Sentences with phrase «likely than other parents»

Parents who are under a lot of stress, because of poverty or other destabilizing factors in their lives, are less likely than other parents to engage in the kind of calm, attentive, responsive interactions with their infants that promote secure attachment.

Not exact matches

«Other people usually know you better than yourself,» says Thomas, noting that your parents will most likely recognize your superpower.

The New York Times recently highlighted the long - term impact difficult schedules can have on family wellness, in an article called: «A growing body of research suggests that a child's language and problem - solving skills may suffer as a result of their parents» problematic schedules, and that they may be more likely than other children to smoke and drink when they're older.»

But now a single company will own more than half of the service, which makes it less likely the other owners, specifically NBC parent Comcast *, will want to continue selling its shows to Hulu.

This is most noticeable in the Millennial generation of entrepreneurs who are more likely to be driven by the desire to increase their influence and have a positive impact on others than their parents» generation.

This vision of childhood, in which the role of parents is to trust children and the role of children is to keep that trust, to be honest and good and, above all, not duffers, is to me a purer, sweeter, and infinitely more potent vision than any other a child is likely to encounter in literature.

Thus parents, who are confronted every day by the visible development of their children, are perhaps less likely than others to hold qualitative denial of historical processes.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

A 2013 study published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies tells me my hunches are right: «Undergraduates with excessively involved parents are more likely than others to be depressed or dissatisfied with life, and a high degree of parental involvement appeared to interfere with the ability of offspring to feel autonomous and competent.»

More and more parents are saying NO to unnecessary routine male infant circumcision and more than 68 % of new parents are opting to take their whole baby home, despite myths about intact babies being more likely to get UTI's and other nonsense.

In other words, 1) the level of the parents» skill seems to have a greater effect on the child's development than anything else, 2) higher quality child care leads to high vocabulary scores and 3) the more time a child spends in childcare, the more likely she is to misbehave or resort to behaviors like biting or hitting.

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) turned 25 this week, but LGBTQ parents are less likely than others to have access to paid leave, a recent article reminds us.

Kids with disengaged parents are more likely to get into trouble than other kids.

Students from authoritative families were more likely than others to say that their parents — not their peers — would influence their decisions (Bednar and Fisher 2003).

Therefore, the study will likely, as others have, cause more harm than good in the form of guilt - ridden parents who are at their wit's end and have no place to turn for practical, realistic advice.

Most dads are likely to embarrass their kids at some point whether it be cheering along over-enthusiastically a ball game or questioning their daughter's new boyfriend over his employment prospects, the list is endless.But some parents go further than others when it comes to humiliating their offspring.

By the time the kids were 3 years old, those who had their pacifiers sucked clean were still considerably less likely to develop eczema than kids whose parents employed other cleaning strategies.

But the children whose parents sucked on their pacifiers to sanitize them were one - third less likely to have eczema, which is considered the earliest sign of allergies, at 18 months than kids whose parents relied on other techniques — such as rinsing the binkies in tap water or boiling the pacifier.

Although experts aren't sure how to prevent the withholding from happening in the first place, a 2003 study found that when parents talked positively about poop and praised their kids for pooping in their diapers prior to toilet training, their kids were just as likely to develop this problem as other kids, but they got over it more quickly than did children of parents who talked negatively about poop and who didn't praise their kids for pooping in diapers.

Children are more than twice as likely to have no contact with their other parent when they lived with their mother

Summoning Goldilocks, researchers found that preschoolers whose parents are over-stimulating are more likely than others to face rejection.

Others have found that children of divorced parents are up to six times more likely to be delinquent than are children from intact families.

«It's possible that parents who want their kids to benefit from a democratic parenting style should realize that their kids might require more direction when they're small; young children of democratic parents might be more likely to question parents» instructions or to get off - task because they're used to being a bit more independent than other kids.»

Studies show that mamas who use forums were more likely to ask for help when they needed it (for all issues — baby parenting, health advice, and more), knew more than mamas who never participated in forums (for example, knew the best ways to get a baby to sleep), and were more likely to get together face to face with other new mamas (because they?d set up groups and meetings online).

At 15, about half reported that the number of arguments with their parents and between their parents had increased, and 15 years later these people were more than three times as likely as the others to suffer from major depression, or indulge in drug or alcohol abuse.

«Our work shows that not only do people with ASD have fewer children than others,» he said, «but in families where a child has ASD, the fact that the parents choose to have fewer children means the genes that predispose to ASD are less likely to be passed on to future generations.»

These higher levels are consistent with reports from parents and teachers, and from other studies, that children with ASDs are more likely to be anxious in social situations than typically developing children.

However, political conservatives are slightly more likely than either moderates or liberals to say that parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children — though seven - in - ten or more of all three ideology groups support requiring the MMR vaccine for all schoolchildren because of the potential health risk to others.

In this poll, parents whose child did not get a flu shot this season were three times more likely than parents of a vaccinated child to say their child's doctor recommends flu vaccine less strongly than other vaccines (32 percent versus 9 percent).

Students aged 18 and older, black students, and students with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the study found.

According to Advocates for Youth: «A major study showed that adolescents who reported feeling connected to parents and their family were more likely than other teens to delay initiating sexual intercourse.

If your child has tall parents, he / she is likely to be taller than the other children, and vice versa.

Moreover, 4th and 8th graders in West Virginia are less likely than their peers in other states to attend schools where more than half of parents attend parent - teacher conferences, based on data from the background survey of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 4th and 8th graders in Colorado are more likely than their peers in other states to attend schools where a school official reports that a lack of parent involvement is not a problem or is a minor problem.

In the real world, even if everyone had the right to choose their schools, parents who are educated and financially well off are likely to be more motivated than other parents, to have better information about their alternatives, to have more resources at their disposal for getting their way, to have better social connections and more attractive opportunities, and to have children who are easier and less costly to teach.

In other words, these parents are no more likely to choose the high - satisfaction teacher than if they had randomly chosen which teacher to request.

Free schools are more likely to be rated Outstanding by Ofsted than all other types of schools, are more popular with parents and are getting better results.

Moe argues that this may be a result of people's holding low expectations of schools to begin with: «Parents who are poorly educated and have low expectations are more likely to be satisfied with their local schools, whatever their quality, than other parents are.Parents who are poorly educated and have low expectations are more likely to be satisfied with their local schools, whatever their quality, than other parents are.parents are.»

Next, we noted that some parents may be more likely than others to put their children in private schools or move to a different school zone because of a particularly bad cohort, but that parents may be less likely to pull one child out of the school due to a particularly bad cohort when that child has a sibling in the same school.

They were more likely than others to discuss the news or watch or listen to the national news with parents.

Their research shows that they are more likely to be more involved in the school life of their children than parents of students in other developing countries.

Compared with their peers in other states, Washington's 4th graders are among the most likely students in the country to attend schools where more than half of parents attend parent - teacher conferences.

It found that, because they got a voucher, parents «were more likely to be actively involved in their children's schools, parent - teacher organizations, and other education groups» than parents of students at traditional district schools with a similar demographic profile.

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Black parents were significantly less likely than parents of other ethnicities to believe that teachers respected their child or that teachers in their child's school were fair.

They are also more popular with parents and more likely to be rated «outstanding» by Ofsted than any other type of school.»

«Faith schools are more likely to be ethnically diverse, are more popular with parents, and are delivering a better quality education than other types of school.»

The misalignment we find for Spanish - dominant Latino families may exist in part because, as previous research has suggested, these parents are less likely to actively complain to teachers than parents of other backgrounds.

College graduates and parents were somewhat more likely than other groups to be considering purchasing a tablet computer in the future.

Parents» tighter connections to libraries likely accounts for the fact that they are more aware than other adults about the array of programs and services their local libraries offer.