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National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC. – 1998
Noting recent neuroscience research findings suggesting that caregivers play a vital role in brain development, this videotape explores the process of brain development during the first 15 months of life and presents implications for infant care. Part 1 of the 28-minute video discusses basic infant development and brain research, focusing on how…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Brain, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role
Glennon, Will – 2000
Noting that parents of sons need advice on nurturing their son's unique emotional needs, this book presents practical suggestions for raising emotionally aware and healthy boys. Chapter 1, "The Importance of Emotionally Healthy Sons," maintains that the critical issue involved in raising sons is bringing them to maturity with their…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Change Strategies, Child Behavior, Child Rearing
Harter, Susan – 1999
Drawing upon extensive theoretical knowledge and decades of empirical research, this book traces changes in the structure and content of self-representations from early childhood through late adolescence. Chapter 1 includes a discussion of the self as subject (I-self) and object (Me-self) and describes the historical roots of contemporary issues…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Abuse
Shonkoff, Jack P., Ed.; Phillips, Deborah A., Ed. – 2000
The Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development reviewed an extensive, multi-disciplinary, and complex body of research covering the period from before birth to entry into Kindergarten to generate an integrated science of early childhood development and the role of early experiences. The result of the committee's review,…
Descriptors: Brain, Change Strategies, Child Development, Childhood Needs
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Conrad, Daniel; Hedin, Diane – Child and Youth Services, 1982
Summarizes findings of a national study of 27 programs and concludes that educational programs which are experientially based can have a significant positive impact on the social, psychological, and intellectual development of adolescents. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Adventure Education, Cognitive Development
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Blecher-Sass, Hope – Young Children, 1997
Argues that happy separations are characterized by good relationships between teacher/caregiver and parents and ample time for parents to be in the classroom environment. Provides 10 suggestions for easing the transition for children starting or changing schools to ease the separation anxiety and to make transitions as smooth as possible. (SD)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Behavior
Wenig, Heather – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
Discusses two problems related to young children's arrival to and departure from child care centers: parents who have a hard time separating from their children in the morning; and children who cry and do not want to go home at the end of the school day. (AA)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Caregiver Child Relationship
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Cooper, Mark; Filer, Janet – Journal of Early Education and Family Review, 2003
This article discusses explanations for aggressive biting among young children and describes an intervention for family or early childhood settings. Strategies include avoiding labeling the child, teaching the child to view biting as unsafe, teaching appropriate play behaviors with peers, acknowledging appropriate behaviors, providing…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Change Strategies
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Molina, Brooke S. G.; Chassin, Laurie – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined the effect of puberty on the parent-adolescent relationship in association with ethnicity, parental psychopathology, and chronological age. Found that puberty effects on parent support and parent-adolescent conflict differ for Hispanic and non-Hispanic white boys. Parent alcoholism did not moderate the effect of puberty, and puberty…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences
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van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
This meta-analysis on 33 studies, including more than 2,000 Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) classifications, presents distributions of AAI classifications in samples of nonclinical fathers and mothers, in adolescents, in samples from different cultures, and in clinical groups. Fathers, adolescents, and participants from different countries show…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Standards
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Lewis, Charlie; Lamb, Michael E. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2003
Although it is often assumed that men have an important influence on their children's development, the supportive evidence can be difficult to locate and summarize. In this paper, we analyse the evidence with respect to four emergent themes. First, men often appear to interact with their children less sensitively than mothers do, and many children…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Fathers
Wheeler, Gay – 1995
A study examined whether a half-day or all-day kindergarten readiness program was the more beneficial in preparing students for kindergarten. A questionnaire was drawn up after research into this domain and submitted to 45 faculty members at a child development center. The findings were found to be somewhat evenly divided between the half-day and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, Full Day Half Day Schedules
Randolph, Shirley L.; And Others – 1994
Noting that humans develop according to a genetically encoded timeline and that departure from the timeline limits human potential, this book provides an illustrated practical guide to intervention to help children's bodies work as they should, to nurture children along their developmental timeline, to help children learn "from the inside…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Child Health
White, Linda A. – 1995
This review of the literature focuses on research findings concerning the long-term academic, social, and emotional effects of acceleration, as well as the results of non-acceleration, on gifted children. Access to accelerated programs in Canada and the United States was also investigated. The review led to the following conclusions: (1) academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Access to Education
Chalufor, Ingrid; And Others – 1988
The curriculum presented in this guide focuses on enhancing the mental health of children in Head Start or in other comprehensive early childhood programs. The guide begins with two introductory sections: "Stress and Children," describing stressors in young children's lives, how children manifest stress, and teachers' role in mediating…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Class Activities, Communication (Thought Transfer), Coping
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