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Direct linkWillis, Mariam – Parenting for High Potential, 2012
Even very young children can show an interest in the humanities. Although they may not be pursuing degrees in the arts or languages, they often pursue answers to profound questions about human existence in casual conversation. Supporting a young child in his or her quest to discover more about these questions may lead to new insights for parents,…
Descriptors: Gifted, Philosophy, Thinking Skills, Young Children
Robins, Sarah; Treiman, Rebecca; Rosales, Nicole; Otake, Shoko – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
Learning about letters, and how they differ from pictures, is one important aspect of a young child's print awareness. To test the hypothesis that parent speech provides children with information about these differences, we studied parent-child conversations in CHILDES (MacWhinney, 2000). We found that parents talk to their young children about…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Visual Aids, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication
Taylor, Catherine L.; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Christensen, Daniel – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2016
Book reading is one of the most important investments that parents make in their children's literacy development. This study investigated risk factors associated with the absence of book reading at ages 2, 4 and 6 years. A holistic view of the multiple ecologies of child development guided the study across a sample of approximately 4000 children…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Young Children, Age Differences, Parent Role
Engle, Jennifer M.; McElwain, Nancy L. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Using data from a subset of 606 families who participated in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, we assessed emotional intimacy in the marriage as a buffer of the negative effects of parental depression on the quality of parent-child interaction. Maternal and paternal…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Intimacy
Schalit, Jackie; Lee-Hackett, Rashwanda; Ivins, Barbara – ZERO TO THREE, 2014
For many hard-to-reach families who have experienced trauma in part related to involvement with public welfare institutions, creating a trusting relationship is the critical first step to finding ports of entry for additional intervention. In particular, parents who have been incarcerated are often profiled and stigmatized by criminal justice and…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, Criminals, Parent Participation, Advocacy
McDonald, Nicole M.; Baker, Jason K.; Messinger, Daniel S. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
This longitudinal study investigated whether variation in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) and early parent-child interactions predicted later empathic behavior in 84 toddlers at high or low familial risk for autism spectrum disorder. Two well-studied OXTR single-nucleotide polymorphisms, rs53576 and rs2254298, were examined. Parent-child…
Descriptors: Genetics, Physiology, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
Lane, Justin D.; Ledford, Jennifer R.; Shepley, Collin; Mataras, Theologia K.; Ayres, Kevin M.; Davis, Alicia B. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2016
Coaching parents to implement evidence-based strategies is one method for increasing the number of hours young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) access intervention services. The purpose of this study was to teach parents of young children with ASD to implement naturalistic strategies during play in a clinic setting. Results indicate a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Coaching (Performance), Teaching Methods, Parent Education
Mesman, Judi; van IJzendoorn, Marinus; Behrens, Kazuko; Carbonell, Olga Alicia; Cárcamo, Rodrigo; Cohen-Paraira, Inbar; de la Harpe, Christian; Ekmekçi, Hatice; Emmen, Rosanneke; Heidar, Jailan; Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Mels, Cindy; Mooya, Haatembo; Murtisari, Sylvia; Nóblega, Magaly; Ortiz, Jenny Amanda; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham; Sichimba, Francis; Soares, Isabel; Steele, Howard; Steele, Miriam; Pape, Marloes; van Ginkel, Joost; van der Veer, René; Wang, Lamei; Selcuk, Bilge; Yavuz, Melis; Zreik, Ghadir – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
In this article, we test the hypothesis that beliefs about the ideal mother are convergent across cultures and that these beliefs overlap considerably with attachment theory's notion of the sensitive mother. In a sample including 26 cultural groups from 15 countries around the globe, 751 mothers sorted the Maternal Behavior Q-Set to reflect their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Young Children
Download full textWang, Feihong; Willoughby, Michael; Mills-Koonce, Roger; Cox, Martha J. – Grantee Submission, 2016
This research examined the child, parent, and family conditions under which attachment disorganization was related to both level and change in externalizing behavior during preschool among a community sample. Using the ordinary least squares regression, we found that attachment disorganization at 12 months significantly predicted children's…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems
Pickholtz, Naomi – Zero to Three (J), 2012
This brief article discusses a yoga program offered to mothers and babies who were participating in a prison nursery. The author describes the goals and the sometimes unexpected effects of the program.
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Health Promotion, Exercise
Bocerean, Christine; Canut, Emmanuelle; Musiol, Michel – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2012
The aim of this research is to compare the types and functions of repetitions in two different corpora, one constituted of verbal interactions between adults and multiply-handicapped adolescents, the other between adults and young children of the same mental age as the adolescents. Our overall aim is to observe whether the communicative…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Linguistics, Disabilities, Young Children
Foster, Emily K.; Hund, Alycia M. – Journal of Child Language, 2012
The primary goal was to specify the impact of scaffolding and overhearing on young children's use of the spatial terms "between" and "middle". Four- and five-year-old children described the location of a mouse hidden between two furniture items in a dollhouse with assistance from a parent. Children's use of "between" and "middle" increased…
Descriptors: Prompting, Young Children, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Parent Child Relationship
Inevatkina, Svetlana Eugenevna – International Education Studies, 2015
The article studies the dominant role of the child-mother relationships in the development and formation of personality of the infants and young children with Down syndrome. The article contains the information about the distortion of the child-mother relationships which leads to the different disorders of the mental development of a child. The…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Down Syndrome, Young Children
Beardslee, William R.; Gladstone, Tracy R. G.; Diehl, Anne – ZERO TO THREE, 2014
Depression in pregnant women and mothers of very young children is a pressing public health issue. Maternal depression is linked to a number of serious difficulties for mothers, their young children, and mother-child relationships. Unrecognized and untreated, it can lead to long-lasting impairment for both mothers and their children. However,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Pregnancy, Depression (Psychology), Young Children
Keown, Louise J.; Palmer, Melanie – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This study compared father-son and mother-son involvement in two-parent families from early to middle childhood. Ninety-four families were recruited for a three-year follow-up study that began when the children were four years old. At each time point, in comparison to mothers, fathers were less accessible to their son on weekdays, and spent more…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Fathers, Mothers, Sons
