Parental supervision: a popular myth.

Parental supervision: a popular myth.

There must be few categories of childhood injury for which parental supervision, or the lack of it, has not been invoked as a contributory factor. Since 1990 alone, lack ofparental supervision has been proposed as a cause of road traffic injury,' electrical burn injury,2 and infant walker related injury.3 In most cases the identification of the aetiological role of parental supervision is intui...

Active Dendrites under Parental Supervision

Pyramidal cell dendrites are able to produce a variety of active calcium signals in brain slices. In this issue of Neuron, Grienberger et al. (2014) investigate dendritic function in the hippocampus of live mice.

Adolescents and the Importance of Parental Supervision.

“It’s 10 PM, do you know where your children are?” This ominous public service announcement that was the catch-phrase for broadcaster Tom Gregory on New York City’s WNEW-TV in the late 1960s, may sound dated these days, but the importance of the message remains stronger than ever. It has been clear for years that adolescents whose parents monitor and are aware of their activities participate in...

Parental Supervision and Family Structure: Effects on Adolescent Problem Behaviors

Single-mother, single-father, and intact families from homes ranging from low to high supervision are compared to determine the effects of family structure and parent supervision on adolescent alcohol use, illicit drug use, and delinquency. Using adolescent self-reports, scores were derived for adolescent problem behaviors and rates of supervision by resident parent(s). Results indicate that su...

Is there more to parental supervision than political incorrectness?