Sentences with phrase «spent with a child does»

Nonetheless, the time that a dad — indeed any parent — spends with children does matter.

Using special time (1 - 1 time spent with our children doing what they love) can help deepen your connection with your child, so that they internalise a sense of having you «there.»

The journal article found that — just as with mothers» time — the amount of time dads spend with their children does not have a significant impact on the children's well - being.

I believe that the time parents spend with their children doing such activities has a great impact on their child's future education.

Increased time spent with a child does not necessarily entail increased spending on the child.

Not exact matches

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.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

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).

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.).

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.»

The unnamed virgin child becomes a tradition in Israel because the women with whom she chooses to spend her last days do not let her pass into oblivion; they establish a living memorial.

Of course the television world does not completely exclude the real world, but families watch more than 45 hours each week, and in households with cable and subscription services the figure jumps to 58 hours, while most adults spend only 40 hours at work and children spend only 30 hours in school.2.

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.

As I've spent the past few years struggling with doubt and grasping for faith, I've found that being ready with an answer does not do justice to the seriousness of questions like, why does God allow innocent children to starve to death?

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.

There's a lot to be done to become somewhat self - sufficient, but they are debt - free and get to spend their days living this simple, good life together with their four young 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.

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.

Saturdays will be spent in art galleries, or museums, or with friends, or in parks, or any one of a hundred hundred things that, while lovely and fun and improving, simply don't compare with standing near 22 overgrown children shouting «Give it!

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?

After having usually spent at least an hour, and sometimes an entire day or more, discussing and exploring the kaleidoscopic complexity of the parent - child relationship with great depth and sophistication (at least from my perspective), how was I supposed to be able to condense everything that I had so earnestly conveyed into a simple tip or maxim — and not sound clichéd when doing so?

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.

I hadn't known about this center's work, and it is highly illuminating and also offers hope for those of us who'd like to see men feel accepted and embraced in that role My only concern is that of the 31 fathers in this study most were at home with babies / young children (meaning they probably hadn't been married too long) and the mean number of years spent caregiving was slightly greater than 5; I wish the authors indicated how many had been doing it for 17 years.

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.