Can`t make out why your kid has of late started misbehaving and throwing tantrums? Blame your parenting style, says a new study. Researchers at Alberta University in the US and Concordia University in Canada have carried out the study and concluded that parents` child-rearing styles are linked to their young …
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No More Negotiating. I’ve Learned to Say NO to my Children
As a parent, it’s the kind of admission that I would usually share only with my most non-judgmental mummy friends. Until a month ago, I could count the number of times one of my brood had taken ‘no’ for an answer on the fingers of a KitKat. If I turned …
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Mathematical Model Unlocks Key to Brain Wiring
A new mathematical model predicting how nerve fibres make connections during brain development could aid understanding of how some cognitive disorders occur. The model, constructed by scientists at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) and School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland (UQ), gives new insight into how …
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Is Lazy Parenting to Blame for Britain’s Addiction to Ritalin?
The Mail reports today that the drug Ritalin is being prescribed with increasing regularity to children with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Prescriptions of this powerful and controversial drug have quadrupled in the last decade — from 158,000 in 1999 to 661,463 in 2010 — with children as young as …
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Parents ‘Failing to Get Children Ready for School’
Poor parenting is to blame for a rise in the number of children starting school unfit for the demands of compulsory education, according to a senior government official. Dr Elizabeth Sidwell, the Schools Commissioner, said growing numbers of infants were unable to cope with lessons because of a lack of …
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Many Moms Don’t Know their Babies Are Overweight
Misperceptions May Pave the Way to Obesity. Many moms of chubby toddlers don’t realize their babies are large for their age, and this misperception may be setting the stage for their tots to grow up to be overweight or obese, a new study shows. Nearly 70% of moms inaccurately assessed their …
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More Parents Delaying Kindergarten to Give their Kids an Advantage
Some parents will do whatever they can to give their children an edge. “Redshirting” is a new trend sees many parents delaying kindergarten a year to give their kids an advantage in class, and in life. “The kindergarten of today is like first grade. The expectations are far greater and …
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Why So Many Studies About Parents and Happiness Are Wrong
Does having children make you happy? The question is an emblem of this particular parenting age. Earlier generations didn’t think to ask it. One “happy” result was more parents who just were rather than thinking and analyzing so much. The sad flipside, of course, was too many couples who became parents for …
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Why Do Babies Have Soft Spots?
Thinking about the soft spots on a baby’s head makes me squirm. I always envision the mushy parts of an overripe peach. Of course, soft spots are nothing like that. They’re strong, elastic patches of skull where bone hasn’t fully formed yet. Hominid babies have had soft spots for at …
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CHILDUP BESTOF: Middle-Class Children ‘Hear 23MILLION More Words Than Poorer Children Before They Start School’
Middle-class children hear 33 million words by the time they start school – 23 million more than poorer children of the same age, a Government adviser has revealed. A collapse in parenting skills in poor homes with unstable families blights a child’s prospects by the time they are three-years-old, according …
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