Sentences with phrase «then had a few children»

After returning to the States, I went to grad school and then had a few children, which had me state - side for a lifetime record of nearly a decade.

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Aunt Pearl's auburn hair shone bright red in the sun as she listened intently for a few minutes, then with a determined, «Let me see what I can do» she turned back to the house where she had raised six children and seven foster children, calling out directions for the three of us older visiting Thomas children to go to various parts of the house for supplies.

Jay, if prayer worked, then the prayerful would have less disease, live longer, have fewer divorces, miscarriages, children with birth defects, car accidents, kids on drugs, etc, etc, etc..

Even from a biblical standpoint, the Hebrew God considered burning people an abomination, and that was for just a few moments, why would he then create a place of eternal fiery torment for all his children who disobey?

Let a child be physically maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually maimed by having to grow up in hunger and fear as in war - torn lands, or in squalor and crime as in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear, not a few pious Christians will say that God in his inscrutable providence willed it to be this way.

If there is inherent «wrongness» about child labor, then why has it been so prevalent until the last few centuries?

You have the thousands of children in Egypt with the plagues, then there's the slaughter of 36 children because a few of them teased a bald man, you have repeated genocides of nations and cities for just existing.

I really, really feel sorry for the children of these people who have to spend these next few days terrified of the world ending Saturday evening, and the supposed mechanics of that, and then the issue of how will they will adjust to their reality for years to come.

Mike would work until 3 a.m., grab a few hours of sleep and then rise at seven to hector his children — Rita and Phillip, then later the much younger Tami and Andre — through an hour of tennis practice on the courts of the Frontier or the Tropicana before school.

The first few years we did have sex but then we had children so I think I blamed the no intimacy on that.

If a woman had a deliciously exciting sexual time in her 20s, or a few long - term committed relationships or perhaps a combo, and then had a dearth of partners in her mid - to late - 30s, when she may be thinking about having a child, the definition of the «right man to marry» may change, clarity be damned.

If any of you were willing to stop patting yourselves on the back long enough to work out the logic, then you'd realize that the only conclusion that can be drawn from this research is that the best method for raising a child is the one that produces the fewest tears (and thus causes the least damage), EVEN if that method be Ferber.

The well meaning advice and thoughts of naysayers just don't bother me anymore... well, okay sometimes they do... like when they insinuate that my choices on vaccines or positive discipline border on child abuse or neglect... then I have a few choice words to say.

But in my experience drop offs can go in cycles — so your child may be fine the first day, but then not for a week, then okay for a month but suddenly crying again.a few tips for goodbyes: — have a bit of routine (this is something you can try now, when leaving your child with anyone else)-- blowing kisses, and extra big hug, something easy and non-place specific — be quick!

Not sure how little your child is but I have read that even though babies can «sleep thru the night» at 3 — 4 months that is only considered from 12 am — 5 am and before they can start sleeping 10 — 12 hours they should be at least 14 lbs but even then some babies still take a few more months to stop.

We had a few good years of sweet, blissful sleep, and then... the twins arrived, at which point, the middle child decided that sleeping in her own room was for the birds.

Some people introduce a hand sign for food when their babies are a few months old, and it has the same effect, and then the child can use the sign to ask for food long before they can use words.

Ideally, you want your child to try using the potty training underwear for naps on the big day; however, if you are concerned about her sensitive skin, I would suggest a pull - up - but in a different brand - because she is all grown up and now only wears underwear - and then the pull up goes on just before nap and comes off right after the nap - most of us urinate within a few minutes of waking up and you don't want to give her the opportunity to go in the pull up because it causes confusion - so try to remove it before she urinates and try and have her urinate in the potty.

A typical agreement would be for the adoptive parents to send letters and photos the first few months after the child's placement and then annually before the child's birthday.

But we first have to realize that we have a problem; that we are undermining children's health by denying them the thousands of ingredients in breastmilk that help build an optimal body / brain, replacing with a few dozen ingredients in the wrong proportions and from non-human sources which then populate the baby's gut (the seat of the immune system) with pathogenic bacteria, undermining health for a lifetime.

It's often a good idea to warn your children a minute or two before lights out: «We have a few more pages in this book, and then Mommy is going to turn out the light.»

If your child has ever had an ear infection and / or suffers from recurrent ear infections; then you know they can really hurt and sideline your child for a few days.

As usual with everything that I end up doing with the kids, if you had fewer children, older children or a bit more time then you could make something quite aesthetically pleasing rather than something that looks like it a) has the cold dead eyes of a killer.

When you finally eke out a few minutes alone, whether at night or (lucky you) on a date, allow yourselves 15 minutes to chat about kid stuff, then make the topic taboo so you can remember what it was that made you decide to have a child together in the first place.

Depending on the five elements, namely fire, water, wood, earth and metal, the consultant will apprehend the right balance and then suggest a few names that would assure happiness, success and peace in your child's life.

While an easy going child might be able to both switch to whole milk and a sippy cup at the same time, another child who is much more resistant to change might have to be slowly transitioned to whole milk and then again slowly transitioned to a sippy cup a few months later.

I had a child who cried less and less day over day for a few days and then he didn't cry in his crib anymore.

The brain has to process the signal of needing to urinate, and then the child has to learn how to hold it for a few minutes.

A few years ago, the researchers surveyed a random sampling of parents about their attitudes toward vaccines and then showed the participants one of four kinds of information: written material from the CDC explaining the lack of evidence that the MMR vaccine causes autism; written material about the dangers of the diseases prevented by the MMR vaccine; images of children who have the diseases prevented by the MMR vaccine; or a dramatic narrative about an infant who almost died of measles.

And then behavior changes in response: More access to resources tends to make people have fewer children, not more.

By the mid-1980s, the yearly incidence had jumped to 14.8 per 100,000 children through age 17 in Colorado, one of the few states then collecting good data.

That happens when generations upon generations marry, have children, divorce, have children, remarry, have children, lose track of one another, have a few more children, and then completely forget who they are or where they come from.

They are always widowers, have one child, are in construction, love to travel to exotic places, never mention any local favorite places or universities if they are college grads and are only on for a few days (free three day trial period), then show up under a different user name.

well, im drew, im 35, and well I suppose I am tamer now then I was, I started and organised the highway child tribe, we still have a few buses kicking around the states, Im got three kids, genesis, aura sunshine and Elias zion.

If we can be more accepting of diversity and alternative ways of being, then hopefully fewer children will be teased, ridiculed and bullied for moving outside the narrow boxes that have traditionally defined what it means to be female and male in our society.

Nor did Duncan admit that one reason why states and districts complained about No Child's accountability and proficiency goals was because of their own gamesmanship, failing to elevate (and in some cases, deliberately lower) standards and proficiency targets more - rigorous in the first place, then moving to ramp them up just a few years before the 2014 target would come into play, aided and abetted by Duncan and his predecessors.

If a school has performed well in A-Levels for 20 years then as a parent I can have some degree of reassurance it will do well in a few years» time when my child is sitting their exams.

We're also interested... [in] abuses of standardized testing... This story that was all over that national media a few weeks ago, about this child who was dying in hospice — and the state of Florida insisted that he had to take his test... Then there was the child born without a brain stem — they wanted him tested too.

Instead of providing all kids with college - oriented learning (as Eliot supported), these educators pushed what would become the comprehensive high school model, with middle - class white kids (along with those few children of émigrés deemed worthy of such curricula) getting what was then considered high - quality learning, while poor and minority kids were relegated to shop classes and less - challenging coursework.

Perhaps your child had testing at an early age, for school entrance or gifted program entrance, and was then retested a few years later.

In Arkansas we attributed the trouble starting to the battery (it ran down a few times because children + dome lights have a tendency to do that), but since then and especially in Utah it would take quite a while to start.

Wouldn't buying the same investments in your child's name (you'll just need to get an S.I.N number for this) outside of an RESP and then just selling them and buying again to trigger a tax - free capital gain (ie taking advantage of the personal tax exemption) each year or few years be a much better than buying an RESP?

She says that when she married Jules 18 years ago, they «weren't mentally prepared» for children, but then when they decided to have kids a few years later, it was finances that got in the way.

Start by having just a few children around your dog, then build up to a larger number.

If Robert Rodriguez and the Nintendo Entertainment System went out, had a few drinks, danced to a few slow songs, and then kept the party going in the backseat of a 1971 Chevy Nova SS 396 *, their resulting love child would look a little something like this grindhouse - inspired trailer for Paperboy 3: The Hard Way.

If you want to relate that analogy to New Orleans: it would be more like knowing full - well you were likely to have a serious accident on your trip but not bothering to tell the wife and kids to put their seat belts on until right before the accident when it's too late, then being unable to administer life - saving first aid to your dying wife and children because you threw your kit out the window a few minutes earlier (you counted on the ambulance and hospital to fix everything).

If that means handling fewer clients to spend more time with children or getting by on four hours of sleep to finish a brief (both of which I've tried over the years), then that's a decision that Generation Y and all lawyers must make.

The numbers have stabilized since then, and on the positive side, fewer children are showing up.

How it generally works is that you pay a few extra dollars on top of your life insurance policy's monthly premium and then each of your current children under the age of 18 and any future children you may have are covered with a small amount (typically anywhere between $ 1,000 — $ 25,000) of life insurance coverage.

Or, if you got married recently and now planning to have a child in the next a few years, then do not delay in buying this coverage.