Child Development

typically underrecognized in research and by the media. The Prevalence of Single-Parent Families in America It has been predicte ...

Children in single-parent homes do well when they experience parenting that is adequate in terms of warmth, control, and monitor ...

Heath, Terri, ed. ‘‘Single Mothers, Single Fathers.’’ Special issue of Journal of Family Issues 20, no. 4 (1999). Hetherington, ...

Verbal Behavior. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1957. Beyond Freedom and Dignity. New York: Knopf, 1971. Brian D. Midgley Ed ...

body rocking are frequent. By one year, sleep time av- erages twelve hours distributed into a long sleep peri- od at night and t ...

See also: APNEA; MILESTONES OF DEVELOPMENT Bibliography Anders, Thomas F., and Lisa A. Eiben. ‘‘Pediatric Sleep Disorders: A Rev ...

people differently than someone in the lower-middle class would label them. Although definitions may dif- fer, a generality in A ...

tory as well. Thus it is vital to study how the effects of social class are entering into classrooms and helping to determine th ...

effectively plan, monitor, and regulate personal be- havior. Developmental improvement in abstract and hy- pothetical thinking e ...

approach to moral reasoning and attempted to go be- yond the concrete rules and laws and deal with more abstract principles and ...

Infancy and Preschool: An Emphasis on Biology and Parenting Even before a child is born, much has occurred in terms of social de ...

begin in infancy—infants direct and respond to each other’s smiles and vocalizations. As preschoolers age, their interactions wi ...

Boys tend to play differently and socialize in larger groups than girls, with friendships delineated by common activities, such ...

Adolescence and Adulthood: Completing the Cycle Whereas opposite-sex interactions are infrequent in childhood, they increase dur ...

The beginning of the twenty-first century is an ex- citing time for social development researchers— much has been learned and it ...

Benjamin Spock’s name became synonymous with child rearing and development after the publication of his 1946 book The Common Sen ...

Stages of Cognitive Development Jean Piaget was among the first psychologists to wrestle with the question of how a child develo ...

TABLE 1 SOURCE: Virgina D. Allhusen. understand and explain children’s development in this domain. By far the most notable and g ...

after personal goals, confident that they will succeed in whatever they try. Adolescence marks a special cri- sis period in Erik ...

This legislation provided states flexibility in how they design their program. States can choose one of three approaches: (1) ex ...