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Permissive
Parenting May Be Hurting Kids' Sleep
Permissive
parenting that doesn't set limits or consistently enforce rules when a child is
awake is likely to mean the child isn't getting a good night's rest. When
a research team compared 80 children from a sleep disorders clinic with 52
others at a primary care clinic for well children, they found that lax and
permissive parenting was strongly associated with sleep disturbances among the
children in the well group. Lax parenting was described as parents giving in,
allowing rules to go un-enforced, or providing positive consequences for bad
behaviors.
Delinquency
Risk No Greater In Families With Stepparents Crime rates for adolescents from two-parent families are lower
than for teens from single-parent families, even when one parent is a
stepparent, a new University of Florida study finds.
Mothers'
Depression May Induce Earlier Puberty In Daughters A mother's depression may cause her daughter to hit puberty earlier,
suggest the results of a small study. The study expands on previous
research that found a connection between stressful family relationships and
early puberty. Mood disorders like depression can be one cause of stress within
families, resulting in disharmony between wives and husbands and dysfunctional
relationships with children, according to the study.
Parents
Can Have Important Role, Too Years of research on early childhood have been dominated by
thinking that children's pretending needs little help from adults. University of
Illinois researchers have found that when parents join in, the kids' development
gets a boost.
Polarizing
Parents And Schools Make Truancy Worse A child skips one school day after another. The teacher and
principal blame the parents for not disciplining the youngster, while mom and
dad fault the school for not giving the child the benefit of the doubt. This
tug-of-war is no child's game when it frequently makes the problem of truancy
worse, a new University of Florida study suggests.
Father-Daughter
Relationship Crucial To When Girls Enter Puberty, Researchers Say
A young girl's relationship with her family, especially with her
father, may influence at what age she enters puberty, according to Vanderbilt
University researchers.
Less
Noise At Home Makes For Better-Adjusted Kids Parents wanting to help their children adjust to life's stresses
may want to turn down the noise in their home, says a Purdue University
professor of psychological sciences.
TV
Rating System Offers Little Help To Parents In Monitoring Violence And Alcohol,
Study Indicates The age-based TV program rating system unveiled last fall as a
guide to prime time TV offers little help to parents who want to protect their
children from television violence or alcohol-saturated programming, according to
a recently completed study of the fall 1997 TV season by George Gerbner, Bell
Atlantic Professor of Telecommunications at Temple University.
Kids
Who Don't Get Along With Others Also Less Likely To Learn "Works and plays well with others," that seemingly
minor item on many a kindergarten report card, may be much more important to a
child's academic success than many parents realize, a University of Illinois
professor of educational psychology says.
Tall
Tot Today, Bully Tomorrow? When it comes to predicting which toddlers are the school-yard
bullies of tomorrow, size does matter, according to a study in the August issue
of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
"Depressed"
Preschoolers Are Tuned In To Negative Facial Expressions, Study Finds
Investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Louis have found some striking differences in how children with symptoms of
depression interpret facial expressions. Unlike depressed teen-agers and adults,
children aren't more likely to read more negative content into emotions. But
they're exceptionally good at identifying the ones they do see.
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Chronically
Ill Teens Turn To Internet For Peer Support, Researchers Report
A team of medical informatics and child life specialists at the
Johns Hopkins Children's Center has met the challenge of providing peer support
to seriously ill teenagers with an Internet service, Hopkins Teen Central.
Hopkins Teen Central's creators say the service shows potential for wide use in
hospitals nationwide.
Boys
And Girls Are Cruel To Each Other In Different Ways -- But The Effects Are
Equally Harmful The vast majority of past studies on peer victimization have
focused on boys and physical aggression. But new research illustrates that girls
also experience peer victimization, usually relational aggression, in which a
person is harmed through hurtful manipulation of their peer relationships or
friendships.
Why
Do Americans Want Children? Do Americans see children from an economic perspective, like
consumer durables, or are they perceived as invaluable social assets, like
"threads from which the tapestry of life is woven?"
Frequency
Of Family Meals May Prevent Teen Adjustment Problems; Teens Less Likely To Do
Drugs, More Motivated In School Volumes have been written and spoken about how to keep teenagers
out of trouble. But the answer, according to a study presented at the American
Psychological Association's (APA) 105th Annual Convention, may be as simple as
eating meals together as a family more often.
Exercise
Can Have Positive Influence On Physical And Mental Well-Being Of New Mothers "We found that women who exercise were much more likely than
not to participate in fun activities, such as visiting friends and family,
engaging in hobbies or going to the movies," said Carolyn M. Sampselle.
Study
Finds Predictors For Youth Violence And Drugs
In predicting violent behavior among teenagers, cliques and high
school social sets do matter, finds a new, large-scale study, the first to
examine this factor in a systematic manner. So does marijuana use (but not
'harder' drugs), being male, and feeling vulnerable to violence or having been
victimized by violence among other factors.
Experts
Can't Tell The Difference Between False And True Accounts Of Children, Cornell
Study Shows When preschool children were asked weekly about whether a
fictitious event had ever happened to them, more than half the 3- and 4-year-old
children by the tenth week reported that it had and provided cogent details,
according to a Cornell University
Participating
In Sports Gives Girls Strong Self-Images Participating in sports can have benefits for adolescent girls
that reach beyond simply staying physically fit, a University of Florida
researcher has concluded. Participants in athletic activities have better images
of their own bodies, higher levels of self-esteem and more trust for others,
said Heather Hausenblas, an assistant professor in UF's department of exercise
and sport sciences.
"Brainy"
Students Least Likely To Engage In Risky Behaviors While "Burnouts"
And "Non-Conformists" Are At Highest Risk As expected, students who do well in school and enjoy
academics are least likely to smoke, drink alcohol, use drugs and have unsafe
sex, while those students classified as "burnouts" and
"non-conformists" are most likely to indulge in risky behaviors, a
study by a Yale professor and collaborators has found.
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