How to Use child-rearing in a Sentence
child-rearing
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The hefty price tag means some people are putting off parenthood until later in life, when their fertility and openness to child-rearing might be on the wane.
— Joyce Jiang, CNN, 18 Aug. 2024 -
Love and child-rearing were a different thing in those days.
— Andrew Goldman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2024 -
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 -
Who would choose to have children in an atmosphere that insists child-rearing is so bleak?
— Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2023 -
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 -
Fed up with the ultimatums around child-rearing, Nya stars de-Andreing her house in a rampage.
— Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 June 2023 -
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 -
But as any parent will attest, child-rearing challenges make life feel foreign and chaotic.
— Laura Lajiness Kaupke, ELLE, 2 May 2023 -
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 -
Through her work, Nolan breaks from the conventions of child-rearing, embracing rebellion.
— Nadine Zylberberg, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2023 -
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 -
And that burden falls most on mothers, who shoulder more child-rearing responsibilities and are far more likely to leave a job to care for kids.
— Moriah Balingit, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024 -
Advertisement Beneath the competitive child-rearing kale rodeo is a lot of panic and self-doubt.
— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 July 2023 -
American society hasn’t embraced the idea that child-rearing can or should be taught formally.
— Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2024 -
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 -
Now in the twenty-first century, the intensive parenting is the dominant child-rearing style.
— Alison Escalante, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024 -
In the cassowary’s world, males are tasked with child-rearing responsibilities.
— Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Today, many parents are juggling the responsibilities of child-rearing with the pressures of full-time careers.
— Francyne Zeltser, Parents, 29 Oct. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The costs of child-rearing are astronomical, and it should be considered a no-brainer to expand government support.
— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 5 May 2024 -
Musk reportedly has employees working more than 100 hours a week in windowless rooms to engineer every element of the plan, from the design of small-dome habitats to spacesuits to child-rearing on the planet.
— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 July 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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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