Martin Weisman of the Department of Health says the chief culprit for people's increasing weight must be decreasing physical activity, because on average people today eat fewer calories
than their grandparents did («For a few burgers more...», New Scientist, 22 April).
Be thankful that you can still get a better interest rate than your older brother or sister did ten years ago, a lower rate than your parents did twenty years ago, and a better rate
than your grandparents did forty years ago.
Did you know that according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, we now get 20 more days of rainfall a year
than our grandparents did back in the 50s?
Though you may have missed getting the lowest mortgage rate ever offered, you can still get a better interest rate than your older brother or sister did ten years ago, a lower rate than your parents did twenty years ago, and a better rate
than your grandparents did forty years ago.
A 2015 study by personal finance website NerdWallet found the average 2015 college graduate will need to work until age 75 — 13 years longer
than their grandparents did and two years longer even than the class of 2013 — due to high student debt and lack of saving.1
Be thankful that you can still get a better interest rate than your older brother or sister did ten years ago, a lower rate than your parents did twenty years ago, and a better rate
than your grandparents did forty years ago.
Not exact matches
Also, Franklin should know that Obama's father's and grandfather's being Muslim
does not make Barack a Muslim, any more
than my parents and
grandparents Christianity makes me a Christian.
Of course, all the
grandparents have been more
than happy to babysit whenever I need to
do farm work.
Before you go romanticizing marriage «back then,» let's not forget that their expectations from marriage were a lot different
than ours are now; your great -
grandparents and
grandparents didn't marry a soul mate or look for The One.
Maybe you're a younger
grandparent than I am, but we didn't have baby monitors, jogging strollers or baby wipe warmers when I was a mom.
But the truth is, we live in a cleaner, less risky world
than our parents and
grandparents did.
This generational disconnect is inevitable, in politics as in other spheres, but it affects the Labour Party worse
than other parties because Labour was founded to represent a single class, and now it's arrived at a situation where the likes of Stephen Kinnock and Owen Smith, the children of peers and academics, have to dig up
grandparents in the hope of connecting with that class they don't really understand.
The average person today scores 30 points higher on IQ tests
than his or her
grandparents did.
Nowadays, people spend a lot more time indoors
than our
grandparents and great
grandparents did.
If you compare the snacking habits from our parents or
grandparents» time to ours, now, you would notice that we have gotten used to choosing convenience of better health time after time and therefore we face a lot more health problems
than the previous generations
did.
First cousins are two - times more likely to bear offspring with a birth defect
than children born of couples who don't share a common
grandparent.
SYNOPSIS: A young filmmaker and her wannabe rapper brother get more
than they bargained for when they spend a bizarre week with their
grandparents, whose one rule is that the kids don't leave -LSB-...]
On the surface, the Avalon seems like a car for
grandparents, but it may be the ultimate big sedan for buyers who care more about what the car
does for them
than what other people say about their car.
Writing Prompts about Hard Work - For various reasons, a ton of kids have it easier
than their parents and
grandparents did.
Fortunately, he has a competent, caring network of friends, family and neighbors: Lisa, his unlucky - in - love classmate, who moves in with him to help him care for little Frankie around the clock; his American cousin, Emily, always there with a pep talk; the newly retired Dr. Hat, with more time on his hands
than he knows what to
do with; Dr. Declan and Fiona and their baby son, Frankie's first friend; and many eager babysitters, including old friends Signora and Aidan and Frankie's doting
grandparents, Josie and Charles.
Alia Dudum of Lending Club sheds some light on current economic conditions with a couple of solutions for managing debt and investments, «Our generation has a completely different relationship with money
than our parents or
grandparents did.
As such, we should expect older people to work longer
than their parents and
grandparents did.
According to Fidelity's 2014
Grandparents and College Savings Study, 1 72 % of grandparents think it's important to help pay for their grandchildren's college, and more than half (53 %) of those surveyed are currently contributing or are planni
Grandparents and College Savings Study, 1 72 % of
grandparents think it's important to help pay for their grandchildren's college, and more than half (53 %) of those surveyed are currently contributing or are planni
grandparents think it's important to help pay for their grandchildren's college, and more
than half (53 %) of those surveyed are currently contributing or are planning to
do so.
And now because we're living longer, healthier lives, we can expect to spend more time in retirement
than our parents and
grandparents did.
As for personal savings today we have more options
than our great - great - great -
grandparents did 150 years ago.
While you will have to have more patience
than in an instant - gratification pet store purchase, you'll also be able to meet at least the mother and possibly the father of your puppy, seen the conditions in which your puppy was bred and raised, see the documentation of what health testing was
done on your puppy's parents and
grandparents — and have someone to call when you're tearing your hair out because Puppy is going through teething or has hit adolescence.
Millennials make legal hiring decisions quite differently
than their parents and
grandparents did.
Indeed there must be a considerable number of children whose parenting is more often
done by
grandparents than parents.
They will also be paying much more for a house
than their parents and
grandparents did and it's unlikely they will see the kind of rise in property values that have fuelled much of the rise in wealth over the past few decades.
The results obtained by Ingersoll - Dayton et al. showed that using a three generational approach that included out - of - session contact with
grandparents led to more families accomplishing their treatment goals
than did using either the two generational family therapy approach or the three generational approach that involved
grandparents in - session only.
This
does not include frequent and regular childminding by stepparents,
grandparents, or other third party relatives while a parent works, both of which should take less precedence
than direct care by a child's parent.
Goodchild van Hilten (2017) Elsevier Connect Explains how
grandparents who provide care for their grandchildren live longer
than those who don't.
For example, the
grandparents who participated had more positive relationships with targets
than those who
did not participate.
Often this is a time when
grandparents can provide parents with additional help and often children find it easier to talk about their mixed feelings to a
grandparent than they
do with their mum, dad or stepparent.
Just an idea... I don't like «traid» because theres more
than three types of roles in adoption... theres a whole range from pre-adoptive to birth - mothers - fathers -
grandparents - aunts - uncles - cousins - siblings... even friends of adopted persons, birth family member, or adoptive parents.
«The state
does step in to protect children in children's aid cases; What could be more sacred
than the
grandparent / grandchildren relationship?»
Social support didn't show moderating effect in the relationship between family function and self - esteem among the students without
grandparenting experience, the possible reason could be that in the parents - raising family the influence of the parents may play more crucial role in the development of self - esteem of the children across the lifespan from infancy to adolescence
than that of other family members as well as significant others outside of the family.
Guardians face extra work when school begins The News Journal - Wilmington, DE, USA... And as back - to - school time nears,
grandparents or other relatives raising children need to get more prepared
than parents
do for school registration.
First - time mothers reported a significantly higher level of support from
grandparents than did mothers with other children, scoring an average of 8.5 on the scale compared with 7.2.
Children in lone parent families and those with younger mothers had more frequent contact with a
grandparent than did children in couple families and those with older mothers.
Already, young adults earning at least $ 75,000 are buying more homes faster
than either their parents or
grandparents did at the same age, according to a survey by Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corp..