Not exact matches
As another school
year begins, artistic - minded students (and their
parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead
study something more... shall we say... employable?
(As the
parent of a first -
year university student off to
study tuba performance, I'm in no position to lecture anyone on practicality over passion.)
She'll have to quit her well - paid job at a respectable company and tell her
parents that although she
studied hard throughout school and got into a great college and graduated in 3
years that she is now leaving it to change the way that manufacturers sell products electronically through their distribution systems.
The
parents believe that video games will detract from the eight
year old's
studies and further doesn't like the content that Microsoft is allowing to be placed on the console.
His so - called
study doesn't match 30
years of scientific research that shows overwhelmingly that children raised by
parents who are LGBT do equally as well.
She is engaged in a 25 -
year follow - up
study of youngsters whose
parents divorced in the early»70s, when American divorce rates began to rise.
Murray Straus's
studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by
parents or caretakers every
year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every
year by their adult children.
St Olave's said: «Following a review of the school's policy on entry to
Year 13, the headmaster and governors of St Olave's Grammar School have taken the decision to remove this requirement and we have today written to all
parents of pupils affected to explain this and offer them the opportunity to return to the school and continue their
studies.
«This is an incredibly sharp contrast with the outlook for their
parents and grandparents, as none of those 55
years old and older reported plans to use either of these services,» the
study finds.
I'm on break from school so I have no obligations to
study and didn't make the trip to visit my
parents this
year.
One hundred
parents of food - allergic children, aged six months to 18
years old were recruited to the
study during a follow - up visit to Mount Sinai Hospital's food allergy clinic.
Last
year's survey
studied generational buying habits of U.S. households, and found that Millennial
parents —
parents in the 18 - to 35 -
year - old age range — are now the biggest group of organic buyers in America.
He has signed to play at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo — where he will join sister, Taylor, who is playing volleyball for the Mustangs, and where both their
parents played and
studied in college — and expects to play at least two
years of college baseball before possibly signing a professional contract.
Plus,
parents can take solace in the fact that a summer
study abroad program won't interfere with the main school
year, just add to it.
Last
year, I wrote about a
study on
parents, household chores, and the impact on their children's attitudes and aspirations.
Rooted in attachment theory, Attachment
Parenting has been
studied extensively for over 60
years by psychology and child development researchers, and more recently, by researchers
studying the brain.
For ten frustrating
years, my colleagues and I have been telling
parents what a monumental pile of
studies consistent...
For ten frustrating
years, my colleagues and I have been telling
parents what a monumental pile of
studies consistently show to be the keys to a child's later academic, emotional, psychological, and financial success.
It is so bad, that a recent
study analyzing children of divorce over a 50
year period by Stanford University demonstrates that children of divorce actually live five
years shorter lives than children raised in intact two -
parent married families.
While most
parents want the school
year to start as late as possible so that they can vacation with family elsewhere, some kids have to use the break to
study or work on projects due shortly after «break».
I recently answered a Quora Question from a 21
year old who was worried how her
parents were going to handle it when she went to
study abroad.
Gottman spent
years studying how
parents can best help children learn how to effectively manage their positive and negative emotions.
«And though much has been said about the cost of having a baby and the cost of raising a child to adulthood, a new
study suggests that many first - time
parents aren't financially prepared for that crucial first
year, no matter how much money they make,» says one NerdWallet
study.
One
study found that 90 % of
parents of 2 -
year - olds use at least some type of «psychological aggression» with their children.
A
study published in 2003 in the Journal of Marriage and Family found that 90 % of
parents said they'd yelled, shouted, or screamed at their kids in the previous
year.
Studies are also showing that the enactment of Lystedt laws in 48 states and the District of Columbia (all since May 2009, a
year after my speech), which require that
parents receive at least some minimal head injury information as a prerequisite for their child's sports participation, is increasing awareness.
A
study from 2010 acknowledged, yes, «in the short - term, kids go through a one - to two -
year crisis period when their
parents divorce,» but the idea of staying together for the kids is problematic, especially if it's a high - conflict family, and that previous research indicating people should stay together «has been plagued by many data problems — reliance on small samples derived from one therapy clinic, retrospective reports, and cross sectional data.»
Study published in Child Development Journal suggests that
parents should step back and let siblings figure their disagreements out by themselves which should help them avoid some emotional damage lasting for many
years.
Christie - Mizell
studied the behavior and perceptions of 687 children who were 10 to 14
years old and living in two -
parent homes in 2000.
Well, in a longitudinal
study looking at night wakings between birth and 3
years of age, the percentage of infants / children who did not signal their
parents at night from 6 months to 3
years only rose from 29.58 % to 37.94 % [4].
Yet, my personal approach to
parenting is a mix that goes well beyond the bits and pieces of these books that I found helpful — among the bits and pieces that I feel don't apply to my family but certainly they may apply to another family — and include bits and pieces of how I was raised, the lessons learned reflecting on
years of
parenting already behind me, thoughts from friends and family members, my instincts, the reality of unavoidable challenges, scientific
studies, blogs and websites,
parenting classes and support groups, teleseminars, conferences, and so much more.
Nearly a quarter of couples who are cohabiting when they have children will actually go on to get married within five
years of becoming
parents, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal
Studies which is oddly little cited by the family breakdown lobby.
And a more recent
study of Chinese children found that mind - minded
parenting at 9 months predicted better self - control when children were 2 - 3
years year old.
Some are based on
years and
years of scientific research and
studies on sleep, some are based on
parent's personal experiences, some are proponents of letting your baby cry - it - out and some don't believe in cry - it - out at all.
Colic, crying, round - the - clock wakings — is it any wonder that
parents experience high rates of depression in the first
year after the birth of a child?A
study of British
parents in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has found that more than one - third of mothers and about one - fifth of fathers seem to have weathered depression sometime between becoming
parents and their children's 12th birthday, with the most episodes occurring in the first
year after birth.
Linda began her career in Waldorf teaching after entering the Steiner school as a
parent; after several
years of
parent volunteering and anthroposophical
studies, she enrolled in the full - time elementary teacher education program of Sunbridge College, where she earned her teaching certificate.
I've been
studying positive
parenting for almost two
years and I still got a ton of valuable information from her.
This represents not only her twenty
years of
studying and teaching choice theory around the country but also her twenty
years of
parenting her identical twin sons.
As reported by Anderson Cooper in a «360 Degrees» interview in 2005, Professor Constance Ahrons conducted a 20 -
year longitudinal
study, interviewing
parents three times over five
years, then interviewing their adult children 20
years later.
A
study published in Pediatrics found that
parents» skin - to - skin contact with premature babies helped the babies not only develop early on, but created positive effects for
years to come.
Parenting and trajectories of children's maladaptive behaviors: a 12 -
year prospective community
study.
Although the US falls behind other nations when it comes to extended breastfeeding - or breastfeeding past infancy - a
study referenced by Kelly Mom notes that the average weaning age for US moms who practice attachment
parenting is about 2.5
years.
How about some ADHD discussion and
studies linking the changing landscape of
parents especially mothers who abandoned their kids, stopped breastfeeding and left them to care givers who tended to be impatient and violent compared to biological
parents over the past 50
years of feminism?
Improving the behavior of the
parent or caregiver of children in high - risk situations actually changes their physical chemistry, according to the
studies Tough cites, leading to fewer behavior problems and greater success in school, as well as measurably better health outcomes as
years pass.
* A
study of
parents of 86 children in clinics of pediatrics and child psychiatry (ages 2 - 13
years) on military bases (offspring of military personnel) revealed that cosleeping children received higher evaluations of their comportment from their teachers than did solitary sleeping children, and they were underrepresented in psychiatric populations compared with children who did not cosleep.
But for children 1
year old and above, formula companies have bombarded
parents with
studies, ads by «experts», celebrities etc..
While sharing a room with your baby for a
year can seem like a daunting prospect that is sure to cause sleep deprivation and put a strain on the relationship of the
parents, there are several
studies that link a lower risk of SIDS with room sharing.
Dr. Colombo said it best: «If I were talking to a
parent, the thing I would emphasize most about the
study is that this first -
year feeding had long - term benefits that lasted almost to early school age.»
This
year - long
study found that
parents pursued a heterogeneous array of night - time
parenting strategies and that 65 per cent of the sample had actually bed - shared.
When I learned that these
parenting practices, that sound so radical to us in Western society, are the
parenting practices that have insured the survival of the human species for millions of
years, I was then compelled to
study biological anthropology.