Word: household
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dread her 12-year-old daughter's return from school each day--and the two-hour crying jag that followed. "She'd hold herself together all day, but the minute she got home she'd have this breakdown," Glassberg says. Glassberg has carefully built an after-school routine of household tasks and time-management techniques to help her daughter focus. "You'd be asking the impossible to have my child come home, have a snack and do her homework right away. So instead, she comes home, lays her books down, and we go for a walk around the block...
...average, kids ages 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in 1981, when a similar study was conducted. They also did more household chores, accompanied their parents on more errands and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet. Involvement in sports, in particular, rose almost 50% from 1981 to 1997: boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log half that time. All in all, however, children's leisure time--defined as time left over after sleeping, eating, personal hygiene and attending...
...about the demographics of their one-person target audience. I'm part of the 35-to-50 age group--part of the far smaller age group that turned 44 last May 21, if you must know. I'm currently single, though I'm getting married in December, so my household income should increase considerably. I earn...well, even ABC doesn't need to know what I earn, but if you're looking for a consumer with a little disposable jack to throw around, I'm your...
Natalie Smith described her experiences as a mother in a low-income household...
...Whereas we have been delightfully informed with the pleasant news of the arrival of the fourth bundle of joy at the Capuano household...someday, little brother will be the mayor of our great city...