Child Development

foods. Parents need to provide a structured, pleasant mealtime environment to help their child develop healthy eating behaviors. ...

provide a variety of healthful foods at home and to make family mealtimes a priority. In the average adolescent’s diet, the inta ...

O OBESITY American culture values thinness. From supermodels to laptop computers, the American public equates thinness with beau ...

TABLE 1 Causes Obesity is caused by a variety of factors, all of which result in an excess of caloric intake relative to the bod ...

genetic contributions to the development of excessive fatness are better understood, treatment will remain a process of managing ...

See also: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; PIAGET, JEAN Bibliography Baillargeon, Renée. ‘‘The Object Concept Revisited: New Direc- tions ...

P PARALLEL PLAY Parallel play (or parallel activity) is a term that was in- troduced by Mildred Parten in 1932 to refer to a de- ...

Infancy and the Preschool Years In infancy and the preschool years amazing growth occurs in the child’s capacity for self-contro ...

Studies have concluded that the level of positive nurturing in the relationship between parents and their children is important ...

child’s adjustment. The interactions between de- pressed mothers and their infants are characterized by less positive and more n ...

Decker, Kurt H. Family and Medical Leave in a Nutshell. St. Paul: West Publishing, 1999. ‘‘Family and Medical Leave Act.’’ In th ...

Fluctuations in family structure have been accom- panied by a changing American work force. From the 1960s on, much media, legis ...

cognitive, and emotional outcomes for children and adolescents. Parent-Child Interaction Behavioral scientists have also approac ...

Influences on Parenting Quality Parenting is such a wildly complex and subtle process that it is necessary to use several levels ...

Socioeconomic Status Socioeconomic status (SES) is a reliable predictor of parenting and child adjustment that is closely tied t ...

Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, April 3–6, 1997, Washington, DC. NICHD Early Child Care Sear ...

TABLE 1 SOURCE: Brady Reynolds. most likely formed through the infant learning to ex- pect the caregiver’s responsiveness and de ...

is clear evidence that these children are at increased risk for later social and emotional maladjustment. A lack of successful c ...

largely under the influence of biologically based dis- positions and characteristics. Personality develop- mentalists holding a ...

FIGURE 1 each of the Big Five dimensions being comprised of features from more than one of the earlier dimen- sions. Figure 1 sh ...