Sentences with phrase «terms of child development»

«In most early childhood centers, as in most schools, teachers are working really hard and child care givers are working really hard, but that doesn't mean they are achieving what they want in terms of child development and learning,» Tozer said.

We know that our role as parents is a critical one, in terms of child development.

However, most parents and experts actually consider the toddler stage to span roughly from ages one to three — a wide range in terms of child development.

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«Launched in 2007, ASCD's Whole Child Initiative is an effort to change the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the long term development and success of children.»

All Our Kin does intensive community outreach to recruit these informal providers to enroll in the group's Family Child Care Network, where they receive, free of charge, regular professional - development training, plus biweekly visits from master educators who model high - quality childcare techniques for the providers and offer them long - term mentorship and guidance.

My background in sports medicine and exercise physiology has allowed me to see the benefits from having young children develop a wide variety of skill sets in order to promote the best opportunity for long - term physical development.

When you get back home, tell mom about all the new experiences your baby had, which are huge in terms of brain development for a child.

Changing the ratio of water and formula changes the composition of the product, which could have severe short and long - term effects on your child's health and development.

In terms of child brain development, your pre school child will start to learn the alphabet, counting, recognizing their name and some letter sounds.

Kyoiku mama is a Japanese term used to describe the maternal parenting styles of mothers who drive their children to succeed academically, often at the expense of a their social and emotional development.

They concluded these findings «add to a growing body of evidence to suggest that breast milk feeding may have small long - term benefits for child cognitive development.»

If your baby is born prematurely, keep in mind that growth and development should not be compared with that of a full - term child.

«Here we show that fathers really do have a direct effect on kids, both in the short term and long term,» said Claire Vallotton, associate professor of child development at Michigan State University.

Although many artificial sweeteners are legal under FDA rules, the scientists wrote, «there is still uncertainty, particularly about long - term use and about low - level exposure effects on the health and development of children.»

Breastfeeding, especially long - term (extended breastfeeding), seems to protect children from infections and the development of allergies.

The concept of «attachment parenting» — a term originally coined by parenting experts William and Martha Sears — has increasingly been validated by research in many fields of study, such as child development, psychology, and neuroscience.

This section discusses possible effects of your child's condition and treatment on mental and physical development, social activity, and overall quality of life over the long term.

The ability to keep a conversation going is a big step, in terms of both social development and language development in children.

In addition to improving child development in terms of academic and social achievement, good parenting also results in reducing child mental illness and teen pregnancy.

Discovery Point Child Development Center holds high standards in terms of curriculum implementation, hiring of employees, and safety practices.

This shared time between parents and their children is hugely important, most particularly in promoting healthy emotional development, but also in terms of language development.

But what does that shocking statistic actually mean in terms of children's daily lives and their longterm development?

We usually think of head control as being able to hold the head up and steady when baby is held upright, but it actually begins with the «mini-milestone» of holding the head centered (nerdy child development term: head in midline) when laying on the back.

Nearly half of parents think that reading to children starts to benefit long - term language development about a year and a half later than it actually does: 45 % say the benefits start at 2 years or older.

In their current state of development, home visitation programs do not appear to represent the low - cost solution to child health and developmental problems that policymakers and the public have hoped for.5 However, information that is accumulating about long - term outcomes and effective practices may lead to the development of replicable programs that are capable of producing modest but consistent and positive results for participating target families.

Child development nerd tidbit: Starting Tummy Time in the first week of life for healthy, full - term infants can improve Tummy Time tolerance down the road.

A growing catalogue of peer - reviewed studies clearly assert that CIO harms normal brain development and damages a child's capacity to develop secure attachment bonds — essential to the cultivation of empathy, pro-social behavior, and future, healthy long - term relationships.

Dr. Perry's research includes: the effects of prenatal drug exposure on brain development, the neurobiology of human neuropsychiatric disorders, the neurophysiology of traumatic life events, and long - term cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social and physiological effects of neglect and trauma in children, adolescents and adults.

Additionally, 50 percent of parents believe that the quality of a parent's care has long - term impacts on a child's development from six months on, when, in fact, this also begins at birth.

If we care about promoting the long - term healthy development of children, we need to care deeply about their parents, as they have the greatest impact on their child's development.

I hate the term «picky eater» too and I tell people all the time — it gives a negative connotation to what is a normal part of child development.

I think you're right that the emphasis on bonding probably initially came about as a reaction to the behaviorist school of psychology that emphasized a style of child - rearing that, well, was probably not ideal either in terms of emotional development.

Just as we encourage parents in intact families to share care of their children, the social science evidence on the development of healthy parent — child relationships, and the long - term benefits of healthy parent — child relationships, supports the view that shared parenting should be the norm for post-divorce parenting plans for children of all ages, including infants and toddlers.

The 4th Trimester is a term coined by Dr. Harvey Karp, renowned pediatrician, child development specialist, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the USC School of Medicine.

You should consider activities that will build your child physically, emotionally, socially as well as in terms of language development, approach to learning, thinking and communication.

To be honest, I had no idea what kind of behavior was meant by the term except that whatever was going on during this stage in a child's development was somehow «terrible» or at the very least, challenging for the parents.

The Wall Street Journal Financial Guidebook for New Parents shows you the way, with information on how to: safeguard your child's well - being with wills, trusts, and life insurance; best weigh your child - care options and decide whether to go back to work; save on taxes with child - friendly tax credits and deductions plus tax - advantaged benefits at work; manage your family's health - care costs; save for long - term costs by setting up a college fund; spend smart and save money at every stage of your child's development; continue to contribute to your own retirement savings

Explore the many ways dads positively impact children's long - term development, and what's on the minds of dads today that they want us to know.

Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found the single greatest contributor to long - term neurobehavioral development in preterm infants is maternal involvement — and that a single - family room NICU allows for the greatest and most immediate opportunities for maternal involvement.

The evidence outlined in the Series, contributed by some of the leading experts in the field, leaves no doubt that the decision not to breastfeed has major long - term negative effects on the health, nutrition and development of children and on women's health.»

Improved gross motor skills will impact your child's development in terms of fine motor skills and help your child with all the new day to day tasks they will be needing to learn and implement in his or her life.

Randomized studies showed that preterm children require a dietary supply of DHA in the first few weeks of life for optimal visual development, but it is unclear whether full - term children experience similar benefits from breast milk or DHA supplements.

The results of this study support the hypothesis that, for full - term children, breast - feeding allows better development of stereoacuity than does formula feeding, independent of the family's socioeconomic status and the maternal diet in pregnancy.

Spotlight: PMTCT: Reducing Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV among Women who Breastfeed is a publication by LINKAGES: Breastfeeding, LAM, Related Complementary Feeding, and Maternal Nutrition Program, and was made possible through support provided to the Academy for Educational Development (AED) by the Bureau for Global Health of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under the terms of Cooperative Agreement No.

At this stage, not only is thumb or finger sucking common, it is considered harmless in terms of a child's growth and speech development.

At 9 a.m., Approximately 900 specialists from a variety of scientific, psychological, social service and educational communities will gather at The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts Hart Theatre to consider promising research on how, through understanding the emerging connections between trauma and the science of brain development, children can overcome the long - term consequences of extreme trauma and adversity.

This long - term work has helped us discover the effect smoking during pregnancy has on the development of children...

They are now following up these children at the age of three to study their longer - term development.

«The results strengthen our concern that long - term use of paracetamol during pregnancy may have an adverse effect on child development, but that occasional use for short periods is probably not harmful to the fetus.

Dr Johnson said: «Teachers and educational psychologists receive little formal training about the effects of preterm birth on children's long term development and learning and are often not aware of appropriate strategies to support preterm children in the classroom.»