However, the behaviors of children with RAD do not stem
from poor parenting skills.
Not exact matches
Children of such
parents suffer
from low self - esteem,
poor social
skills and do moderately well in studies, with some suffering
from high levels of depression.
She never implies that the bedtime problems have arisen
from poor or weak
parenting skills; rather, she is encouraging, motivating, and empathetic.
Finally escaping the watchful eye of her strictly religious
parents, sheltered college freshman Thelma (Eili Harboe) discovers that it's more than just
poor social
skills separating her
from her new classmates.
For the other health outcomes, the odds of having
poor health for children with low
skill parents ranged
from being two to over four times higher than for children with high
skill parents.
During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families
from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work
skills,
poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many
parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for
parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «
parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional
skills.
Implemented in 1967 in response to
poor attendance, low achievement, and
parent disengagement with schools, the CPC Education Program provides comprehensive education and family support services
from preschool to third grade (Pk - 3) that aim to improve school readiness
skills and early school achievement and increase
parent education and home support for learning.