Sentences with phrase «years children spend»

The more years children spend with no or minimal father involvement, the fewer years of school they complete.135

«It can not be right that the performance of primary schools is judged on a set of tests taken over just four days in May at the end of the seven years children spend at primary school.»

The best charters, perhaps the top 20 %, are capable of adding a year and a half of learning for each year a child spends in class.

Not exact matches

An employee who spends 250 days a year with his employer, who spends more time at the office than with his or her own children on any week day, is investing most of their human experience with that employer.

Kenney spent most of last year driving cutting - edge brand marketing campaigns for Brooklyn, New York - based über - brand MakerBot, including the wildly successful #Robohand video that documented how MakerBot users developed prosthetic hands for disabled children.

Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, has spent the last two years struggling: to normalize life for her children, to get comfortable accepting the help of friends and family, to regain confidence at work, and to rediscover hope.

After spending much of the year preparing and delivering presents to children all over the world in just one night, Claus takes a much deserved break to recoup and recharge.

While completing his dissertation, Clark spent two years working for the central planning ministry of the then - socialist African nation, and the first of his four children was born there, with only a midwife present to support the birth.

But as Gen Xers start preparing for their golden years, they should also spend time thinking about their own legacies and what they want to leave behind to their children and their communities.

I spent a year studying how girls learn best, researching gender differences, talking with neuroscientists and observing children's play patterns.

Although they have had to cut back significantly on their holiday budget in recent years, they still plan to spend $ 50 to $ 75 on each child — even though it means relying on credit cards.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

I've tried to spend time with my children through the years.

Next year, Netflix is expected to spend upwards of $ 6 billion producing more than 1,200 hours of movies, TV shows, documentaries, and children's television programs.

Now, in the third year of running my own business, the hundreds of hours I spent with Mr. Clarke continue to shape my daily decisions, something I had never anticipated as a child.

Thus, it's no surprise that in the past 20 years, the number of dads who stay home with children has dramatically increased and men in general are spending significantly more time parenting their children.

The Liberal government made promises in previous budgets to spend $ 7.5 billion over 11 years to help ease the burden of child - care costs.

These include spending over half household income on housing, sleeping two or more people per bedroom (excluding couples and same - gender children), being behind on the rent in the past year and / or living in a building that suffers from any two of: frequent elevator breakdowns, pests or broken entrance locks.

When he ran the numbers for one client, Tallal calculated that putting away money early would result in significant savings: «By starting when his two children were infants and setting aside about $ 6,500 a year for each child, the business owner would wind up spending nearly $ 400,000 less.»

(Colleges expect parents to spend up to 6 % of their assets each year and children up to 35 % of their assets a year before they'll provide financial aid.)

For Rachel Huse, whose days were typically spent homeschooling her kids, sewing children's clothing for her Etsy shop and co-leading a volunteer organization that took nearly 30 hours a week of her time, the foray three years ago into direct selling centered around one goal: «I definitely saw it as an opportunity to get a house cleaner,» she said.

In a study published this year that tracked Best Buy's ROWE program, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that, while it had helped reduce employee turnover, women who took part still spent 10 hours more on child care per week than their male flextime colleagues.

I am extremely lucky to work in a job which causes me to be thanked countless times a day to which i have always replied with «no problem» or «no worries» and although my customers never seem to mind it drives me crazy mostly because I spent many years learning to speak and have spent many years teaching my children and think the constant use of one or two phrases over and over is limiting so just recently I have tried to use different phrases such as «your welcome» and «my pleasure» and anything else which springs to mind and is more suited to each scenario.

For example, we may plan to gift money to help fund our daughter's IRA and other retirement tools or to contribute to our grand children's 429 plans, but not for spending money that she can use in her working years — that she will have to earn.

That said, the oldest Boomers are past their «peak consumption years», meaning less spending on key categories like transportation, housing and apparel, with the windfall more than picked up by their children, netting out to about an average 0.77 % demographic driven annual growth rate across sectors through 2060.12

So even though I had this lovely notion that the government was supporting me while I spent a year nurturing my child, I was actually just collecting the monies I'd paid into the system over the years.

The IRS does not clearly specify how long this gap can be — but, for example, if you took a year off work to spend time with your children, you will not qualify for a tax deduction.

If you're a schoolteacher, chances are you spend a couple thousand dollars out of your own pocket every year buying supplies for children in your classroom.

You can spend extra time with your children without money worries, or you can go away and sip piña coladas for months, even years, without your business taking a hit.

A businessman who systematically abused children in the Boys» Brigade and other groups over a period of six decades will spend at least seven years in jail.

Mr Page, who fostered children for 15 years, had spent nearly 20 years working as a finance director in the National Health Service.

(Hint: I have a Ph.D., have lived in 8 states and spent 5 years abroad, voted Obama, make less than 60K, was born in Utah but left it 21 years ago, have never divorced, and raise three awesome children who you'd want your children to be friends with.)

After spending years in bitter solitude, the giant one day sees a child trying to climb a tree.

In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

She's been reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a book off a shelf and share it with a child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.

But in a culture like ours, where parents have very little time to spend with their children, and where an obsessive pursuit of youth has caused an 800 percent increase in cosmetic surgical procedures in ten years, a focus on becoming childlike at Christmas seems guaranteed to skew the message of the incarnation.

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 smackChildren 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 smackchildren, 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 smackchildren 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.»

They raised the money, built the house, and now care for 60 children, spending half of each year in Kenya.

That her son, the same one who spent a year in an orphanage, would become apastor, a doting husband, and a father who would see four of his own children give their lives to the ministry.

If there has been little caring and sharing for years, except in relation to the children, couples may have no desire to spend the rest of their lives together.

Following the method of typological interpretation, 11 which saw Old Testament events as prefiguring New Testament ones, the 40 years that the children of Israel spent wandering in the wilderness of Sinai were interpreted as a figure of Christ's 40 days.

As it happens, in the»80s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley spent years cataloging the number of words spoken to young children in dozens of families from different socioeconomic groups, and what they found was not only a disparity in the complexity of words used, but also astonishing differences in sheer number.

I woke up, brutally aware that I'd spent thousands of dollars and four and half years earning a degree that I'd never actually wanted, all because the people I'd grown up with had told me I couldn't be anything else except a housewife who could use her teaching degree to homeschool her children.

There is a reason why many of us Americans have spent years in the Middle East protecting innocent women and children in combat from people just like you.

Before we moved to our current location, my wife and I, and until they grew up, our children, spent 25 years in the same United Methodist church.

the earth just like the «tops» you played with as a child will eventually slow down that the earth will spend a day with one side facing the sun... however by the time that happens humans would have been dead for a few billion years.

I've been feeding and clothing children in third world countries for over thirty years and have witnessed tiny children who truly are separated from God and I spend a considerable amount of my income trying to reach them.

«We're committed to supporting parents with the cost of bringing up children, we've doubled free childcare, Child Benefit is available for all children in a household, and we continue to spend around # 90 billion a year to ensure a strong safety net for the most vulnerable.»

I am a child of fascism, and spent about ten years of my young adulthood on the questions: «How could it happen?

«I had a couple this morning who'd had one child when they were in their 30s, spent the next ten years trying to have another, and failed.