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From Early Relationships to Preacademic Knowledge: A Sociocognitive Developmental Cascade to School Readiness
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Bernier, Annie; Beauchamp, Miriam H.; Cimon-Paquet, Catherine – Child Development, 2020
This study aimed to test a four-wave sequential mediation model linking mother-child attachment to children's school readiness through child executive functioning (EF) and prosociality in toddlerhood and the preschool years. Mother-child attachment security was assessed when children (N = 255) were aged 15 months and 2 years, child EF at age 2,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, School Readiness
Home Language and Literacy Environments and Early Literacy Trajectories of Low-Socioeconomic Status Chilean Children
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Mendive, Susana; Mascareño Lara, Mayra; Aldoney, Daniela; Pérez, J. Carola; Pezoa, José P. – Child Development, 2020
This study used Latent Class Analysis to identify groups of children exposed to similar Home Language and Literacy Environments (HLLE) and explored whether belonging to a given HLLE group was related to children's language and early literacy growth from prekindergarten to kindergarten. Participants were 1,425 Chilean mothers and their children…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Language Usage, Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy
Parents' Talk about Letters with Their Young Children
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Treiman, Rebecca; Schmidt, John; Decker, Kristina; Robins, Sarah; Levine, Susan C.; Demir, Özlem E. – Child Development, 2015
A literacy-related activity that occurs in children's homes--talk about letters in everyday conversations--was examined using data from 50 children who were visited every 4 months between 14 and 50 months. Parents talked about some letters, including those that are common in English words and the first letter of their children's names, especially…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Child Relationship, Young Children, Alphabets
Typologies of Family Functioning and Children's Adjustment during the Early School Years
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Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cummings, E. Mark – Child Development, 2010
Guided by family systems theory, the present study sought to identify patterns of family functioning from observational assessments of interparental, parent-child, and triadic contexts. In addition, it charted the implications for patterns of family functioning for children's developmental trajectories of adjustment in the school context across…
Descriptors: Family Life, Kindergarten, Family Counseling, Adjustment (to Environment)