Sentences with phrase «years my kids spent»

Whether you parent alone or not, enjoy the fleeting years your kids spend under your roof.

Not exact matches

Psychologist Angela Duckworth has spent years studying kids and adults, and found that one characteristic is a significant predictor of success: grit.

While the plans to build your own TieFi are real (it calls for a tiny Raspberry Pi computer and some software customizations), the launch is a stunt — a tongue - in - cheek reminder to close the laptop and spend some time with your kids this Father's Day, lest you find yourself Cat's Cradled a few years from now.

You may be able to send your kids to a great college, but if they've never spent an afternoon with you in 18 years, is it worth it?

The serial entrepreneur and investor, who serves on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, spent several years as a kid living in Tokyo and fueled a lifelong zest for travel, which his international consulting practice provides plenty of today.

Families with kids in kindergarten through 12th grade will spend an average $ 634.78, versus $ 688.62 in 2012, while families of college students will spend $ 836.83, down from $ 907.22 last year.

In addition, another study cited that kids ages 13 and younger spend an astonishing 30 minutes a week outside, with 8 - 10 year olds racking up close to 8 hours per day on some sort of electronic device.

Instead of letting it be like a kid who spends years looking up at the sky dreaming of blasting off into space as an astronaut one day, not really knowing what that would entail — or if they would even like it — why not let her explore it now?

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.

I spent many years on Wall Street but burned out and had kids, and a switch went off where I didn't want to head into the office on a Saturday morning but instead wanted to play with my son.

Fest said she's heard that many parents are spending hundreds to thousands of dollars on private tutoring for their kids to take the test this year, when the curriculum is fresh in their minds.

After selling Double Line Partners to a private equity company, Young took a year off to spend more time with her kids and family.

Spend 24K per year for 3 kids daycare (5 kids total).

Even if some of that candy ended up in the pillowcases of trick or treaters, there is actually no way the estimated $ 2.7 billion America spent on Halloween candy this year was consumed by those kids — though it would explain America's obesity epidemic.

I've known since I was 18 that I couldn't have kids and, during the years I spent in Pentecostal style churches, often did feel condemned, although it is something which is part of who I am and which I can not change.

She was actually named after yeast FUNGUS and a plant; Again, I need to do more research, but in order to take a article seriously, you need to address the source first This woman, as educated as she MAY be, (having a degree, and knowing how to use it are two different things) spent her earliest, most developmentally crucial years under the direction of at least one parent who thought NOTHING of saddling their kid with this name.

We are adult third culture «kids» who have spent all of our developmental years abroad... and then returned to our HOME country, where we must endure the commonplace ignorance and poorly educated adults who lack any interest in foreign policy and base all their opinions on what only goes on in their own backyard... Please give your head a good shake and crack open a book every little now and then!

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.

Kids as young as 8 years old, swing machetes high over their heads to hack off cocoa pods, spray lethal pesticide without any protective gear, spend hours splicing open the pods with knives, with little clue that the end result of their labor is candy that will go on clearance by February 15th.

Santa Claus is part of a Indocrination program that has been on - going from 500 years ago to maintain the status quo of white supremacy, people grow up totally conflicted when they realize their hard earned dollars is the real Santa claus that they willingly spend and too their kids continue to support the Lie.

So if you are say 20 - years - old and have a faithful husband who abuses you and your kids, you just have to spend the rest of your life married to him.

I spent the last three years of that marriage in question with God, many pastors, my family and my kids as to the ability to keep my vow of marriage.

As a mother myself, wholefoods chef, and former English teacher who's spent years helping kids grow academically, I've created a book that I hope will inspire and help families make better food choices.

I always love this time of year because it means I get to spend more time outside enjoying the warm weather, while doing fun activities with the kids like planting flowers.

When I flip through my Timehop at this time of year, I can't escape reminders that my last big summer I was supposed to spend home with the kids was spent, instead, convalescing from a herniated disc and back surgery.

For those whose kids aren't quite as far along in school, this means university is a hot topic of conversation in our house and we're spending a lot of weekend in the coming month taking tours of the schools Ben's interested in attending next year.

But since we've added three kids to our brood in a period of three years, we've started to spend less time cooking with each other and more time cooking for each other.

I shall sip and I shall count my days left here in Edinburg, because next year I along with my kids will spend our summer hours picking blackberries.

As soon as we arrived on the hill where I spent 18 years of my life rolling Matchboxes down the pavement, playing kickball that left all neighbors angry at us kicking balls at their cars and organizing neighborhood kids bingo games I saw what was left of the house.

Well, we spent a week in Poland during the kids» autumn holidays at the beginning of October last year and I liked the food soooo much, I just had to try to recreate some or better said almost all of the delicious dishes we had there, at home.

With foodservice spending leaping back to pre-recession levels combined with industry consultants» predictions of a dramatic increase in family dining visits this year, Boston's Restaurant & Sports Bar (Boston's) is announcing the launch of a best - in - class kids program to enhance its kid - friendly environment in the dining room and for guests at home.

We have to understand the fact if we spend 120 million on a 18 year old kid who looks very promising by all standards we would be looking at least for a 7 year contract.

IF that ms true it's about 125 m and for me he's worth what ever, people moan about wenger (me inc) but some say he won't spend and this kids a gamble he's with it in 5 years he could be worth 300m Put him alongside Sanchez or buy dembele and a top top Dm we are better than spuds and Liverpool just a little more and we will be back

New year, new TV star.They couldn't be more different, but this year's Camilo Villegas (for now) isthe surfing golfer, Will MacKenzie, or Willie Mac, as Faldo has taken tocalling him, a personable 32 - year - old (that is, not a kid) who had the temerityto actually stop playing the game for several years to spend more time pursuingvarious water sports.

However, we should not kid ourselves though, Chelsea have been spending like crazy for 10 years now, thick end of a billion quid.

that if we do get a Lottery Pick, I just assume Kenny will either trade it for 3 37 - year - olds that are «good in the locker room» or we'll spend it on a kid that every expert refers to as «a project» and he never pans out.

He spent the next six years learning that the NBA is not the place for slow, 6» 1 kids with no handle and zero defensive abilities to speak of.

«With that said, I'm looking forward to spending time with my wife and kids and enjoy my first summer vacation in more than 23 years.»

That's what is getting up everyones nose 3 key signings would galvanise the squad and solve a good deal of the problems we have, 3 signings and Wenger wouldn't really have to spend anything significant again for maybe three years, but all we hear is he is dithering about paying peanuts for some 17 year old polish kid who may be the next Patrick Viera but equally may not be.

i have never sat in stand an booed arsenal, but saw people coming from midlands with there kids every home game, nightime european games an they have spent thousands on there season tickets - they have literally chose this over holidays for there family that year.

Spend the year (Elliott's last year) letting the kids sort themselves out.

and the others who never played or had only a handful of appearances could not even be loaned out some of them, that's good business they were cheap, now we knwo why they were cheap, now look merterseker, sanchez, ozil, theo, koschilney off contract, how much money is there alone, also wenger has a habit of buying kids spending 5 - 8 years developing them then other clubs say thanks we will have him, oh well he wasn't good enough, as he plays for his country, when are we going to start pressuring kroenke, gazidis and wenger with lowering of the stocks and merchandise so we are not profitable to the greedy self centred yank who uses us a a money pit.

Usually I fault the parents a bit more than the kids but one time some little shitty girl in our neighborhood who spent all of last year playing with my kids decided that now she's grown as an 8 year old and she started bullying the shit out of my son.

Nice article... I used to be one of those staunch Wenger fans through the years... I used to believe he is superior than Sir Alex, because with almost nothing to spend and playing with kids, he managed to keep us up there every year... I was really caught up with that half season wonder we used to show... In the summer 2013, him or the board (I don't recall) came out and said we are much stable financially and now we can fight with the biggest bullies, I got my hopes high, I thought we are definitely signing a top striker and DM, that what we need... What happened, only hours before the window closed we managed to sign a top AMF (remember we have our best player for the season 2012 - 2013 was AMF, Cazorla if you remember), I was really depressed seen Giroud leading the line every match... then comes winter window, and we were right there top of the table... My friend send me a poster of an elephant on a tree, and on the bottom of it «no one knows how it got there but everybody knows how it will get down»... I told my friend that we are only one decent striker far from the gold... and what happened, we signed an old injured DM on loan... That for me was a completely arrogance and stubbornness cost us the league title... There I completely lost the plot with Wenger... I wish yesterday I was with those who raised that banner... I would write in my banner «Enough talks and philosophy, we need results»

When he isn't coaching college football, he spends his extra time coaching at the football camp he started for kids ages 8 to 14 years old.

Guys why are we comparing arsenal to barca i love arsenal it my club but i must be realistic barca is lite years infront of us look at the champions league last year no match they have won the champions league twice in the last five years and the last one with kids just like arsenal so its not about how young players are because if your good enough your old enough and am afraid the arsenal youngsters walcott, deneilson, nasri, diaby, bendtner, even the great vanpercy who all arsenal fans rate who as i mentioned before (Has not scored a free kick in god knows how long) world class right these players so far have not been good enoughso do nt blame injuries too much do nt blame refs look at the way arsenal do things something is wrong here is a prime example eboue joined arsenal in the 2004/2005 season to date now tell me that a long time right would you say he is a much better player than when he arrived i think no he has improved but only very little and thats the point football is a short business at a big club you spend three seasons for the most and then you must perform.

We've raised our kids to young adulthood and we've spent the majority of those 18 years focusing on those kids — homework, sports, musical recitals, after - school activities, orthodontist appointments.

Look, for the past few years I have been spending Oscar night putting kids in bed and maybe grabbing a glimpse or 2 of the night.

The couple will evidently spend Christmas together with their kids, which is what my former husband and I did every every year until, well, this year, by the younger son's choice.

This time of year, you never know if you'll be spending time outdoors with the kids or staying in because of cold weather.