Sentences with phrase «spend time with the child on»

The agreement details the visitation schedule for the child (for example, the non-custodial parent may spend time with the child on alternating weekends, or the child may live with each parent on alternating weeks.

If the other parent keeps you from spending time with your child on the days and times listed in your court order, you may want to modify your order.

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With the aid of an executive assistant who's a former statistician, Smith tracks everything from the number of hours he devotes to interviews to how much one - on - one time he spends with each of his childWith the aid of an executive assistant who's a former statistician, Smith tracks everything from the number of hours he devotes to interviews to how much one - on - one time he spends with each of his childwith each of his children.

... 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.

An employee who spends 250 days a year with his employer, who spends more time at the office than with his or her own children on any week day, is investing most of their human experience with that employer.

To me, that means figuring out the best way to spend time with my husband and children and also run my business without feeling like I'm compromising on either.

Case workers on an average spend 40 percent to 50 percent of their time filing and processing paperwork, and each child on an average has five binders, with each binder consisting of 550 pages.

The time spent on paperwork also impedes the ability for case workers to spend more time with the children and families they serve, Benitez said.

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).

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 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.»

This was all so that my best friend and I could spend some time traveling in Europe where we would meet irresistibly handsome and rich identical twins with Australian accents (we had a thing for the, «G'Day, Mate,»), get married on Regis and Kathy Lee at Cinderella's Castle in Disney World, and then live next to each other, raising adorable little children in our idyllic neighborhood.

Grown - ups who spend time here with Pineapple comment on the confidence with which she uses her assertiveness to issue little orders like this to the other children.

A married couple with one or two children can spend all their time and effort on themselves.

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.

Good mothers are consumed with caring for their children and rarely have much time to spend on themselves.

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.

His faith gave him the guidance to execute the innocent, deprive children of health insurance, pal around with intolerant evangelicals, spend time at his N ***** HEAD retreat, profiteering, secede from the Union, so on and so forth.

But as time goes on and life gains more speed with work, home and growing children, the one thing we need to figure out is to find ways to spend more time together in coming years..

There are the pet - and - child people, those tho prefer to spend their time on the floor, playing with the kiddos in lieu of discussing dreary affairs with real grown - ups.

This quick and easy dinner allows for more time to catch up on the day with Micah and spend time with him and our fur child.

On his time off he enjoys spending time with his wife, children and grand children.

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Rohan spent time living in his father's sprawling home on Hope Road in Kingston, a place described in Timothy White's 1983 biography of Bob, Catch a Fire, as «a religious hippie commune, with an abundance of food, herb, children, music and casual sex.»

1 Doubles ranking of Jacco Eltingh, 28, who retired after winning the world doubles championship on Sunday to spend more time with his newborn child.

British fathers of under fives spend about the same amount of time at weekends as mothers (1:10 / day) on reading, playing and talking with their children (EOC, 2003).

Together, explore ways in which they can spend time with your child, either at home or on an adventure away from home.

I try to spend one on one time when I can with all my children, but S is the most challenging, mainly because she isn't actually interested in anything.

• One factor that, in most cases, over-rides the impact of fathers» leave - taking on fathers» time spent with children later is mothers» employment: the more hours mothers work and the more they earn, the more involved fathers tend to be, whether or not they took much leave in the first year (Baxter and Smart, 2011; Lammi - Taskula, 2008; Yeung et al., 2001).

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.»

Two fifths (40 %) of parents say their children get a better understanding of geography by travelling on train and 34 % say their children benefit from spending more quality time with their family.

I'm an elderly grandfather looking back on a life in which I spent far too little time, energy and attention on / with / for my children.

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.

Still, if you can be present for the bedtime wind down, you can spend some quality, affectionate time with your child on a work / school night and likely slow your headlong dive into the grave.

It's easy to fear losing out on free time, but most moms and dads discover that once their child is born they treasure time spent with their baby.

We believe parents should enjoy their precious time with their children not spending hours researching products on the internet.

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.

Take advantage of this help to catch up on some sleep of course, but also to spend individual time with your older child.

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.

But you get a bad wrap because you don't just play with your child non-stop, you can even feel guilty if you're not spending 100 % of your time focused on your children.

Evaluate time you spend with your children, with one another, on your jobs, doing chores, as a family, having fun, etc..

Work - at - home moms with a lot on their plates may find it easier to do a task themselves rather than spending the time to teach a child.

• 8 out of 10 people (80 %) think fathers should feel as able as mothers to ask for flexible working • 8 out of 10 women (80 %) and more than 6 out of 10 men (62 %) agree that fathers are as good as mothers at caring for children • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 42 % strongly, that society values a child's relationship with its mother more than it values a child's relationship with its father • Almost 6 out of 10 (59 %) agree with the statement that society assumes mothers are good for children, fathers have to prove it • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that there should be a zero tolerance approach if fathers do not take on their parenting responsibilities • Almost 7 out of 10 (67 %) agree that dads should be encouraged to spend time in school reading with their child • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that dads should be able to stay overnight with their partner in hospital when their baby is born.

Since mothers usually spend more time with their children than fathers do, their impact on their development is more obvious, and has been more thoroughly studied.

Spending quality time with my children on a 1 -2-1 basis — really getting to know what they are thinking right now!

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

Men who take time off after the birth spend more time with their children later on and this contributes positively to their development, according to research reviewed in an EOC report published in January 2005, Shared caring: bringing fathers into the frame (Margaret O'Brien).

Of course, she saw my growing belly, but we really focused on enjoying having our toddler as an only child for a while and spending time with her.

Whether parents feel they spend enough time with their children has a big impact on how they evaluate their parenting.