Word: sitterly
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...inside, this family feels whole. It feels as if it works. My single parenthood is probably like the experience of millions of others--we have kids, pets, homes, jobs and ex-spouses in our lives. When we say, "Hi, honey, I'm home," it is to the baby sitter, the neighbor or a relative who has come over to help with child care. We don't go out much. We don't travel much. We cobble together work, meals and outside activities. Financially, we don't do as well as married parents, but we cling to the consolation prize...
...time and attention, the appreciation that play is children's work. Maybe, as the study results suggest, mothers have a special gift for giving that kind of gentle company. But it's hard to believe they are the only ones who can, as anyone with a great baby sitter, grandmother, husband or day-care provider can tell...
...time and attention, the appreciation that play is children's work. Maybe, as the study results suggest, mothers have a special gift for giving that kind of gentle company. But it's hard to believe they are the only ones who can, as anyone with a great baby sitter, grandmother, husband or day-care provider can tell...
...decade of shame happened because unlike Hugh Grant, Robert Downey Jr. and Bill Clinton, who bounced back like flubber, Reubens chose not to go out on the contrite circuit--talk-show appearances and celebrity-magazine confession stories. And it was partly because parents use their TVs as baby sitters, and no mom wants her baby sitter breathing heavily in a sparsely filled theater...
...would always say to his brother, "Wes, what is our objective for the weekend?" It had to be something they had never done before, like water-ski on one ski or barefoot or on canoe paddles. "John was never satisfied until he got it perfected," says his old baby-sitter Norma Champion...