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The Effect of Mother-Child Reading Time on Children's Reading Skills: Evidence from Natural Within-Family Variation
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Price, Joseph; Kalil, Ariel – Child Development, 2019
Children's exposure to book reading is thought to be an influential input into positive cognitive development. Yet there is little empirical research identifying whether it is reading time per se, or other factors associated with families who read, such as parental education or children's reading skill, that improves children's achievement. Using…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Reading Skills, Cognitive Development
"Don't Forget to Take the Cupcakes out of the Oven": Prospective Memory, Strategic Time-Monitoring, and Context.
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Ceci, Stephen J.; Bronfenbrenner, Urie – Child Development, 1985
Investigates strategies of 10-year-olds and 14-year-olds in tasks requiring prospective memory. Subjects were instructed to perform activities after waiting 30 minutes. As predicted, strategic time-monitoring occurred more frequently in the home than in the laboratory. Emphasizes the power of the laboratory as a contrasting context for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Context Effect, Laboratory Experiments
The Relationship of Maternal Employment to Early Adolescent Daily Experience with and without Parents.
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Richards, Maryse H.; Duckett, Elena – Child Development, 1994
Compared the daily experiences of preadolescents whose mothers were employed full-time, part-time, or not at all. Found little difference in quantity and quality of time associated with maternal employment. Full-time maternal employment was associated with more time doing homework with mothers and less time in general leisure; part-time…
Descriptors: Athletics, Child Rearing, Class Activities, Elementary School Students
The Nature and Correlates of Mexican-American Adolescents' Time with Parents and Peers
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Updegraff, Kimberly A.; McHale, Susan M.; Whiteman, Shawn D.; Thayer, Shawna M.; Crouter, Ann C. – Child Development, 2006
Drawing on cultural-ecological and person-environment fit perspectives, this study examined links among Mexican-American adolescents' time with peers and parents, parents' cultural orientations, and adolescents' psychosocial adjustment and cultural orientations. Participants were 492 Mexican-American adolescents (Ms=15.7 and 12.8 years for older…
Descriptors: Siblings, Family Relationship, Adolescents, Correlation
Mothers' Time with Infant and Time in Employment as Predictors of Mother-Child Relationships and Children's Early Development
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Huston, Aletha C.; Rosenkrantz Aronson, Stacey – Child Development, 2005
This study tested predictions from economic and developmental theories that maternal time with an infant is important for mother-child relationships and children's development, using time-use diaries for mothers of 7- to 8-month-old infants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care (N=1,053).…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Working Hours
Dynamic Patterns of Time Use in Adolescence.
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Shanahan, Michael J.; Flaherty, Brian P. – Child Development, 2001
Used a person-centered analytic strategy with data from Youth Development Study to describe configurations of time use through the high school years. Found that students highly engaged in multiple domains tended to remain so across grade. Students focused on one or two domains frequently changed commitments, school plans, grade point average,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents