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Field, Tiffany; Hernandez-Reif, Maria – Early Child Development and Care, 2001
Examined the effectiveness of pre-bedtime massages for infants and toddlers with sleep onset problems. Found that, compared to bedtime stories, massages produced fewer sleep delays and a shortened latency to sleep onset. (Author/DLH)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Change Strategies, Child Behavior, Child Health
Rosenberg, Debra – Newsweek, 1997
Notes infants' capacity for empathy and that the way parents respond to infants' natural selfish preoccupation as well as the behaviors modeled for them as they grow influence their manners and concepts of compassion, shame, and moral reasoning. (HTH)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Behavior, Child Development, Child Rearing
Smith, Maureen C. – 1993
Mastery motivation, usually measured by task persistence, is often used to predict infant competence. This study attempted to clarify how a measure of persistence can be used to facilitate the prediction of competence when examining the relationship between persistence and maternal child-rearing behavior. The measure of persistence used in this…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Rearing, Exploratory Behavior, Family Environment

Brazelton, T. B. – Human Development, 1972
From a symposium on Cross-Cultural Studies of Mother-Infant Interaction at the Biennial Meeting for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minn., April 2, 1971. (MB)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies
White, Burton L. – 1970
This paper is designed as an information guide for those persons responsible for rearing human infants from birth to 18 months. The author provides an extensive review of the literature and trends of research in this area noting that the current volumes of knowledge in this area are not yet dependable enough to provide reliable bases for practice.…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Child Rearing

Trad, Paul V. – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 1994
This article proposes that intuitive behaviors may be used to detect and resolve potential conflict in mother-infant relationships. Previewing, in which the caregiver introduces the infant to the physical sensations and interpersonal meaning of a new developmental skill, is suggested as a way of moving the mother-infant relationship in the…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Child Rearing, Infant Behavior

Power, Thomas G.; Parke, Ross D. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1986
Observes parents' socialization practices in 24 homes of families with first-born infants at 11, 14, and 17 months of age. Four kinds of socializing practices were observed and compared by parents' sex, infants' age, and infants' sex. (HOD)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
National Institutes of Health (DHHS), Bethesda, MD. – 2001
This guide presents RPM3, a no-frills approach to parenting. The acronym RPM3 stands for Responding to your child in an appropriate manner, Preventing risky behavior problems, Monitoring your child's contact with his or her surrounding world, Mentoring your child to support and encourage desired behaviors, and Modeling your own behavior to provide…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Development, Child Rearing, Children
Bornstein, Marc H.; And Others – 1991
In this study of prominent characteristics of parenting in the United States, France, and Japan, 72 mother-infant dyads were examined. The study focused on three prominent interactive domains of visual and vocal exchange between mother and baby (nurturing, social exchange, and didactic stimulation), examining their frequency of occurrence and…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Brazelton, T. Berry – 1992
This book looks at children's early development through what are called "touchpoints": times just before a surge of rapid motor, cognitive, or emotional development when, for a short time, children regress in several areas and become difficult to understand. Part 1, called "Touchpoints of Development," is organized around the…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Child Rearing, Developmental Stages

Werner, Emmy E. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1988
To better assess infant behavior and development in developing countries, cross-cultural psychologists need to more systematically address the following issues: (1) demographic constraints; (2) risk factors; (3) infant care; and (4) the transfer of Western technology to the developing world. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies
Brazelton, T. Berry; Greenspan, Stanley I. – 2000
Noting that although there have been admirable initiatives in public health, education, pediatrics, and the law to improve the lot of children, few have tried to identify the fundamental requirements of a healthy childhood, this book explores seven needs of infants and young children and their families that provide the fundamental building blocks…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Child Rearing, Child Safety