Sentences with phrase «thinks about being a parent»

These measures assess the way in which a person thinks about being a parent and their beliefs about their particular skills.

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In some ways the findings are incredibly intuitive — just think how baffled you were around age 16 when your parents got excited about new kitchen appliances or a Sunday morning spent reading the newspaper.

In some cases, family firms should be thinking about «intergenerational partnerships,» which see parents and adult children sharing managerial authority for an extended period — perhaps as long as 10 or 15 years.

Half of parents today think that their children are addicted to smartphones, and these parents are concerned about how mobile phones will affect their kids» mental health, according to a new survey from Common Sense Media and SurveyMonkey.

Think about the couple who suddenly discovers they will become parents, although they weren't planning children.

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I'd been thinking about starting a travel site for parents, and the time was ripe.

For FamilyFun, we were about to have a child, and we were obviously thinking about parenting.

The point of getting children interested in stocks early is to have parents instill a better way to think about money.

Much of parenting is about thinking ahead, but it comes with its fair share of curve balls.

While most of us think about our time in 24 - hour blocks, Vanderkam thinks that «anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's church, a strategic thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.»

«When I think about my mother who raised me, you know, she's my mother,» she told Parents magazine.

I realize summer vacation is still in full swing in many parts of the country and most parents have yet to think for a single second about back - to - school supplies.

If you have a friend, co-worker, neighbor, parent, sibling or cousin who is thinking about Pure Barre, and is not sure if they can join in — share this blog with them!

«When you think about things at scale that we do to get people to care more about Messenger, this is one that addresses a real need for parents,» say Facebook's head of Messenger David Marcus.

The second was terrified about what his parents and future employer might think — he had just secured a job at a leading Wall Street firm.

If I were thinking about purchasing GECC's debt, I would first ask myself the following question: In the event that GECC were on the verge of a debt default and a bailout by the parent company would require a sum of money that would put undue hardship on GE, would GE guarantee GECC's debt?

«We tried to refocus what he was thinking about, made sure he called his parents so they knew he was alive and just tried to keep him calm,» said Lt. Pekora.

Though we won't all be the next Michael Dell, I think he makes an important point about convincing your parents that it's okay for you to drop out of college.

But the next time you see a gay or lesbian person and think to yourself, «They are sinful, they are lost, they are wrong, or they are an abomination...» understand that you may very well be speaking about your own partner, your own child, your own parent or brother or sister... and you don't even know it yet!

I think the e-mail is a way of outlining the search each parent goes through as their child is about to be born.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

... Only until what we are told and instructed on how to live by others - parents - society... As if none of us have a consciousness thought on our own conclusion of life... Something to think about...

To bad Christian parents aren't more concerned about teaching their children to think than obey.

If you had been born to atheist parents you would very likely be thinking about religion and probalby not accept the bible?

So I think your blog might qualify... though again, it is more of a blog about parenting and marriage than about Scripture and theology, and Paul's is quite a bit like Hyatt's, in that it is about leadership and influence.

Just as history brings freedom from rigid role definitions, it may also give us the freedom to think seriously again about what it means to be not simply a unisex parent, but a mother or father in particular.

You have to wonder whether parents are actually thinking about what's best for their kids, or just wanting what's best for themselves — i.e. grandkids.

For the first time since becoming a mother, I was thinking less about how I didn't want to parent and more about how I did want to parent, particularly as it concerned my child's spiritual formation.

I think this is the hard thing about parenting — okay, who am I kidding?

I've questioned you about how you would handle it if a parent told you they thought their child was gay - you claim it would never happen but yet you admit to believing that LGBT is a choice.

I think it probably all starts with parents being more careful with how they talk about God to their children.

Even though our images of totally committed, self - sacrificing, lifelong love are invariably limited to our taste of that kind of love through our human parents, they are still the best images we have and about the best we can manage in thinking about God.

In thinking about my parents I am struck by the fact that they did not talk in clichés.

Becoming a parent has not only caused me to think a bit deeper about the meaning of this term but to also consider other areas where I am a steward.

@ Brigette — yeah, I don't want to be a Hare Krishna either... I do like what you say regarding thinking about your parents and grandparents teaching you the prayers — nice sentiment there even for folks like me who don't pray anymore.

I'm not sure how that relates to the topic anymore, except thinking about the praying morning and evening and table prayers, brought down through the generations, makes me think of my parents and grandparents who taught them to us and prayed them with us, diligently and who certainly would be hurt by our going from them to a thousand Hare Krishna's every day.

It is not old - fashioned to think about parenting and concern for children as among the central ethical issues of life, says Bateson.

Like most moderns, I once thought all the connotations of «discipline» were about what parents and teachers did to you when you failed to conduct yourself as they thought you should.

In the Post interview, he said he was «a little timid about telling parents about it because I thought some would be worried,» but claimed to get an enthusiastic response after the announcement.

When Elaine first started talking about shared parenting and shared homemaking I thought she was crazy.

and also if i have and your answer is yes then if there is a way to get the holy spirit back then please tell me and also please pray for me for a few days and i also want to know that really is the unforgivable sin unforgivable and really i swear on my mother that i don't want to go to hell forever and i am very scared of it please help me urgent and also i am sending a friend request to you on facebook and please accept it so that we can talk on this matter together and also i think you will like my page and i couldn't sleep properly because of this and in my half sleep in my dreams i was just visiting your website and finding my comment missing and i as pleasing god and the holy spirit but as i was receiving my spirit again and again as i mentioned this in my previous comment i was abusing in my mind i couldn't stop abusing and i have a very good mother she tried to wake me but i told her not to do and it was happening same things again and again and i told my mother again the half truth because i don't want to break her heart and she told me that there is nothing like ghosts and they are making me fools (you all) and i am telling you honestly before this i irritate my mother a lot i just watch tv and surf the internet or play games in my pc and i eat and brush late and also don't listen to my parents but after i saw your website i became obedient for a few days and again the same i am disobedient your webpage or article ruined my life but this is not your fault and now days i am buy searching about this topic and my father (Vivek Saraf) broke his hands on the 6th May while riding at a very high speed he normally don't go at a very high speed but he had a very important work so whole he was riding a dog was running on the way and to save his life he gave a very hard brake and he with his nebiour fall down and got injuries in his legs and broke his hands and at first he walked with difficulty and then the local people helped him on his way and took him to the local hospital but the doctor told that we need to go to Kollkata (the capital of west bengal, India) and so he went with his loyal staff because he is a business man and in the hospital he got cured but he still have the fracture in his hands so i request you to pray for him and his negibour also and i will tell you the rest in facebook bye and sorry for spelling mistakes in my previous comments.

After all that I forgot even what I thought I did in the first place, And I tell myself that if I am doing all of that then I care about it, and then I think about it and that it's possible to just go on with my life without stressing about all of this... and then when I die I'll go to hell and burn forever... and then at the same time I don't want to constantly freak out about it and live my entire life in fear of going to hell... My Parents are Atheists and say that I should just live my life without worrying about it and being nice to people and being an overall good person, and I'm not old enough to go to church, so I just repent quietly in my room, Perhaps when I was younger I have sworn to god on things that may or may not have been true, and then I repeat those things in my head, and I would get scared.

Essentially, this is a set of sexual Geneva conventions: You never knew it, but not only do you have the right to minimal standards of treatment if you ever become a prisoner of war, but when you were five, you had the right to learn at school all kinds of things about what some people like to do in bed, and if your parents thought that really they'd rather you didn't hear about that stuff at school, or at least not yet, they were... well, they were violating your rights.

People love to tell us what other people are saying and thinking about our parents.

I hadn't spent much time thinking about what it's like for gay kids to overhear their parents talking about gay neighbors with derision and fear, for example, or how narratives about judgment and hell can be processed by kids in some pretty destructive ways.

I think that students often take their cues from the adults in leadership, so by pointing back to the student rather than the unbelieving parent, it can help keep the discussion from turning into one about something that may be confusing and upsetting for the child, but is instead an encouragement to them.

«Vainly I clung to these last beliefs as a shipwrecked sailor clings to the fragments of his vessel; vainly, frightened at the unknown void in which I was about to float, I turned with them towards my childhood, my family, my country, all that was dear and sacred to me: the inflexible current of my thought was too strong, — parents, family, memory, beliefs, it forced me to let go of everything.

I didn't expect Blockers to hand me a movie that syncs perfectly with my worldview, but I thought there was a missed opportunity to talk about these ideas — failing your children, losing your innocence, even the different ways parents handle sons versus daughters — with more depth than it did.

«This means that they have been told how to feel and what to think about themselves by psychologists who are paid by their parents to make the whole thing work out as painlessly for the parents as possible.