Hey kids, here's a good reason to work up a sweat: when young people exercise for an hour each day it also helps boost their brain power. That's according to a study of more than 200 kids in the journal Pediatrics.
Date Posted: October 11, 2014
Categories: Child Development
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For children, the lure of cookies and fast food is distinctly more powerful than for adolescents and adults, although children's cognitive wiring is well suited to train such cravings, according to researchers hailing principally from Columbia ...
Oct 11
Categories: Child Development, Eating Disorders
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Student retention is often done because the student’s grades aren’t equivalent to their peers, whether it be due to their development or academic level. It has been believed that hold a child back in their current grade will help them catch up ...
Sep 30
Categories: Child Development
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Combative parents may impair a child’s ability to recognize and control emotions. Aggression between parents powerfully shape children's emotional adjustment and long-term childhood poverty was also found to negatively influence child emotional ...
Sep 24
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Parenting
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University of California, Riverside, researchers discovered the strict Chinese parenting style that advocates less support and more punitive parent techniques might lead to low self-esteem and school adjustment difficulties in children. This ...
Sep 24
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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A new study has found that children who revealed they had been bullied by their brothers or sisters several times a week or more during early adolescence were twice as likely to report being clinically depressed as young adults.
Sep 20
Categories: Child Development, Family Problems
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We tend to assume that learning things easily is the same as learning them well. In school, teachers are pleased when children grasp a concept or a skill in one lesson, and so, of course, are children. The trouble is, when learning is too easy, we ...
Sep 13
Categories: Child Development, Learning Difficulties
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Previous research has revealed that mothers who respond quickly and warmly to their babies' cries have infants with better emotional development, compared with mothers who are less sensitive. Now, a new study suggests that moms with positive ...
Sep 11
Categories: Caregiver Issues / Stress, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child ...
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Children show stronger food craving than adolescents and adults, but they are also able to use a cognitive strategy that reduces craving, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...
Sep 10
Categories: Addictions, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Tests and assessments carried out at school are often seen as a way of predicting how well a child will do later on in life. However, new research from Professor Richard Cowan, Institute of Education (IOE), suggests that how well a child is doing at ...
Sep 8
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Teenage Issues
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It's common knowledge that teenage boys seem predisposed to risky behaviors. Now, a series of new studies is shedding light on specific brain mechanisms that help to explain what might be going on inside juvenile male brains.
Aug 29
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Oppositional & ...
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Having expectant parents role-play interacting with an infant using a doll can help predict which couples may be headed for co-parenting conflicts when their baby arrives.
Aug 28
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Pupils with ADHD often make poorer decisions than their unaffected classmates. Researchers from the University of Zurich now discovered that different learning and decision-making mechanisms are responsible for these behaviors, and localized the ...
Aug 23
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child and/or ...
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Children and adolescents with autism have a surplus of synapses in the brain, and this excess is due to a slowdown in a normal brain "pruning" process during development, according to a study by neuroscientists at Columbia University Medical Center ...
Aug 23
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child Development
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A new study suggests video game-playing for less than an hour a day is linked with better-adjusted children and teenagers. The research, carried out by Oxford University, found that young people who indulged in a little video game-playing were ...
Aug 6
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Children diagnosed with depression as preschoolers are likely to suffer from depression as school-age children and young adolescents, new research shows.
Aug 5
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Depression, Post ...
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