Sentences with phrase «spent doing chores»

Even when you remain home during the day, much of your time is spent doing chores rather than interacting with the family pet.

Not exact matches

Sure, he spends more time on chores than she does, so in one sense it isn't fair — but it's more satisfying to both than the old system.

When he first gathered the employees together to explain the chore system, McLaughlin told them: «There's not one person here, including myself, who doesn't spend 20 to 30 minutes a day messing around on the Internet.

That research helps explain why we don't merely spend all of our time doing pleasurable activities, and why we still somehow manage to do things like work and chores.

When you're doing the household laundry on Saturday morning, however, there's no reason to think that you do the laundry any better than anybody else does, or that it's somehow demonstrating your commitment to your family to spend hours on that chore instead of taking them to the zoo.

George W spent over half his time in office on his Texas ranch clearing brush and doing chores for the news cameras.

At the times it's felt like a chore, I've disconnected with social media, spent a few days eating for fun and reading my favorite cookbooks, and really re-centered on why I do what I do.

Spending time in the kitchen doesn't have to be a household, feminine chore.

In addition to their required chores they do for a set allowance, I came up with a list of chores, each for a set amount of extra money, so they can earn spending money for activities like those listed above.

We'd spent the afternoon doing some of the chores around our house that had been too - long neglected.

It's a good weekend to spend some time with family and get chores done in anticipation of an exciting playoff run.

As for the equal share, my husband spends a little less time with the kids, but he makes more than up for it by doing basically all the household chores at night while I continue studying for exams.

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

Fathers» time spent doing household chores has more than doubled since 1965 (from an average of about four hours per week to about 10 hours).

Fathers have by no means caught up to mothers in terms of time spent caring for children and doing household chores, but there has been some gender convergence in the way they divide their time between work and home.

«Take a Day off If You Need To» If you wish you could take an extra day off now and then to spend more time with your family or get household chores done, see if your boss will let you work four 10 - hour days instead of five 8 - hour ones.

You want to spend time with your kids, but life is busy and hectic and no one else is going to do all your chores so you can play Snap Circuits with little Jonny.

And even in that case, I spend this time organizing closets, toys and all these small chores I never got a chance to do.

Tell them that you will spend a certain amount on an item, if they want an upgrade they'll need to chip in (either with money they've saved or by doing extra chores.)

Have them do chores for spending money.

Tell him he can spend time with friends as soon as his chores are done.

Love spending time with baby, but sometimes you just have to get things done like the dishes, cooking, cleaning and other household chores.

She would also prepare meals, throw in the laundry, pick up the toys, and do other odds - and - ends so that when I took a break from the project, I could spend it giving undivided attention to my kids rather than on some chore.

Volunteers of the Catholic high school will spend the day doing such chores as bagging food at the Greater Chicago Food Depository and painting apartments of senior citizens.

By doing so, you'll be giving your teen more responsible and you'll spend less time battling over chores.

For example, the researchers found boys in both New Delhi and Shanghai talked about being encouraged to spend time outside of the home in unsupervised exploration of their environment, while girls said they were advised to stay home and do chores.

Doing chores and spending time with grandma or grandpa will help kids learn responsibility.

Simple tasks like following a skincare routine and removing your makeup to doing a few daily chores around the house can have a big impact on the way your week unfolds and how you spend the rest of your free time.

I spent yesterday running around trying to check things off my to - do list, finishing errands, chores, unpacking before repacking and doing piles of laundry.

I'm a correction officer by trade, but spend most free time outside doing chores and feeding livestock.

It's a little disappointing that Mikuri and Hiramasa spend most of their time fine - tuning their living arrangements (divvying up chores, etc.) and not rejoicing in their love for each other, but they do get some nice moments near the end.

Do you want to spend your free time with your family, or maybe visit a concert you have been dreaming about or you just have to cope with all the home chores?

If you're Findependent but still gainfully employed you may want to go down to a four - day week, thereby having three - day weekends that can be spent with your family.Assuming they themselves are still on the five - day week you could do the various chores on the Friday or Monday, freeing up the traditional two days of the weekend to focus on family.

Plus it didn't feel like a chore to sit down and enter transactions or set up my spending categories.

❏ Set some limits Be clear about requirements — if your child is expected to do chores, on which day allowance will be paid and whether they can spend it however they like.

COPPER is a stunning 8 - year - old border collie that is both active, yet content to spend time following his foster dad around the farm while he does chores, or stretch out in the sun when his foster mom & dad read the paper on the back patio.

They will spend all day with their owner if allowed to do so: They will sit with them while they drink their coffee and «help» them do chores or work on the computer.

Iron Fish doesn't have that, and without those things spending large amounts of time swimming around becomes a chore.

Thankfully, the characters Regalia are colorful, and each has their own unique personality, so spending time with them doesn't turn into a mindless chore just to get some better stats.

You can pursue these or you get points for each run that you can spend to fob off the chore of doing them.

When I had the chore of grading assignments and exams in the past, I easily spent an order of magnitude more time trying to point out to the poor student where his derivation went south, as opposed to the student that did it right.

Laundry facility is included, so you don't have to spend hours of your valuable time on everyday chores.

An in - home washer and dryer will make doing chores easy and quick so you can spend more time with your family.

You will also have a washer and dryer to make your daily chores easier and ensure that you don't have to spend more time than strictly necessary.

If you have kids, then you might know a thing or two about how difficult it can be to yank them away from their computers and other devices so they get their chores done on time or just spend quality time with the family.

The weekend parent may be seen as the «fun parent» with whom the child does fun things while the other parent spends a lot of the time «parenting» which involves discipline, chores and the routine of life.

According to Business Insider, the book titled, «Raising Can - Do Kids,» which was written by Richard Rende quotes, «Parents today want their kids spending time on things that can bring them success, but ironically, we've stopped doing one thing that's actually been a proven predictor of success - and that's household chores.»

Chapman highlights the five love languages: words of affirmation — verbally acknowledging your partner, quality time — spending un interrupted time together with your partner, receiving gifts — small tokens of appreciation for your partner, acts of service — doing things for your partner, like chores around the house, and physical touch — being physically close to your partner through touch.

Noncustodial parents have limited time to spend with the children, and would rather use that time to do fun things than to do chores and homework.

Division of household chores, how free time is spent, how money is budgeted, who manages the finances, does one partner stay home with the kids, etc..