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Mrs. Noodlekugel
Nick and Maxine have a new babysitter--the eccentric Mrs. Noodlekugel who lives in the funny little house behind their drab high-rise apartment building along with her feline butler, Mr. Fuzzface, and three myopic mice.
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Baker, Bus Driver, Babysitter, Candidate? Revealing the Gendered Development of Political Ambition Among Ordinary Americans
Americans without prestigious educational or professional backgrounds hold offices throughout the American government. Yet we know little about how these ordinary Americans developed political ambition or whether gender differences in ambition are present among this population. This paper uses a national sample of 1240 Americans to fill these gaps, identifying how political ambition develops differently for ordinary men and women, and drawing on this knowledge to help explain the surge in female candidates following the 2016 election. In contrast with elite samples, I show that the factors determining men’s political ambition are almost entirely distinct from those shaping women’s ambition among the mass public. I theorize that ordinary women’s ambition is particularly affected by the gendered expectations of those around them and the challenges they face balancing caregiving, work, and political engagement without the experience and resources possessed by elite women. I find support for this theory; ordinary women’s ambition is particularly dependent on the support of personal and political sources who can help them manage the demands of candidacy. In contrast, ordinary men’s ambition depends far less on encouragement from others, and instead increases with levels of education, political participation, and marriage. These results, and the distribution of the factors shaping ambition among Americans, help explain women’s low descriptive representation among American candidates and elected officials. They also provide a potential explanation for the unusual increase in women’s candidacies in 2017 and 2018.
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Why Do New Parents Stop Practising Sport? A Retrospective Study towards the Determinants of Dropping Out after Becoming a Parent
Despite the known health benefits of sport, recent studies showed that parenthood is related to decreased sport participation. Changes in sport behaviour after becoming a parent have been explained by gender or with the rational resource perspective of limited time and energy. However, the latter is mostly theoretical, since empirical insights on resource mechanisms are scarce. We want to improve and go beyond these explanations by investigating them empirically and by examining sport socialisation during the formative years as an alternative explanation. Consequently, our main objective is to explain changes in sport participation after becoming a parent with gender, limited resources and socialisation with sport. To this end, we employ representative Dutch survey data of new parents (n = 594), containing detailed information on sport careers and sport socialisation, as well as babysitter availability, partner support and physical discomfort after childbirth. The results of the logistic regression analyses show that, besides gender and resource mechanisms, sport socialisation and social support seem to have a great impact on sport behaviour when people become parents. That is, men are more likely to continue sport participation, as well as people with more resources (physical, temporal and social) and more socialisation with sport during the formative years. So including sport socialisation and social support seems necessary to better explain and prevent sport dropout during major life transitions, like becoming a parent.
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Just me and my babysitter
Little Critter does his enthusiastic best to help his babysitter, although his efforts frequently make a bad situation worse.
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426 - Character Strengths association with Personal Growth in Grandparents providing Regular Care
IntroductionThe number of grandparents providing regular care for their grandchildren has increased substantially. Data drawn from the SHARE survey shows regular caregivers care for more than 30 hours per week in Europe. This means that many regular caregivers are performing tasks that are part of parents’ responsibilities. Some research has shown lower perceived health and role strain. However, it can also offer opportunities to grow. Rapid social changes have led to grandparents not perceiving their predecessors as role models, making them having to update themselves to relate with their grandchildren. Character strengths are the natural ability by which thoughts, feelings and behaviours allow to achieve goals. They could help grandparents increase their perceptions of personal growth. However, the role played by character strengths in personal growth has not been studied yet.MethodThis study aimed to analyze what character strengths predict extended babysitters´ personal growth. This study included 107 grandparents providing regular care (more than 15 hours per week) to at least one grandchild from Spain. The average age was 69.46 (SD=7.02), 63.6% were women, 76% were maternal grandparents and the average daily hours of care provided was 5.07 (DT=14.61). To analyze data, we conducted stepwise multiple regressions.Results:In step one, the total score of character strengths explained 21.1% of the variance in personal growth (F(1, 105)= 28.14; p≤.001). The total score of character strengths and emotional intelligence accounted for 25.6% of the variance in step two (F(1, 104)= 17.91; p≤.001). In the final step, total character strengths, emotional intelligence and creativity explained 28.6% of the variance (F(1, 103)= 13.79; p≤.05). The higher scores in character strengths, emotional intelligence and creativity, the more personal growth grandparents showed.Conclusion:These results reflect the importance of considering character strengths as factors associated with grandparents´ personal growth. Future interventions focused on extended babysitters could consider character strengths. Especially, creativity and emotional intelligence, strengths that may help grandparents to connect and dialogue with their own emotions and those of their grandchildren as well as experience the difficulties associated with caregiving as opportunities for growth and development.Funding:This Project was funded by Fundación San Pablo CEU (M02.0401.000.MPFI20CN)
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How not to babysit your brother
When Grandma falls asleep, Will finds himself responsible for his little brother Steve and discovers the hard way what not to do when in charge.
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Trust and belief: a preemptive reasons account
According to doxastic accounts of trust, trusting a person to Φ involves, among other things, holding a belief about the trusted person: either the belief that the trusted person is trustworthy or the belief that she actually will Φ. In recent years, several philosophers have argued against doxastic accounts of trust. They have claimed that the phenomenology of trust suggests that rather than such a belief, trust involves some kind of non-doxastic mental attitude towards the trusted person, or a non-doxastic disposition to rely upon her. This paper offers a new account of reasons for trust and employs the account to defend a doxastic account of trust. The paper argues that reasons for trust are preemptive reasons for action or belief. Thus the Razian concept of preemptive reasons, which arguably plays a key role in our understanding of relations of authority, is also central to our understanding of relations of trust. Furthermore, the paper argues that acceptance of a preemptive account of reasons for trust supports the adoption of a doxastic account of trust, for acceptance of such an account both neutralizes central objections to doxastic accounts of trust and provides independent reasons supporting a doxastic account.
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Kristy and the Mother's Day surprise
Kristy and the Baby-sitters Club plan a huge outing as a Mother's Day surprise for their clients, while Kristy's mother and stepfather have a surprise of their own in store for their family.
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