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Rowe, Meredith L.; Coker, David; Pan, Barbara Alexander – Social Development, 2004
The purpose of this study was to provide descriptive information about low-income fathers' and mothers' talk to toddlers and to re-examine the bridge hypothesis (Gleason, 1975) in light of current changes in family structure and childcare responsibilities. Thirty-three father-child and mother-child dyads were videotaped during semi-structured free…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Toddlers, Family Structure
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Cho, Grace E.; Sandel, Todd L.; Miller, Peggy J.; Wang, Su-hua – Social Development, 2005
The study investigates European American and Taiwanese grandmothers' folk theories of childrearing and self-esteem, building on an earlier comparison of mothers from the same families. Adopting methods that privilege local meanings, we bring grandmothers' voices into the conversation about childrearing, thereby contributing to a deeper…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Parent Child Relationship, Grandparents
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Cote, Linda R. – Infancy, 2005
This study compared multiple characteristics of girls' and boys' vocabulary in 6 different linguistic communities--1 urban and 1 rural setting in each of 3 countries. Two hundred fifty-two mothers in Argentina, Italy, and the United States completed vocabulary checklists for their 20-month-old children. Individual variability was substantial…
Descriptors: Mothers, Linguistics, Urban Areas, Rural Areas
Doty, LuEllen; Wolery, Mark – 1992
The effects of teaching mothers to imitate their young children during play sessions were studied with children (18 to 36 months old) who exhibited developmental delays in cognition, gross/fine motor skills, speech/language, self-help, and social skills. Mothers were taught to imitate, through providing a description of verbal and nonverbal…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Child Behavior, Developmental Delays, Generalization
DiLalla, Lisabeth Fisher; Bishop, E. G. – 1997
This study examined whether the differential maternal treatment of twins affected the twins' on-task behaviors in a teaching interaction. A total of 175 mothers and their same-sex 14-month-old twins were videotaped in their homes in triads. This was repeated for 170 of the families when the children were 24 months, and for 146 of the families when…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Attention Control
Mclldoon, Nicola – 1991
This report describes the operation of a mother and toddler group, one of several activities of 123 House, a community-based project in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The basic aim of the mother and toddler group, which operates 5 mornings a week, is to give mothers a chance to socialize. On 2 mornings, various courses are offered. Throughout the 4…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Centers, Community Programs, Day Care
DeLoache, Judy S. – 1984
Discussing findings from three studies, this report focuses on questions mothers ask their children while looking at picture books and recent family photographs. In the first study, 30 mothers and their 12-, 15-, and 18-month-old children "read" a simple ABC book that had one picture for each letter in the alphabet. In the second study,…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Infant Behavior, Memory, Mother Attitudes
Honig, Alice S.; Gardner, Cathy – 1985
Researchers have pointed out that the effects of generic stressors such as poverty may be mediated through other stressors in the microsystem of parent-child relationships or personal characteristics of family members. Specific, potential mediating stressors were sought in this study involving 191 low income Moslem families who had immigrated from…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Family Environment, Family Life, Family Relationship
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Waxman, Robyn P.; Spencer, Patricia E.; Poisson, Susan S. – Journal of Early Intervention, 1996
The Greenspan-Lieberman Observational System Revised was used to evaluate characteristics of dyadic interactions between 10 hearing mothers and hearing toddlers (HH), 10 deaf mothers and deaf toddlers (DD), and 10 hearing mothers and deaf toddlers (HD). Findings suggest that assessment instruments require some modifications and results must be…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Caregiver Speech, Deafness, Interaction Process Analysis
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Howes, Paul; Markman, Howard J. – Child Development, 1989
Premarital and postbirth indices of parent's marital relationship were related to child functioning. For mothers, high satisfaction, low conflict, and high communication quality were related to child security of attachment and dependency. For fathers, higher levels of premarital conflict and lower levels of communication quality were positively…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict, Family Relationship
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Cawlfield, Mildred E. – Young Children, 1992
Discusses the concept of "Velcro time": a period in infants' lives when they show an increased interest in books and in their primary caregiver, and particularly, in his or her use of speech. (BB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Early Childhood Education
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Valenzuela, Marta – Child Development, 1990
Assessed mother-infant attachment in a low-income population in Chile. Underweight children and children with adequate weight were classified as secure or anxious by means of the Ainsworth Strange Situation. Underweight children showed more anxious attachment, and anxious children showed the most serious weight deficits. (BC)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Body Height, Body Weight
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Veneziano, Edy; Sinclair, Hermina – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Explores spontaneous speech samples from children during the period from one word to multiword utterances in interaction with their French-speaking mothers in order to study the appearance and development of functional changes in their use of language. A longitudinal study of four children revealed the beginnings of references to the past and the…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Discourse Analysis
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Developmental Psychology, 1999
Related maternal depressive symptoms obtained when infants were 1, 6, 15, 24, and 36 months old to child functioning at 36 months. Found that women with chronic symptoms were least sensitive during mother/child play from infancy through 36 months. Maternal sensitivity accounted for group differences in school readiness and verbal comprehension and…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Cooperation
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Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined relations between nonmaternal child care and maternal sensitivity and child positive engagement ratings during mother-child interaction; infants were between 6 and 36 months old. Found that more child care hours predicted less maternal sensitivity and less positive child engagement. Child care effect sizes were similar to those for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Care Effects, Day Care
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