Sentences with phrase «parents with young children find»

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A Chicago - based startup that's similarly focused on helping parents and other caregivers find affordable and varied things to do with young children, is launching this coming Monday.

«With this particular [New Dad] project we found that [fathers and mothers] seem to be coming from the same place — young parents tended to feel quite hesitant and alienated at children's centres and I think some of the fears and concerns that young dads have about how they are treated and engaged, were shared by young mums, so there was a bit of common ground there.

The company was founded by parents who enjoyed traveling the world with their little ones but wanted a way to keep their younger children safe while providing a hands - free experience for the adults in the family.

Being a parent of a young child can be an incredible inspiration to deepen the connection with your own body and find ways to be nurtured and supported in the demands of caring for a young child.

Young children don't understand the concept of time, and will find it reassuring to «see» when they will be with each parent.

Whether parents are starting from scratch with a young toddler or navigating the teen years, they will find in this book proven strategies to effectively quell entitled attitudes in their children.

Across the country, clubs and events have sprung up encouraging parents with young children — dads are very much included — to lose their inhibitions and find their rhythm.

A multi-site study sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) finds young children with autism spectrum disorder and serious behavioral problems respond positively to a 24 - week structured parent training.

«Sharing treatment decisions challenges doctors, parents of young children with autism: Researchers find gaps in knowledge, communication about ASD treatment choices.»

Author of the study, Tiffany A. Pempek, comments «Our new results, along with past research finding negative effects of background TV on young children's play and parent - child interaction, provide evidence that adult - directed TV content should be avoided for infants and toddlers whenever possible.

«Our findings suggests there are a range of behaviors that parents can adopt and services they can provide to help their young children get better prepared for their educational journey,» said Kandyce Larson, the study's lead author and a senior researcher with the AAP.

While parents of young children may want to approach this altered arachnid with caution, teens and adults may find plenty to admire within this superhero.

Breakout star Anya Taylor - Joy leads this dark 1630s tale as a teenage girl who finds her younger siblings and Puritan parents — played with devastating brilliance by Ralph Ineson («Guardians of the Galaxy») and Kate Dickie («Game of Thrones»)-- pitted against her after the family's youngest child goes missing at the edge of the wilderness.

The youngest of children may be slightly frightened with the dilemma that Angus is in, but if they watch with a parent, they should find the movie both a learning and entertaining experience, making Far From Home a top dog story.

Muting the Mozart Effect Harvard Gazette, 12/11/13 «Though it has been embraced by everyone from advocates for arts education to parents hoping to encourage their kids to stick with piano lessons, a pair of studies conducted by Samuel Mehr, a Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral student working in the lab of Elizabeth Spelke, the Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, found that music training had no effect on the cognitive abilities of young children.»

We find that young children in the later period are exposed to more books and reading in the home, they have more access to educational games on computers, and they engage with their parents more, both inside and outside the home.

Word searches - 2 word searches with words and pictures Writing pages - a collection of photocopiable sheets with toy themed borders Writing worksheets - a collection of worksheets with toy pictures and lines below for writing My favourite toy - draw and write about your favourite toy Word mat - an A4 word mat with words and pictures to use for writing activities Number line - a number line to 100 on colourful toys Alphabet line - a colourful alphabet line Flash cards - word and picture cards of lots of different toys Design a toy - a worksheet for your toy design Colouring pictures - a collection of colouring sheets Tracing pictures - pencil control sheets - great for younger children Book cover - a book cover to colour to use to keep all the topic work together Bingo - print and make this colourful toy themed bingo game Matching pairs game - match the toys Number dominoes - a toy themed game Label the toys - label some different toys Counting cards - cards with numbers 1 - 10 and the corresponding number of toys Size ordering - order the Russian dolls in size order - in colour and black and white Literacy worksheets - match labels to toys, write initial sounds, write words to describe different toys Play dough mats - a collection of activity mats to use in the play dough area Old toys posters - colourful posters showing some old toys Old and new posters - compare the old and new versions of some different toys Baby and child toys - an activity to sort the toy pictures into ones you had as a baby and ones you have now and a worksheet to accompany the activity Our favourite toys - find out about and draw your parents favourite toy and grandparents favourite toy when they were little Push and pull - look at some different toys and talk about what force is used to make them move Write a story - a decorated worksheet for writing a story about your toys Make some toys - photocopiable sheets for making 15 different simple toys such as split pin puppets, a jigsaw, a marble maze, a die to use with the snakes and ladders board Toy shop role play pack - a full pack of resources to set up your own toy shop in the classroom Includes display materials, games, Literacy and Maths activities, story telling resources plus much more

Teachers and administrators who work with children from low - income families say one reason teachers struggle to help these students improve reading comprehension is that deficits start at such a young age: in the 1980s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley found that by the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

Ms Morgan also told the party - faithful the Conservatives had speeded up the adoption process to help young people find a loving home and provided «joined - up support» for children with special educational needs and their parents.

The PACER Center, an organization founded in Minnesota, is a parent training and information center for families of children and youth with all disabilities from birth to young adults.

The study, which followed 32 pairs of parents working with young children, found that the young readers were distracted by the many different interactive parts of the enhanced story, and quickly forgot certain key parts of the narrative.

The primary difference is the ability for parents to receive metrics that explain dynamics such as how long their children spent interacting with a specific title, how the young readers fared on the extras like finding words embedded in the text, and at what level based on the Common Core standards (adopted in 42 states so far) their children are selecting books.

His former family was doing their best, but with two young children and both parents in school, it was hard for them to find the time for such a high - energy dog.

Whether your clients are drivers suffering from catastrophic trucking injuries, parents caring for negligently injured children, patients facing the horrors of medical malpractice (a fear every patient can connect with on some level), or young people who made a mistake and are being excessively charged by aggressive prosecutors, you — the lawyer — are ultimately a character in a story that people find compelling.

Still, with a good deal of planning and thought you can travel with young children — here are some of the latest tips we found from traveling parents.

Car insurance companies have found that parents with young children tend to drive more attentively because of their precious cargo.

Most young children find their parents dating behaviors confusing — they may feel threatened or resentful about having to share you with another person.

In a recent study tracking young children over a period of many years, Ruth Feldman and her colleagues found that parents who showed high levels of reciprocity in their communication with children had kids who developed more social competence and better negotiation skills over time (Feldman et al 2013).

Our sample can be characterized as high risk (baseline ECBI T score > 55) 42 or at the borderline of clinical (T score > 60), 34 which is typical of previous randomized clinical trials of parent training for young children.41 The results across methods in this study are impressive given that effect sizes have been shown to be associated with the magnitude of symptom severity at baseline, 43 and thus it is typically more difficult to find large effects in prevention than in intervention trials.

Existing systematic reviews of the effects of parenting interventions offered to families with young children have shown mixed results.14 24 — 29 In a review of 78 studies aimed at families with children aged 0 — 5 years, Piquero et al 14 found an average effect size (g) of 0.37 for decreased antisocial behaviour and delinquency for intervention children.

In a recent report, the Institute of Medicine identified 5 risk factors associated with the onset of depression: having a parent or other close biological relative with a mood disorder; experiencing a severely stressful event; having low self - esteem, a sense of low self - efficacy, and a sense of helplessness or hopelessness; being female; and living in poverty.39 This national study of depressive symptoms in mothers of children in kindergarten who attended a Head Start program supports the predictive validity of several of the risk factors published by the Institute of Medicine and corroborates findings from several earlier studies that examine depression in mothers of young children.

For children who were pre-adolescent and in early adolescence at the beginning of these studies, negative impacts on schooling outcomes (e.g. grade repetition) are found, regardless of whether the program included earnings supplements or not.21 These negative effects were most pronounced for adolescents with younger siblings, suggesting that single parents may have relied on their adolescents for the care of the younger children as they went to work, and these responsibilities may have impeded adolescents» schooling.

Apps for smartphones such as Baby Karaoke, which is a highly popular sing - a-long for young children, and the Children with Autism and Disability Pathfinder app that helps parents and carers find funding, services and support for their childchildren, and the Children with Autism and Disability Pathfinder app that helps parents and carers find funding, services and support for their childChildren with Autism and Disability Pathfinder app that helps parents and carers find funding, services and support for their child's needs

Probably the most extensive evaluation of program effects on very young children was undertaken in Canada's Self - Sufficiency Project (SSP), the voluntary earnings supplement program that had large initial effects on full - time employment and income.5 Despite concerns that increases in full - time work would reduce parents» time with their young children, no effects on children were found either at the 36 - month follow - up point, when a test of language comprehension was administered to the children who would then have been three to five years of age, or at the 54 - month follow - up point, when parents were asked about their children's school performance.

Consistent with the intergenerational stake, Aquilino (1999) found that young adult children reported more arguments and tensions with their parents than did their parents.

I'm finding that parenting young children often presents me with that choice.

There are few research or intervention programs designed to identify and address the specific needs of sandwiched individuals like myself to help them cope better.2 We know that members of the sandwiched generation (who care for young children and aging parents) often face burnout in their marriages, 2 which is feeling emotionally, physically, and mentally exhausted about the relationship.3 One group of researchers found that sandwiched couples who withdraw socially (e.g., pull away from friends) tend to have the worst well - being compared to those who do not withdraw.4 Although sandwiched women typically reduce the their work hours (or quit their jobs altogether) more than men in order to cope with stress, 5 I have never had that luxury due to always being the sole breadwinner.

Research by Huggies of 2000 parents, with older children, found that 63 per cent wish they had done more activities with their child when they were young.

This offers month - long consistency for the children, but it might be jarring for younger ones at month's end when suddenly they find themselves living with their other parent after they've settled in with one parent.

In the studies of early childhood, most of which focussed on mother — child interactions, maternal BPD was associated with reduced sensitivity and increased intrusivity towards the child.13, 20 — 22 This is, perhaps, not surprising, given the finding that mothers with BPD found it difficult to correctly identify emotions in photographs of both their own and strangers» children.26 Mothers with BPD also found it more difficult to structure their young child's activities, 13 and in later childhood were rated as having poorer levels of family organisation.17 The family environment where mothers had BPD was characterised by high levels of hostility, 17, 29 and low levels of cohesion, 17 according to both parent and child reportings.

Reinforcing the need for early intervention and support for both the child and the parents can be found in Resource Factors for Mental Health Resilience in Early Childhood: an Analysis with Multiple Methodologies conducted a ``... longitudinal study aimed to identify preschool resource factors associated with young children's mental health resilience to family adversity.»

Ms. Miller - Gnann is also a founding member of Central Ohio Families with Children from China (COFCC) and has presented as a panelist at the 11th Annual Wells Conference on Adoption Law at Capital University Law School, the Korean American Adoption Network 2013 Conference on a Post-Adoption Resource Panel for Young Adoptees and Families, and has been a guest lecturer for Dept. of Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University on Adoptive Parenting.

Young children don't understand the concept of time, and will find it reassuring to «see» when they will be with each parent.

One important finding to emerge from this research is that events that happen to parents can have implications for the whole family, possibly with knock - on effects on young children.

There are programmes that can help support parents, infants and young children during the critical early years such as Nurse Family Partnership49, 50 and Triple P Positive Parenting Programme.51 These programmes, where found to be effective, have been associated with cost - savings.50 — 53 Importantly, such programmes require targeted application in the most deprived areas, and this should be a priority for those involved in violence prevention.

She also loves to work with young adults in transition and parents who find parenting more challenging than they expected, either because of adoption, medical conditions, infertility or issues like child temperament or learning disabilities.

Cohabiting couples who have a child in their twenties and then break up — and that's almost two - fifths of them in the first five years — often also go on to have another partner or partners.44 One study of young urban parents based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study found that for 59 percent of unmarried couples with a baby, at least one partner already had a child from a previous relationchild in their twenties and then break up — and that's almost two - fifths of them in the first five years — often also go on to have another partner or partners.44 One study of young urban parents based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study found that for 59 percent of unmarried couples with a baby, at least one partner already had a child from a previous relationChild Wellbeing Study found that for 59 percent of unmarried couples with a baby, at least one partner already had a child from a previous relationchild from a previous relationship.

As I moved through my career, I found that many parents were perplexed as they navigated the educational system with their young children.

Changes in parenting behaviour have now been shown in several studies to mediate the effects of PMT with young children with conduct problems.15 This is a critical finding that goes to the core of PMT, as improvement in parenting behaviour is hypothesized to be the central mechanism by which change in child behaviour occurs.

As a result, mothers with insecure attachment representations are much less likely to be sensitive to their babies» cues than mothers with secure representations.39 In fact, research findings implicate insecure attachment representations — due presumably to maltreatment in infancy — in physical abuse of infants and young children by their parents.40