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An Early Parenting Intervention Focused on Enriched Parent-Child Interactions Improves Effortful Control in the Early Years of School
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C. Bennett; E. M. Westrupp; S. K. Bennetts; J. Love; N. J. Hackworth; D. Berthelsen; J. M. Nicholson – Child Development, 2025
This study examined long-term mediating effects of the "smalltalk" parenting intervention on children's effortful control at school age (7.5 years; 2016-2018). In 2010-2012, parents (96% female) of toddlers (N = 1201; aged 12-36 months; 52% female) were randomly assigned to either: standard playgroup, "smalltalk" playgroup…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Young Children
Self-Regulation and Comprehension in Shared Reading: The Moderating Effects of Verbal Interactions and E-Book Discussion Prompts
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Dandan Yang; Yan Ge; Yiwen Sun; Penelope Collins; Susanne M. Jaeggi; Ying Xu; Zhiling Meng Shea; Mark Warschauer – Child Development, 2024
The study examined how children's self-regulation skills measured by the strengths and weaknesses of ADHD symptoms and normal behavior rating are associated with story comprehension and how verbal engagement and e-book discussion prompts moderate this relation. Children aged 3-7 (N = 111, 50% female, Chinese as first language) read an interactive…
Descriptors: Self Management, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Child Behavior, Story Reading
Do Mitigating Circumstances Influence Family Reactions to Physical Aggression?
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Martin, Jacqueline L.; Ross, Hildy S. – Child Development, 1996
Examined the influence of mitigating circumstances on parents' beliefs and intervention behaviors regarding sibling physical aggression. Subjects were 40 Caucasian families. Results indicated that, although parents considered sibling physical aggression to be a serious transgression, they believed that mitigated aggression of both of their…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Child Behavior, Conflict Resolution
Mother-Child Play: Sequential Interactions and the Relation between Maternal Beliefs and Behaviors.
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Damast, Amy Melstein; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined the types of play mothers introduce in direct response to their toddlers' play and the actual maternal play behaviors. Findings suggested that mothers tend to play with their toddlers in ways that might promote their children's development and that mothers with more knowledge about play development provide their children with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Change, Child Behavior, Child Development
African American Fathers in Low Income, Urban Families: Development, Behavior, and Home Environment of Their Three-Year-Old Children.
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Black, Maureen M.; Dubowitz, Howard; Starr, Raymond H., Jr. – Child Development, 1999
Examined relationship between paternal roles and 3-year olds' well-being in low income, African-American families. Found that children's cognition, receptive language, behavior, and home environment were not related to father presence. Controlled for maternal age, education, and parenting satisfaction; found that paternal roles related to indices…
Descriptors: Black Family, Blacks, Child Behavior, Child Development