Sometimes kids just don't listen! But yelling rarely works. So Doctor G has a few things to try before (or after) the screaming fails you.
Date Posted: June 5, 2013
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Parenting
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Children who are exposed to secondhand smoke in early childhood are more likely to grow up to physically aggressive and antisocial, regardless of whether they were exposed during pregnancy or their parents have a history of being antisocial, ...
May 23
Categories: Addictions, Child Development
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As high schoolers prepare for final exams, teens nationwide may be tempted to use a “study drug” — a prescription stimulant or amphetamine — to gain an academic edge. But a new University of Michigan poll shows only one in 100 parents of ...
May 22
Categories: Addictions, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child ...
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Almost fifteen years ago, in a book called “Chance, Development, and Aging,” the gerontologists Caleb Finch and Thomas Kirkwood described a truly elegant study of biology: a batch of roundworms, all genetically identical, raised on identical ...
May 17
Categories: Adult psychological development, Child Development, Individuation
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Many parents' reasons for using controlled crying can be summed up in one word: work. Parents who want "routines" are keen on controlled crying, says Gina Ford, a famous British advocate of the system, and she comments that babies who have been ...
May 9
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Math and reading ability at age 7 may be linked with socioeconomic status several decades later, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The childhood abilities predict ...
May 9
Categories: Child Development, Learning Difficulties
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Mothers who have experienced childhood abuse, neglect or other traumatic experiences show an unwillingness to talk with their children about the child’s emotional experiences, a new study from the University of Notre Dame shows.
May 7
Categories: Child Development, Parenting, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / ...
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Researchers at the University of Waterloo have found that children hear more complex language from parents when they read a storybook with only pictures compared to a picture-vocabulary book. The findings appear in the latest issue of the journal ...
Apr 30
Categories: Child Development
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Imagine not being able to recognise your own child at nursery or even pick out your own face from a line-up of photos.
This is just how severe face blindness, or prosopagnosia, can be.
"In extreme cases, people might withdraw socially - become ...
Apr 6
Categories: Child Development, Social Anxiety / Phobia
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A new study found that obstructive sleep apnea, a common form of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), is associated with increased rates of ADHD-like behavioral problems in children as well as other adaptive and learning problems.
"This study provides ...
Apr 2
Categories: Child Development, Learning Difficulties, Sleep Disorders
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Being exposed to arguments between parents is associated with the way babies' brains process emotional tone of voice, according to a new study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
The ...
Mar 26
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Research from the University of North Carolina has shown that children at risk of developing schizophrenia have brains that function differently than those not at risk.
Brain scans of children who have parents or siblings with the illness reveal a ...
Mar 25
Categories: Child Development, Schizophrenia
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A spoken word poem on the trials of growing up and bullying.
Mar 23
Categories: Bullying, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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The use of guilt-inducing parenting in daily parent-child interaction causes children distress still evident on the next day, emerges from the study Parents, teachers, and children’s learning (LIGHT) carried out by Kaisa Aunola, Asko Tolvanenen, ...
Mar 23
Categories: Child Development
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Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use than their single classmates, according to new research from the ...
Mar 18
Categories: Addictions, Child Development, Drug Addiction
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Secondary school students who follow an in-class mindfulness programme report reduced indications of depression, anxiety and stress up to six months later. Moreover, these students were less likely to develop pronounced depression-like symptoms. The ...
Mar 16
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Depression, ...
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