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Henderson, Karla A. – Camping Magazine, 1995
Addresses the potential of camp to promote self-esteem and nurture a sense of community. Summarizes articles in this journal issue that focus on individual and group behavior including homesickness, how camps can promote positive attitudes toward disabled campers, and a camp program that provides respite care for families of children with AIDS.…
Descriptors: Camping, Child Behavior, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics

Eaves, Lindon J.; Carbonneau, Rene – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Illustrates contribution of genetic and environmental factors to differential ratings of within-family behavior and environmental differences. Maintains that, assuming differential ratings are a linear function of underlying trait differences, it is simple to recover within-family statistics, offering a more legitimate basis than comparing mean…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Family Environment

Lockman, Jeffrey J. – Child Development, 2000
Maintains that advances in the literature on perception-action development suggests that tool use may be a more continuous developmental achievement than previously believed. Suggests new research directions, including efforts to investigate the processes by which children detect and relate affordances between objects, coordinate spatial frames of…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development

Arsenio, William F.; Lemerise, Elizabeth A. – Social Development, 2001
Summarizes the main debate points on the issue and nature of bullies and bullying, and clarifies unresolved issues concerning the nature and limits of social competence values. Argues that variations in children's emotion processes may underlie some individual differences that have been found in empathy, social information processing, and reactive…
Descriptors: Aggression, Bullying, Child Behavior, Children
Marcovitch, Stuart; Lewkowicz, David J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
The articles in this collection consider one very interesting puzzle of development: U-shaped developmental functions. At some point during development, an organism might exhibit what seems like a regression from its expected developmental trajectory and, according to continuity models of development, this is aberrant. In this special issue,…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Individual Development, Cognitive Development, Child Development
Fullerton, Ann; Brannan, Steve; Arick, Joel – 2000
A study examined the impact of specialized, residential camp programs on children and youth with disabilities. Case studies were used to describe the real-life context of program effects and to explore various effects in situations where there may be no clear, single set of outcomes for all participants. Fifteen specialized residential summer camp…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Camping, Child Behavior, Daily Living Skills

Fafalios, Irene – Montessori Life, 1997
Argues that parents and educators must strive to develop true independence within their children. Argues that independence is achieved by encouraging a strong will in children which enables them to fully develop their personality and arms them with the skills to make decisions, create positive self-esteem, and be responsible and sympathetic…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Child Behavior, Child Development, Early Childhood Education

Calkins, Susan D. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
This essay examines the development of individual differences in emotion regulation and the role that specific styles of emotion regulation and dysregulation play in affecting young children's interactive behavior with peers. It advances a general developmental pathway that conceptualizes individual variations in terms of both infant traits and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Child Rearing, Definitions