Sentences with phrase «spend parenting the children»

Many parents feel that the time that they spend with their kids isn't a «visit,» but is time that they spend parenting the children just as the custodial parent does.

Not exact matches

... in 2015, University of Toronto sociologist Melissa Milkie published a study showing that the amount of time children aged 3 to 11 spent with parents had no measurable impact on their emotional well - being, behavior, or academic success.

You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend or a parent.»

As the parents of three young children, Paul and Milena Berry spend a lot of time thinking about the role of social media in their lives.

Parents have to approve all of their children's contacts, can limit how much time they spend chatting, and receive reports whenever a child flags a message for bullying or other abuse.

But in a recent interview, he also says there's something parents should definitely try to do if they want to spend time with their children and be there to help them grow into healthy, successful citizens.

A child may believe he or she is entitled to a bigger share for the same reasons a parent might have otherwise opted for an unequal split — time spent as a caregiver, for example, or unequal money gifts.

Parents of the new crop of digital natives are struggling to manage what their children watch, listen to and play, creating strong demand for better tools to regulate how much time and money children spend online — and giving developers whose apps have robust controls an edge in the hyper - competitive business of digital entertainment for kids.

Obviously, the more financially stable parents are, the more they'll be willing to spend on boutique clothing for their children — if they're into clothes themselves, that is.

Allowing parents to spend time with their newborn child is such a unique life event that we should treasure that and support that, but I don't know if every business could sustain this,» he adds.

But it is naive to assume that time that parents spend with their children is without cost.

Thus, it's no surprise that in the past 20 years, the number of dads who stay home with children has dramatically increased and men in general are spending significantly more time parenting their children.

But most parents are not heeding the AAP's advice, with children under two spending an hour a day in front of screens, according to the survey

(Colleges expect parents to spend up to 6 % of their assets each year and children up to 35 % of their assets a year before they'll provide financial aid.)

As of 2015, American parents spend, on average, US$ 233,610 on child costs from birth until the age of 17, not including college.

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.

However, parents currently spend 9 to 22 percent of their total annual income on childcare, per child.

Onlies may be dependent on their parents for longer than other children, spending more time at home and delaying decisions about their future.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

However, we encourage parents to spend time with their children online and to be fully familiar with the sites their children visit.

But it does not recognize the amazing diversity of ways that Canadian families come together to raise their children - the grandparents who spend their retirements pushing strollers, the parents who juggle shifts so that someone is always home for the kids, the single parents and blended families and other complexities of modern life.

«Christy Clark needs to apologize to parents, teachers, and especially the generation of B.C. children who have spent their time in overcrowded and undersupported classrooms.»

There is going to be an overlap where retiring baby boomers are going to be spending a lot of their time taking care of two generations: their parents and their children.

It is an established fact now that many children spend more time in daycare facilities than they do with their parents.

If a child is under 18, parents can open the prepaid card account themselves and get a secondary card — often with spending limits — for the child.

They spend 90 % of their time making up excuses for their god,, like an absent parent to a child.

You should be able to spend time with your children, parents, spouse.

If a Christian parent had a child with a terminal illness, they would spend every penny they had to keep that child alive.

She's been reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a book off a shelf and share it with a child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.

But in a culture like ours, where parents have very little time to spend with their children, and where an obsessive pursuit of youth has caused an 800 percent increase in cosmetic surgical procedures in ten years, a focus on becoming childlike at Christmas seems guaranteed to skew the message of the incarnation.

I think it's ridiculous that so much energy is spent on debating largely inconsequential parenting decisions when so very little attention is given to the children who DO N'T HAVE PARENTS.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackChildren Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackchildren, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smackchildren the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Parents of large families in which older children have already moved on to adult life report a «squash and a squeeze» effect where each child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older children spend the day at school, then they're off to university and adult life, and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.

Many of her friends» daughters had also returned home from a broken marriage with a child or two that they dumped on their parents while they were out «catting around» in a futile tragic attempt to heal their bruised egos and Mother was quite thankful that I spent my after work hours in my room reading my bible.

Parents may soon be left to their own devices if they have children who require extra time and social spending.

However, fewer than 10 % of the 3,000 parents that took part in the survey thought their time spent on devices was concerning their children.

Reading The Giving Tree to our children can thus inspire gratitude in us as parents and can encourage us to repay our debts to our own mothers (and fathers) in the only way we can — by gladly spending our substance in the loving care of our own children.

Explain where God is in the parents that are told to reject their ho mo se xu al children, or in the huge sanctuary full of people that spend their time gossiping about and insulting one another.

It is no wonder most of us have stood back as advertisers have tried to get parents to spend money through targeting children, and as a culture has developed whereby, as a recent independent Home Office report put it, it is now not a case of if a teenager will view pornography, but of when.

«We're committed to supporting parents with the cost of bringing up children, we've doubled free childcare, Child Benefit is available for all children in a household, and we continue to spend around # 90 billion a year to ensure a strong safety net for the most vulnerable.»

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interesParents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interesparents know and do well and are interested in.

One perhaps could argue that the 17 average hours that parents spent with their children per week in 1985 could have been quality time and therefore just as good as, or even better than, the greater number of hours they spent together in 1965.

Speaking to the Independent he said: «It does worry me that the amount of time that parents spend with children in the UK is also one of the relatively lower ones within Europe.

Bumpass estimates that 44 percent of all children born between 1970 and 1984 will spend some of their youth in a single - parent home.

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PJ Cole spent his childhood fleeing danger and sharing his parents with hundreds of former child soldiers caught up in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war.

This is as dangerous and misleading a model for working with youth as a parent's rationalization, «I don't spend a lot of time with my children, but what time I do spend is quality time.»

I spent my Tuesday evening in the company of 20 children and their parents cooking a three course meal from the cookbook Cozy Cooking.

«That's because [in] most families, both parents work,» she explains, adding that parents also have to balance food preparation time with spending time with their children.

As a child, I spent many days working in the farm to help my parents earn a living, so my enthusiasm on this day might have seemed perplexing.