Sentences with phrase «into middle childhood»

These relations between culture and learning do not fade away, but become even more pronounced as children move from early into middle childhood and adolescence.

Toddlers may play simple symbolic games on their own or occasionally for short times with another child, but it is not until the preschool years that children are able to manage more complex symbolic games; this continues and develops into middle childhood.

Further work shows that the small positive effects on achievement primarily occur for those children making the transition into middle childhood, whereas the small negative effects occur among those children making the transition out of middle childhood.

The effects of welfare policies — particularly those with more generous earnings supplements — were most pronounced during two developmental transition periods: positive effects were found for children going from preschool into middle childhood, and negative effects were found for children making the transition out of middle childhood and into early adolescence.

The book covers the prenatal period through infancy, toddlerhood, and into middle childhood, with emphasis on extended breastfeeding, co-sleeping, a natural foods diet, avoidance of toxic chemicals, limited use of vaccines, and treatment of health problems with homeopathic medicines and herbs.

Not exact matches

As the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful church.

Activities in Waldorf early childhood education take into consideration the age - specific developmental needs of young children, from a focus on will - oriented physical activity in the first three years, then on imaginative play in the middle years of early childhood, and later a more cognitive approach to learning after the child enters school.

The middle school years are often characterized as a stage of life to survive, to get through — jumping from the comfort of childhood into a roughly three - year storm of hormones, insecurity, and nagging, drowning in the frenetic angst of adolescence, frantically rowing to make it to the shore of young adulthood.

Because I do talk a lot about toddlers and preschoolers (because that's what I live with in the trenches here every day), I want to provide some advice and resources out of that age group both for those with kids in middle childhood and adolescence, as well as give those of us with younger kids a glimpse into the future.

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

Coming into Their Own: How Developmental Assets Promote Positive Growth in Middle Childhood, Peter C. Scales, Arturo Sesma Jr, and Brent Bolstrom

Born into the middle class, Brand's childhood was disturbed: his photographer father left when he was six months old, his mother developed cancer when he was eight (but survived), he left home in his mid-teens and took to drugs.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The daunting prospect of reaching middle age with an unfulfilled life infuses The World's End with a palpable desperation, to the point that Gary's own need to return to a sense of belonging infects his far more mature old friends: Eddie Marsan's Peter runs into his childhood bully, and Paddy Considine's Steven finds his old feelings for a mate's sister undiluted.

Coming into Their Own: How Developmental Assets Promote Positive Growth in Middle Childhood, Peter C. Scales, Arturo Sesma Jr, and Brent Bolstrom

Meredith began working as an academic tutor in middle school, and followed her love of teaching into a career as an early childhood educator.

Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle - aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, confronting their childhood fears and memories and the strange thing they saw — or thought they saw — so long ago.

Just as adolescence is a time to shift from childhood into adulthood, middle age is also a significant milestone and a cusp between the past and future.

Bryson describes his idyllic childhood growing up in the middle of the USA, in the middle of the last century, in the middle of the baby boom years - a time of unprecedented prosperity for the country as a whole, quite different to the depression - era experiences of the previous generation; but it's not all rose - tinted glasses - the threat of nuclear war, Joe McCarthy, and America flexing its muscles overseas all come into the picture.

Joined by his childhood friend, Alan finds himself thrown into the middle of a conspiracy led by the town Council as it desperately tries to hide its secrets from the world.

I moved out of my childhood home with the help of my parents, said a tearful goodbye, and embarked on that right of passage for many middle - class kids — moving into a tiny, smelly room with a complete stranger.

During some point of my childhood, some friends from middle school tried to get me into mobile, on - the - go gaming, and I went on to own a GameBoy Color (which I still have to this day), a GameBoy Advance SP and a Nintendo DS.

By most accounts, I had a pretty standard lower - middle class childhood; I spent the bulk of my early years skateboarding, exploring abandoned buildings, and vacillating between getting into and staying out of trouble.

Halford — Couples, Parenting & the Well - being of Children Hayes — Longitudinal Insights into the Power of Parenting: From Early Childhood to the Middle Years & Beyond Kohl — Improving Quality of Care Through Implementation of Evidence - based Interventions in Real World Settings Calam — Enhancing Impact and Reach with Vulnerable Families Love — Enhancing Impact & Reach with Vulnerable Families Sanders — Triple P & Complex Cases: Enhancing Outcomes with Vulnerable Families Sanders — Past, Present and Future Directions for Evidence - based Parenting Interventions Tonge — Mental Health of Young People with Developmental Disabilities

Perinatal depression is common; in high - income countries the point prevalence is approximately 13 %, with higher rates estimated in low - income and middle - income countries.1 Furthermore, perinatal depression is associated with an increased risk of adverse child outcomes, including behavioural, emotional and cognitive difficulties, 2 which persist into late childhood and adolescence.

Although there is an abundance of research demonstrating that the early years are critical for healthy child development (e.g., Hertzman and Power 2006), it is during middle childhood that children's personalities, behaviors, and competencies consolidate into forms that persist into adolescence and adulthood (Collins 1984).

«The middle childhood years are a time that is particularly critical developmentally because it represents the transition from childhood into adolescence,» says Kimberly Schonert - Reichl, the principal investigator of the study, and a professor in UBC's Faculty of Education and the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP).

More hours of child care have been related to heightened behaviour problems, beginning at age 2 and extending into early middle childhood.23,25 - 27 In addition, early centre - care experience is associated with more problem behaviours.28 The negative effects of child care hours in the NICHD Study have been found to be more strongly related to externalizing behaviour in early childhood when children received poorer care from their child care providers and when children spent a greater proportion of time with a group of peers that was larger in size than recommended by experts.29

The next question concerned whether mothers» multiple mental health problems predicted daughters» multiple mental health problems during middle childhood even when maternal childrearing practices were taken into account.

Though PLEs and internalising and externalising psychopathology in middle childhood all constitute replicated antecedents of schizophrenia, our data indicate that internalising and externalising psychopathology experienced only during childhood is not associated with increased risk for PLEs in adolescence, whereas psychopathology that persists from childhood into adolescence or is incident in adolescence confers increased risk for later PLEs [28].

Besides the fundamental notion that children maintain separate representations of attachment to mother and father in the first years of life (Belsky and Rovine 1988), it has been argued that relationship - specific representations merge into a unitary pattern by late middle childhood (Dykas et al. 2006), as executive functioning becomes more efficient, allowing better voluntary control of attentional processes, and sophisticated appraisal skills that enable children to integrate multiple and different representations into more abstract models (Zimmermann and Iwanski 2015).