Previous item analyses of the PDI have shown that this instrument produces measures of parental practices that are comparable with those obtained by other parent self - report questionnaires and Q - sort procedures (Mills et al., 2012). (academic.oup.com)
One study in Germany several years ago examined specific ways in which fathers and mothers cultivate close attachments with their children during the early years, and which of those early parental practices lead to deeper, long - term attachments during later stages of childhood. (fathers.com)
«Beyond Intelligence is laced with common - sense (and occasionally counter-intuitive) implications for parental practice, in which the need to deeply listen to, and understand, the child takes precedence over quick - fix commercial products or educational quackery. (beyondintelligence.net)