Sentences with phrase «weeks of sick children»

It's especially not helpful for this mama who is on three weeks of sick children, spouse, and / or self in the midst of a more - stressful - than - usual month.

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To put the point another way, if 9/11 drove to church for weeks on end millions of Americans who had not darkened that doorstep in years — as it did — imagine the even deeper impact on ordinary mothers and fathers of a sick child or the similarly powerful desire of a devoted spouse on the brink of losing the other.

This week alone, I have listened to stories of bitterness and unforgiveness, adoption struggles, death and sickness, betrayal and addictions, loss and grief, sleepless nights with sick children, and longings unfulfilled in the hearts and lives of people I love and there are more questions than answers.

At just 27, she is full of stories — bringing just one pair of clothes to what turned out to be week's worth of disaster relief work, getting phone calls from Korea at 3 a.m., traveling from Bolivia to the U.S. with a child in need of life - saving surgery only to have the nurse get sick and the child push her in a wheelchair through the airport.

Baby - sitting bills and other parenting expenses on the tour can run $ 1,000 a week, and though bigger tournament purses and bigger paychecks in recent years have eased the financial burden, the physical and mental strain of a long night with a sick child takes its toll on a professional golfer with an 8 a.m. tee time.

Extended sick hours during the week and weekends allow your child to be seen by a familiar face when necessary, instead of at an urgent care clinic or emergency facility.

You might think that the experience of caring for a sick child, spending weeks in the NICU and then hours in specialists» offices, would prepare us for anything that life handed us.

When you're taking care of a sick, miserable toddler, try to remember that most winter illnesses pass in a week or so — and all of them will ultimately help strengthen your child's immune system.

The FMLA allows eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of leave for reasons such as the arrival of a new child or to care for a pregnant spouse or sick child.

The thought of a wired and squirming child was what ultimately stopped me from attempting to sedate my daughter, but if you decide it is the route for you, Dr. Jeremy Friedman, head of pediatrics at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, has this suggestion: Administer a test dose at home in the week or two preceding the trip to see if it makes your toddler drowsy or hyper.

After my children got sick last week (and with me sick this week) I was thinking of purchasing a better thermometer.

When you're taking care of a sick, miserable preschooler, try to remember that most winter illnesses pass in a week or so — and all of them will ultimately help strengthen your child's immune system.

This week, new research supported what moms sick of parent shaming have long suspected: people often judge how dangerous a given parenting practice is based on their sense of how moral it is, not based on a reasoned assessment of actual danger to the child.

Last week, the New York State Assembly passed a one - house bill creating a program that would allow workers to take time off to care for a new child or sick loved one while receiving a portion of their usual pay.

Cuomo now wants to give New Yorkers up to 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a sick loved one or be home with a new child.

The New York state Assembly has again passed legislation to allow workers to take up to 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a new child or a sick loved one.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York state Assembly has again passed a paid family leave bill that would allow workers to take up to 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a new child or a sick loved one.

Enacts paid family leave for New Yorkers with an employee - funded program that provides 12 weeks of paid leave for parents to bond with a new child or a sick relative.

(Many of the sick children also need treatment for malnutrition, but the clinic ran out of RUTF 3 weeks ago.)

In the weeks following the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil (or tar sands diluted bitumen) into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood and lake, the news about the spill was just one depressing story after the next as we learned that wildlife had been oiled, local residents, including children, were becoming sick, contaminated water was pumped into the lake, the media was being intimidated to reduce access and coverage and that Exxon may have known about the spill earlier than they are letting on.

Another reason is that even though the opportunity cost of work is, in absolute terms, lower for low - SES parents, losing a week's salary to deal with a sick child may be more consequential for low - income parents.

Test — retest reliability was reported to be 0.95 over a 4 - week period, and the scale was found to discriminate between parents of formerly sick premature infants and parents of healthy full - term infants when the child was 3 years old.