A child's behaviour and personality is often affected, even shaped by his/ her environment. However, it has been found that even the child's intelligence is affected by his/ her peers, shedding light on the importance and pervasiveness of the influence of peers are on a host of traits during ...
Date Posted: February 14, 2018
Categories: Child Development
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Scientists recommend letting your child get dirty: According to their research, being out in the wild can improve a child’s physical and mental resilience. Dirt makes us psychologically strong!
Nov 10
Categories: Child Development, Stress Management
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It is a common grumble that teens try to grow up too fast – no more! New research suggests that teenagers are less likely to engage in adult activities such as having sex and drinking alcohol, and the explanations for this phenomenon are ...
Oct 31
Categories: Adult psychological development, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, ...
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Siblings are frequently found fighting over the best toy, the favorite toy, or the last cookie. But at first glance, sibling rivalries do not make sense from an evolutionary perspective - they share similar genes, so they should be inclined only to ...
Oct 14
Categories: Child Development, Family Problems, Parenting
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From early childhood on, children already believe that events in their lives are not purely coincidental, but that they happen for an intended reason, such as rewarding people for their good behavior. This bias of believing in karmic justice is not ...
Sep 15
Categories: Child Development
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There are three core beliefs formed in our childhood that affects us in later life. In therapy, these beliefs may surface during consultations for issues like marital problems.
Sep 8
Categories: Child Development
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A person with a stressful and unstructured childhood could gain habits that may lead to adult obesity.
Jul 31
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Stress experienced by a person in early life decreases their ability to feel enthusiasm and experience pleasure when they are adults. Hence, early life stress is a major factor for depression. Neglected or abused children have almost twice the ...
Jul 15
Categories: Child Development, Depression
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Dissociation from oneself has long-term implications for who we become.
Jul 7
Categories: Adult psychological development, Child Development, Identity ...
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Stop, look, and listen.
May 25
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Post Traumatic ...
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New research has found that attention spans could be “passed on” to your children! Read more to find out.
Apr 13
Categories: Child Development
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There are many ways to correct a child’s behaviour and one that some parents may use would be spanking. Research has shown that spanking is one of the ways to correct misbehaviour but at a very huge cost.
Apr 13
Categories: Child Development
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The values and beliefs of society have a tremendous impact on a child’s personality. New research has discovered the reason to why children in certain countries are more likely to be more aggressive than children from other countries.
Apr 13
Categories: Child Development
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There is far from a dearth of research regarding early childhood education, and the main question that researchers ask is whether attending preschool is a necessary endeavour. The latest research shows that preschool education only has long-lasting ...
Mar 13
Categories: Child Development
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Questions with plenty of ‘who?’. ‘what?’, ‘when?’, ‘where?’ and ‘why?’ encourage children to go into details and such open-ended questions are known as the elaborative style. Past and on-going researches have shown improvement in ...
Feb 24
Categories: Child Development
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Sleeping difficulties have been recognized as an issue among some children with ADHD. Lack of sleep leads to children having difficulty in focusing and providing attention when needed which may cause a long-term effect on their quality of life.
Feb 13
Categories: Child Development
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