Sentence examples for tasks of parenthood from inspiring English sources

We go walking or running to improve our health, not for the pleasure of movement; we approach the tasks of parenthood with a fixation on the successful future adults we hope to create.

Between the book's covers, "The Conflict" pits what Ms. Badinter sees as the insidious forces of natural mothering — the breast-feeding, the cloth diapering, the constant attentive enrichment of the child — against feminist good sense, which leaves room for mothers to work outside the home and allows fathers in as full and equal partners in the tasks of parenthood.

These perceptions that the tasks of parenthood were newly significant did not automatically lead to changes in reproductive behaviour.

The removal of children into missions and other institutions may have provided more formal education for some but had profound detrimental effects on the psychosocial functioning of these "stolen generation" children and their onward ability to adequately undertake the tasks of parenthood [ 72, 73].

No summertime babysitting jobs or role-playing we did as children could have ever prepared us for the reality of parenthood and the daunting task of suddenly being responsible for another human being, a helpless one at that.

When you see yourself as having the privilege of shepherding these precious souls into adulthood, rather than being burdened with the task of raising these children, your own experience of parenthood is greatly enhanced.

I discovered a small circle of parents who gather over coffee near the school and trade stories about the tribulations of parenthood — all before dispersing to their respective tasks after 9. I also started coming back home from work early enough to help my son with his homework.

I fumble through a lot of parenthood, but I think I've managed this task.

"We all know that raising children is the most important and difficult task given to human beings, and there's an ineluctable traction between the stress of parenthood and drink," he says.

Perhaps the trials of parenthood encourage spirituality.

"Is that the positive glow of parenthood?