At treatment termination, however, foster / kin parents in the KEEP intervention condition reported significantly
fewer child behavior problems than those in the control condition.
Following program completion (T2) intervention group fathers and mothers reported significantly
fewer child behavior problems, dysfunctional parenting practices, and interparental conflict about child - rearing than waitlist parents.
The Family Check - Up With High - Risk Indigent Families: Preventing Problem Behavior by Increasing Parents» Positive Behavior Support in Early Childhood (PDF - 400 KB) Dishion, Shaw, Connell, Gardner, Weaver, & Wilson (2008) Child Development, 79 (5) Finds that families who were offered the Family Check - Up and linked to parenting support services experienced
fewer child behavior problems and improved caregiver support for positive behavior.
Evaluation results demonstrated both enhanced quality of care and promotion of more - favorable parenting practices related to perceptions of children's behavior at 30 to 33 months, discipline at 30 to 33 months, and health care seeking at 2 to 4 months and 30 to 33 months.4 — 7 In addition, HS reduced income disparities in the use of preventive services and enhanced parents» satisfaction with care at 30 to 33 months.8 Using observational data and a longitudinal sample, Caughy et al9 reported that participation in HS was associated with positive child development outcomes, including greater attachment and
fewer child behavior problems when children were 34 to 37 months of age.
«Higher family functioning when children were school - age was predicted by lower parenting stress and
fewer child behavior problems when children were preschool - age,» she said.
Not exact matches
One of the
few studies of the effects of viewing on prosocial
behavior concludes that «
children most often identify with
children,» though there is also «wishful identification with superior figures» (Cecilia V. Feilitzan and Olga Linne, «Identifying with Television Characters,» Journal of Communications, Vol.
A
few weeks after my trip to Queens, I visited the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where a team of researchers led by Phil Fisher, a psychologist, has developed a series of interventions with parents that in many ways parallel the ABC program, though with one major difference: They use digital video as a teaching tool to help steer parents away from
behaviors that cause fear and stress in
children and toward patterns that promote attachment and self - regulation.
After engaging in these activities for a
few weeks, not only will you be bonding with your
child in a new and unique way, you hopefully will see positive changes in his or her
behavior and know new strategies to handle challenging
behaviors.
The Fix: Take a
few minutes (or more if you need it) to calm down and collect your thoughts before talking to your
child about his bad
behavior.
And although many parents threaten there won't be any presents if a
child's
behavior doesn't improve, very
few parents follow through with that threat.
Though these resources are
few nationwide, adoption and post-adoption agencies are becoming more aware of the need to inform parents of a
child's prior history and the potential for cognitive,
behavior and attachment problems.
Compared with
children with absentee fathers,
children whose fathers were present and actively involved in their lives during early and middle childhood had
fewer behavior problems and higher intellectual abilities as they grew older, even among
children of lower socioeconomic status.
But there's a broad spectrum of
behaviors that
children with autism exhibit, only a
few of which are necessary for the formal diagnosis.
Involved Dads Give Kids an Edge Compared with
children with absentee fathers,
children whose fathers were present and actively involved in their lives during early and middle childhood had
fewer behavior problems and higher intellectual abilities as they grew older, even among
children of lower socioeconomic status.
The parents (or teacher) identify a
few desirable
behaviors that they want to encourage in the
child — such as asking for a toy instead of grabbing it, or completing a simple task.
They found that moms who reported being more supportive also rated their
children as more socially skilled, but teachers said these kids had
fewer socioemotional skills and more problem
behaviors.
Instead of focusing on the
behavior of your
child, take a deeper look and ask yourself a
few questions:
Eating breakfast is a good habit for your
child, though, because fueling the brain after a night's sleep is linked to better grades in school, better
behavior,
fewer attention problems, and less chance of obesity.
«Our findings suggest that
children had
fewer behavior problems over time when their parents were less stressed (and had more satisfying couple relationships),» Farr said.
But sometimes, a
few simple changes to your discipline techniques is all it takes to change your
child's
behavior.
Rather than disciplining young
children, you might take a
few minutes to model appropriate
behavior.
Often, just a
few small changes can make a big difference in helping your
child change his
behavior.
Very
few children want their parents to be divorced, but kids who have to live with the disappointment of growing up in separate families do best when they can say that their Mom and Dad spared them years of bickering, confrontations and immature
behavior.
A
few simple changes to your parenting strategies could give your
child the tools he needs to manage his
behavior more effectively.
Electronics time, an opportunity to stay up 15 minutes later, or a chance to play a special game is just a
few privileges that may motivate your
child to change
behavior.
You may have to give your
child a
few friendly reminders before it sinks in that a bad or unsafe
behavior will lead to a consequence he does not want.
This way, no one will be turning around from the front seat trying to pour just a
few snacks out onto a
child's Snack & Play Travel Tray — minimizing spills and dangerous travel
behavior!
A follow - up study on the
children who were able to delay gratification found they exhibited
fewer behavior problems.
Improving the
behavior of the parent or caregiver of
children in high - risk situations actually changes their physical chemistry, according to the studies Tough cites, leading to
fewer behavior problems and greater success in school, as well as measurably better health outcomes as years pass.
Remember that as young
children practice appropriate
behavior, it becomes almost second nature, and your first
few challenging meals will eventually yield a wonderful reward: your family enjoying a pleasant restaurant experience.
Below are a
few ways you can put a stop to your own parenting
behavior, as well as help your
child become more responsible, resilient, and productive.
If authoritarian disciplinary tactics work, we should expect them to lead to
fewer such
behavior problems as
children get older.
As a result, low income kids have
fewer opportunities to become accustomed to those more challenging foods, while
children in more affluent families are offered the multiple exposures almost all kids need to overcome initial picky eating
behavior.
And then
behavior changes in response: More access to resources tends to make people have
fewer children, not more.
A new study shows that
children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder follow
fewer healthy lifestyle
behaviors than non-ADHD youth, suggesting that they may benefit from improving lifestyle choices such as increasing water consumption, decreasing screen time and getting at least one hour of physical activity per day.
Dr. Naqvi offers a
few tips to help parents determine whether sleep disturbances are affecting their
child's
behavior:
Young
children with disruptive
behaviors have
fewer opportunities to learn in school than their focused peers, and are at risk for lower levels of academic achievement.
Prior research demonstrates that, regardless of a
child's temperament, a warm and supportive teacher -
child relationship in early elementary school is associated with
fewer problem
behaviors and greater classroom engagement.
Visualization is courtesy of TheVisualMD.com More to diet and exercise Getting kids to eat healthfully and get more exercise might sound simple, but the long list of genetic, cultural and environmental factors that lead
children to these
behaviors are complicated and interconnected, and scientists have just started to understand them in the past
few years.
The
children of parents on lisdexamfetamine had
fewer inappropriate
behaviors during the homework task.
Current ADHD clinical practice guidelines recommend evaluating for other conditions that have similar symptoms to ADHD, such as disruptive
behaviors, impulsivity, and issues with memory, organization and problem - solving, but
few pediatricians routinely ask about psychosocial factors that could be effecting a
child's health during ADHD assessment.
Whatever the parents» sexual orientation,
children in the study had
fewer behavior problems over time if adoptive parents said they had less parenting stress, Farr noted.
They asked parents about several
behaviors, such as providing more fruits and vegetables and
fewer soft drinks, salty snacks and candy; having more meals as a family; watching less television during dinner and encouraging
children to make healthy food choices and be active.
In 2005, Browns Mill School became the first sugar - free school in the country, and the results speak for themselves with a 30 percent decrease in nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad
behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the
children's health through weight loss and
fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier
children.
Not completely ready to commit to the counseling psychology track yet, I held a
few part - time jobs — at one point in time, I was simultaneously a receptionist at a law firm, a
behavior specialist working with
children in the foster care system, and a volunteer at a mediation center.
It seems that for a young
child, it's important to have a single teacher who knows that
child well enough to customize teaching to his or her needs, who spends enough time with students to be able to understand and respond to their
behavior, and who has
few enough students to focus energy on building relationships with them.
For nearly a decade, their guesses about that link between going to school as a young girl — even for only a
few years — and
behavior later as a mother that positively affects
children's health focused primarily on attitude and
behavior.
Teachers reported a trend toward
fewer problem
behaviors, an improvement in academic functioning, and a decrease in symptoms of anxiety among anxious
children after six weeks of mindfulness training.
Other
children, even in the same program or grade, spend most of their time passively sitting around, having
few if any interactions with an adult, watching the teacher deal with
behavior problems, exposed to only boring and rote instructional activities.
And, as I argued a
few weeks ago, it's extremely likely that student
behavior does in fact vary across different subgroups — not because of race, but because of the vastly different socioeconomic circumstances that
children of different groups are facing.