Sentences with phrase «times have we as parents»

How many times have we as parents complained about our kids» willingness (or total lack of it) to help out around the house and contribute?

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«Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development and no company has done more in that space over many generations than Mattel,» said Georgiadis in a statement «As a parent, I have seen this first hand and am honored to be joining the Company at this exciting time of renewed focus.»

But Sandberg is also still adjusting to life as a single parent after the passing of her husband, Dave Goldberg, and, at 46, she has time to gain political experience in a more junior capacity before possibly building a political career.

The idea came from wanting guidance as a first - time parent, yet not having time to read stacks of parenting books.

Other times, parents want to equalize gifts they have already made, he said — such as paying for one child's education through medical school when another only pursued a bachelor's degree, or funds offered to buy a house, get married or start a business.

As the Wall Street Journal noted on Thursday, Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. has signed development deals in the past year with Walt Disney's ESPN, Discovery, the NFL, A+E Networks, Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting, and Vice Media, while the company is also reportedly in discussions with CBS and 21st Century Fox.

On - site nurseries cut out commute time for parents and make it so parents don't have to take as much time out of the work day to deal with family matters.

A child may believe he or she is entitled to a bigger share for the same reasons a parent might have otherwise opted for an unequal split — time spent as a caregiver, for example, or unequal money gifts.

Timing wise, he said it is crucial that Congress pass legislation by March 5, which is when the DACA program, which has provided undocumented immigrants who came to the country as minors with their parents to apply for renewable work permits, will officially expire.

The portable products to date are mostly improvements on the classic Life Alert «I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging and gaining traction in the marketplace.

The underlying assumption in this report, however, is that parents have unlimited time to care for their children and that paying for childcare is a frivolous luxury, as unnecessary to fundamental wellbeing as family trips to Disneyland.

Freireich lost a parent and helped cure childhood leukemia but, as Gladwell mentions in passing, prisoners are also two to three times more likely to have lost a parent than the rest of the population.

How many times have we heard other parents describe their kids as fearless?

As Matt Sweetwood eloquently concluded, «If there is one thing I learned from my parents» experience in constantly having to reinvent their store and dramatically revise their business model, it's the transformational concept that the time to reinvent yourself is when you're at the peak, not when the world has changed around you and you're desperately scraping to survive.

What would you do as a working parent if you had more free time with a flexible job?

The New York Times recently highlighted the long - term impact difficult schedules can have on family wellness, in an article called: «A growing body of research suggests that a child's language and problem - solving skills may suffer as a result of their parents» problematic schedules, and that they may be more likely than other children to smoke and drink when they're older.»

Whether its learning to colour - in between the lines, or discovering that art work belongs on paper rather than on your parents» walls, being creative as a kid allows us to develop our skills at the same time as having fun.

While select franchise locations of other restaurant chains accept Bitcoin as payment, this appears to be the first time a parent company has embraced the digital currency.

Whether it's startup costs or a slow period, such as when parents have time off and don't need your services, you can obtain funding to help you sustain and grow.

Children are currently seen as having a religion by virtue of their parents but it could be argued that children have no religious faith until such time as they are deemed mature enough to make decisions around consent..

It's unfortunate that Bill Nye didn't start his campaign many years ago, maybe he would have caught you as a child in time before you were brainwashed by your Marvel Comics of Religion parents.

@GTSmoker... it was only a matter of time before some moron pulled out the «Hussein» card... as if he had any control over what his parents named him.

You can be truthful and honest with them, but it's not for me as a parent with my children or with anyone I'm leading to say, «I'm having a really tough time, help me out.»

I have also seen parents use flexibility as a rod to beat each other with many times, so I can acknowledge the practicality of a fixed schedule.

In fact, Dan and I spent a good part of the drive home time talking about the environment in which he grew up, the different ways in which his brothers and sisters have adopted, adapted, or changed some of those original traditions as they develop their own parenting styles, and how we planned to bring up our kids — should we ever get around to having them!

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 smack.»

When asked if dads should get the same time off as mothers after the birth of their child he replied: «I don't see why not, a child has two parents often and actually to give them both equal rights is a good thing.

The parents didn't just mouth these «lyrics, they shouted them, as they doubtless had thousands of times before.

They have the ability to renounce their parents religion and chose another (as our wonderfully christian right candidate Newt has — numerous times) as they do with nationality — assuming certain criteria are met.

As parents have been conceiving gay children since the beginning of time.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

As a parent of a grade - school student, I had a difficult time getting into that mind - set.

As a widowed parent to four children, a science teacher and a volunteer for church and 4 - H, she had little time to sit.

The start of the Passover holiday was then, when the Jews came out of Egypt, as they had to bake bread which turned into matza and other practices which began exactly at that time, and continued each year thereafter, with the parents telling their children about when they came out of Egypt.

As an example, when I came out to my parents, my father told me (in no uncertain terms) that he would never come visit me (I was moving to another province) as long as I was with a woman and that, while I would always be welcome to visit him, my partner would never be welcome inside his house (though she had been at times previous since we had been best friends for years and she knew all my familyAs an example, when I came out to my parents, my father told me (in no uncertain terms) that he would never come visit me (I was moving to another province) as long as I was with a woman and that, while I would always be welcome to visit him, my partner would never be welcome inside his house (though she had been at times previous since we had been best friends for years and she knew all my familyas long as I was with a woman and that, while I would always be welcome to visit him, my partner would never be welcome inside his house (though she had been at times previous since we had been best friends for years and she knew all my familyas I was with a woman and that, while I would always be welcome to visit him, my partner would never be welcome inside his house (though she had been at times previous since we had been best friends for years and she knew all my family).

How many times they had to take a back seat in activities, or not be defended as another parent probably would have because it would be seen as «the pastor» is playing favorites with his kid, rather than a father is defending / supporting his child.

As a parent there will come a time when you might have to «drag» one child off of another.

Matthew and I were both puzzled by this mixed message: As parents, wouldn't we want more time, not less, for Christ to open our child's heart?

of it; if I were to reach back in time to grasp the hand of the «first parent», regardless of whether the hand that I clasped was that of a fellow homo sapiens or that of an earlier form of the homo genus I would be able to shake the hand and greetits owner as a fellow man.

If that time comes, please go to your parents, your school, your church and ask for contraception where it will be provided to you no questions asked (there is no need to ask questions if they've already been properly educated as to «why not» already).

I wouldn't have recognized this at the time but it was like I believed that since I was a pastor's kid, I an «in» with God... that the big guy looked at me in association to my parents, and that as long as I was at church on Sundays (which I was) I was good to go in his books with a ticket to heaven, sins forgiven... snap!

Ha ha I came from a family with both parents and I spent time with both of them my father is an amazing man as was my mother an amazing womaHa ha I came from a family with both parents and I spent time with both of them my father is an amazing man as was my mother an amazing womaha I came from a family with both parents and I spent time with both of them my father is an amazing man as was my mother an amazing woman.

One perhaps could argue that the 17 average hours that parents spent with their children per week in 1985 could have been quality time and therefore just as good as, or even better than, the greater number of hours they spent together in 1965.

After heavy snow fall in the area, he's been clearing sidewalks around an elementary school, explaining to a local news station, «I don't want kids or parents having to go through the snow and possibly trip or hurt themselves... The community has supported me immensely with my struggles and tough times as I had a leg amputated and my fight with brain cancer.

Both of my parents died, father left everything to my paranoid schizophrenic mother who left everything to my son and nephew (she obviously wanted to punish my sister and I one last time as if life with her wasn't punishment enough); I didn't complain, it gave my son and nephew a break I didn't have; financial security at age 21.

God as parent has memory qualitatively superior to ours, for it alone includes all time, all history, all experience.

In Jesus time when he fled Herod with his parents, the largest group of Jews where he possibly fled to, were located in Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library of Alexandria, holding much of the knowledge of the ancient world.

There are limits to the concept of God as Parent, but God as parent has memory qualitatvely superior to ours, for it alone includes all time, all history, all experParent, but God as parent has memory qualitatvely superior to ours, for it alone includes all time, all history, all experparent has memory qualitatvely superior to ours, for it alone includes all time, all history, all experience.

Centers that have been organized as a new thrust of existing institutions often share part of the time of the full - time chaplain of the parent hospital.

The baby whose needs are met most of the time, whose body is handled most of the time with tenderness and pleasure, who has frequent experiences of closeness and warmth from both parents, will respond to them in ways that satisfy their needs as successful, life - giving parents.