Describes the development and content of a program for parents designed to present the need for parent-child book sharing and to familiarize parents with outstanding book titles, sources, and criteria for book selection. (HTH)

This questionnaire study investigated personality phenomena in adolescents who described their parents along two dimensions: exercise of family authority and reasonableness. The main area of analysis concerned the extent to which male and female adolescents react differently to reasonable or unreasonable paternal and maternal authority. (Author/GK)

Children living with the opposite sex parent seem to be less well adjusted than children living with the same sex parent. However, in both father custody and mother custody families, authoritative parenting by the custodial parent is positively linked with the child's competent social behavior. (Author/GC)

The concept of public relations and its importance in a vocational education program are described in this article. Such program elements as research, planning, finance, administration, and evaluation are discussed. Public relations efforts concerning staff members, administration, students and alumni, parents, organizations and agencies,…

A study of assistance received from parents and teachers with supervised occupational experience programs. Teachers provided the greatest assistance in areas of recordkeeping, encouragement, setting educational goals, and learning skills in agriculture. Parents' greatest assistance was in providing facilities, developing interest in agriculture,…

A small but significant positive relationship was found between family size, family activities, and family affection. Religiosity, not family size, was the key causal variable. The degree to which the mother feels her work is important might be the key variable in coping with family size. (Author)

Discusses ERIC resources that examine the values of reading aloud to children, that outline ways to involve parents in reading to their children, and that suggest specific materials to read aloud. (ET)

Moral education is not included in the curriculum, but the history of Chile shows the influence of European culture. Therefore a philosophy of education which promotes an autonomous human being has usually underlined educational policy. The influence of Catholicism has been very strong both in school curriculum and parent attitudes. (Author/SJL)

Criticizes Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) for its emphasis on one-sided techniques in the parent-child relationship and its tendency to reduce complex problems to simplistic formulas. P.E.T.'s central metaphor of parent-as-therapist is identified and found wanting. Issues have applicability to the parent education movement in general.…

The article describes a divorced mother's personal experiences in bringing up her deaf child. Aspects covered include dealing with her child's deafness, dealing with important decisions that had to be made, family relationships, the mother's role as a single parent, and the deaf child's school experience. (DLS)

An exploration of motivations for parenthood in female college undergraduates indicated that positive memories of early childhood maternal love, traditional feminine sex-role identification and antifeminist sympathy were the primary unique psychological variables accounting for expressed desire for children. Women from large families expressed…

Children have a need and a right to active, movement-oriented play. With the aid of an imaginative parent, such play can assist in the maturation of a child's cognitive ability and serve as a means of developing basic motor skills. (LH)

Discusses research which focuses on the types of experience that foster the internalization of moral norms in an individual's development. Considers the roles of parents, peers, and the mass media, as well as cognitive development and arousal of affects such as empathy and guilt. (Author/GC)

The major conclusions drawn are that educational policy in British Columbia is in need of change, and that the forces needed to effect this change are emerging. (Author/DLS)