Sentences with phrase «spend with the children on»

This means setting aside some non-negotiable time to spend with each child on a regular basis, whether it's a visit to the zoo or a walk around the block after dinner to talk privately about feelings and frustrations at school and at home.

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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.

«When we first started Fairy Tales Hair Care for Children, a salon - only line of organic products created to deep clean and condition as well as prevent head lice, we spent thousands of dollars on a direct - mail piece bundled with other salon - only products,» says Barash, 43, who started her NYC - based company in 1999.

«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»

That said, the oldest Boomers are past their «peak consumption years», meaning less spending on key categories like transportation, housing and apparel, with the windfall more than picked up by their children, netting out to about an average 0.77 % demographic driven annual growth rate across sectors through 2060.12

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).

Their children withdraw the funds to their card with low cost and spend money on school supplies, tuition or food.

I don't disagree with John. Personally, I have a long list of things I'd like to see more public spending on (i.e. child care, non-profit housing, income support, public transit, student financial aid, etc.).

In a world with poverty, priest se * ually abused children, and violence, the church opts to spend 700K on an idolotrous statue.

He spent much of his life dealing with said anxiety by beating his wife and children before moving on to verbally abusing gay man and lesbians.

Meanwhile, Eucharistic adoration throughout the night is always filled with young people offering up an unceasing litany ofRosaries, Chaplets of Divine Mercy, songs, and silent prayer, while any priest who sits down and puts on a stole to offer the Sacrament of Penance will quickly find a line of young people forming for confession and could easily spend several hours dispensing the healing power of Christ's sacramental grace to his children.

In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

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.»

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.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

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.

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

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.

Unemployed husbands unaccustomed to spending full days with boisterous children have been taking out their frustration on their families.

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.

With important decisions in life like what to study, who to marry, if and when to have children, when to look for a new job or how much to spend on a big purchase, it's vital to consider the cost.

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.

Then this insight on the chemistry, so to speak, between them: «In these days spent with him, I had the feeling that I was the older brother dealing with a child, capricious and even spoiled, who will not «understand» — so better for me to give in («you are older, so give in!»)

Jesus would have agreed with Republicans that it's far more important for us to spend our money on fancy cars, large houses, and big - screen TVs than to pay for some silly child's cancer treatment.

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..

Many women spend years on the pill and on antiobiotics and then end up with inadequate good bacteria to pass on to our children.

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.

Before the match got under way at the par - 3 16th hole at Rio Secco Golf Club, Woods spent less than a minute posing for pictures with the 30 - odd children intent on meeting him, leaving the handshakes and hellos to his fellow celebs.

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We've spent 14 days of the transfer window trying to negotiate peanuts for a player that MAY but equally MAY NOT be the next midfield beast we need meanwhile Man City have brought in Bony who is a player that we could have done with and probably could have got before he upped his value with Swansea, I hear people on here talking about Wanyama and we could have got him prior to his move to Southampton, there's talk of Dybala who will undoubtedly go to either Man united or cheski in the summer, we are missing a trick with virtually every player that is strengthening our opposition and we sit and quibble about # half a million for some unknown child from Warsaw.

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.

«Harlem's Man With the Plan,» January / February 2009 «Obama, drawing on the research of his Hyde Park neighbor, the economist James Heckman, has made the point that programs like the Harlem Children's Zone are not giveaways; they're investments that will pay for themselves in reduced spending on welfare, job training, and the criminal justice system.»

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.

Dr. Maitre goes on to say that when parents can't perform the consistent gentle and supportive touch (which is so hard when your child is in the NICU and you have other children or a job and can't spend every waking moment with them), hospitals should consider using therapists to provide the essential service.

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).