High video game usage was associated with a 1.75 times the odds of high intellectual functioning and 1.88 times the odds of high overall school competence.
Date Posted: March 10, 2016
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Parenting
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It is the first evidence that brain structure implicated in depression may be inherited.
Mar 8
Categories: Parenting
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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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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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New research suggests millennial moms are more confident about having parenting nailed than moms of other generations.
Dec 21
Categories: Parenting
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Violence is more harmful to people than sex. Parents universally hope their kids will never have to be violent or even experience violence. Sex, on the other hand, is a part of life that everybody wants their offspring to enjoy eventually. So why ...
Dec 5
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Parenting
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Don’t amuse your kids into creative impotence. Constant amusement inhibits imagination. Let them be bored.
Nov 27
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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…and if you weren’t mom’s favourite, there’s is an unexpected upside.
Nov 21
Categories: Adult psychological development, Child Development, Parenting
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The daughters, but not the sons, of women who give birth at age 30 or older are more likely to experience symptoms of depression as young adults, according to new research. The age of the father at birth is not a factor.
Nov 18
Categories: Adult psychological development, Child Development, Parenting
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Talking about mental illness isn’t easy, especially if it’s with your child, but it’s an important conversation to have.
Nov 14
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Parenting
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"A secure, warm, loving relationship with a parent can be a protective factor against depression, especially for girls," Beresin said.
Oct 14
Categories: Depression, Parenting
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The practice of mindfulness provides tools for cultivating focus, resilience, and well-being--both yours and your child's. They take advantage of the brain's innate capacity to rewire itself, an ability we all maintain at any age.
Sep 19
Categories: Adult ADHD, Mindfulness, Parenting
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Tired parents are often told that night waking is part of toddlerhood, and that it will soon pass on its own, but this is not the case for everyone. Recent studies show that serious sleep disorders in young children can have long-term consequences.
Sep 18
Categories: Child Development, Developmental Disorders (Autism, Aspergers, etc.), ...
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The effects of parenthood on mental health are complex, but a new study published in Health Sociology Review reveals a different angle to the relationship: how a person's mental health at 16 influences whether or not he or she becomes a parent, as ...
Sep 10
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Oppositional & Defiant Behavior in ...
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One in 10 new fathers suffers from post-natal depression and more research is needed to find out how many develop other mental health disorders after their children are born.
Feb 12
Categories: Men's Issues, Parenting
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Our society worships talent, and many people assume that possessing superior intelligence or ability - along with confidence in that ability - is a recipe for success. In fact, however, more than 35 years of scientific investigation suggests that an ...
Jan 29
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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