The functional relationships between developmental change in children's self-control and academic achievement were examined using longitudinal family data. Multivariate latent growth models (LGM) were specified to determine whether the rate of growth in academic achievement changes as a function of developmental change in self-control. Data came…

This guidebook for early intervention personnel was developed by the "Let's Play! Project," a 3-year federally supported project that worked to promote play in infants and toddlers with disabilities through the use of "low-tech" assistive technology. An introductory section considers the importance of play for children of this age and is followed…

This booklet compiles information on 16 screening instruments for young children. For each instrument, the following information is provided: (1) name; (2) publisher; (3) year published; (4) cost of kit; (5) cost per child/cost of forms; (6) age range; (7) domains tested (including cognitive, expressive language, receptive language, articulation,…

The central premise of this volume is that children bring personal qualities to their relationships with other family members that help shape family interaction, relationships, and even processes that family researchers have called "parenting." The chapters address how children's personal qualities make their mark on families in ways that may in…

Recent studies suggest that children who witness violence in their homes and neighborhoods may not be as resilient as medical and mental health specialists once believed. This article presents an interview with Betsy McAlister Groves, director of the Child Witness to Violence Project at the Boston Medical Center, one of the first programs in the…

Through a discussion of the discursive origins that have constructed childhood over the past 200 years, this paper illuminates why psychology has gained a dominant role in the education of young children. This historical account is followed by an analysis of widely used textbooks in child development courses. Discovering that each textbook…

"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. This issue focuses on the organization's 25 years of working with infants, toddlers, and families. The articles are as follows: (1)…

The LINKAGES Project is intended to improve breastfeeding and related complementary feeding and maternal dietary practices. The project, in consultation with technical experts and program managers, identified a set of recommended feeding and dietary practices intended to break the cycle of poor health and nutrition that passes from generation to…

This review of the developmental readiness of normal, full-term infants to progress from exclusive breastfeeding to the introduction of complementary foods is the result of the international debate regarding the best age to introduce complementary foods into the diet of the breastfed human infant. After a list of definitions, four papers focus on:…

Boundary crises for girls moving into adolescence were studied by analyzing "Seventeen" magazine to contribute to the discourse around redefining childhood. The border between childhood and adolescence appears to be moving downward, and as the boundary goes down, the moral panic in society often goes up. To analyze "Seventeen,"…

The fact that the college had no money to pay for the program, which was designed to improve physical liabilities and self confidence of handicapped children, failed to discourage the author, the president of the Essex Community College (Maryland). (Editor/RK)

Discussed students' self awareness in attempting to predict how they perform on tests. (RK)

Described the Rohr elementary school as a humanistic model and how it was developed. (RK)

Author stresses the importance of art, music, and literature experiences in the perceptual development of a child. (GB)