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Blessing, Patricia – Children Today, 1986
Researchers examine how and why America's children are getting fatter and raise new questions about how to treat childhood obesity. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Body Weight, Children
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Parness, Estelle – Children Today, 1975
Reviews recent research and offers suggestions for adults who wish to understand and help young children as they deal with separation, loss or death. (ED)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Death
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Brown, Bernard – Children Today, 1986
Describes components of self-reliance and discusses three methods that can be used effectively to make children more self-reliant: behavioral patterning, expectation, and modeling. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Responsibility, Children, Individual Development
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Carskadon, Julia H. – Children Today, 1991
Describes a teacher's experiences with a kindergarten class of developmentally delayed children. Offers strategies for changing behavior, stimulating cognition, influencing self-esteem, and teaching early academics. Two students' stories demonstrate progression from uncontrollable behavior to attention and eagerness to learn. (SH)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Classroom Techniques, Kindergarten Children, Primary Education
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Richmond, Julius B.; Janis, Juel – Children Today, 1980
This article presents some of the changing views influencing psychologists, physicians, and other persons interested in preventing developmental difficulties and promoting physical and mental health in children. (DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Children, Diseases
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Greenspan, Stanley I. – Children Today, 1981
Presents an integrated clinical approach, based on a developmental, structuralist framework, to classify adaptive and pathological personality organizations and behaviors in infants and preschool children. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Clinical Diagnosis