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Direct linkRobert J. Sternberg; Maren Stern – Roeper Review, 2025
Just as children have fairly consistent attachment styles toward parents, we argue that parents have fairly consistent attachment styles toward children. It generally will be easiest for gifted children to develop their gifts and display them successfully if their parents were securely attached to them. But the children who have experienced…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Gifted, Child Development
Download full textStephen Newman; Nathan Archer – Journal of Montessori Research, 2024
Maria Montessori's work remains popular and influential around the world. She provided fascinating descriptions of her observations of children's learning. Yet at the heart of her work is a lacuna: the issue of how children learn their first language. For Montessori, it was a marvel, a miracle--but a mystery. We argue that the later philosophy of…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Educational Philosophy
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Freya Westlake; Meryl Westlake; Vaso Totsika – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: The review aimed to investigate the effectiveness of parent-child relationship interventions for families of children with intellectual disability up to 12 years old. Methods: Quasi-experimental or randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions targeting the parent-child relationship where =50% of children had an intellectual…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis, Parent Child Relationship, Intellectual Disability
Or Lipschits; Ronny Geva – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Communication is commonly viewed as connecting people through conscious symbolic processes. Infants have an immature communication toolbox, raising the question of how they form a sense of connectedness. In this article, we propose a framework for infants' communication, emphasizing the subtle unconscious behaviors and autonomic contingent signals…
Descriptors: Infants, Models, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition
Santiago Morales; Maureen E. Bowers; Lauren Shuffrey; Katherine Ziegler; Sonya Troller-Renfree; Alexis Hernandez; Stephanie C. Leach; Monica McGrath; Cindy Ola; Leslie D. Leve; Sara S. Nozadi; Margaret M. Swingler; Jin-Shei Lai; Julie B. Schweitzer; William Fifer; Carlos A. Camargo Jr.; Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey; Allison L. B. Shapiro; Daniel P. Keating; Tina V. Hartert; Sean Deoni; Assiamira Ferrara; Amy J. Elliott – Developmental Psychology, 2024
A large body of research has established a relation between maternal education and children's neurocognitive functions, such as executive function and language. However, most studies have focused on early childhood and relatively few studies have examined associations with changes in maternal education over time. Consequently, it remains unclear…
Descriptors: Mothers, Educational Attainment, Child Development, Thinking Skills
Joan E. Foley; Thomas M. Olino; Marsha Weinraub – Developmental Science, 2025
Researchers have demonstrated the important contribution of mothers' sensitive parenting to children's developing cognition over the first 5 years of life, yet studies examining sensitivity beyond the early years, controlling for earlier effects, are limited. In this exploratory study, we examined the developmental pathways through which mothers'…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Children
Noora Hyysalo; Minna Sorsa; Eeva Holmberg; Riikka Korja; Elysia Poggi Davis; Eveliina Mykkänen; Marjo Flykt – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Maternal substance use and unpredictable maternal sensory signals may affect child development, but no studies have examined them together. We explored the unpredictability, frequency and duration of maternal sensory signals in 52 Caucasian mother-child dyads, 27 with and 25 without maternal substance use. We also examined the association between…
Descriptors: Mothers, Substance Abuse, Child Development, Correlation
Pirko Tõugu; Anni Tamm; Tiia Tulviste – Infant and Child Development, 2024
In this study, maternal socialization goals in early childhood were linked to qualities of children's self in middle childhood, while also considering maternal education and child gender. Estonian mothers (N = 209; M[subscript age] = 33.6; 52.2% had university education) provided ratings of their socialization goals for children (52.2% girls;…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Mother Attitudes, Mothers
Rachel L. Weisbecker; Lisabeth Fisher DiLalla – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Parenting behaviors have long been recognized as crucial to children's healthy development. However, examinations of the etiology of these behaviors are less prevalent. The current study investigated the driving forces behind parental warmth and discipline, particularly whether they are related more to traits within the parent or reactions to…
Descriptors: Twins, Genetics, Parent Child Relationship, Affective Behavior
Vlora Sylaj; Adelina Hajrullahu – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose. This study aimed to explore various demographic and relational factors affecting adolescents, with a particular focus on their self-esteem. Materials/methods. This study employed a descriptive and correlational research design to gather quantifiable data and examine the relationship between parent-adolescent dynamics and…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Adolescents, Parent Influence
Amanda H. Passmore; Marie Tejero Hughes – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
A unique component of early childhood involves understanding how caregivers and educators promote children's developmental outcomes, with play opportunities being a key avenue for enhancing these skills. Targeted coaching is one type of support that can tap into active family engagement during playful learning. This collective case study examined…
Descriptors: Mothers, Play, Parent Child Relationship, Coaching (Performance)
Margaret Leighton; Anitha Martine; Julius Massaga; Emmanuel Bunzari – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This paper presents causal evidence on the impact of parenting practices on early child development. We exploit exogenous changes in nurturing care induced by a parent training intervention to estimate the impact of nurturing parenting practices on child outcomes. We find a large and significant impact measured at age two; in contrast, at age four…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Development, Young Children, Age Differences
Antonina Loncarevic; Murray T. Maybery; Josephine Barbaro; Cheryl Dissanayake; Jonathan Green; Kristelle Hudry; Teresa Iacono; Vicky Slonims; Kandice J. Varcin; Ming Wai Wan; John Wray; Andrew J. O. Whitehouse – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
The importance of supporting parent-child interactions has been noted in the context of prodromal autism, but little consideration has been given to the possible contributing role of parental characteristics, such as psychological distress. This cross-sectional study tested models in which parent-child interaction variables mediated relations…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Family Characteristics, Child Behavior
Harman, Jennifer J.; Warshak, Richard A.; Lorandos, Demosthenes; Florian, Matthew J. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Theory and research have described developmental processes leading to damaged parent-child relationships, such as those that occur during a divorce. However, scholars dispute the scientific status of the literature on children who form unhealthy alliances with one parent against the other-termed parental alienation (PA). This comprehensive…
Descriptors: Child Development, Parent Child Relationship, Alienation, Divorce
