Sentences with phrase «torn about having another child»

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Stone says there are «serious unanswered questions» about why Reno thought it would be safe to use tear gas «in a closed space where there were twenty - five children, many of them toddlers and infants.»

I watch newscasts about homeless people here and abroad, about war torn countries where people are slaughtered or sold into slavery, about children who are born with aids and die before they have a chance to live, about victims of earthquakes in China, orphanages, starving children, disease, and the list goes on and on and on.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

And if you'd like to learn more about how Hand in Hand Parenting can help your child fall asleep easily and sleep through the night check out the sleep chapter of my book, Tears Heal: How To Listen To Our Children

Before you judge me, hear this: I have sat with women who have erupted in tears, because they were made to feel bad about giving their child a bottle — BY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS.

Pam: I can remember after speaking about sleep at a children's group, I had a mom approach me and burst into tears.

When I think about the tears and the worry that I spend on him when he is fussy or feverish or going to our long, frequent check - ups I pray that my other healthy children, especially his twin sister, don't feel that I do not have the same love and concern for their well - being.

In the matter of the wrong colored popsicle, after an accepting hug and some tears shed, you might see your child take a deep breath, collect him or herself a bit, and then move those little legs quickly over to the freezer to grab an orange popsicle, somehow now seemingly oblivious to the fact that the thing still isn't green like they'd been so torn up about just a second ago.

Your editor has spent way too much time already tearing apart Rick Hess» and Michael Petrilli's this week's piece accusing fellow school reformers of race - baiting for raising concerns about efforts by congressional Republican powers John Kline and Lamar Alexander to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act's accountability provisions.

Every educator I've met has stories of children bursting into tears, worrying about themselves or a loved one being deported, or simply being genuinely confused about what the election says about classroom lessons on compassion and respect.

I have also seen firsthand how difficult being a child in America can be, and how abstract policies affect my kids in very real, sometimes painful, ways: how food insecurity can drive families to our school's monthly food shelf, how incarceration inequity has many of my students writing personal narratives about visiting fathers and uncles in prison, how immigration laws left one of my students trying to hide his tears over his mother's possible deportation.

... i have always had maps in beautful frames hanging in my living room... they are of where my husband and i were born (mobile and atlanta)... where our children were born... where our sons now live... and the most important map of all... destin florida... where our grandson was born... they all looke beautiful and old... all i did was simple... went out to the car and tore out pages from the state road maps in the glove box... wadded the pages up... ironed them... dunked them in mixed instatnt coffee (anyone who has ever been a scout leader knows how to make those pirate maps look old)... blew them dry with the hair dryed and placed them in the frames... in my kithcen i have a framed google map from our grandson's house to our house... that was so at christmas santa would know where to find him... did the same thing with a map showing atlanta in 1873 (100 years before our first son was born)... it is large... on an easel... everyone thinks it is an antique... all too long i know... but i love to tell about things i love... and i love families and maps... in that order!

I have been torn about how much to teach the children on what is going on.