How to Use child-rearing in a Sentence
child-rearing
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The Good News: Every child-rearing mother had to endure an act of great pain for their children to meet the world.
—Woman's Day, 14 Apr. 2023
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Who would choose to have children in an atmosphere that insists child-rearing is so bleak?
—Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2023
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As if any of these cross-bearing, child-rearing, husband-handling women need to be taught about strength.
—Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
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Fed up with the ultimatums around child-rearing, Nya stars de-Andreing her house in a rampage.
—Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 June 2023
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Assuming you are far removed from your child-rearing years, are there any other side effects people should be aware of?
—Amy Synnott, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2023
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But as any parent will attest, child-rearing challenges make life feel foreign and chaotic.
—Laura Lajiness Kaupke, ELLE, 2 May 2023
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But the idea of French parents as a monolith, subscribing to a single, homogeneous child-rearing ethos, doesn’t hold.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
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Through her work, Nolan breaks from the conventions of child-rearing, embracing rebellion.
—Nadine Zylberberg, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2023
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Admit that your focus on what lies ahead in child-rearing has been dismissive of her current circumstances.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
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Advertisement Beneath the competitive child-rearing kale rodeo is a lot of panic and self-doubt.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
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American society hasn’t embraced the idea that child-rearing can or should be taught formally.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2024
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Rock also tapped a more personal vein, with extended attention to child-rearing and his love life — and a mention that his mother was in the audience.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
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Now in the twenty-first century, the intensive parenting is the dominant child-rearing style.
—Alison Escalante, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
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In the cassowary’s world, males are tasked with child-rearing responsibilities.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
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While my parents were wild and fashionable (my mother was a designer, my father an art dealer), Granny and Winnie were cosy and always around and, frankly, took over the child-rearing to a large degree.
—Plum Sykes, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
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The struggles of my friends and community members already deep in the child-rearing trenches were upsetting but still abstract to me, even in my first few hazy postpartum months.
—Hannah Matthews, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2023
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But the book conjures most successfully the poignant pain of loss surrounding childbirth and child-rearing caused by the Sullivanian rules and mindset.
—Hannah E. Meyers, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
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Because in the end, honestly, and this is no offense to my husband who is a great dad, but women really stand for most of the child-rearing responsibility.
—Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
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Today, many parents are juggling the responsibilities of child-rearing with the pressures of full-time careers.
—Francyne Zeltser, Parents, 29 Oct. 2023
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There are always going to be tradeoffs between work and child-rearing, but with the right policy changes and more support, perhaps the sacrifices don’t have to be as dramatic for women.
—Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2023
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In large part, her position rests on her argument that all the fundamental interests tied to child-rearing can be satisfied with just one child.
—Trevor Hedberg, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
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Miss Manners would like to make your and your husband’s child-rearing efforts simpler by reminding you that children pay attention to what their parents do, often at the expense of what the parents tell them to do.
—Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2023
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Silverstone used mother bird feeding while raising Bear Silverstone is known for her unconventional child-rearing techniques, many of which have gone viral over the years.
—Anneke Knot, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
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With child-rearing and home buying postponed, and the stakes of professional development heightened, a new phase of life has emerged: one of possibility and risk, exhilaration and crippling self-doubt.
—Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 14 May 2023
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Now Montessori influences pervade the design of playrooms, popular toys, and even the general ethos of self-sufficiency that defines many modern child-rearing theories.
—Kate Cray, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2024
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Mothers still make convenient villains, especially in an era when every child-rearing decision can be chewed over, debated, Instagrammed and quote tweeted.
—Mark Harris Keita Morimoto, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
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Finally, many people in this age group may be busy with a variety of responsibilities, including child-rearing, work and caring for older family members.
—Katia Hetter, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
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But pregnancy, lactation, child-rearing and menstruation are not permanently disabling events, as researchers found among the living Agta of the Philippines who continue to hunt during these life periods.
—Sarah Lacy, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on intervening in another family’s child-rearing.
—Text By Ellen Barry Steven Johnson Caleb Gayle Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah Yotam Ottolenghi Charles Homans Hillary Brenhouse Anne Boyer John Hodgman, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
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The large influence of social factors in determining what constitutes an adult has led some psychologists to suggest that adolescence is less of a biological reality than a product of changes in child-rearing since the industrial revolution.
—Jay N. Giedd, Scientific American, 1 May 2016
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