Sentences with phrase «more during preschool years»

Children (3 - 5) will develop motor and social skills more during preschool years.

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This awareness of the native language strengthens immensely during the preschool years, extending from sounds to more complex forms of phonetic awareness, such as the ability to tell you how many syllables are in a certain word.

This time of year everything changes... summer is over, preschool ramps up, there's a different kind of stress, a more rigorous routine yet a less rigorous physical expenditure... our kids feel this change and their little bodies just don't need the sleep the way it did during the physically draining summer months.

«The preschool years are a very sensitive time of development during which use of digital media is growing more and more pervasive,» she says.

Compared to youngsters who stayed at home until they started school, babies who attended large - group child care before age 2 1/2 came down with more respiratory bugs and ear infections during their early preschool years (before 3 1/2), but fewer respiratory and ear infections once they started elementary school.

Moreover, it appears unlikely that children are learning more in their preschool years: in a 1989 study, John Bishop found that the IQ scores of American five - year - olds have remained fairly constant during the post-World War II period.

One likely explanation for the across - the - board increase in parents» investing in their young children's learning is that parents today are just far more aware of the unique importance of the early childhood years in shaping their children's development... It also may be that the increase in parent - child interactions among low - income families has been driven, in part, by the shift of low - income children out of preschool programs and into parental care during the economic recession.

This Yearbook presents data on state - funded preschool during the 2015 - 2016 school year and documents more than a decade of change in state preschool since the first Yearbook collected data on the 2001 - 2002 school year.

Meanwhile, the recently released State of Preschool 2013 (PDF) report shows that total preK enrollment declined in 2012 — representing the first decline since tracking began 10 years ago — due to state preK funding decreases of more than $ 500 million during 2011 — 12.

For this reason, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that young children limit TV viewing to no more than 2 hours each day and that children younger than 2 years watch no television.9 Because TV - viewing patterns are shaped during the preschool years, 10 interventions to reduce TV viewing should begin at an early age.

Depression, reflected in prolonged sadness and feelings of despair, is associated with less engaged, stimulating and proactive parenting, and with a range of social and cognitive problems in young children during infancy, toddlerhood and the preschool years.4 Because young children are so dependent on their mothers for cognitive stimulation and social interaction, they are more likely to be vulnerable to the impact of maternal depression than school - age children or adolescents.

The implicit theory of mind seen in infants becomes more explicit during the preschool years and provides an important foundation for school entry.

While attachment assessment in preschool years relies on observation of behaviors during separation and reunion procedures (Main and Cassidy 1988), toward the end of early childhood children are less sensitive to brief separations from parents, as their attachment representations become more elaborate because of strengthened verbal and memory skills (Messina and Zavattini 2014).