Sentences with phrase «powerful effect on our children»

Our general disposition has a powerful effect on our children — whether they are tiny infants or teens whom we may have to look up to.

And when put into practice in the classroom, can have a powerful effect on the child, classroom, and school climate.

First, parent support programs improve parental competence / confidence and parental beliefs that child - initiated interactions are most important in parent - child interactions.7, 8 Second, although general parent support programs support social - emotional development of children, parent support that is directed at parental emotional and educational / economic development has an enhanced impact on child social - emotional development.9 Third, participatory help - giving practices contribute the most to parents» judgment of their children's emotional competence.7 Fourth, group approaches to parental support have a more powerful effect on child social - emotional competence than home - visiting approaches.9

It reflects the growing recognition that early childhood experiences have a powerful effect on children's later academic achievement and long - term life outcomes.

Not exact matches

But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.

But while it is true that behaviors like neglect and abuse can exert a disturbingly powerful influence on children, it is also true that the effect of some detrimental parental behaviors can be diminished or even reversed if those behaviors change.

Professor Mark Dadds, of the UNSW School of Psychology, says previous research suggested that oxytocin — a hormone with powerful effects on brain activity linked to the formation of social bonds — could have benefits for children with the disorder.

RV: And I want to talk a little more about labels because the report notes that labels can have a powerful effect on the behaviour and socialisation of children.

LBM: I think the strongest one I would like to offer is the powerful effect that teachers have through their words and their actions on children, that may be the focal child they're trying to address.

So it's the powerful socialising effect, the fact that — and there is some literature on this as well that I was able to find — children take cues from their teachers about [the extent] to which their classmates should be liked or disliked.

If we used «vehicles» to move gravel from point A to point B... and we calculated an effect size on vehicles... we suffer from «regression towards the mean»; the child's wagon will look more powerful than it is (a higher effect size) and the 5 ton truck will look worse (a lower effect size).

In scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become.

How powerful was the effect of cultivating the soil on her imagination as a child?

«More subtle but possibly more powerful long - term impacts may result from an effect of heat on fetal and child development.»

What Pre-K Means We encourage everyone to read this op - ed about new research showing that high quality Pre-K programs have «powerful long - term cognitive effects» on children.

Although relationship science has shown that relationship health is as real as mental and physical health (and relationship health has powerful effects on our mental and physical health as well as the health and welfare of our children), relationship healthcare remains decades behind dental and physical healthcare.

But here is reason to keep trying: A recent study by researchers with The Ohio State University, published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, found that when parents reduced harsh parenting approaches (i.e., criticism, yelling, physical punishment, etc.), it had a powerful calming effect on children with ADHD.