The study explored competent parenting within a group often thought to have difficulty in this regard (19 infants and their mothers in the very high risk category) and attempted to identify possible areas for intervention. Ss were urban, of low socioeconomic status, and also had at least one additional factor (such as parent with extreme…

A study explored children's notions of what stories and reports are, how they can be organized, and when to use them, as revealed in the stories and reports they wrote or recalled and in their responses to questions about each. Sixty-seven high achieving children in grades three, six, and nine read and wrote similar kinds of stories and reports.…

This article tries to understand, by using some poststructural tools, practices with children that were performed by a Left action group in Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s. Modernist resistance discourses of enlightenment and liberation from obedience, silence and innocence can be seen as being produced, together with postmodern acts of unfolding…

Caregivers can nurture child development by strengthening the natural bond between center and home life. This article poses a series of basic questions that child care center personnel should answer, both for themselves and for making operating policies clear to parents. (CS)

An adaptation of the "Stages of Sensorimotor Intelligence in the Child" was used in a longitudinal study of the sensorimotor behavior acquisitions of 24 healthy middle-class infants. Rate of behavior acquisition, variability in behavior performance and relationships between subtests were analyzed. Some comparisons with previous studies are…

All of us are aware that young people today are facing challenges far greater than the ones we ourselves faced growing up. Now more than ever, the music, television, and film industries are busy parenting their young consumers at an alarming rate and with a fierce intensity. The products of these industries are, for the most part, stripped of any…

Students studied fresh water environment, known as limnology, and while learning about water, they got in practice with metrics. (Editor/RK)

The program in the form of a mothers' group had three goals: (1) to increase parental knowledge of child development and methods of child rearing, (2) provide access to more social contacts and role models, and (3) provide a supportive atmosphere to explore their feelings about themselves as parents. (MW)

One of many aspects of the linguistic centrality of the spoken word is the "acoustic trigger" to conceptualization, the most significant primal trigger in human beings, which when activated results in contrast and comparison leading to symbolic conceptualization. The oral/aural mode, or vocal production and acoustic perception, is developmentally…

Several aspects of gender concept development were investigated in 60 children of mixed socioeconomic background ranging in age from three to six years. Tasks were designed to assess gender constancy, knowledge of sex-stereotypes, differential memory and preference for sex-typed material, and gender categorization. Cognitive maturity was assessed…

This research was based on the assumption that adults structure the interpersonal world of children by differentially defining the situation. A parent who consistently anticipates bad behavior may produce a child with a negative self-image. On the other hand, an adult who assumes that the child can do no wrong may produce a child with a positive…

We should respect and honor a child's desire to be helpful, to be responsible, to be useful, to move about in the world, to explore and to try new things. Responsibility and independence must be developed and nurtured throughout childhood. See SO 504 023 for address of journal. (Author/ND)

Article provided a brief survey of past motives for music education in order to put present objectives in perspective. (Author/RK)

A discussion of the interpersonal and organizational underpinnings of group living and residential care for children. (Author/CS)

Study supported by Research Grant M-3209 from the National Institute of Mental Health