 90 seconds felt like an eternity, most of which my body was spent on the floor rather than in proper plank position.

In the initial steps of brewing a batch of Lawnmower, nobody had noticed that half of the malt ended up on the floor rather than in the mill.

Parker relied on having a high volume of shots at Duke — he ranked 41st among all Division I players by taking 32.3 percent of Duke's shots while he was on the floor — but the Blue Devils succeeded more often in the wake of his shot - taking rather than suffered.

The injury seemed to take the wind out of the sails of the match, as both clubs seemed more interested in putting in ball in the air and lumping it up the pitch rather than putting the ball on the floor and passing it around.

The first time we camped with our son, I completely forgot that, most of the time, I'd be going in and out of the tent with a small child in my arms, rather than operating unencumbered, so while I had a pair of flip - flops for daytime wearing, at night, it meant I had to awkwardly set our son on the floor of the tent, where he'd wail at me while I put on my shoes, or try to don the boots while holding him on my hip.

That's a good point; I have noticed that he has no problem being on his back when it comes to diaper changes — he reacts very differently to being there, rather than being set on the floor when he's supposed to be eating.

Before actual training begins, purchase a potty chair that sits on the floor rather than one that fits onto the toilet seat.

If your child is so sick that you are worried about them sleeping the night in their own room, it is better that you set up a mattress on the floor in his / her room rather than taking them into your bed.

rather than all the clothes ending up on the floor!

When we got to the store, I was eternally grateful that we'd arranged an appointment — the upper floor where the kids shoes are housed resembled a soft play centre on a rainy day rather than a shoe shop!

It should be placed on a carpet rather than on a hard floor indoors and on the grass outdoors.

I should add that while we didn't push tummy time, my son spent most of his waking hours on the floor rather than in any of the assorted buckets that are available.

Rather than having to scrub and rinse clean, I just sprayed this product on my tile floors and let it work its magic.

Rather than tucking the shoes neatly inside an available space my kids usually just throw them into a pile on the top shelf until they spill onto the floor.

Try and work on flexion activities such as reaching for her feet and toes, playing with them, placing them in her mouth, rattles on ankles or using her legs to kick at dangling things while on her back (keeping legs in air rather than slamming down to the floor).

Spending time to go through cook books and plan a meal rather than rush about and just use up whats in the fridge it really enjoyable - although my family may disagree, given the headless chicken impressions I do at times and the occasions when they find me photographing dinner on the bedroom floor - because that's where the best light is!

Rather than leave your child thrashing on the floor, summon up the strength to avoid yelling and quietly go to him.

The good news is that on days where your toddler would rather throw them on the floor than put them in her mouth are days where you can eat a delicious egg scramble for breakfast.

«We'd love it to get done sooner rather than later, so if it can get done in the next few weeks via a vote on the floor on a standalone bill, that would be great.»

Senate Democrats protested the bill on the floor, many arguing that the bill should have been considered by the chamber's education committees rather than being «rushed» through the Rules Committee.

The battle between those who want to minimise the separation with Europe and others who want a clean break was mostly played out on the airwaves rather than the conference floor.

More recently, Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Aaron Oquaye, said that he would rather resign than preside over any debate on the floor of Parliament about same - sex relationships.

Again in 2010 Back - Bench MPs for the first time secured the right to set up debates of their own choosing on the floor of the House, rather than being dependent on Government's willingness to stage such debates (which in most cases they refused to do), but this still needs to be supplemented by a House Business Committee so that all the business taken in the Chamber has to be negotiated between the Executive and the Legislature.

Two men broke in through a window and were in the building for approximately four minutes (on the ground floor in the sector office, rather than in the areas where the campaign team is based) before being disturbed.

Any report produced by the sub-committee can be discussed on the floor of the Lords, but the sub-committee does not have the power to sanction peers, who are appointed rather than elected and do not face deselection.

In places where sea - floor oxygen levels are a bit higher — about 0.5 — 3 % of concentrations at the sea surface — animals are more abundant but their food webs remain limited: the animals still feed on microbes rather than on each other.

She suggests that predators locate eggs by looking out for males sitting on the forest floor, rather than by looking for the eggs themselves.

In my experience, the majority of people that I treat for pelvic floor issues have muscles that are on the short side of the equation, rather than just being weak, and this can manifest in many different ways:

The moves in the video above should be safe as long as you're sure to engage your core muscles from the bottom up (i.e. «zip up» from the pelvic floor up through the low abs, rather than just «sucking in» the tummy), and as long as you exhale on exertion.

Depending on your height, it's possible that your heels may be up off the floor rather than flat.

Exercise mats offer more comfort as well as safety for your workout rather than just exercising on the bare floor.

Rather than holding a barbell in front of your shoulders, hold a kettlebell or dumbbell (turned up on its side, perpendicular to floor) at chest height in front of your body, then squat normally.

Well, if you want to effectively turn on your pelvic floor - glute combo you need to be able to sit back, this allows you to keep your spine from excessively rounding or arching, you need to be able to keep your pelvis in neutral so when you sit back, the underside of the body can turn on like a forklift, rather than the quads turning on like a crane.

I centralize most work from the pelvic floor on up... always starting class with ab work on the floor or the roller, having student feel their transverse abdominis as well as the complex muscles of the pelvic floor as stabilizers (allowing other body parts to move safely and with ease) rather than doing crunches.

Joe will get you over that hurdle, and you can pretend you're planking on George Clooney's lakeside pier rather than on your living room floor.

If you are not at ease with feet on the floor because of short legs, use blocks or weight plates under the feet to boost height rather than placing legs on the bench, which reduces stability.

Rather than setting up a loaded barbell on the floor, set one up at knee height on the hooks outside the squat rack.