Sentences with phrase «spend time with my children doing»

Spend time with your child doing things you both can enjoy.

6) Spending time with children doesn't mean you have to «entertain'them all the time.

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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.

As a child, Buterin didn't spend much time socializing with other children.

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.

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.

Chubb backs employees who want to volunteer, offering time to do everything from helping out at their child's school to spending weeks away with Habitat for Humanity.

In between there's time spent recruiting, training, team building and doing all that a Starbucks district manager does, along with helping her children with school work and her own coursework (she's studying organizational leadership through the Starbucks College Achievement Plan).

The IRS does not clearly specify how long this gap can be — but, for example, if you took a year off work to spend time with your children, you will not qualify for a tax deduction.

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

After recently mentioning that I would consider an investment in the Vanguard Wellington Fund if I wanted to create wealth in such a way that I did not have to spend much time thinking about investments or intended to pass the ownership stake on to someone that did not have much knowledge about investing (i.e. if you wanted to turn your children into trust fund babies in a way that they could not ruin it, you'd want to set up a restricted trust that only permitted the kids to receive the interest and dividend income generated by the fund, perhaps with the instruction that the assets transfer into an S&P 500 index fund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exist).

do something that both persons desire — e.g., I agree with myself to watch my favorite television program only if I have spent --(amount of time) with the children during the preceding week.»

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.»

I read to my children, I watch them in the slip n» slide, I spend time with people whom I feel genuinely know and love us, I get to essentials at work and re-learn saying no, I read books, I get pretty inward and quiet, I go for walks, I sing, I knit, I do ordinary work like clean the house and plan meals and cook.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

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 interested in.

If someone told Wendy that she needs to «be more balanced» and spend less time cooking and with children and more time reading books, she wouldn't do so well.

«We need to prepare our children for the day when we're not there and we do that gradually giving them more and more responsibility as they get older and we do it by talking about them and by spending time with them - putting those boundaries in place.»

I, on the other hand, always felt guilty that I did not spend enough time getting to know our neighbors, taking baked - goods over to friends, or playing with children down at the park the way my wife did.

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.

My children do spend time with my priest.

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.»

For the most part that doesn't really show all that much, but come Christmas time, it shows big time Once advent is upon us there is usually no stopping me and I spend quite some time baking, crafting and decorating, with and without the children.

By the end of the day I didn't have much to show for my time, other than I kept my child alive and fed and spent quality time with family.

Bottom line is, I spend a lot of time being grossed out as I watch my children do unspeakable things with Cheez - Its.

Today I am enjoying things that I could not do when playing for a club like spending more time in the morning with my father, visiting my friends, my family members, taking my children to school and picking them up» Diego Milito said.

And if you spend that much time researching, when would you have time to spend with the children you are doing all this research for?

Communicate any changes in schedule, such as guests coming to your home or shopping that must be done, especially if it will impact that time you usually spend with your child.

And so the time that you spend with those children is going to have to be quality time, and that means that when you are present, you are not on your Blackberry, you are not doing other things, you are not on the telephone - you come and you say, «I'm available to be with you.»

• Over a third of parents think they don't spend enough time with their children.

And it's pretty hard not to form a strong connection and get to know your child really well when you do breastfeed, spend lots of time with them, wear or carry them everywhere you go, are available to them all night, use positive discipline and practice the other principles of attachment parenting.

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 Cchildren, but SPEND ALL OF THEIR TIME READING BLOGS THAT THEY CAN MAKE DEROGATORY COMMENTS ON INSTEAD OF BONDING WITH THEIR CHILDRENCHILDREN.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

If your child needs you, you will have to stop what you're doing to take care of her needs before you can go back to spending time with your partner.

Parents and caregivers who don't get to be with their children during the day because of a busy work schedule will enjoy the time they get to spend bonding with baby while using a baby sling.

If you didn't have a great home life as a child, spend time with other families to see how they interact and solve problems.

But what we often don't realize is that all the time that we spent just BEING with our child breastfeeding, was also time spent cuddling our child.

Working mothers spend about twice as much time with their children as working fathers do (13.5 hours per week for mothers in 2011, compared with 7.3 hours for fathers).

Whether they want you to watch them practice a dance move or they want you to throw the football to them, being willing to drop what you're doing and spend time with your child is invaluable.

They spend more time with their peers, away from parents, than younger children do.

I used to spend loads of time drawing with rocks as a child, but you've got me noticing that my own kids never do — though they use chalk often.

I have not let him spend time with my son because I don't want my child to become attached.

Posting notices on bulletin boards, screening candidates that do not match your needs, and searching the Internet for information all take time — time you could be spending actually playing with your child, working, going out with your husband, practicing yoga, or taking the time to do whatever it is that relaxes you.

Not only will your child know what will happen if he breaks a certain rule, but the parents don't have to spend time coming up with something in the heat of the moment.

With two young children at home, she wanted hours that more closely matched theirs in order to spend more time together — something her manufacturing job did not offer.

About four in ten working moms said they don't spend enough time with their children.

If you are the busy mom, consider this in your next shopping to ensure that you spend ample time with your child other than having to do laundry.

Parents who spend less time with their children tend to make sure that the time they do spend with them is better quality overall than that of those who are with them all the time, so it evens out.

To make the most of our freedom, Oli and I decided to do something we are nowhere near brave enough to do with our 3 year old and baby — we spent the day cycling in the New Forest and decided to drag out our child free time even more by camping just half an hour from our house.

If your child is spending a great deal of time on their homework each night, more than 10 minutes per grade level, talk with your child's teacher to see if the work needs to be reduced or if there is a different approach to doing the work that your child needs to try.