This study sought to determine why American parents from different socioeconomic backgrounds communicate in different ways with their children. Forty-seven parent-child dyads were videotaped engaging in naturalistic interactions in the home for ninety minutes at child age 2;6. Transcripts of these interactions provided measures of child-directed speech. Children's vocabulary comprehension skill...

The authors examined parent–child interactions among three groups: selectively mute, anxious, and non-anxious children in different contexts. The relation between parental control (granting autonomy and high power remarks), child factors (i.e., age, anxiety, verbal participation), and parent anxiety was investigated. Parental control varied by context but parents of children with SM were more c...

Approved: ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date 1 THE MODERATING ROLE OF CHILD TEMPERAMENT IN THE RELATION BETWEEN HARSH AND DEFICIENT PARENTING AND CHILD AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIORS

Background: Despite the meager role of the masculine agent in infertility (the low number of infertile men than women infertile), there are men whose wives are unable to become pregnant due to the absence of sperm, decreased numbers of sperm or lack of sufficient motile sperm. Utilizing donated sperm is a method that enables these families to have children. The use of this method prompts us to ...

background: despite the meager role of the masculine agent in infertility (the low number of infertile men than women infertile), there are men whose wives are unable to become pregnant due to the absence of sperm, decreased numbers of sperm or lack of sufficient motile sperm. utilizing donated sperm is a method that enables these families to have children. the use of this method prompts us to ...

murder is among the most abominable human acts and the most criminal behavior of mankind; in shī’a jurisprudence, punishment for deliberate murder is qiṣāṣ (retaliated punishment) in general. on the basis of this general principle, murder of child by father is regarded as an exception. on that account, the ruling concerning the mother in this respect is set forth and with respect to the solidit...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether protective parent responses mediate the relation between parent distress and child functioning. METHODS At a pain clinic evaluation, 157 families participated. Parents completed measures of global distress (BSI-18), distress in the context of their child's pain (BAP-PIQ), and protective responses to their child's pain. Children completed measures of functional di...

Introduction: Nutritional problems are one of the most important health issues among school-aged children, and modification of the nutritional status in children is as well important. Objective: Present study aims to determine the effectiveness of child to child teaching approach as compared to educator to child teaching approach on promotion of nutritional status of elementary school students...