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Helfer, Ray E. – Pediatric Annals, 1976
The article discusses the early identification and prevention of unusual childrearing practices, which constitute a less noticeable form of child abuse and neglect that often results in various emotional and learning problems. Journal availability: see EC 111 296. (DLS)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Rearing
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MacEwen, Karyl E.; Barling, Julian – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1991
Developed and tested model of how mothers' (n=147) interrole conflict and satisfaction with role of employed mother affected children's behavior. Found relationship between maternal employment role experiences and children's behavior was mediated by personal strain and parenting behavior. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Children, Employed Women
Birch, Leann Lipps – 1979
This discussion focuses on elements of children's immediate experience that influence their food preferences. Some evidence suggests that there may be sensitive periods early in life that are critical for the formation of food preferences and aversions. Additionally, the familiarity and the sweetness of foods appear to be important determinants of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Children, Context Effect
Hess, Robert D.; And Others – 1969
This document is Part I of an extensive cross cultural project, and focuses upon the development of behavior that relates the child both to authority figures in the salient social systems about him and to the rules designed to govern the behavior of members of the system. Systems include the family, school, community, nation, and religion.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Children
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Patterson, G. R.; Dawes, R. M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
Describes a study based on the hypothesis that there were consistencies in child-rearing practices such that a regular progression would exist in children's performance of coercive responses. Results suggest that schedules of parental punishment covary with performance rates for children's coercive behaviors. (Author/EJT)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Change Strategies, Child Rearing, Children
Johnson, Stephen M.; Lobitz, Gretchen K. – 1974
Evaluated was the relationship of the personal and marital adjustment of 31 sets of parents to their own behavior as parents and the behavior problems of their children (mean age 7.7 years). Families who had been referred for behavioral counseling regarding child problems were given a diagnostic battery which included home observations as well as…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Child Rearing
Gallimore, Ronald; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1996
Ninety-three families of children with developmental delays were interviewed, to investigate the functional accommodations made to sustain daily routines for a child with a disability. Results found a downward trend in accommodation intensity from age 7 to 11, while types of accommodations increased from age 3 to 11. (CR)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Children
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Sutton-Smith, Brian – Early Education and Development, 1992
Notes the omission of a historical perspective in the research papers in this special issue on prosocial and aggressive play. Maintains that the past several hundred years can be characterized as a time of domesticating children's play, and that more research on rough-and-tumble play is needed. (LB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Children, Cultural Context
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Rodman, Hyman; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Self-care children were compared with control children in adult care to investigate whether self-care (latchkey) arrangements have negative consequences for children. On several measures of children's social and psychological functioning, no significant differences were found between two matched samples. (Author/DST)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Children
Barkley, Russell A. – 1997
This videotape recording and accompanying program manual are intended to provide a review of current knowledge about defiance in children, a behavior pattern that research suggests may be increasing in prevalence and that is a known precursor to serious disorders such as oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder. The manual provides…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Patterns
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Jiao, Shulan; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Investigates the manifestations and socialization processes of only and sibling children for improved implementing of the Chinese one-child family program planning. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Children
Shiller, Viriginia M.; Schneider, Meg F. – 2003
Finding ways to encourage preschoolers and elementary school children to behave well without resorting to scolding, threats, or bribery is a challenge for parents. This book advocates the positive parenting technique of rewards as the key to good behavior and shows parents how to use a variety of child-friendly sticker charts and other tools to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Charts
Salole, Gerard – 1992
It is often the case that lip service is paid to the strength of indigenous culture while the implications of indigenous peoples' strengths are disregarded in actual project design. This paper shows that indigenous peoples and societies are able to cope with an extraordinary number of permutations, and that their coping mechanisms are both…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Child Rearing, Children
Nelsen, Jane – 1996
Understanding why children do not behave the way they used to, and why both controlling and overly-permissive discipline styles are ineffective, is the first step for parents and teachers who are facing child-discipline problems. This book describes a program of positive discipline principles aimed at assisting parents and teachers in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns
Adcock, Don; Segal, Marilyn – 1979
This guide for parents discusses social competence in 2-year-old children, drawing upon anecdotal data to provide a sampling of 2-year-old children's social behavior and their parents' child rearing techniques. The data were collected from questionnaires, telephone interviews, and home visits in a 12-month study of the interactions of 86…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Children, Conflict Resolution
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