Not exact matches
Factors Associated With Discipline Counseling
for Parents of
Infants and Young Children.
The present review examines the evidence
for the contribution that community - based interventions can make to improve
infant and young child feeding,
and identifies
factors that are important to ensure that interventions are successful
and sustainable.
Key Findings From a 2009 National Parent Survey: Implications
for Infant - Toddler Public Policy (PDF - 42 KB) ZERO TO THREE (2010) Explores issues
and challenges that parents of
young children confront today, where gaps in knowledge of early development exist, what sources of information
and support these parents turn to,
and what
factors influence their approach to parenting.
Comment: Female older siblings are far more likely than male older siblings to be given
child care responsibilities while
young; teenage girls are far more likely than teenage boys to hold childcare
and babysitting jobs; new mothers are far more likely to have prepared
for parenthood by reading pregnancy - to - parenting articles
and books as well as talking with (
and spending social time with) primary caregiving women friends
and relatives
and their
children; the ever - present months - long pregnancy itself initiates mothers into a mindset of habitual constant awareness of
child - whereabouts;
and various biological
and hormonal
factors make mothers more responsive to routine
infant cues (other than severe distress cries.)