Food advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry, with approximately $1.8 billion annually aimed at children and adolescents, who view between 1,000 and 2,000 ads per year. Some studies have shown that there is a relationship between receptivity to food commercials and the amount and type of ...
Date Posted: August 15, 2016
Categories: Child Development
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Which early child characteristics predict long-term academic achievement and educational attainment? Research has focused on the role of early academic skills, learning enhancing behaviors, and socioemotional competencies as precursors of academic ...
Aug 3
Categories: Child Development
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In the 1950s, the American psychologist Harry Harlow famously showed that infant rhesus monkeys would rather cling to a surrogate wire mother covered in cosy cloth, than to one that provided milk.
Jul 29
Categories: Child Development
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“We can’t smooth over hurt feelings in our families,” Brene Brown writes. “It’s too easy for stockpiled hurt to turn into rage, resentment, and isolation. We must talk about it. Even when we don’t want to. Even when we’re tired.”
Jul 27
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Post Traumatic ...
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University of Texas at Arlington researchers have found that low attention control in early adolescence is related to a genetic risk factor for four different anxiety disorders. Young teens who suffer from anxiety are also more vulnerable to ...
Jun 21
Categories: Anxiety, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child ...
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"Inattentive”, “naughty”, “lazy”. Nine-year-old Vinay (name changed) had grown accustomed to being told off by his teachers at school. His report cards, through primary and secondary school, were curiously erratic — he would score ...
Jun 13
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Researchers from the University of Liverpool and Florida State University College of Medicine have conducted a study on the effect the misperception of a child's weight by their parents can have on a child's actual weight.
Apr 22
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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University of Texas at Arlington researchers have found that by age 3 environmental influences such as parenting are relevant factors in the development of toddlers' self-control when they are asked not to do something they want to do, such as run ...
Apr 16
Categories: Child Development
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Plans to extend the school day to increase achievement might not have the desired effect on all children, depending on the gender suggests the results of a study.
Apr 1
Categories: Academic Issues, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Slow-wave sleep - the deeper sleep during which the brain turns each day's events into permanent memories - is fragmented in adulthood in people exposed to high levels of alcohol in the womb.
Feb 29
Categories: Child Development, Depression, Learning Difficulties, Mood Swings / ...
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Some parents always try to hide their negative emotions and amplify their positive emotions.
Feb 29
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Parenting
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Since 2010, more than 613,000 people have pledged to combat bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) teens as part of the "It Gets Better" campaign. And a new Northwestern Medicine study has found that most adolescents would agree ...
Feb 10
Categories: Child Development, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender) ...
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New research finds that a disadvantaged environment can prevent genetics from doing its job.
Dec 30
Categories: Child Development
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When you hear the word “Christmas”, what are the first five words that instantly pop into your head? This was the question asked in a new study that led researchers to suggest that differences in food parenting styles for special occasions, may ...
Dec 26
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Money can make youngsters as little as three years old work harder, but there’s evidence it can also make them less charitable.
Dec 12
Categories: Child Development
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An increasing proportion of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are undergoing recommended evaluation in preschool years, but population rates of ASD remain higher in eight than four year-olds, a new study reports.
Dec 12
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child Development
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