But, unrealistic
expectations about infant sleep may lead to feelings of frustration, resentment, and insecurity for parents who already are under enough stress.
Our culture has unrealistic
expectations about infant and toddler sleep.
Perceptions and
expectations about infants», toddlers» and preschoolers» growth and development, child rearing, definitions of family and the role of family members, are all rooted in culture.
Not exact matches
Many parents may also have an unrealistic
expectation when it comes to
infant sleep, possibly coming from our misunderstandings
about adult sleep.
I find it unfortunate that we do not support mothers with pertinent information
about normal and healthy
infant sleep or ways to cope with the challenges of nighttime parenting, and limit the discussion to differences in «parenting styles» and within the framework of misguided cultural
expectations and beliefs.
The more facts you know
about infant sleep the more realistic your
expectations will be for your first months with baby.
This is the point at which parents gain the
expectation that the baby will sleep all night, and they start comparing notes with other families
about infant sleep.
Being well informed
about infant sleep
expectations helped me cope, and realize my children do not hate me; they are just little people trying to figure shit out.
The new study looks beyond learning objective properties
about foods to examine the
expectations infants hold around who will agree or disagree on food preferences.
«Even before
infants appear to make smart choices
about what substances to ingest, they form nuanced
expectations that food preferences are fundamentally linked to social groups and social identity,» said Zoe Liberman, a University of California, Santa Barbara assistant professor who completed the research while a UChicago doctoral student.
For a long time, researchers debated whether in addition to these physical and psychological
expectations,
infants also possess biological
expectations that orient them to think
about animals the right way.
To guide
expectations about the extent to which home visiting programs can affect significant and meaningful change when implemented at the community level, CFRP reviewed the effects of four evidence - based home visiting programs participating in the Maternal,
Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) on multiple aspects of early parenting.
Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the
Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses
about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes,
expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.
16 Parental knowledge is thought to provide a global cognitive organization for adapting to or anticipating developmental changes in children.17 Mothers who are knowledgeable respond more sensitively to their child's initiations, 18 while mothers with inaccurate
expectations about their child's development tend to be more harsh.19, 20,21 Studies have indicated that when mothers have higher knowledge of
infant and child development, they show higher levels of parenting skills, 16,22,23 their children have higher cognitive skills, 16,24 and there are fewer child behaviour problems.16 Furthermore, a positive association has been found between parental self - efficacy and parenting competence when knowledge of child development is high.
Talk to your partner, family and supporters
about their
infant feeding
expectations well before baby arrives.