What matters most is the mental health of the parents,
the quality of the parent child relationships, the degree of open anger between the parents, and the age, temperament and flexibility of the child.
The quality of parenting children receive during the early years affects three key determinants of later success in school: their cognitive potential, their social skills, and their behavioural functioning.
A substantial body of evidence shows that
the quality of parenting children receive has a major effect on their development.
During the first 3 years, children's long - term developmental trajectories are established, and
the quality of parenting the child receives on a daily basis profoundly influences these trajectories.
During the first three years, children's long - term developmental trajectories are established, and
the quality of parenting children receive during those years has a profound influence.
The strongest potentially modifiable risk factor contributing to the development of behavioural and emotional problems in children is
the quality of parenting a child receives.
The quality of parenting children receive during the early years affects three key determinants of later success in school: their cognitive potential, their social skills, and their behavioural functioning.
Not exact matches
Cramer recommended that
parents give their
children the gift
of stock in a high -
quality company that resonates with younger people.
Right from the beginning
parents and their disabled
children face many hurdles and struggles to obtain
quality of life.
In addition to improving their
quality of life by achieving work - life balance, 93 percent
of working
parents say that having a flexible work arrangement would increase their volunteerism at their
children's schools or organized activities.
That's where you can help, by starting a
quality child care program offers peace
of mind to
parents so they can focus on their work.
Remember the crucial thing for
children in one or two -
parent families is the
quality of the
parent -
child relationship.
Since the
quality of the marriage sets the feeling tone for the family,
parents should look at their own relationship when they are considering whether something is wrong with their
child.
Parents — and indeed all
of us — would do well to question our seeming inability to ensure minimum standards
of quality in a field so significant and basic as care for our
children.
It's this kind
of research that led Princeton sociologist Sara McLanahan and her colleague Gary Sandefur to write that if they we were to design a family, the «two -
parent ideal... [would ensure] that
children had access to the time and money
of two adults... would provide a system
of checks and balances that promoted
quality parenting... [and the] fact that both
parents have a biological connection to the
child would increase the likelihood that the
parents would identify with the
child and be willing to sacrifice for that
child, and it would reduce the likelihood that either
parent would abuse the
child.»
So here we are in 2006, with
parents piecing together a patchwork
of arrangements to care for the kids while they're at work, and with only the richest having access to high -
quality child care.
One perhaps could argue that the 17 average hours that
parents spent with their
children per week in 1985 could have been
quality time and therefore just as good as, or even better than, the greater number
of hours they spent together in 1965.
Every
parent s concern for the kind
of environment in which his
child grows up is testimony to this fact, even though we know that we can never guarantee the
quality of life which with emerge in any free person.
One mother quoted, in effect, Margaretha Ribble's statement that «the
parents who shrink in horror from the «animal» side
of life make it impossible for the
child to develop the very
qualities of intelligence and spirituality that they think they stand for.»
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Parents and
children together can develop the
quality of intimacy required for such a covenant.
Thus the
quality of parent -
child intimacy is also required to change.
The intimacy between adult
child and
parents, when it develops, can have a special
quality of closeness not present in other adult relationships.
As the general
quality of public education has declined, at least in public perception, and as the power
of the youth culture in public schools has increased, many more
parents seek private schools for their
children, and many
of these schools are connected with churches.
One
of their primary goals is to upgrade the
quality of foster
parent care by seeing that those who undertake the challenging, and sometimes emotionally painful, occupation
of foster parenthood are adequately rewarded and that corporately they have enough political clout to help shape legislation beneficial to both the
children involved and the men and women who are willing to care for them.
This is as dangerous and misleading a model for working with youth as a
parent's rationalization, «I don't spend a lot
of time with my
children, but what time I do spend is
quality time.»
A
parent -
child or a man - God relationship
of this
quality stimulates the growth
of persons toward robust self - esteem.
Support and strategies to help fathers optimise the
quality of the time spent with their
children, including developing appropriate
parenting skills
«Age 1 is a key time for establishing the
quality of the
parenting and the relationship between
parent and the
child,» said study author Lisa J. Berlin, a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke Univer
child,» said study author Lisa J. Berlin, a research scientist at the Center for
Child and Family Policy at Duke Univer
Child and Family Policy at Duke University.
(Statistics show that a third
of parents and their
children use devices at the dinner table) So
parents can use the DVDs to give themselves a rich menu
of ideas for lovely and novel ways
of quality relational moments with their
child.
Parental mental health and
children's mental health adjustment: the
quality of marital interaction and
parenting as mediating factors.
PARENT - CHILD PHYSICAL PLAY (Games only version): A wealth of ideas for parent - child physical play for the best quality
PARENT -
CHILD PHYSICAL PLAY (Games only version): A wealth of ideas for parent - child physical play for the best quality
CHILD PHYSICAL PLAY (Games only version): A wealth
of ideas for
parent - child physical play for the best quality
parent -
child physical play for the best quality
child physical play for the best
quality time.
Recommendations from the study included increasing the
quality of child care, especially for infants and toddlers, but also, importantly, educing the amount
of time that
children need to spend in
child care through promoting paid parental leave and flexible working hours, and funding programs that support sensitive and responsive
parenting.
Two fifths (40 %)
of parents say their
children get a better understanding
of geography by travelling on train and 34 % say their
children benefit from spending more
quality time with their family.
Every
child deserves a certain amount
of quality time with a
parent.
But a
parent's ability to pay for
child care is only half the story; the
quality of care
children receive while their
parents work has lasting implications.
While many
parents lead busy lives, moms need to remember that it's not necessarily the amount
of time you spend with your
children, but the
quality of that time.
While divorce can be a big part
of your
child's life, what will determine his ultimate
quality of life is still in the hands
of each
parent.
The
quality of the relationship between the
child and the
parent who is requesting a relocation, the
child's other
parent, and the
child's other family members
Parents who spend less time with their
children tend to make sure that the time they do spend with them is better
quality overall than that
of those who are with them all the time, so it evens out.
Looking for and finding some
of these
qualities as a
parent of a
child with learning disabilities is priceless.
We were also in need
of high -
quality books that we, as
parents, would never tire
of reading to our
children time and time again.
How well have programmes succeeded in connecting or reconnecting fathers with their
children, or improving the
quality of their
parenting or the
quality of the
parents» relationship?
Cycle
of «Compulsive Consumerism» Leaves British Family Life in Crisis British
parents are trapping their
children in a cycle
of «compulsive consumerism» by showering them with toys and designer labels instead
of spending
quality time with them, a Unicef study has found.
Variables associated with not being re-incarcerated were number
of close relationships within their family network, the
quality of the
parent -
child relationship, being employed, and having stable housing.
The finding that parental separation (and also being born to
parents who have never lived together) poses a risk to the
quality of both
parents» relationships with their
children should increase the urgency
of developing policies to support these families.
• Some studies have found «shared care»
children exhibiting particularly positive outcomes (Maccoby & Mnookin, 1992), although this may be related to the
quality of the
parents» relationship and other factors.
In addition, research has shown that men who find infant care books unappealing (as will be the case when they can not read them easily) miss out on important information about
parenting and
child development, and that this lack
of knowledge is likely to impact negatively on the level and
quality of their involvement with their
children (Lewis, 1986).
Good
parenting by fathers is associated with better mental health in
children, higher
quality of later relationships, less criminality, better school attendance and behaviour, and better examination results.»
She helps tired
parents get their
children on
quality sleep routines by working with the science
of sleep and healthy sleep best practices.
But the risk is that without attention to the social and cultural realities
of raising
children in a country that does not offer paid parental leave, does not invest in
quality child care, and in general does not significantly support
parents or
children, these recommendations may leave
parents in a difficult or even untenable bind.