Sentences with phrase «waiting children children»

waiting children Children in the public child welfare system who can not return to their birth homes and need permanent, loving families to help them grow up safely and securely.

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Let's face it, a two - day wait for batteries and shampoo is preferable over traffic, parking and crowds — especially if you have children.

Thomas Haller, a psychologist and family therapist who has written about children and charity, says there is no reason to wait to teach even young children about giving back.

As more women wait longer to have their first child, the number of women choosing to freeze their eggs has grown «exponentially,» said Dr. Alan Copperman, a fertility specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Walter Mischel, Ebbe Ebbesen and Antonette Raskoff Zeiss» famous 1972 study of 92 kids, 3 to 5 years old, found that when given the option between getting a small reward right away or waiting for a larger one, the children preferred larger rewards but were more likely to accept a smaller reward instantly.

While the average age for a child to get his or her first mobile phone is 10, Gates said he made his children wait until they were 14 — much to their chagrin.

Starting a business is something like having a child: If you wait for the perfect moment, you'll wind up waiting forever.

Zuckerberg, 31, and his wife Priscilla Chan, 30, waited until the birth of their first child, a girl named Max, to reveal their intention to give away all but 1 percent of the Facebook stock that accounts for most of their fortune.

This classic children's tale asks the all - important question: Are you making your own bread — or are you waiting for everyone else's help?

Meanwhile, women are waiting longer to have children, increasing the demand for technological advances that can help them do so.

A child waits as his parents check in for a flight at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois.

Instead of «snow days» my Minnesotan childhood was filled with «cold days» — the difference being that «cold days» are when it is literally unsafe to leave children outdoors waiting for the school bus.

There's a famous Stanford experiment where an administrator leaves a child in a room with a marshmallow for 15 minutes, telling the child that she's welcome to eat the marshmallow, but if she can wait until the experimenter gets back without eating it, she will get a second marshmallow.

The children that were able to wait until the experimenter returned experienced better outcomes in life, including higher SAT scores, greater career success, and even lower body mass indexes.

Here, children outside Shanghai wait for a portion of dried vegetables in June 1961.

As a parent friend explained to me, having Netflix on your phone is very, very important when you have children — it shuts them up during car rides or long waits at the dentist's office.

Research suggests that the high rate of multiple births in the US is due to more women waiting to have children and using fertility treatments like in vitro fertilization (IVF) when they do.

A mother and her child wait in the emergency room of a hospital at Petare slum east of Caracas, Venezuela on Feb. 4, 2016.

«Rather than waiting until after your death to leave the company to your adult child — who might have to pay 55 cents in tax on every $ 1 of its value — you want to start transferring a minority stake now, let's say 30 % of the stock.»

Indeed, the most recent CNBC Millionaire Survey of high - net - worth families with investable assets of $ 1 million or more found 44 percent have not told their children about their future inheritance, and 27 percent waited until their child was over age 30 to do so.

The researchers followed each child for more than 40 years and over and over again, the group who waited patiently for the second marshmallow succeed in whatever capacity they were measuring.

In 2017, 19 states had waiting lists for child care assistance.

Last year, the state of Texas had a stunning 41,593 children on its waiting list for child care assistance; North Carolina had 26,608; Massachusetts had 24,202.

If families that wanted to wait a longer period between births or have fewer children had access to the right tools, two things would happen.

The children who were willing to delay gratification and waited to receive the second marshmallow ended up having higher SAT scores, lower levels of substance abuse, lower likelihood of obesity, better responses to stress, better social skills as reported by their parents, and generally better scores in a range of other life measures.

When airlines and airports make even a passing effort to improve travel for families — give them their own spaces to wait for planes, give them seats where they can use bassinets, etc. etc. — the chance that the baby / child will be able to 1 / nap successfully 2 / get out their toddler energy 3 / not have to restrain themselves from something they don't understand — goes up astronomically.

The shift in mindset where pet owners treat their pets like children comes from the shift in demographics — people are waiting longer to have children and more empty nesters are filling the void with furry «kids.»

«Every year we wait is a year lost forever for a child.»

«Every parent hopes that if their child was in mental health crisis that there would be help available for them immediately, but Chester's story shows us that in Christy Clark's B.C., children in crisis are left on standby behind a 200 day wait list,» said Horgan.

The representative's report, Tragedy in Waiting: How B.C.'s mental health system failed one First Nations youth, reveals a system struggling to offer basic services to children in need through the story of a child who committed suicide after he was unable to access basic mental health services.

Police separated witnesses from families waiting for children who could not be reached.

«After that, the Liberals had 15 years — but instead of investing in mental health and addictions services, they're leaving office with 12,000 children languishing on mental health care wait lists.»

Roughly seven hours after the shooting stopped at 2:27 p.m., waiting parents were asked to share photos of their children.

«After 16 years of Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals, women and children who have suffered violence are waiting too long for help,» said New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

Children often wait four or more years for schools to be rebuilt, and I hope that more companies will take the same thoughtful actions for long - term recovery.»

During his tenure as Prime Minister, Mr. Martin set in place a ten year, forty - one billion dollar plan to improve health care and reduce wait times; signed agreements with the provinces and territories to establish the first national early learning and child care program and created a new financial deal for Canada's municipalities.

If a child is pushed by their parents into taking this step too early wouldn't the Spirit be justified in waiting to present itself to them until later, when they are more prepared?

What we have to do now is wait for word to spread that we are there and for the children to come to us out of the be her brother or her son or a baby she found abandoned in the bush.

Wait till it comes out that Jesus & Mary had children.

To us our children and grandchildren were our strength to go on.we know God was with on her last day, and She waits for me in Heaven.

I sat there in the waiting room, weeping like a child as Bootsy sat there looking at me, skin and bones, vacant eyes.

Martijn Hekman, the Deputy Director of Christian charity World Vision's Syria Response, said: «This deadly attack is a horrific turning point in the conflict, and utterly devastating for thousands of children and their families who were waiting for these supplies to arrive.

She never told her husband of the indecent, time of child birth her husband took her to a medicine man for deliver, and waited for hours, while he heard wild noises from inside delivery cave.

Still waiting for you to address the children who died of easily cured illnesses when their parents prayed for them instead of taking them to a doctor.

What have you done to help the thousands upon thousands of children that are waiting to be adopted?

As children we are told about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny and all that good sense.But as we get older we realise «wait... a chubby old jolly man makes toys for all the boys and girls in the world and delivers them all to them at night... That cant be true because first off you cant possibly do that in one night an reindeer cant fly.

When an omnipotent, omniscient god could have dealt with the problem in a much more immediate way, does it really make sense to wait a couple of decades for the child to be born, grow up, and start a ministry?

I, for one, have never seen a child make a dreidel out of clay, let alone wait for it to dry so he or she can play, but that's not the issue here.

For millennia, children of God have been waiting for a messiah to fix this fixer - upper of a world.

The problem is there are to many children waiting for homes from people that are incapable of taking care of them.