Sentences with phrase «work of raising children»

She had been feeling pretty good about the success her organization has had in persuading young people that babies need two adult parents, committed to each other and to the decades - long work of raising children.

In reflecting on her midwifery experiences and her training in Mindfulness - Based Stress Reduction, Nancy wondered if mindfulness, the practice of living fully in each moment, could be helpful for expectant parents and those engaged in the work of raising children.

Not exact matches

Parenting will always be a challenge in the life of any ambitious entrepreneur and / or business leader, and there are many ways to raise a child: with hired help, with the support of extended family or working for a company with generous family policies that allow for flexible work hours and parental leave.

He explained to CNBC that women were traditionally expected to raise children instead of working in Japanese culture.

For instance, many Canadian adult households will be making mortgage payments and raising children through a significant part of working life.

That might occur, for example, when a household wants to work less in order to raise children, cover the cost of significant renovations or obtain bridging finance to buy and sell properties.

Among many other audiences, working parents, in particular, show great interest in flexible work arrangements, as many struggle to balance the pressing demands of both their career and raising children.

Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.

I scroll through pictures of them running ministries in South Africa, working on staff with Hillsong in Europe, raising their kids in the California sun — and here I am, posting pictures of my boys in many of the same parks that I once explored as a child.

Common sense would dictate that if the people of a large society wanted to pay less to house criminals, wanted fewer abortions, and more people working — they would put their resources towards educating their youth on how to not get pregnant, providing contraception to those women who do not want children until they are equipped to raise them, and towards making sure all children obtain the highest possible education they can achieve.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

We both work and we keep this house and we are raising children to hopefully love God and to love people, and we all try to do a bit of good in the world right now, too.

Becoming a mother and now the experience of raising my children informs my work.

It isn't until I sit down and do my work again that I return to the rest of my life — homemaking, raising children, community, church, school, marriage, all of it — as my most true self.

Our goal is for both of us to work from home while raising children together.

Simultaneously, denominational offices and social - justice groups have worked to raise churches» awareness of children's issues.

For instance, the so - called traditional family — families in which the father works outside of the home while the mother does the domestic chores and raises the children — is being profoundly altered.

The equal - regard interpretation of neighbor love fits the needs of the postmodern family faced with a new range of issues around shared authority, more equal financial power, and more nearly equal roles in raising children and meeting each other's needs in the midst of the 80 - hour work week.

But this part of her argument raises another question: If people's love for their children can motivate them to make heroic efforts to be good parents after divorce, couldn't the same amount of effort be expended to make many of the marriages work in the first place?

The role of raising children is entrusted in principle to married heterosexual couples because after much experimentation — several thousand years, more or less — we have found nothing else that works as well.

And we can pray with our children and then raise them to listen, and to work, and to partner with God in the work of truth - telling and reconciliation and justice.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

But she was working hard and raising a child of her own — she hadn't asked for Cavonte to be dropped in her lap, so she left him to his own devices.

And it's very unhealthy for democracy when the courts — without clear constitutional warrant — deprive citizens of the opportunity to have a say in setting the conditions under which we live, work, and raise our children.

e raised a brain - damaged child (and two others) into adulthood, and the theme of the wounded child, the imperfection that shatters our lives, runs through much of his work.

The paragraph dealing with communal child - raising has been used by him at least seven times before and was originally a description of anthropological work done in the mid-1980s.

The main burden still falls on women to raise children and to care for the sick and elderly, but most of these women are now also working outside the home at jobs where their pay, status, and security are inferior to those of most male workers.

In contrast to Beck's stratospheric narration, Zuckoff reports the daily, prosaic work of Greg and Tierney Fairchild as they gather copious medical information, discern vocation and then live with the delicate reality of raising an interracial child with Down syndrome.

At the same time, the whole process of creating an adoptive family raises many concerns about identity and belonging; concerns not unlike those we are all faced with: Three professionals who work with adoptive families (Anderson, Piantanida, and Anderson, 1993) list the questions about identity and belonging that an adopted child will likely have as she or he reaches adolescence:

Quite a few of us have stable relationships, raise healthy well - educated children, are free from addiction, vote, volunteer and donate to support causes that help make this society work, live in harmony with people who are different from us — I could go on, but you may get the idea that most of us do things most people would call good and have neither the inclination nor the time to do abominable things.

Atheist live lives like the rest of believers — they go to work, raise their children, care for their parents, fight for a particular cause, etc..

Though it is difficult to raise children in what might be called a «gender - neutral environment», part of the antidote to the current gender - laden environments in which children tend now to be raised is this view of the work of the Spirit in giving gifts as the Spirit chooses, which encourages those who are the teachers and guides of the young to observe the emerging qualities of spirit in each child and to bring those qualities to full flower rather than trying to redirect any «alpha» qualities in women or «beta» qualities in men towards any «norm.»

A native of New Orleans» impoverished lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, Luter was the third of five children raised by a divorced mother who worked as a seamstress and a surgical scrub assistant, according to Thom Rainier, president and CEO of the Nashville, Tennessee - based LifeWay Christian Resources and a friend of Luter's.

Big thank you for your inspiring tasty work that enabled me to believe that I can still raise a healthy child that eats a variety of healthy foods.

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The reality, though, is that having people over when you're raising three young children, is a metric TON of work.

We are delighted to announce the launch of our brand new online lottery scheme with funds raised going directly to the Leeds United Foundation, the grass roots sports charity who work tirelessly to deliver high level programmes across our region for children, young people, adults, disabled at - risk, the unemployed and the elderly.

To the best of our ability, their father and I raised our children to see both parents working in the home and without as normal, and when they grew up, our daughters, our only children, had no second thoughts about giving time to their careers, nor to the advantages of breastfeeding and the importance of providing healthy, whole foods to their families.

From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.

Teaming up to raise children is a great deal more efficient, an essential issue given the enormous amount of work involved.

Dr. Sachs is a clinical psychologist and educator specializing in work with children, adolescents, and families, Founder and Director of The Father Center, and best - selling author of The Good Enough Teen: Raising Adolescents with Love and Acceptance

Mark and Tim's story was told in the video, «A Tale of Two Dads» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh1B9Ni9iEk Beverly Prince - Sayward In addition to being a freelance writer, Beverly is a homeschooling mother to her three children - twins Hailey and Quentin, and youngest son Jared; the non-legally married wife to her partner Kathleen who works for IBM as well as the National Guard; and author of the blog Raising a Child with Auditory Processing Disorder.

I don't disagree that they make some valid points and that is what works for some children and their families BUT there is more than one way to raise and child and children are absolutely garanteed to be condemned to a life of hell and misery because a parent may choose to do it another way.

After that, throughout the next decade, I suffered sexual and physical abuse at the hands of fellow children and teachers, verbally abuse by my father and physical abuse from my mother, who could barely cope with her own divorce demons, working full time and having to raise a traumatized children (a son and a daughter) on her own.

Today's parents were not raised with the experience of caring for young children, Gopnik says, and so they come to parenthood after extensive education and work, and approach parenting like another subject to be mastered: «Get a book, take a course, and things will come out well.»

Intensive parenting is just what it sounds like: parent activities that are highly involved yet feel consuming — either because parents lack the support they need to work and raise children, or because parents overreach toward an idealized vision of themselves or their children.

One of the best resources for how to parent for a secure attachment in the first few years of life is the new book Raising A Secure Child by Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell, all therapists who have worked with many different kinds of families for decades.

I find it difficult to be in mama groups sometimes because instead of following just one exact way of raising my child, I follow what works for us.

If any of you were willing to stop patting yourselves on the back long enough to work out the logic, then you'd realize that the only conclusion that can be drawn from this research is that the best method for raising a child is the one that produces the fewest tears (and thus causes the least damage), EVEN if that method be Ferber.

Chana Lockerman works with the entire spectrum of family building, from the earliest stages of deciding to have a child to raising a child and having a family, offering support for any challenges, losses, and changes along the way.