Sentences with phrase «spend them with your kids instead»

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I spent many years on Wall Street but burned out and had kids, and a switch went off where I didn't want to head into the office on a Saturday morning but instead wanted to play with my son.

You apply for a job in my community by running a campaign for a paid office that my local tax dollars pay for and you get elected then show up to your first scheduled meeting and decide to spend the first 5 minutes — eating donuts instead of working, speaking to the audience about your personal problems with your wife, telling the audience about an upcoming play your kid will be in, telling the captive audience about the benefits of being gay, speaking to them about God or praying aloud to your God regardless of which God the rest of the audience believes in.

When I flip through my Timehop at this time of year, I can't escape reminders that my last big summer I was supposed to spend home with the kids was spent, instead, convalescing from a herniated disc and back surgery.

The sheer ridiculousness of the comments you refer to is freaking hilarious... because obviously these people either a) don't have kids themselves, in which case they have no business intimating that they would make a better parent than you, or b) do, in fact, have children, but SPEND ALL OF THEIR TIME READING BLOGS THAT THEY CAN MAKE DEROGATORY COMMENTS ON INSTEAD OF BONDING WITH THEIR CHILDREN.

Plus, instead of spending every weekend getting errands done and forgetting to plan some quality activities with kids [my weekends!]

So instead of worrying about spending more time with your kids, just focus making the best of the time you have with your kids.

Instead of making ourselves crazy getting the perfect decorations and frosting an outrageous cake, maybe our kids would rather we just slow down and spend more quality time with them as their birthdays approach.

It's true that a lot of moms spend way too much time on their phones instead of playing with their kids.

I now have more time to spend making memories with my kids instead of being stuck in the kitchen trying to come up with meals that they don't love.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

If you want to spend more time with your kids, just choose one after - school activity this season instead of three.

What I did when I was pregnant with my second kid (experience does make you wiser — and more frugal too, since I realized that we now had to provide for TWO kids instead of ONE, when we were more all out in our spendings.)

Non-helicopter parents tend to judge women who spend time at the playground with their kids instead of on the sidelines, and women who «hover» over their kids and engage in all aspects of their lives day in and day out are sometimes said to be causing them more harm than good.

Instead of spending your money this is the perfect opportunity to spend some quality time with the kids!

Spending time with your kids instead of working?

I had so much time in the morning to spend with my kids and focus on other things (instead of fussing endlessly over my outfit), and I also genuinely loved each look.

Moonee doesn't go to school, instead she hangs with her best pal Scooty (Christopher Rivera), spending her days trying to stem the boredom as a normal if undisciplined kid, spitting on cars or trying to cadge a free ice cream.

Instead of reading just 10 minutes a day, I enjoy spending 30 minutes or more sharing great books with my kids.

The world will be much worse when instead of professionals who've spent years developing skills and experience, we only have kids working out of their parents» houses, making cheap covers for beer money with a bootleg copy of Photoshop and photos they took with their iPhone or swiped offline.

Instead of spending $ 15 on a white elephant gift exchange where everyone may or may not end up with something useful, have everybody bring a kid's book to donate.

When you have a peaceful home with no power struggles and kids who actually want to do the right thing, you spend more time enjoying them instead of constantly trying to keep them out of trouble.

Second, it can provide clear boundaries at Christmas, so you can spend time with family instead of arguing over who gets the kids when.

If we spend 8 hours a day at our job, 2 hours a day commuting (hopefully listening to podcasts that will enrich yourself instead of music or talk radio), there are still a good 4 - 5 hours a day we can spend doing things productive, like property hunting, rehabbing, managing your business, playing with your kids, and interacting with your spouse.