According to new research, too much homework is associated with academic stress, a lack of balance in children’s lives and even physical health problems. The new study into 4,317 students at 10 high-performing US high schools questions whether the average of 3 hours homework per night is really ...
Date Posted: April 8, 2014
Categories: Child Development
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When you've done something good, or performed a task well, it feels great to get some praise for it. And parents and teachers, especially in Western cultures, are encouraged to dole out praise to children in an increasingly generous manner. A ...
Apr 7
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Violent video games really do boost aggressive behavior in children, according to a new study.
Even after accounting for parental involvement, gender, age and other factors, psychologists at Iowa State University, Ames, linked habitually playing ...
Apr 1
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Child Development
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This week, a research team led by Associate Professor Grigori Enikolopov of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) reports online in the journal PlOS One the results of experiments designed to assess the impacts of social stress upon adolescent mice, ...
Mar 31
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Anxiety, Child Development, Stress ...
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Adolescents with antisocial personality disorder inflict serious physical and psychological harm on both themselves and others. However, little is yet known about the underlying neural processes. Researchers at the University of Leiden and the Max ...
Mar 15
Categories: Antisocial personality, Child Development, Teenage Issues
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A new study has found that the children of older fathers have a much greater risk of serious mental illness.
The findings come from a huge number of people: everyone born in Sweden between 1973 and 2001. The researchers included over 2.5 million ...
Mar 6
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Toxic chemicals may be triggering the recent increases in neurodevelopmental disabilities among children - such as autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and dyslexia - according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) ...
Feb 18
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism spectrum ...
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Research from the University of Adelaide shows that although mental health screening of children at ages 4-5 can help to predict mental health problems in future years, only a quarter of children can be accurately identified with such screening.
Feb 15
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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A college savings account in a child’s name not only gives parents hope for the future, it also results in improved social-emotional health for their children.
The study, led by Washington University in St. Louis’ Center for Social Development ...
Feb 4
Categories: Child Development
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Children who are raised by same-sex parents do just as well in social development, education and emotionally as those raised by heterosexual couples, an Australian review of the research finds.
In Australia 11% of gay men and 33% of lesbians have ...
Feb 4
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Mindfulness training in schools has been found to reduce and even prevent depression in adolescents.
The finding comes from research carried out in 408 students between the ages of 13 and 20 who were studying at five schools in Flanders, Belgium.
Jan 27
Categories: Child Development, Teenage Issues
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The more parents exaggerate vowels and raise the pitch of their voices when talking to babies, the more the babies babble, new research shows. Common advice to new parents is that the more words babies hear, the faster their vocabulary grows. The ...
Jan 27
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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For young children and adolescents, bullying can be a norm at school. Children who face bullying can suffer mental health illnesses especially if they do not seek help. Not only are victims of bullying at risk, a new study is reporting that bullies ...
Jan 21
Categories: Bullying, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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As counterintuitive as it may seem, a study has revealed that inflated praise given to children who are suffering from low self-esteem could be detrimental to their ability to overcome their feelings of inadequacy. Whilst children with high ...
Jan 15
Categories: Child Development
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Ask a group of grade school students to name their favorite class and the overwhelming and immediate response is “recess!” Kids are not wired to sit still for hours focused on learning math equations or memorizing facts. They’re built to ...
Jan 14
Categories: Child Development
GOIn the search for treatments to help their children, families may turn to unconventional approaches such as mind-body medicine (e.g. ...
Jan 14
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child Development
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