A new study by researchers at the University of Leicester and University of Leeds has concluded that parents’ efforts towards their child’s educational achievement is crucial — playing a more significant role than that of the school or child.
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URBANA — Finding good child care and being able to engage easily in important interactions with your child care provider are critical to any mother’s ability to work outside the home.
“Suppose you’re living in the rural Midwest and you don’t sp…
Two people can learn to cooperate with each other intuitively — without communication or any conscious intention to cooperate. But this process breaks down in groups of three or more.
A study by members of the University of Leicester’s School of…
Cincinnati, OH, October 28, 2010 — The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that parents limit combined screen time from television, DVDs, computers, and video games to 2 hours per day for preschool-age children. In a study soon to be p…
When it comes to understanding where tendencies to overweight and obesity develop, you have to begin with the very young, says John Spence, a behavioural scientist in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta.
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Knowledge gaps and fear — some of it unjustified — are common among the caregivers of children with a drug-resistant staph bacterium known as MRSA, according to the results of a small study from the Johns Hopkins Children Center. These caregiv…
Two children, both age 3, enroll in publicly funded preschool. But they may have vastly different experiences: One child may attend preschool for 8 hours a day and be taught by a teacher with a bachelor’s degree while the other child may be in presc…
BOSTON – Mothers who have children diagnosed with cancer now have a better approach to address and cope with stresses associated with their child’s disease.
A new certified intervention has proven to be more effective long term compared to ot…
WASHINGTON, DC, October 5, 2010 — In a study of earnings inequality among white women, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst find that having children reduces women’s earnings, even among workers with comparable qualifications, e…
Global efforts to tackle millions of preventable child and maternal deaths will fail to extend gains unless world leaders act now to pour more healthcare resources directly into families and communities, according to a new World Vision report launch…
People with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are thought to have a specific profile of cognitive strengths and weaknesses — difficulties appreciating others’ thoughts and feelings, problems regulating and controlling their behavior, and an enhanced …
More than 12 million U.S. children under age 6 attend child care or preschool programs. A new longitudinal study of low-income children has found that children in high-quality preschool settings had fewer behavior problems in middle childhood, and t…