At the kindergarten stage, storytelling activities are a proven intervention that promotes children’s vocabulary, reading, oral expression and writing development. The purpose of this study was to examine emotional engagement cooperation during by early childhood teachers. This adopted qualitative research method with sample children (aged 5-6 years) in an inclusive K3 China. Data were collecte...

IMPORTANCE Although children's media consumption has been one of the most robust risk factors for childhood obesity, effects of specific parenting influences, such as parental media monitoring, have not been effectively investigated. OBJECTIVES To examine the potential influences of maternal and paternal monitoring of child media exposure and children's general activities on body mass index (...

OBJECTIVE To verify if emotional/behavioral problems are associated with lifetime paid work in poor urban children, when taking into account other potential correlates. METHODS Cross-sectional study focused on 9-to-13-year-old children (n = 212). In a probabilistic sample of clusters of eligible households (women 15-49 years and son/daughter <18 years), one mother-child pair was randomly sele...

BACKGROUND Among children, there are substantial ethno-racial minority disparities across a broad range of health-related behaviors, experiences, and outcomes. Addressing these disparities is important, as childhood and adolescence establish health trajectories that extend throughout life. METHODS The current study employed a community-based participatory research approach to gain community i...

OBJECTIVES To develop, implement, and evaluate a 1-month block rotation in community pediatrics. INTERVENTIONS Faculty from University of California San Diego and Naval Medical Center San Diego developed a combined and integrated curriculum for second-year residents in community pediatrics. Resident activities included structured site visits to schools, day care centers, and community organiz...

The aim of this study was to examine from the routine activities approach how victim age might help to explain the timing, context and nature of offenders’ first known contact sexual abuse incident. One-hundred adult male child sexual abusers (M = 45.8 years, SD = 12.2; range = 20–84) were surveyed about the first time they had sexual contact with a child. Afternoon and early evening (between 3...

Existing studies have shown mixed evidence for the role of home numeracy environment (HNE) in supporting children’s early skills. To address some limitations existing literature, present study used a multi-method approach to assess parent-led HNE. Parents children aged 3–5 years completed questionnaire frequency engagement activities and parent child number talk was coded from play-based observ...

different political, economical, cultural factors and religious status of safavi period have influenced on the presence of women in society of that ages. in new structures, women roles were based on their social position and class. also, children who were near their mothers received more calm, safety and also education. these factors encouraged painters to draw the pictures of women and childre...