Since I was a little girl, I dreamed about traveling overseas to a lot strange lands; Exciting places and new cultures have always interested me. I've always wondered what it would look if I ever had been these countries. I wanted to go to countries which spoke different languages, and had different...
No one is perfect. We are all human and we tend to make mistakes. When I was a kid, I never understood the true meaning of my parents' love towards me. I always blamed them for everything that happened without thinking of the reasons behind it. All I thought was having fun without prioritizing their...
Children may not see a parent when they get home, because now both parents have to work all hours of the day to make ends meet. ... We sat down with our marbles for hours and tried to knock our opponent's marbles out of the circle to win theirs. ... A game that will keep them glued to the television for hours on end. The children want the most expensive games to play on the computer that will also keep them glued down for hours at a time. ... But instead of society promoting the simple things, they promote things that will keep the parents working long hours so that parent can afford ...
He and his friend go to work for Mike's father after school in one of his businesses, cleaning the place up for only pennies a week (a dime an hour to be exact!). ... In a few weeks, he tempts them with a quarter an hour up to five dollars an hour, but, as the author puts it, "the part of my soul that was weak and needy was silenced. ... It only takes an open mind and the willingness to take time away from "the rat race" for a few hours. ...
During this time the eight-hour working day laws were supported and workers did just that. An eight-hour day at Wilson & Co. itself was extremely demanding and tiresome to the workingman. ... Wilson & Co. decided to demand "mandatory overtime" of two hours. ... Wilson & Co. reacted with a "yellow-dog contract" threatening if their workers didn't sign agreeing to work these extra hours then they would be asked to leave the plant and not return. ...
After hours of driving, which felt like an eternity, we finally arrived at the beach. ... We enjoyed ourselves for hours until I was totally exhausted and headed into shore. ... I asked Molly what happened and where she was for those ten minutes, which felt like ten hours. ...
Work hours is especially important in the case of maternal gatekeeping. When there is a difference in work hours for the spouses, there will be a difference in the time able to spend with their children. The "shift-worker" couples in Ranson (2010) all had the fathers and mothers accommodate their work hours, so they can be the caregivers. ... Due to work hours, the time for Denise to spend with her son, Daniel, is substantially lower than Gary. ... The study took a sample from employed mothers in dual-earner families with preschool-age children that each work an average of around thi...
"Don't take the people you love for granted," was a quote I heard quite often from my father growing up. As a child, I always wondered, "why would anyone want to be with only one person for the rest of their lives?" If you would've asked me, what is love? I probably would have said, "love is my mom ...
After that, we were just waiting for the result and waited almost an hour and checked the school's website. ... After a six hour driving, we got to capital and stayed all the time at my cousin's house. ... Consulate and wait for hours and hours. ... By the way, we waited too longer more than 3 hours, chairs were so uncomfortable, I was sleepy and no phone, literally there was nothing to do. An hour later they called our number that was on the sheet that they gave to us before getting into the consulate. #896 I still remember clearly. ...
My dad begins around 3:45 when my father wakes me up at home, and says "get up time to go to work", I respond, "I am too tired, another ten minutes", he responds "up now or your not getting paid this week", so finally I get out of bed, hop into the shower, get dressed, and jump into my car, its now 4:15, got a half hour ride ahead of me into the city. ... , the voices of many of the workers who already have been there for an hour, damn I am tired time to get a cup of coffee, with like 10 packets of sugar to keep me up. ...
I had spent countless hours as a curious 5-year-old in that very estate, curled up by the fireplace next to a pile of old car magazines where I consumed their contents like most kids would go through Fruit Loops. ... " We could talk to each other for hours about every aspect of a car. ... When my dad bought an old Maranello Red Fiat Bertone X1/9, we spent hours working on the engine and the exterior. ...
I awoke up and since it was a Saturday, I didn't had school, so I ate breakfast relaxed, I turned on the television and started playing my video game, hours passed and nothing of my parents arrive, my anxiety grew, did not even see clearly the image that skirt from that small and old TV,quite old with the ones we have today. ... We arrived early to the hospital and waited for almost one hour to get my mother in preparation to be called to a room. ... We stayed there for almost an hour, having conversations about my brother that would be called Luigi, something that we had already set when...
The assessment process entailed meeting with an unknown family conveniently and setting approximately two hours for an interview. ... They sleep approximately 4-5 hours in a day. ... The children take pre-paid lunch at school whereas the parents consider eating light meals during lunch hour in hotels around their workplaces. ...
He sat there for half an hour until his father finally acknowledged his presence, calling him "ladykiller Tiller" (5). ... Tiller finally had a few hours alone with his dad. ... Perhaps the fact that Tiller brought things his father likes represents how Tiller is ready to serve his father for the next few hours. ...
Parental love The Korean proverb says when you have at least three children you can understand your parents' love. When I was young, I couldn't understand this proverb, but now, I can understand my parents and realize their love because I am a mom with three children. When I was expecting my fir...
On June first, the day after I graduated high school, I was informed that my parents were getting a divorce. Now according to statistics about half of American children will witness the breakup of their parent's marriage. Knowing this makes divorce seem like a common thing and easy to get through. H...
It took twenty years, twenty-six days, and seventeen hours for me to realize what an extraordinary influence my mother has been in my life. ... The unlimited amount of faith and trust she had and has in me today motivates me to do better every second, of every hour, of every day. ...
My exposure to the plumbing heating and cooling industry began at an early age. Both my mother and father worked in my grandfather's business. I spent lots of time in my early years at the family business while my parents worked. I would sit and talk with my grandfather or go help my father c...
They sit and talk for hours; he then comes home and calls his mother and sisters in St. ... In looking for him in the evening hours I usually find him buried under a stack of papers, grading and analyzing, paying bills, none of my favorite things to do, yet when I finally get his attention he always has an inviting smile smeared across his face welcoming any problem or story I have to share with him. ... He can sit there for hours listening to me whine and cry, ignoring the endless pile of papers he has to grade. ...
It passed 50, 60, 70, then 75 miles per hour. ... After the 2-hour lecture from his father, Pete asked his father to take him to the hospital to see the girl. ... About an hour or so later, her parents came back to the room to find the two fast asleep. ...
Judy's had false labor for forty six hours. ... Thursday at noon Judy was getting a sleep twenty minutes of sleep 7 hours. Between noon and three o"clock went to the hospital again 12:20. at one in the morning when Judy started to push and it was going on for two hours at 2:57 a.m Philippa was born and fluid was all over dad. ...
Fatherhood When I was a small boy I wanted to be exactly like my father. My father taught me I could do the impossible. He was a single parent, who worked long hours every day as an auto mechanic in the sweltering Arizona heat. Every minute of his free time was gl...
For the most part, I was raised in a very small, Cajun country town. In this town everyone knew my name and who my mom, dad, sisters and brothers were. Looking back, I cannot recall seeing or interacting with many African-Americans in school, in the grocery store, or anywhere around town. I can rem...
